Greetings all!

I am new to the whole genre of CCG/LCG and have some extremely basic Q's about AGOT.

Firstly, when during a game one arrives at the end of the first round, what becomes of the cards in play and the cards in my hand? I want to think that they all stay put....but I don't want to guess.

And B) when the second round does begin, do I draw any cards initially or do I wait and draw 2 cards during the "draw" phase?

As you can see, my difficulties seem to lie in transitioning from the first round to the second.

I promise, I'm not a stoopid as these qwarstions make me seem.

Any help is mucho appreciated.

Ofcourse the cards stay where they are! Why do you think they wouldnt? Im not trying to be glib, Im just wondering what caused the confusion!

And yes, you draw during the Draw phase, thats what the draw phase is there for. So you pick, play and resolve your plots Before drawing cards. This includes deciding who has initiative, once a first player has been picked and all the plots resolve you go on to the Draw Phase and draw 2 cards.

What you play in the setur and first round remain if they should stay (if an effect would discard a location or kill a character it goes in the appropriate pile, discard or dead).

There is the end of the challenge phase where all major actions are now resolved, you count strength of standing characters and gold for dominance.

You then stand all eligible cards that should stand in the standing.

Remove any left over gold in your gold pools in the taxation.

New round begins. All that remained in play from the previous phases still remains.

Exception is the events that do not remain in play, they trigger their effect if not canceled then move directly to the discard pile, unless there is some ongoing effect like Winter Reserves that become characters or events that provide an effect for a whole phase.

And someone please correct me if I am wrong I've been playing melee for 3 years but still we all do mistakes!

The reason that I thought they didn't was because it doesn't state anything at all about it in any form of the rules I've read. I'd rather get answers than make assumptions.

Thanks for you help.

The better way to look at it is that the game doesn't tell you to get rid of anything at the end of the round, either. (Plus, why would you stand things in the standing phase, just to get rid of them at the end of the Taxation phase?)

It's usually safe to assume that everything in this game stays where it is until a rule or card effect tells you to do something different with it - rather than assumingyou have to get rid of it until something says you can keep it.