For this volume of New Card Laboratory I will be focusing on creating cards for the Kingsguard. I do not know of many Throners who run with The White Book agenda, and for good reason. It's weak as Brann's high jumping skills. The weakness comes from the lack of support for the current Kingsguard characters. The following is a proposal of a few characters, items, and attachments that will get the ball rolling on this power hungry agenda.

New nominations for The White Book Agenda characters:

1. Ser Osmund Kettlebalck - Ser Osmund has a lot of great directions to go in.
2. Ser Boros Blount
3. Ser Loras Tyrell - Potentially a strong focal point of the Kingsguard
4. Tommen Baratheon - Perhaps owning a text of: " Challenge: While Tommen Baratheon is standing, Kingsguard characters do not kneel to defend the first challenge initiated against them."
5. Robert Strong - So much mystery surrounding Strong ^a . All of which make for some great card opportunities.
6. Ser Jamie Lannister - Already a Kingsguard title here , but as Lord Commander of the Kingsguard, the whole White Book agenda could hinge upon a great creation here.

What do you think these Kingsguard themed characters should do?

New Attachments Ideas:

" The White Cloak"

• Type - Item. Armor
• House - Neutral
• Cost - 1 gold
• Text - Knight Character Only. Setup. Marshalling: You may attach The White Cloak from play, or from your hand. Attached character gains the Kingsguard trait and: " Kingsguard characters you control get +1 STR. "
• Idea - The idea spawns from Blood of the Viper and gives staunch STR to Kingsguard characters while giving a knight the title as well.

" The Unemblazoned Shield"

• Type - Weapon. Armor
• House - Neutral
• Cost - 1 gold
• Text - Kingsguard character only. Setup. Character can not have its STR lowered. Discard Unemblazoned Shield to have attached character gain your choice of Renown, Deadly, or Immune to events until the end of phase.

New Location Ideas:

" White Sword Tower"

• Type - Unique Location
• House - Neutral
• Cost - 2 gold
• Text - King's Landing. Any Phase: Kneel White Sword Tower and pay 1 gold to search your deck for a Kingsguard character, reveal it, and put it into your hand. Then shuffle your deck. While you control a King or Queen character, you may pay any amount of Kingsguard characters' cost by kneeling that amount of influence.
• Idea - In The White Book agenda, it is paramount that Kingsguard characters show up. Enter White Sword Tower. This can boost Knights of the Realm , The White Book, House of Dreams , and Siege of Winterfell .

"The Round Room"

• Type - Unique Location
• House - Neutral
• Cost - 1 gold
• Text - Limited. X is the number of Kingsguard characters you control. +X Influence
• Idea - There's never been a +X Influence card, and I like the idea of it! It works well with White Sword Tower's ability of influence marshalling. Targ haters beware!

Closley Related Cards:

" Hand of Gold"

• Type - Item
• House - Lannister
• Cost - 1 gold
• Text - Limited. Setup. Lannister character only. Attached character gains an intrigue icon. If attached character is Jaime Lannister, he gains stealth. (+1 Gold)
• Idea - Kingsguard Jaime is a force to deal with. Give him an intrigue icon it gets even better.

" Lion's Head Helm"

• Type - Unique Armor.
• House - Lannister
• Cost - 2 gold
• Text - Setup. Lannister Character Only. Attached Character gains +1 STR and Infamy. If attached character is Jaime Lannister, he gains: ____________. HELP ME OUT with this last card.

Hope to hear from you on these. Later.

Still confused why we need 4 threads for this instead of just 1.

My thoughts exactly. Im not being nasty or anything but i just find the idea of talking about cards that will never see the light of day a waste of time. Id prefer talking about cards that actually exist in the card pool and hearing about reasons why they should be restricted..

I'll be happy to join the three threads together sometime later today. As for the comments that you would rather be talking about current cards, rules, and why cards should be restricted; there are people in this world that like to create, and others that like to critique. I choose, in this game anyway, to bend towards creating. I feel it helps dicsussion and is a great outlet for fans of the ASOIAF series as well as the LCG. Simply put, it is constructive and fun to do in this genre.

So you can try to convince your mouse hand to skip over my threads next time you see it at the top of a GENERAL DISCUSSION forum.

Thoughts:

Ser Osmund Kettleblack
Neutral
Kingsguard. Knight.
Cost 3, Str 3/4, M, I, P If you lose a challenge, Kneel Ser Osmund Kettleblack.
Ser Osmund Kettleblack does not stand during the Standing Phase if you do not win dominance.
Pay 2 Gold: Stand Ser Osmund Kettleblack

Ser Boros Blount
Neutral
Kingsguard. Knight.
Cost 1, Str 3, M
If you would lose a challenge in which Boros is participating, return him to your hand.

Ser Loras Tyrell
Baratheon, Neutral
Cost 3/4, Str 3, M, P
Joust.
Ser Loras must participate in a military challenge if able.
Resonse: After you win a M challenge in which Ser Loras Participated, Ser Loras claims 1 power.
Response: After you win a M challenge in which Ser Loras Participated by 4 or more, Discard 2 power fom Ser Loras to have Ser Loras Claim 3 power. (Any opponent may discard 1 power from their house and/or characters to cancel this ability)
After Ser Loras participates in a M challenge in which you lose by 4 or more, remove a power from Ser Loras. If you can not remove a power, kill Ser Loras.

Tommen Baratheon
Lannister
Cost 1 Str 1 (No Icons)
Neutral Kingsguard characters you control can not be declared as attackers.
Your kingsguard characters gain M, I, P and can not be bypassed by stealth.
After Tommen Baratheon is killed, discard all neutral Kingsguard characters from play (cannot be saved).
Tommen's strength can not be modified.

Robert Strong
Lannister, Neutral
Cost 4, Str 4, M, P
Deadly
Robert Strong can not participate in I challenges.
Kneel Ser Robert Strong to save a Queen or King character.
While Ser Robert Strong is participating in a challenge, your characters can not claim power.

Ser Jaime Lannister
Lannister, Neutral
Cost 4, Str 3, M, I
Infamy.
Discard a power from Jaime Lannister to stand a Kingsguard character.
Discard a power from Jaime Lannister to give a Kingsguard Character an icon of your choice.

White Cloak
Is it unique? If not, the perma boost is really powerful. Also, should probably be able to bring it back from the discard somehow.

Unemblazoned shield is just a really cool idea.

White Sword tower looks really interesting.

The Round Room is really going to need to be play tested. Very interesting idea.

Hand of Gold seems generic, I know it should be really thematically interesting, but I can't think of how to do it.

Lion's Head Helm, give him Melee. Everybody fighting him is so scared of him so they fight worse. You could also just make his enemies -1 str, but melee is much more efficient in the text box.

Good luck, haha. Are you actually making these cards and testing them or just throwing around ideas?

Great Card Ideas mdc!

"Ser Borus Blount" is EXACTLY what I was hoping for. It's cheap & shows his cowerdes.

"Ser Loras" seems confusing to me. Why diacard 2 PWR to gain 3? Why not just gain a PWR?

"Robert Strong" sounds helpful for sure.

"Tommen" is a cool idea. I think you should work in, "If Tommen is the only king in play then _______." to one or all of those features.

"Ser Jaime Lannister" - Your idea gave me this thought:

• Cost - 4 M,I
• Text - Infamy. If Ser Jaime has 3 power on him Kingsguard characters gain: "Melee." If Ser Jamie has 5+ power on him Kingsguard characters gain: "Do not kneel to defend military challenges."

- The White Cloak is not intended to be unique, so yea im excited about having three of them in a deck.

- I like your idea about a Melee Lion's Head Helm too!

- I am toying with the idea of an anti-brotherhood theme: If there IS power on your house card then _____. Characters, Kingsguard characters to be precice, can benefit from their being PWR on house and characters. Of course I think that it shouldnt unlock ALL abilities if there is just 1 PWR on the house card. More along the lines of what I wrote about Ser Jaime above. PWR lvl. unlocks if you will.

- I have been overly busy in the creation department as of late, & less able to play test some of them. I have made some art for some of my cards and added them to some decks of mine. If you want me to email you the files I can.

Here are some second round revisions:

Lion’s Head Helm

• • Type - Unique Armor.
  • House - Lannister
  • Cost - 2
  • Text - Setup. Lannister Character Only. Attached Character gains Melee. If attached character is Jaime Lannister he gains: Can not have text box blanked by non-plot cards

“Ser Jaime Lannister”

• House - Lannister
• Cost - 4 gold STR 3 M,I,P

• Text - Kingsguard. Knight. Infamy. If Ser Jaime has 3 power on him Kingsguard characters gain: "Melee." If Ser Jamie has 5+ power on him Kingsguard characters gain: "Do not kneel to defend the first military challenge initiated against you."
  Discard a power from Jaime Lannister to stand a Kingsguard character.

“Ser Loras Tyrell”

• House - Neutral.
• Cost - 4 gold STR 3 M,P

• Text - Kingsguard. Knight. Renown. Ser Loras must participate in a military challenge if able.
  Response: If you win a M challenge in which Ser Loras Participated by 4 or more, claim 1 power. (Any opponent may discard 1 power from their house to cancel this ability)
  After Ser Loras participates in a M challenge in which you lose by 4 or more, remove a power from Ser Loras. If you can not remove a power in this way, kill Ser Loras.