Rules FAQ

• Cards do not enter play during setup, so locations you set up will be standing when the game begins.

• When a location enters play under your control, it is not standing at any point. You cannot trigger a reaction like King's Landing (BtB) that would require you to kneel that location.

• If The Moon Door enters play knelt during a challenge, it is not considered to have been knelt during that challenge.

• If you put a location into play with As High as Honor, it will enter play knelt, as per the text of both the agenda and the event itself. However, if it has the House Arryn trait, it will then stand.

• Pleasure Barge only gains immunity after it enters play, so it still enters play knelt.

• The reaction only works with abilities that specifically use the phrase "at random". If a card ability discards all the remaining cards from a player's hand, those cards are still considered to have been discarded at random if that phrase is used. Cards are also discarded at random for claim. On the other hand, the reaction cannot be triggered whenever a card is chosen to be discarded from an opponent's hand.

• You cannot trigger the agenda to put a unique character into play under your control if you already control a copy of that character, or if a copy of that character is in your dead pile. Same if a copy of that character is already in play under its owner's control, or if there is a copy of it in its owner's dead pile. (See Unique cards in play and in the dead pile.)

• You also cannot trigger the agenda if the discarded character cannot enter play for some other reason (for instance, if Barring the Gates is revealed, or if the ability of Iron Emmett is preventing it).

• A character that is discarded from hand at random enters its owner's discard pile first. The Gold Price shares a reaction window with other abilities that react to a card being discarded from a player's hand, or to a card entering a player's discard pile (for instance, The Great Pyramid or Citadel Archivist). The first player has the first opportunity to trigger a reaction. Then, if the card is no longer in the discard pile once you get your turn, The Gold Price cannot put it into play from another area anymore. Also, interrupts to a card being discarded from hand will always trigger before The Gold Price. This includes Ser Meryn Trant, Ser Jorah Mormont (LMHR) and Missandei. The Gold Price will not be able to find a character if it is removed from the game, put in shadows, or put into play. It will also not be able to find a character that is placed in the dead pile by Heads on Spikes. (See Card Abilities & Out-of-Play Areas.)

• When a phase ends, interrupts to that phase ending can be triggered first. After that, "until the end of the phase" lasting effects expire and the phase ends. Finally, "at the end of the phase" delayed effects resolve (this is the point where you need to pay X gold if you wish to keep the character in play). (See End of Phase Timing Sequence.)

• If a character is discarded from an opponent's hand "at the end of the phase" and you trigger the reaction, you immediately reach the point where you have to pay X gold to keep the character. If multiple characters are discarded outside of any phase (for example, this could happen if two copies of Bastard Daughter are killed "at the end of the phase" by Tears of Lys), you can trigger the reaction multiple times. The limit does not apply outside of a phase. (Source.)

• If an ability allows you to spend gold on other cards "as if it were in your gold pool", that gold can be used to pay the price of X. However, since The Iron Bank, Sweet Cersei and Sunspear (BtB) only work during specific phases, you will no longer be allowed to spend gold from them "at the end of the phase". But Casterly Rock (BtB) still works if it is standing. (See Spending Gold.)

• If a character you have "stolen" with The Gold Price is removed from the game and re-enters play (via Coldhands, Mace Tyrell (R), or a similar ability), it will re-enter play under its owner's control if it can. If it cannot (for instance, if a copy of it is in its owner's dead pile), it will remain removed from the game indefinitely.