Rules FAQ

• An in-faction card is any card that matches the affiliation of your chosen faction. If your deck includes cards from another faction, those cards are considered to be "out of faction". Cards that have no faction affiliation are considered to be neutral. Neutral and out-of-faction events are not affected by the ability of Wardens of the East.

• You can play "The Winter Maid" to interrupt the revealing of Wardens of the East, because the plot’s ability is not active yet. However, you cannot play it to interrupt the revealing of the next plot, as the ability of Wardens of the East is still active then. It is the opposite with events that would be played later in the plot phase, such as Ahead of the Tide or Someone Always Tells (when interrupting a When Revealed ability, not when interrupting "The Winter Maid"). But remember that some events are not affected by this plot, depending on what your faction is (see above).

• A card that is already revealed cannot be chosen as the target for an effect that would reveal it, in the same way that a kneeling card cannot be chosen as the target for an effect that would kneel it. That means you cannot choose a card in shadows for Littlefinger (AHaH) while this plot is revealed, and you cannot choose a card in shadows for A Traitor's Whisper if it can be neither revealed nor put into play.

• Players are not allowed to rearrange the order of their cards in shadows. Once the cards stop being revealed, any player with a good memory should still be able to tell which card is which.

Rules FAQ

• Any location that was targeted by assault will automatically be knelt if the attacking player wins the challenge (and still controls an attacking character with the assault keyword). This happens before any reactions to winning or losing the challenge can be triggered.

• Assault cannot kneel a location that is already kneeling. You will not be able to trigger the reaction in that scenario.

• If you reveal this plot with Battle of the Trident, it will be much too late to trigger the reaction in that same challenge.

• You do not have to be the attacking player in order to trigger the reaction. You can trigger it "against yourself", or during a challenge you are not involved in (in a melee game).

Rules FAQ

• You only compare initiative when revealing new plots in the plot phase. That step is skipped when a player reveals a new plot with "The Rains of Castamere" or Battle of the Trident, so The Seed is Strong cannot be played at that time.

• If the initiative values are tied, you must first break that tie to determine who wins and loses initiative. In a melee game, you still lose initiative even if some of the other "losing" players have a lower initiative value than you.

• The reaction is triggered immediately after you lose initiative, before choosing a new first player, and well before resolving any When Revealed abilities. For instance, if Valar Morghulis is revealed, you would need to discard a card for The Seed is Strong before you could discard it for cards like Ser Rolly Duckfield or Umber Loyalist. Discarding a card for The Skahazadhan would come even later in this sequence.

• Players are not allowed to rearrange the order of their cards in shadows. Once the cards stop being revealed, any player with a good memory should still be able to tell which card is which.

Rules FAQ

• When a value is "set" to a specific number, the set modifier overrides all non-set modifiers (including any new non-set modifiers that are added during the duration of the set value). If multiple set modifiers are in conflict, the most recently applied set modifier takes precedence. (See Modifiers.) In other words, the chosen player will not be able to raise their claim value above 0 with cards like Winter Is Coming while the set modifier of Lysa’s Letter is active.

• The claim value will initially be set to 0, but it will return to its "normal" value the moment the player initiates a challenge of the chosen type.

• If Storm's End (BtB) is used to change the challenge type to , the original challenge type is still the one that is considered to have been initiated.

• You can choose yourself with Lysa’s Letter if you wish.

Rules FAQ

• The Highroad will not reduce the cost to marshal a card into shadows, because that card does not have the "non-character" characteristic. It will also not reduce the cost of ambush, or the cost to bring a non-event card out of shadows, as neither of those constitutes marshaling or playing that card. It will reduce the cost to play an event from shadows though.