A New Chapter - City of Secrets

City of Secrets is the first of the King's Landing Cycle and it is the beginning of the actual LCG, no longer the reprints of the older CCG, and therefore, they're white bordered, and there are way less banned cards from now on. The King's Landing Cycle introduced the Shadow tech, and every pack came with a little inserts with the Shadow rules, which is probably the reason why the chapter packs are all a little too big for the content.

First the distribution.

2 Attachments , 1 for Greyjoy and 1 for Targaryen.

8 Characters, 1 for Everyone (even Neutral) except Stark, who got 2.

3 Events,

3 Locations, 1 Baratheon, 1 Lannister and 1 Stark.

Finally, 1 Plot.

The Plot is the first of the City Plots, and one of the most commonly seen and useful one. The City of Lies is pretty much a stapler in all Shadow decks. You get 1 copy of this in a pack.

All 3 locations played with Shadows, with the Lannister's being the most immediately useful. The Tunnels of the Red Keep is enormously deadly in pumping strength for Lannister Shadow decks, and should be inserted into one if possible. You get 3 copies of each location, so one should have a good supply of these after you bought a pack or 2.

The events are pretty good, with the exception of perhaps the Martell's. Shadow Politics is a good card for the Lannisters or any decks with good Intrigue strength, and Bound by Duty is excellent for Stark defenders. Only 1 copy of Shadow Politics come in this pack, unfortunately, though you probably wouldn't need up to 3 copies. (perhaps 2, or even 1 could do sometimes)

Many of the characters are excellent - Tyrion, for example, is a great fella to have in a Shadow deck (best used with Lannister), the Hungry Mob is a free Stark filler, the 2 Kingsguards are alright, and Arya is so good she should be in any Stark Shadow deck with Winter tech. The problem is that the good characters are all singles in this pack, so you'll probably need to get at least 2 copies of the pack for them.

The Dragon Skull attachment is an excellent addition to Targaryen burn decks, and unfortunately only has a single copy in each pack. The Greyjoy's Kraken Tatoo is not very useful at this point, though I suspect that it may come to light someday when the Greyjoy's deck depletion tech is filled out.

All in all a must get for the AGoT game if you even think about playing with Shadows at all. If you aren't keen on Shadowing, or playing City tech at all, you probably can make do without a copy of this.

(o.o)