The second installment in the King's Landing Cycle, and one that Lannister players may want to take a look at, especially so if one is toying with Shadows here. But first, the distribution.
1 Targaryen Attachment.
9 Characters - 2 for Stark and Baratheon, and 1 for each other House, including 1 Neutral.
4 Events - 1 generic and 1 each for Greyjoy, Lannister and Targaryen.
5 Locations - with Greyjoy and Targaryen not getting one.
Finally, 1 City Plot.
This chapter is still Shadow heavy, expanding on the Shadow tech introduced by City of Secrets. Some rather staple card for Shadow decks were included, but nothing really key if one is not playing any Shadows.
The Tears of Lys, the only attachment card in this chapter, is a rather useful little attachment for the Targaryen. Gaining an Intrigue icon is always good for the Dragons, and the added deadly is simply too efficient for the cost of 1 gold. The triggered effect may look difficult to trigger, but remember that this happens whether or not your Tear's attached character is participating (or for that matter, whether or not you are even involved) in that Intrigue challenge. So, ya, why not have it? You get 3 copies of this in this pack.
Most of the characters are not very memorable, with the exception of Gold Cloaks, Street Waif and Flea Bottom Scavengers. These 3 are all pretty interesting characters to use within their respective specialized decks - Gold Cloaks for the Lannister Shadows, Street Waif for any Targaryen interested in discard retrieval (darn good!) and the Flea Bottoms somehow involved with the Brotherhood. Balon is worth a mention, especially when a Greyjoy deck-depletion tech finally become more prominent. All the above mentioned characters, with the exception of Balon, comes with 3 copies in the pack, so a single pack will get you all sated with these fellows.
The events are alright but I've not seen them played very often. The only exception is Condemned by the the Council. This is a neutral event card that deals with troublesome locations, very handy to have around if one's environment is full of Bear Islands and those pesky hills. A Fistful of Coppers is a gold generating card for Lannister, though I don't see a real need for it except in recurring Shadow Lannisters. Unfortunately the Condemned by the Council, and the Coppers only comes in single in the pack - you need 2 - 3 packs to have a good draw for your deck.
The Locations are mostly pretty good, bu they're shadowed by the Lost Oasis of the Martell, which is as staple as it can be. The good thing is that you get 3 copies of it in a pack, Martells, go get this one, it is almost mandatory to have a couple of this in any Martell deck. The Twilight Market is another staple Location card, specifically for Shadow decks. These 2 all comes with 3 copies.
The single plot card is another City plot, an averagely useful City plot.
All in all a good pack (almost essential) to get for the Martell and Shadows player (especially Lannisters). The Stark and Baratheon may be able to ignore this completely. Targaryen should get this, but it is not as crucial as it is for the others. Greyjoys? Ha.
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