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The Gatehouse Tower



The Gatehouse Tower

Unique The Gatehouse Tower



Type: Location House: Stark
Cost:1
Game Text:
Westeros.
House Stark only.
Your characters get +1 STR if you control fewer characters than each opponent.

Flavor Text: The Gatehouse Tower, squat and wide, was the largest of the three, slimy with moss, a gnarled tree growing sideways from the stones of its north side…
Number: 33 Set: TCP
Quantity: 3 Illustrator: Dimitri Bielak
Recent Decks: No decks currently use this card.


2 Comments

What is this Martell card doing being Stark only?

Maybe if it were cost 0 and non unique. Maybe.
Here is the thing with this... if they want to make this type of condition to become more of a Stark thing, they need to release more cards to make it viable. Right now this is just really bad by itself, but if they release some more support(and it must be VIABLE), then I can see this possibly being used. The problem is, even if they release that kind of support, would you slot this into such a deck? I'm not sure...

Think about some of the character lite support Stark has...

Meera Reed can leave play when a Stark leaves play.
Arya Stark can kill character by discarding her from play.
Winter Arya Stark returns to the shadows instead of being killed.
Jumping Catelyn is a character you don't need to have in play and can stay in your hand.
Maege Mormont returns to your hand to trigger her ability.
House Bolton has control changing effects. If you have to hand House Bolton characters over to the opponent, that might turn this type of effect on.
Umber Champion can be discarded from play to stand each defending character.
Northern Sailor can be discarded to make the opponent kill a character(guess that is a net change of 0 characters though).

I mean, Stark has some effects similar to Martell where they can remove or sacrifice characters from play to do stuff. I think it's just something that doesn't have as much support to reinforce. Normally we see Stark as a MIL board flooding bunch of anuses, so it's hard to envision them as trying something a little more calculated.