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Northern Rookery



  • Type: Location
  • Faction: The Night's Watch (Loyal)
  • Cost: 2
  • The North.
  • Reaction: After you marshal Northern Rookery, draw 1 card.

    [+1 Reserve]
  • Quantity:
  • Number: 86
  • Illustrator: Thomas Denmark
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9 Comments

I don't think this a bad card...it just needed something else. The extra reserve is always welcome and it replaces itself but...that 2-cost is a lot in Night's Watch. 1-cost would have been too little, of course, but still...

It would still be a bad card even if it cost 1.

However, perhaps future effects will make more use of NW locations and/or reserve. 

Like Night Watch needed any more useless cards.

1 cost would be about right imo. What kills it more is the uniqueness - playing that dupe won't draw you a card and you are still limited on reserve boosters.
Without that you could start looking at putting this, Iron Throne and Sam into decks and go for high reserve, running plots with powerful effects but low reserve (Famine would be a good example), playing a conservative game with less units than normal and good challenge control events (so Martell, Lanni or Bara as your banner), waiting for Varys to hit then having Yoren clean up.

Might still work as a deck but I'm not convinced.
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JoeFromCincinnati
Apr 20 2016 01:32 AM

A future card for sure. I don't see much reason to run it right now. FFG really loves overcosting NW cards, though. It's quite bizarre.

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stevehouston
Apr 20 2016 03:08 AM
There will be a pretty powerful NW card that makes us all ooh and ahh that has to do with how high your reserve is at some point. Then we'll all post pics of this card on the FB group and shake our heads and have a great time of it.

Most houses pay 5 to draw 2 with Littlefinger.  Paying 2 (or 1 with fealty) to draw 1 seems about right.

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FedericoFasullo
Apr 20 2016 08:22 AM

It seems so wrong on many levels your statement. Little finger is a totally fair character with good icons, it provides you a gold, it's not only "draw 2 cards". Having a character partecipating in a challange it gives you card and/or power advantage. You are not paying 5 for 2 cards, you are paying 5 for the whole pack.

 

This card (nrthern rookery) simply does nothing, do not partecipate to any challange, do not provides you anything, it only allows you to store more cards in your hand. Which is pretty lame at this point of the game.

    • TrueLolzor and chriswhite like this
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HouseCatofWar
Apr 20 2016 03:43 PM

All of these over costed The North locations makes me wonder if there is some agenda coming that reduces the cost to marshal all The North locations by 1.

    • VonWibble and FedericoFasullo like this