Beyond The Narrow Sea Cycle Poll Results

Beyond the Narrow Sea CP Cycle Impressions

Which House or Houses got all the love?

• Targaryen (70%)

Which House or Houses got the shortest stick?

• Martell (34%)
• Lannister (27%)
• Baratheon (25%)

Did the new Character Agendas have a large enough impact on the game?

• No (67%)
• Yes (33%)

Did you like the Cycle's focus on not having any neutral cards (but instead pushing multi-house and OOH usage)?

• Yes (64%)
• No (36%)

Are you more or less hyped about the next CP set, than you were about this one? Why?

• More (43%)
• Same (36%)
• Less (21%)

Beyond the Narrow Sea Card Awards and Medals

Sansa Award (Worst card in the set): The River Plots (36%, with a fourth of those votes specifically for On Dagger Lake (VD))

Balerion Award (Best card in the set): Long Lances (THoBaW) (36%), followed by House of Dreams (ARotD) (30%)

Ned Award (Most thematic card in the set): Bran Stark (VD) (29%)

Shagga Award (Card with the most jaw-dropping effect in the set): The Red Queen's Faithful (CD) (34%), followed by House of Dreams (ARotD) (25%)

Renly Award (Card with the best art in the series): Griff (CD) (29%)

Hot Pie Medal (Granted to an adorable but utterly useless card): Tie between Dragon Egg (AHM) and Longship Red Jester (AHM) (17%)

Jaime Medal (Granted to a very efficient card that ends up ultimately being hated): Incinerate (VM) (30%), followed by Pentoshi Manor (AHM) (23%)

Kettleback Medal (Granted to a card that was greatly hyped, but ultimately had very little impact): Little and Less (ARotD) (41%), followed by The Pale Mare (THoBaW) (30%)

Tyene Medal (Granted to a seemingly innocent, but very deadly card): Much and More (AHM) (48%)

Euron Medal (Most controversial card in the set): House of Dreams (ARotD) (73%)

Commentary

While a staggering 96 people voted on the overall poll, only 22 of those nominated cards for the Awards/Medals. This may partly be due to the work required to sift through all of the cards from the whole CP Cycle in order to form a full picture of the subject matter. The overall turnout for the poll was much higher than it ever was on the FFG Forums - hopefully we'll get even more people participating for the A Song of the Sea Cycle!

House of Dreams (ARotD) was definitely the card on everybody's mind - in addition to getting the Euron Medal, it also scored very high in 3 other categories, and was voted for in 3 others. Meanwhile House Targaryen clearly seemed to stand high above everyone else by having cards placed 1st and 3rd in the Balerion category, winning the Jaime category and obtaining a staggering 70% vote for being the House that obtained the most love. To top this off, not a single Targaryen card was nominated as one of the worst cards in the Cycle.

The matter of who got the least out of the Cycle was a tight race between three Houses, with Martell just edging before Lannister and Baratheon. This end result is also supported by Medal nominations - while Baratheon and Lannister both got their share of nominations, Martell was leaving everybody a bit cold, with very few positive nominations. Overall the Cycles plots weren't highly valued, since half of the votes for worst card went to plot cards.

While the Hot Pie Award had very little consensus and the lowest total number of votes, people seemed to be spoiled for choice with the Ned and Renly Awards. It would seem that as a whole, the cards in Beyond the Narrow Sea were thought to be both thematic and beautiful.

In the end, it seems strangely fitting that Much and More (AHM) did much more than expected, but Little and Less (ARotD) did a whole lot less than was thought. Could this have been the intent when the cards were designed? Feel free to bring forth your opinions on the results in the comments below!