A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (Second Edition) – No Middle Ground

About this expansion

A Game of Thrones: The Card Game (Second Edition) – No Middle Ground is a Chapter Pack for 2–4 players, with a listed play time of 120 minutes. Released in 2016, it is the fourth Chapter Pack in the Westeros cycle.

Set in the aftermath of the Tourney for the Hand, the pack follows the events of the first book in A Song of Ice and Fire. Eddard Stark searches for answers surrounding Jon Arryn’s death, while Daenerys Targaryen travels across the Dothraki sea toward Vaes Dothrak with a massive khalasar and Khal Drogo.

Across Westeros, the Great Houses watch, scheme, and prepare their own bids for power. From the sands of Dorne to the icy forests beyond the Wall, No Middle Ground brings the growing tension and political unrest of the setting into the card game.

This pack introduces iconic characters including Hodor and Gendry to the game for the first time. Their arrival adds new faces from the early story while the surrounding cards continue the narrative’s focus on rival houses, shifting ambitions, and difficult choices.

• Five new plots in total
• Three faction-specific plots
• Two neutral plots
• New options for building any faction’s plot deck

With its mix of story-driven characters and additional plot choices, A Game of Thrones: The Card Game – No Middle Ground gives players more ways to shape their decks as the struggle for the realm intensifies. It continues the Westeros cycle’s journey through the events and conflicts of the first book.