Winning Moves WM04535-EN1-12 Card Game, Multi-Colour

These Waddingtons House of the Dragon playing cards are well-designed with vibrant images of popular characters from both series. The quality is good, and they are durable enough for regular play. Shame even these cards can't resurrect a stultifyingly dull second season, but that's hardly the fault of these playing cards ;-)

Whilst waiting for these to arrive, I amused myself by trying to guess which characters from the fantasy drama would be on the "Royalty" or "picture cards". Logically, I expected a different house or faction on each suit, and wondered if there were too few or too many characters to do this properly, so that some major characters would be missing, or minor characters pressed in to make up the numbers.The reality is much less interesting, as all four suits are identical, and feature: Rhaenyra Targaryen as the Ace, Daemon Targaryen as the Jack or Knave, Alicent Hightower as the Queen, and Viserys Targaryen as the King. Not only that, but the exact same pictures of the same four characters in every suit. Not even different outfits or attitudes to lend a bit of variety. The whole deck uses just FOUR pictures of HoTD characters, re-used x 4.As well as this, the colour scheme of the deck is very dark, so neither the "picture" cards nor the pips on the "number" cards really stand out. Yes, I know it's a dark show in many ways, and an attempt has clearly been made to reflect this, but does every card really need to be so gloomy and hard to read?Incidentally, there's nothing about the cards that is even remotely adult-rated, so it looks as if the "18+" designation is simply inherited from the show by default, in case minors might be tempted to watch. Either that, or it has to do with rules on the promotion of gambling, but I don't see age restrictions on regular playing cards. Funnily enough, I'm being asked to select the user's age as part of this review! Why am I being asked to select 1 through 13+ when the box says 18+?

These pack of themed cards have a good quality feel typically for waddingtons. Smooth to shuffle and stiff though thin. However the card faces are a bit too dark for my liking, which hides a lot of the detail and also makes it hard to see the numbers.Listed Price when I reviewed it: £3.99(Disclaimer: I received this for free as part of the Amazon Vine program, but the views here are based on my own experiences and not edited or influenced by anyone)

Great set of playing cards in a House of the Dragon theme. These feature the four main characters as the royal cards: Alicent, Rhaenyra, Daemon, and Viserys, and then the rest of the cards are just plain and numbered. Really nicely designed and good quality, and I think a great price for what you receive. These would make an excellent gift for any House of the Dragon or Game of Thrones fan.

Its GOT/HOTD themed.I like all things GOT related and so when these came up I had to get my hands on themThe packaging and print quality is awesome.The card quality and print is also superb too.I will be keeping these in their package as a collectors item and hope it holds and increases its value over time.The outer packaging was a little difficult to open and so was damaged in the process of opening so thats not ideal but its not too bad.This pack will take pride of place on my GOT collections shelf.