Have a few of these boxes coming from various places.


Box 9778
Auto: Roose Bolton (Michael McEheLhatton) - blue bordered
Damon Clefjaw (Ralph Ineson)- full bleed

Quotable: 33, 35
All Men Must Die: G1 (edges aren't cleanly cut)
Beautiful Death: BD11
Foils: 24,28,20,34,51,62,82,87 & 91

Gold parallel - Beautiful death -BD9 15/150
Gold parallel - base card #7 71/150

Very happy with the Blue Roose Bolton. Didn't have time to look at anything else to closely since I opened the box on my lunch hour.


Both Gold parallels are going on my trade list, as I won't be collecting those.

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Got my first box. 6560 of 11000
One full base set of 100 cards, plus 12 extras
9 foil parallels

2 Quotable cards
1 Gold Parallel base card 106/150 Arya
1 Beautiful Death card BD12
1 Beautiful Death Gold parallel 81/150 BD13
1 All Men Must Die G9 Danaerys

2 autos, both Limited with border
Ian Beattie as Meryn Trant
Ian Whyte as Gregor Clegane

A nice set, Beautiful Death and All Men Must Die are beautiful cards - to die for (pun intended)

I opened boxes 8429, 2370, 1347, and 5344 and here are the 'big' pulls:






Was really hoping for Indira Varma and Yuri Kolokolnikov autographs since I only collect bordered cards (you gotta pry Carice out of my cold, dead hands though). I got 7 of the 9 quotable cards and I don't know what the hell it is with my pulling two of the same common every single year.

Here are the results of my 3 case break of Game of Thrones Season 4...

CASE 1
AUTOS
EXTREMELY LIMITED - 0

VERY LIMITED - 0

LIMITED
Burn Gorman as Karl Tanner (Bordered)
Carice van Houten as Melissandre (Full Bleed)
Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne (Full Bleed)
Donald Sumpter as Maester Luwin (Full Bleed)
Ellie Kendrick as Meera Reed (Full Bleed)
Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand (Bordered)
Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark (Full-Bleed)
Thomas Brodie Sangster as Jojen Reed (Full Bleed)
Tony Way as Dontos Hollard (Full Bleed)
Will Tudor as Olyver (Bordered)
Yuri Kolokolnikov as Styr (Bordered)

Aimee Richardson as Mycella Baratheon (Full Bleed) x2
Alexandra Dowling as Roslin Frey (Full Bleed)
Anton Lesser as Qyburn (Full Bleed)
David Bradley as Walder Frey (Full Bleed)
Emun Elliott as Marillion (Full Bleed)
Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister (Full-Bleed)
Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell (Full-Bleed)
Josef Altin as Pypar (Full Bleed)
Kate Dickie as Lysa Arryn (Full Bleed)
Noah Taylor as Locke (Full Bleed)
Ralph Ineson as Dagmer Cleftjaw (Full Bleed)
Tobias Menzies as Edmure Tully (Blue) - card is miscut

SHIELD/PIN CARDS
H1 House Stark
H3 House Baratheon (Stannis)

CASE 2
AUTOS
EXTREMELY LIMITED - 0

VERY LIMITED
Jacob Anderson as Grey Worm (Full Bleed)

LIMITED
Ben Hawkey as Hot Pie (Bordered)
Kerr Logan as Mathos Seaworth (Full Bleed)
Kerry Ingram as Shireen Baratheon (Bordered)
Kristofer Hivju as Tormund Giantsbane (Full Bleed)
Laura Pradelska as Quaithe (Full Bleed)
Lucian Msamati as Salladhor Saan (Bordered)
Luke Barnes as Rast (Bordered)
Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton (Blue) - damaged
Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei (Blue)
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mace Tyrell (Bordered)

Aimee Richardson as Mycella Baratheon (Full Bleed)
Alexandra Dowling as Roslin Frey (Full Bleed)
David Bradley as Walder Frey (Full Bleed)
John Stahl as Rickard Karstark (Full Bleed)
Josef Altin as Pypar (Full Bleed)
Kate Dickie as Lysa Arryn (Full Bleed)
Mark Stanley as Grenn (Full Bleed)
Noah Taylor as Locke (Full Bleed)
Ralph Ineson as Dagmer Cleftjaw (Full Bleed) - x2
Ron Donachie as Ser Rodrik Cassel (Full Bleed)
Susan Brown as Septa Mordane (Full Bleed)
Tobias Menzies as Edmure Tully (Blue)

SHIELD/PIN CARDS
H5 House Lannister
H6 Littlefinger's Mockingbird

THE QUOTABLE GAME OF THRONES - only pulled 20 cards and was unable to make a complete 9 card set from the case...missing card Q35

CASE 3
AUTOS
EXTREMELY LIMITED
Kit Harington as Jon Snow (Full Bleed)
Oona Chaplin as Talisa Maegyr (Bordered) - card is miscut

VERY LIMITED - 0

LIMITED
Burn Gorman as Karl Tanner (Bordered)
Carice van Houten as Melissandre (Full Bleed)
Daniel Portman as Podrick Payne (Full Bleed)
Donald Sumpter as Maester Luwin (Full Bleed)
Ellie Kendrick as Meera Reed (Full Bleed)
Fintan McKeown as Amory Lorch (Full Bleed)
Hannah Murray as Gilly (Full Bleed)
Ian Beattie as Ser Meryn Trant (Bordered)
Ian Whyte as Gregor Clegane (Bordered)
Indira Varma as Ellaria Sand (Bordered)
Will Tudor as Olyver (Bordered)

Aimee Richardson as Mycella Baratheon (Full Bleed)
Alexandra Dowling as Roslin Frey (Full Bleed)
Anton Lesser as Qyburn (Full Bleed)
David Bradley as Walder Frey (Full Bleed)
Dominic Carter as Janos Slynt (Full Bleed)
Emun Elliott as Marillion (Full Bleed)
Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister (Full-Bleed)
Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell (Full-Bleed)
Francis Magee as Yoren (Full Bleed)
Ron Donachie as Ser Rodrik Cassel (Full Bleed)
Susan Brown as Septa Mordane (Full Bleed)

SHIELD/PIN CARDS
H2 House Baratheon (Robert)
H4 House Greyjoy

I think you had some bad luck or the correlation is off. Only 2 ELs, 1 VL and one Bean out of 3 cases is weak.

Got my second box today.
Base and inserts were as expected, no Beautiful Death parallel this time. No sketch either, or Sheild/Pin card.
My autos:
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mace Tyrell Bordered, Limited
Nicolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaimie Lannister Extremly Limited

The Jaimie auto really was one I had wanted. Did anyone notice packs usually have 5 cards, but the ones with a foil parallel have 6 cards?

I opened box #05765. Here is what I got:

1 base set
9 foil parallels

2 Quotable cards
1 Gold Parallel base card 93/150 Lysa Arryn
1 Beautiful Death card BD
1 Beautiful Death Gold parallel 81/150 BD13
1 All Men Must Die G3 Cersei Lannister

2 autos:
Mark Stanley as Grenn
Laura Pradelska as Quaithe (Limited)

H2 Littlefinger's Mockingingbird [/IMG]

On the whole I was VERY pleased with my case. There were a few annoying little things, such as two doubles of autographs, which hasn't happened to me before, but the other autographs made up for it. Admittedly I haven't been buying cases for many years so perhaps I've just got lucky in previous years with getting no doubles before.

No sketch card but I don't collect those anyway...would have been nice, only to get some money back.

My case break:
Kit Harington EL
Jacob Anderson VL

Limited:
Burn Gorman
Daniel Portman
Indira Varma
Roger Ashton Griffiths
Sean Bean
Thomas Brodie Sangster
Tony Way
Will Tudor (Has to be the worst autograph ever! Hardly even a wiggly line!)
Yuri Kokokolnikov

Normal:
Aimee Richardson
Alexandra Dowling x2
Anton Lesser
Dominic Carter
Emun Elliott x2
Francis Magee
John Stahl
Kate Dickie
Noah Taylor
Ralph Ineson
Tobias Menzies

All boxes made complete base sets.
1 x Complete Parallel Set, plus extra cards.
12 x Gold Parallels
2 Complete Quotable sets, plus extra cards
12 Valar Morghulis cards
12 Beautiful Death cards
2 Gold BD Parallel cards
2 Shield Pins H5 & H6
1 x Case Topper

The things I don't understand with this set is the high price and Extremely Limited status of the Oona Chaplin card?(I think that was discussed elsewhere.) Unless that's just playing on the Chaplin family connection thing? And the Very Limited Bjornsson 'Gregor Clegane' card. The latter had a memorable part to play in one episode of S4, but the prices I've seen for him so far seem a little OTT for a VL card.

And, yes, the shield pin cards are identical to the pins you can buy from the HBO store and other sci-fi outlets. I won't be adding to those cards, as I have all the pins(with their pins still attached) already and they cost me a tiny fraction of the price these cards are selling for.

Busted a case, so far. Maybe I should stop when I'm ahead.

Autos:
Laura Pradelska as Quaithe (Full Bleed) Limited
Noah Taylor as Locke (Full Bleed)
Kate Dickie as Lysa Arryn (Full Bleed)
Mark Stanley as Grenn (Full Bleed)
Nathalie Emmanuel as Missandei (Blue) Limited
Susan Brown as Septa Mordane (Full Bleed)
Lucian Msamati as Salladhor Saan (Bordered) Limited
Ron Donachie as Ser Rodrik Cassel (Full Bleed)
Yuri Kolokolnikov as Styr (Bordered) Limited
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as Mace Tyrell (Bordered) Limited
Finn Jones as Loras Tyrell (Full-Bleed)
Michael McElhatton as Roose Bolton (Blue) Limited
Tobias Menzies as Edmure Tully (Blue)
Alexandra Dowling as Roslin Frey (Full Bleed)
Thomas Brodie Sangster as Jojen Reed (Full Bleed) Limited
Emun Elliott as Marillion (Full Bleed)
Josef Altin as Pypar (Full Bleed)
Tony Way as Dontos Hollard (Full Bleed) Limited
Eugene Simon as Lancel Lannister (Full-Bleed)
Ralph Ineson as Dagmer Cleftjaw (Full Bleed)
Luke Barnes as Rast (Bordered) Limited
Sean Bean as Lord Eddard Stark (Full-Bleed) Limited
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau as Jaime Lannister (Full Bleed) Extremely Limited

Pin Card H6


And the saving grace of the case

Mark James Sketch



Still sorting base sets. Got all the expected chase.

Ed

Disappointing box overall.

Kate Dickie as Lysa Aaron (Already have)

Mark Stanley as Gren (pulled from last years box!).

1 base set + 12 spare cards.

Q31, Q33, G9, BD10

1x Gold Base #54 and 1x Gold #BD6.

Have a want list of over 20 new autos but I pull repeats lol.

Majority is going straight for trade which is sad considering what I paid for the box!

With the sheer volume of repeat signers & autos I have already next year I won't pre-order but contact a few dealers once the checklist is out.

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Originally posted by WarriorBabe:
Disappointing box overall.

Kate Dickie as Lysa Aaron (Already have)

Mark Stanley as Gren (pulled from last years box!).

1 base set + 12 spare cards.

Q31, Q33, G9, BD10

1x Gold Base #54 and 1x Gold #BD6.

Have a want list of over 20 new autos but I pull repeats lol.

Majority is going straight for trade which is sad considering what I paid for the box!

With the sheer volume of repeat signers & autos I have already next year I won't pre-order but contact a few dealers once the checklist is out.

That's a shame you got a low-value auto box.
I noticed one or two boxes in my case I would have been annoyed with had I bought them as single boxes.

I'm not criticizing just for the sake of it, because I love these sets, and Rittenhouse do a great job(some of the chase sets are beautiful!), and you do get more hits than a Cryptozoic box or others, but the collation of boxes is quite disappointing at times.

For this set there is around half of the autographs listed as'Limited'...more than half if you then count the ELs and VLs. If a Limited is estimated at around 300-500 signed cards and if you say there's an average of 400 of each limited then that would work out at, at least 10,000 boxes could have a Limited card. There were 11,000 boxes for this set, so surely each box could include a Limited and a Normal at least? Or am I simply being too rational?!
I know values of cards is not the responsibility of Rittenhouse and is up to the market to decide, although they must have a good idea what is viewed as a good pick and a lower value one. But this set could so easily have had a limited and a normal card in each box. I know some Limited are less appealing than others, but it would still give a bit of guaranteed quality to buying a box.

For example one of my case boxes had two normals: Emun Elliott and Francis Magee. Those two autos are going for around £5-8 each and are both repeat signers...so that would have made the box very expensive for little return.
Another combination I had was Kate Dickie and Noah Taylor..again less than £20 in value.
I didn't mind because my case overall was pretty good, but I do feel sorry for single box buyers that they can pull such an absolute stinker.

If I hadn't of had those autos already I'd have probably been reasonably happy. I was when I pulled Mark Stanley last year and I purchased Kate Dickie because I wanted her.

Next release for GOT purchasing habits will certainly change.

Opened 2 Boxes so far (saving one for OTB Day)

Box 1

Q 35,38
BD 14
G 17
9 Foils
Gold Foil card #31 (012/150)

Anton Lesser as Qyburn
Lena Headey as Cersei

Box 2

Q 32,36
BD 13
G 3
9 Foils
Gold Foil card #95 (129/150)

Kerry Ingram as Shireen Baratheon (I like her)
John Stahl as Rickard Karstark

Pin Card H2 (241/300)

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Originally posted by hammer:
Opened 2 Boxes so far (saving one for OTB Day)

Box 1

Q 35,38
BD 14
G 17
9 Foils
Gold Foil card #31 (012/150)

Anton Lesser as Qyburn
Lena Headey as Cersei

Box 2

Q 32,36
BD 13
G 3
9 Foils
Gold Foil card #95 (129/150)

Kerry Ingram as Shireen Baratheon (I like her)
John Stahl as Rickard Karstark

Pin Card H2 (241/300)

Nice, I opened one box and it was total rubbish.

Oh I like those pins and Ed that is one superb sketch.

Two more boxes and 1 more that I still haven't opened

Box 04949 from my LCS
Auto: Tobias Menzies (Edmure Tulley) Blue
Indira Varma (Ellaria Sand) Bordered

All Men Must Die: G3 (Cersei)
Beautiful Death: BD9; BD10 Gold 58/150
Quotable: Q32,Q 36
Gold Base card #54 (99/150)
Foils: 6, 17, 26, 42, 59, 64, 79, 89, 94
My LCS was nice enough to give me the case topper as an extra!!

Box 02846 (Purchased from a friendly Card Talk dealer)
Auto: Hanna Murray (Gilly) Full Bleed

Eugene Simon (lancel) Full bleed (worst signature ever!)
All Men Must Die: G8 (Sansa)
Beautiful Death: BD 16
Quotable: Q36, Q39
Gold Base #32 (91/150)
Foils: 4, 24, 28, 30, 40, 68, 73, 87, 91

I am feeling lukewarm about the Beautiful death cards. Cool idea not sure that I need 16 or more.

Happy with these 2 boxes. Let's see if the last 2 are a good.

Opened my first box and found that the old Will Gull luck is up and still running.

Susan Brown and Emun Elliot autos.

I quit collating and caring. It's quite simple. I don't expect great hits when I purchase one box at a time, but come on!

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Originally posted by willgull:
Opened my first box and found that the old Will Gull luck is up and still running.

Susan Brown and Emun Elliot autos.

I quit collating and caring. It's quite simple. I don't expect great hits when I purchase one box at a time, but come on!

Sorry Will, I think you got the box usually reserved for me!

Seriously, GOT has a large auto list and, as a box buyer myself, you hope not to get two commons, but it happens.

I love the show and this line of cards in general, but when I placed a new card order the other day, I couldn't bring myself to get even one box of GOT Season 4, thanks to the chance of getting what Will got, a pair of very minor autos from characters who last appeared in Season 1, if I'm not mistaken. Marillion (Emun Elliot) was the troubadour who Littlefinger framed for throwing Lysa out the Moon Door in the books, but he didn't even get that on the actual show, as they cut all of that, likely for time, as it was good stuff, especially his plaintive singing from his Skycell as he awaited his punishment.

I got another SHIELD box instead and was happy I did as I got the Bill Paxton auto I wanted. A lower print run and a better lineup of autographs in it (even without main characters Skye and Fitz) than in GoT this time around made the decision for me.

That said, good luck to those who take the chance on this GoT season 4. There is good stuff in there, for sure, but I'm going to wait for the Season 5 set, I think, and just pick up a few bordered autograph singles this time.

OK, back to breaks, and better luck next time, Willgull! I've certainly known that sting...

As before, I want to say that I love the GoT sets and it's the only set I'll deliberately save up for to buy bits and pieces from(especially the autograph cards), even though I gave up on making actual Master Sets after S2.

As much as I love the sets, there is something about this particular set that seems...not exactly rushed and hurriedly put together, but kind of an 'odds and ends' set.
A look at the copyright date on some of the autograph cards, particularly the lower end cards shows that some were made/signed in 2012, some in 2013. While I'm sure RA always get at least two types of card signed to use whenever they want to, it seems as though they were waiting to use them and decided it was going to be for this set as everything else was a bit scratched together, either through time constraints or some issue in production. A lot of the autograph cards selection doesn't make a lot of sense in regards to the big story lines some of the characters had in S4. We're missing Brienne, Hound, Arya, Sansa, Baelish, Dany. While they have signed for other sets, it seems strange that they're missing from this one. Maybe a return for the S5 set?

So to me this set has a little bit of a fragmented feel to it. And the endless parallels are a bit of a lazy option for the chase inserts sets.The shield pin cards being actual pins you can buy from the HBO store for around £12 also were a little disappointing, with the Archive Box H7 card for the Hand of the King pin selling for around £200-£300...simply ridiculous!

I'm also hoping for a better 'more meaty' line-up for the S5 set next year.

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Originally posted by Hedgehog Witch:

As much as I love the sets, there is something about this particular set that seems...not exactly rushed and hurriedly put together, but kind of an 'odds and ends' set.

I'm also hoping for a better 'more meaty' line-up for the S5 set next year.

I think you stated it well in your assessment.

Don't misunderstand me, I will likely end up spending just as much money on GOT cards this year as last year. It just feels like there is a lull in the Season 4 line-up because many of the new signers are not compelling characters.

We have been spoiled by getting the 3 Lannisters every year, while some of the more important actors you mentioned have been MIA for a couple of years. And I keep resisting that Chaplin because it's not worth it to me. I think the Bean is very good to bring back, but dropping in autographs of minor characters who died in Season 1 in Season 4 cards is waiting too long.

So to me, the problem with this year's cards is not that they are so far off, it's just that they are off compared to the first 3 GOT releases. Kind of a victim of there own success. I'm still buying and will look forward to Season 5.