Re:Fix of Westeros Card Issues
Sillion (#21183),
Yes, there will be times when you will know what the 6th card will be. And I agree with you, that that is probably not in the best interests of the game, even if it will occur less than 10% of the time.
So, after thinking about it, I think the simplest option, is to go with my second suggestion. To summarize:
Westeros Deck 1: Step 1: Separate the cards into two sub-decks:
Sub-deck a) 2 Mustering, 2 Supply, and 1 Last Days of Summer.
Sub-deck b) 2 Mustering, 2 Supply, and 1 Winter is Coming.
Step 2: Shuffle both.
Step 3: Randomly take 1 card from from Sub-deck b, and add it to Sub-deck a.
Step 4: Place Sub-deck a (which now has 6 cards), and place it on top of Sub-deck b.
Westeros Deck 2: Do the exact same thing as Deck 1, just using the Game of Thrones, and Clash of Kings in place of Mustering and Supply.
Westeros Deck 3: No change.
As Matt is correct (after flipping Winter is Coming you not only shuffle the deck, you draw another card after doing so), I think that this is the most elegant of solutions. Now there will
never be a time when you will know what the next card up will be in any of the decks. However, the distribution is almost guaranteed to be more even than a purely random set-up.
What do you think? For that matter, what does everyone else think?