Rittenhouse 2023 Game of Thrones Art & Images – Sealed Box

A factory-sealed hobby box of Rittenhouse's Game of Thrones: Art & Images — 5 packs of 5 cards, with one on-card autograph in every pack. Five autographs per box.

Twenty-five cards in the whole box, and five of them are signed

That configuration is worth looking at properly, because it is the opposite of how sealed product normally works.

A standard hobby box holds 24 packs and 120 cards, of which perhaps three or four are hits. You open a great many base cards on the way to finding them, and that is the experience being sold — the hunt.

This box holds 25 cards in total, and a fifth of them are autographs. There is almost no base set to work through. You open five packs, you find five signatures, and you are finished in about a minute.

It is a different product aimed at a different buyer: someone who wants the signatures rather than the ritual. It also makes the box far easier to value, because there is very little filler to discount.

The trade-off is that the experience is over quickly, and a box with nothing to sift through is a box with no surprises left after the first minute.

Set composition

Base set of 99 cards celebrating 33 characters across the saga — three each.

Insert series: Saga of Daenerys Targaryen · Saga of Ned Stark · Dragonglass acetate character cards (numbered to 15) · Artifex metal cards (numbered to 25) · Faces of War · Artist Rendition · Memorable Duos · JJ Lendl episode posters · hand-drawn sketch cards.