Rittenhouse Puts Dunk and Egg on Winter Trading Cards

Rittenhouse Archives has listed A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 trading cards for Winter 2026, with no price, checklist, or street date. The six-episode HBO prequel premiered on January 18, 2026, drew nine Emmy nominations, and won one.

House of the Dragon Series Two, the nearest product on the same calendar, is dated October 14, 2026, with hobby boxes listed at $199.95. Dunk and Egg are being added to a Westeros card line that has been in print since June 6, 2012.

Rittenhouse Lists the Season 1 Cards for Winter

On its public schedule, the company listed the set for Winter 2026 under the title A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 Trading Cards. That is the whole posting. There is no box photo, no checklist PDF, and no configuration note of the kind Rittenhouse publishes once a set is locked.

The listing sits directly under House of the Dragon Series Two, which the same schedule now dates to October 14, 2026 after an earlier late-September target. Winter, in this catalog, is the slot after that dragon set and before the TV return in the first half of 2027.

WHAT WE KNOW

• The product: A Season 1 trading-card set from Rittenhouse Archives, the licensed Westeros card maker since 2012.
• The window: Winter 2026, with no day attached.
• The show it covers: The six-episode first season that ran from January 18, 2026 through February 22, 2026 on HBO and HBO Max.
• The nearest live set: House of the Dragon Series Two, dated October 14, 2026, with hobby boxes listed at $199.95.

WHAT IS UNCONFIRMED

• Street date: No month, week, or day inside winter has been posted.
• Price and box size: No hobby-box cost, pack count, or case size for the Dunk and Egg set.
• Checklist: No base-set count, no insert list, no relic plan.
• Signers: No autograph roster. Peter Claffey and Dexter Sol Ansell are the obvious names and have not been confirmed.

That blank page is normal for Rittenhouse at this stage. The company often parks a title on the schedule months before it publishes hits, odds, and a signer list. Collectors who treat the Winter 2026 line as a playable card game will be waiting on rules that this maker has not written for any prior Westeros set.

Fourteen Years of Westeros Hobby Boxes

Rittenhouse’s own Game of Thrones catalog opens with Season One cards released on June 6, 2012, and runs through Game of Thrones: The Great Houses on December 10, 2025. Count the titles on that page and you get 18 released Westeros sets, then two more that have not shipped: House of the Dragon Series Two and the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 set.

The early years followed the HBO seasons almost one for one. Later titles filled the years after the mother show ended, then absorbed House of the Dragon. The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms listing is the first time the hedge-knight series appears as its own product, 14 years after that first Season One box.

RITTENHOUSE ON WESTEROS

1. June 6, 2012: Game of Thrones Season One trading cards reach stores.
2. August 15, 2024: House of the Dragon Season One cards ship, the first set built on the Targaryen prequel.
3. November 20, 2024: Game of Thrones: Legends of the Realm lands as a franchise set, not a season recap.
4. December 10, 2025: Game of Thrones: The Great Houses is released.
5. October 14, 2026: House of the Dragon Series Two is scheduled to ship.
6. Winter 2026: A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms Season 1 trading cards are listed, with no day.

The pattern is licensed stills, on-card autographs, costume relics, foil parallels, and artist cards sold in hobby boxes. It is the same machine whether the faces on the cardboard are Starks, Targaryens, or a hedge knight and his squire.

What a House of the Dragon Box Usually Holds

Rittenhouse has not described the Dunk and Egg cards. The product that most resembles a first-season Westeros show set is House of the Dragon Season One, which the company still sells as a 50-card base set and on-card autographs package. That base set uses 3 cards for each episode, 19 character cards, and 1 checklist card. Every hobby box is built as 24 packs of 5 cards, 120 cards in all, and is written to include 1 autograph card and 2 relic cards.

Series Two, the set now dated October 14, 2026, raises the guaranteed autographs to 2 per box and drops the relics to 1. Retailers list those hobby boxes at $199.95. If the Knight of the Seven Kingdoms set is priced on that shelf, Winter 2026 is a $200 product, not a pocket pack.

THE WESTEROS BOX COMPARED

A six-episode season also changes the math that produced that 50-card grid. Three cards per episode across 6 episodes would yield 18 episode cards, not 30. Unless Rittenhouse pads the character list, the Dunk and Egg base set should be smaller than the dragon set that is being used as a guess.

INSERTS THAT SHOW UP IN THE DRAGON BOX

• On-card autographs: Single signatures, plus duals, metals, inscriptions, and auto-relics in the chase mix.
• Costume relics: 51 single relic cards, 13 duals, and 1 triple in Season One, some numbered.
• Foil parallels: Gold, red numbered to 50, and 1-of-1 holo stamps on the base set.
• Art and galleries: Character galleries, artist renditions, JJ Lendl episode posters, relationship cards, location cards, and hand-drawn sketch cards.

Those extras are why people buy the box. The base cards recap episodes. The hits are signatures and cloth. There is no playable format, no deck construction, and no tournament rules attached to any of these titles.

Dunk and Egg Become the Autograph Hits

Peter Claffey plays Ser Duncan the Tall. Dexter Sol Ansell plays Egg, the squire who is Aegon Targaryen. In every Rittenhouse Westeros set, the leads are the names that move sealed boxes, because one autograph is guaranteed in a Season One-style box and two are guaranteed in Series Two.

House of the Dragon Season One put Paddy Considine, Emma D’Arcy, Olivia Cooke, Matt Smith, Milly Alcock, and Emily Carey on the signer list, then filled it out with supporting players. The Knight of the Seven Kingdoms roster, when it appears, will be judged on whether Claffey and Ansell actually signed, how many copies exist, and whether the supporting Season 1 cast is on-card or missing.

That is the live argument in this hobby, and it is already aimed at Rittenhouse, not at HBO. Buyers who try to finish master sets keep running into autograph checklists that are too long to complete at $199.95 a box. A six-episode show with a tight central pair could, in theory, be a shorter list. It could also copy the dragon set and spread signatures across every speaking part. Until the checklist posts, the only honest description of a Dunk and Egg Season 1 signed card set is that the hits do not exist on paper yet.

Claffey wrapped Season 2 on August 13, 2026. Ansell had already posted his wrap on August 3, 2026. Both men are free of that shoot. Autograph sessions for a Winter 2026 card set would have to be scheduled against whatever press HBO wants for the first half of 2027, which is one reason the card date can slip even after it is listed.

Season 2 Does Not Arrive Until 2027

The century-before-Game-of-Thrones hedge knight story is built from George R.R. Martin’s 1998 novella The Hedge Knight. Season 1 was 6 episodes, Sundays at 10 p.m. ET, from January 18, 2026 to February 22, 2026. Showrunner Ira Parker’s second season is the next on-screen date, and HBO and Max Content chairman and CEO Casey Bloys has put it in the first half of 2027.

You mean in addition to the Emmy-nominated Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which is coming out in the first half of ’27? And House of the Dragon? Besides that, no, nothing else.

Casey Bloys, HBO and Max Content chairman and CEO

Parker called the six-episode Season 2 shoot brutal. He said the production went to Spain for heat and dryness because the story takes place in a drought, then hit a once-in-a-100-year storm, lost locations to rain and floods, and put the crew on hiatus. The Television Academy still records nine nominations and a stunt Emmy for the first season, the win going to Outstanding Stunt Performance on the episode In The Name Of The Mother for Zach Roberts, Gyula Tóth, Chris Cox, and Jake Cox.

Winter 2026 cards therefore land in the gap between a short first season that already has an Emmy and a second season that is months of post-production away. They are licensed stills and signatures sold while the next six episodes are being cut. That is also how the 2012 line began: a season airs, a box follows, the autographs keep the title on hobby shelves after Sunday night is over.

Winter Is a Window, Not a Street Date

Rittenhouse has not posted a price for A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms. It has not posted a base-set size, a pack configuration, a relic plan, or a single confirmed signer. The honest read of the schedule is a title and a season. Everything else is borrowed from House of the Dragon Season One and from Series Two boxes listed at $199.95.

Series Two is the product that will hit first. If those boxes land on October 14, 2026 at that price, with 2 autographs and 1 relic, they will set what a Westeros hobby box costs this fall before anyone can order Dunk and Egg. A delay on Series Two would also push the winter window around, because the same company is printing both.

Until a checklist appears, the Winter 2026 set is a line on a release calendar and a pair of names, Claffey and Ansell, who have not signed a card that collectors can buy. The 18 sets that came before it are the only spec sheet on the table.