Ravnos Clan Newsletter September 2005 Written by Graham Smith Introduction I asked Emile Bosman if he would mind if I wrote a few Ravnos newsletters and he said go right ahead. So here we are. I will try to write one every couple of months but don't hold me to it! ============================================================= Kindred Most Wanted The Ravnos clan got a lot of new toys in KMW. I will try and pick two of them to talk about in each newsletter. This month I'm going to look at Tatiana Stepanova, Alastor and Edged Illusion. Vampire of the (next two!) months: Tatiana Stepanova, Alastor Clan: Ravnos (group 4) Capacity: 7 Disciplines: CHI PRE ani for obf Camarilla: You and Tatiana may play cards that require Brujah or Gangrel as if Tatiana were a member of the required clan. Rarity: KMW:U So what is there to say about Tatiana? She is a 7 cap with only one traditional in clan discipline at superior. However, since that is Chimerstry, all is not lost. She has superior Presence which matches up nicely with 2 of the new smaller Ravnos, Devyn and Paul Forrest. Presence allows Tatiana to enchant down to give the Ravnos a much needed influence enhancer and also combos nicely with Red Herring in a tap and bleed deck as Presence can provide a lot of different bleed actions. She also has a very interesting special. I'm still working on the best uses of Tatiana's special but here is the list of cards that she can play: Brujah Al's Army Apparatus Arms Dealer Knights, The Loyal Street Gang Oxford University, England Slashers, The Sword of Troile Triole's Revenge Warzone Hunting Ground Gangrel Dog Pack Gypsies Renegade Garou Ritual Challenge Shackles of Enkidu Werewolf Pack Zoo Hunting Ground So from this list, we can see that Tatiana can call upon and use a number of cheap or useful Allies. She can also give the Ravnos access to anti SC:E with the Dog Packs. I will include some decks that uses Tatiana's special to greater depth in the next newsletter. ===================================================================== Card of the month: Edged Illusion Type: Action Requires: Chimerstry Cost: 2 blood [chi] (D) Tap a ready minion. This acting vampire inflicts 1 unpreventable damage on that minion. [CHI] (D) Choose a Methuselah. This acting vampire inflicts 1 unpreventable damage on each ready minion controlled by that Methuselah. Rarity: KMW:C Edged Illusion is a very good card, expensive but good. At inferior it combos well with Red herring to make sure a minion is going to end up tapped, at superior it is screams weenie killer. Ravnos have been able to slow down the mid to large cap vampires using Sensory Deprivation but still get overrun when dealing with weenies. Not anymore! Hit the weenie deck with a couple of Edged Illusions and watch them spend a lot of time hunting or in torpor. Deck of the month: There has been a lot of interest in Edged Illusion on the newsgroup lately with decks posted that use it to knock vampires in to torpor after removing their blood with Free States Rant. I've been playing around with a FSR and Edged Illusion deck but thought I would try something a bit different. After looking back through the Ravnos newsletter archive on www.thelasombra.com I came across the July 1998 newsletter that discussed the use of Sensory Deprivation and Society of Leopold to burn vampires. The plan was very simple, place the Sensory Deprivation on the target vampire, let the society come after them, watch them burn. I thought this concept would work very well with the new cards available in KMW. Hence the deck listed below: Deck Name : The Society lend a hand. Author : Graham Smith Description : The plan is to place Sensory Deprivation on your prey's vampires. Then when you have the Society of Leopold in hand place it on said vampire. Before the society burns the vampire, move it away from them with Jayne Jonestown and hit them with an Edged Illusion. You have to keep up the regular bleeding to stop your prey from just letting their vampire burn to the society. Crypt [12 vampires] Capacity min: 2 max: 7 average: 4.5 ------------------------------------------------------------ 3x Tatiana Stepanova, 7 CHI PRE ani for obf Ravnos:4 3x Jayne Jonestown 2 PRE !Brujah:4 2x Paul Forrest, Fals 5 chi for pre Ravnos:4 2x Devyn 4 ani chi pre Ravnos:4 1x Callirus 5 CHI FOR ani Ravnos:4 1x Gharston Roland 4 CHI ani pot Ravnos:4 Library [87 cards] ------------------------------------------------------------ Action [19] 4x Edged Illusion 5x Enchant Kindred 2x Fatuus Mastery 2x Mass Reality 6x Sensory Deprivation Action Modifier [5] 5x Fata Morgana Action Modifier/Combat [9] 4x Mirror Image 5x Occlusion Action/Reaction [5] 5x Draba Combat [16] 5x Apparition 3x Majesty 5x Staredown 3x Zip Gun Event [1] 1x Dragonbound Master [19] 1x Barrens, The 4x Blood Doll 1x Week of Nightmares 1x Park Hunting Ground 2x Path of Paradox, The 2x Perfectionist 1x Secure Haven 3x Society of Leopold 1x Tension in the Ranks 1x Warzone Hunting Ground 2x Waste Management Operation Reaction [11] 5x Ignis Fatuus 6x Wake with Evening's Freshness Retainer [2] 2x Raven Spy Crafted with : Anarch Revolt Deck Builder. [Sun Sep 25 09:26:30 2005] Please send any comments, suggestions and contributions to: graham.r.smith@gmail.com