V:EKN Official Toreador Newsletter Mars 2004 Late Mars but winter refuses to let go of Sweden. I have been playing along with the new cards for a while now, and there really isn't that much for your normal Toreador deck. I have mentioned a true gemearlier, the Sire's Index Finger and below are a few more cards that should find their way into some decks dependent on clan Toreador. This month also features a slightly different take on my old looping Toreador Grand Ball deck. With three large vampires sharing basic Thaumaturgy - why not? The deck is tested a couple of times. Won a table and crumbled at another. If nothing else watching the faces of your co-players when a Toreador plays Rutor's Hand has a certain value in itself. I'm also fooling around with a Legion-deck, but that idea needs further tweaking and polishing. Maybe a later newsletter - if it turns out to be a concept that works even during the games when you're not dealt an ideal hand. Without further ado, let's have a look at some cards and the deck.. Cards of the month: Cardname: WMRH Talk Radio Cardtype: Master Set: BH Cost: 1 pool Cardtext: Master: unique location. Tap to give any minion +1 intercept for the current action. If that minion doesn't successfully block the action, burn 1 pool after the action resolves. Cheap permanent intercept for a clan that usually should not fail to block. As an added bonus this card can be used to force-feed intercept to another blocking deck in order to prevent it from cycling cards. Cardname: Kaymakli Barrier Cardtype: Action Set: BH Cost: 1 pool Cardtext: Requires a ready vampire. Unique. (D) Put this card on a younger ready vampire. You still control this card. This vampire cannot block undirected actions. (D) actions cost this vampire an additional blood. As the Toreador aren't exactly renowned for stealth anything that can help us to finish of an action succesfully is helpful. This card should more often than not be played on the key-blocker belonging to your predator. Observe that there is no inherent stealth in this action. Cardname: Mask Empathy Cardtype: Combat Set: BH Discipline: Presence Cardtext: [pre] Strike: ranged. Burn a retainer employed by the opposing minion (usable at close range). [PRE] Play before range is determined. This vampire burns 1 blood to burn a retainer employed by the opposing minion. Tired of that Gangrel/Nosferatu aviary blocking everything you do? Well, this is the card to get rid of those persky birds. Deck of the month: Name: Red Magic Description: This deck owes to an idea by Antonio Pascual Moreno Guardiola, writer of the Spanish Toreador Newsletter. I have taken the idea into a quite different direction, but he was the one who came up with magic Toreador as a concept. Vote and bloat unblockably and use that second action for either just standing untapped, equip, reqruit or punch in that finishing bleed. If you're surrounded by heavy combat this deck will sink like a stone. Decktypes: Vote/Clan/Bl. Denial/Bloat Author: Sten Düring Crypt Cards Total: 12 Min: 12 Max: 38 Avg: 6.17 Name Amount Emerson Wilkershire III 1 Fleurdumal 2 Helena 2 Isabel de Leon 1 Klaus van der Veken 2 Michael Luther 2 Sir Henry Johnson 1 Yvette, The Hopeless 1 Library Cards Total: 90 Name Amount Master Total: 20 Art Museum 1 Blood Doll 6 Elysium: The Arboretum 1 Elysium: The Palace of Versailles 1 Giant's Blood 1 KRCG News Radio 1 Secure Haven 1 Society Hunting Ground 1 Thaumaturgy 2 Toreador Grand Ball 5 Action Total: 6 Arson 1 Entrancement 1 Kaymakli Barrier 1 Rutor's Hand 3 Political Action Total: 14 Consanguineous Boon 5 Kine Resources Contested 5 Parity Shift 1 Praxis Seizure: Monaco 1 Praxis Seizure: Paris 1 Toreador Justicar 1 Action Modifier Total: 12 Aire of Elation 2 Bewitching Oration 5 Voter Captivation 5 Combat Total: 10 Majesty 5 Sideslip 5 Reaction Total: 19 Eagle's Sight 1 Forced Awakening 7 Precognition 1 Second Tradition: Domain 3 Spirit's Touch 1 Telepathic Misdirection 6 Equipment Total: 5 Assault Rifle 2 IR Goggles 1 Palatial Estate 1 Veneficorum Artum Sanguis 1 Retainer Total: 4 J. S. Simmons, Esq. 1 Mr. Winthrop 1 Resplendent Protector 1 Tasha Morgan 1 Sten During