Introduction: The part of the gamingcommunity that takes part in the newsgroup and other online forums quite expectedly have turned into an anarch-frenzy. While more or less wild speculations on the new cards are circulating and complaints are voiced over changes or feared changes to old cards the qualifiers to the continental championships are proceeding at a steady rate. The Anarch set - speculations: From what we know about the set, what impact does it have on clan Toreador? We know that votemodifiers will be replaced immediately which will make it a good idea to include different modifiers in your deck as you'll have a chance to draw into one and use it. We've seen one card that makes an Anarch with minimum capacity 5 a Baron. We could assume that the other five Fee Stakes are similar to each other - pretty much the same way Praxis Seizureare similar to each other. We've seen one card that untaps a vampire after he/she succesfully becomes an Anarch. Those cards together with Toreador Grand Ball more or less automatically gives one of your midcap untitled Toreador a title in one single turn to go with future unblockable votes if cards are in your hand. All in all it looks like a Voter Captivation / Blood Doll type of deck with more vampires rather than a Voter Captivation / Minion Tap with very large vampires. It would be tempting to combine this with the card Anarch Salon instead of Consanguineous Boon as you're likely to have four or five vampires available with one locked down by the Toreador Grand Ball. We know that we'll receive at least two new vampires even though we know nothing more about them - at least those of us who don't follow the RPG-universe are rather clueless. Searching the net I see that Joaquin Murietta is embraced by Christopher Houghton, and in VTES Joaquin is cap 9 so let's guess that Christopher Houghton is a high capacity vampire. Searching for Michael Luther I find nothing more than that he's the main character in one of the World of Darkness novels. Apparently he has had a childe, so at least his being a cap 2 vampire seems too low. The reason I write "at least" is that I'd be very surprised if the two preconstructed decks "Barons" and "Gangs" are going to be monoclan and as White Wolf up to now have tried to keep the number of vampires in each sect the same and they have stated that each deck will include two vampires that are starterdeck only it seems likely that there will be a discrepancy in the number of vampires per clan and sect available in the boosters. There are three "invisible" slots available and the Tremere already have three vampires listed with all other Camarilla clans at two each. Only three slots? Yup. Prints of a Nosferatu named Sundown are circulating so that clan is up to three vampires as well. However, three slots are not enough to give the remaining Camarilla clans three vampires each, so we'll have to wait for the answer. A helping vampire for gun-decks is Juggler. Basic obfuscate and superior celerity paired with a built in maneouver and a built in Acrobatics at long range just cannot be bad for anyone who is planning to do nasty stuff at long range with the help of Disguised Weapon. At capacity 7 he's also fairly cheap as obf/CEL gunners go. He just might turn into a new favourite in a new Assault Rifle deck together with Fatima, Joaquin Murietta and other low-cost, non-titled vampires with obf/CEL. Slightly speculative deck: A voter following the outlines described above. We want to build our backbone of the deck around vampires with a capacity of five or six. Add four small ones to feed the Toreador Grand Ball. A small package for becoming Anarch and grabbing a title. Twelve damaging votes and six bloating ones. Enough votemodifiers to push through some votes even without titles and blood-regain to top it out. Combat is quite basic escape with Majesty, some wakes and bounces. Masters are almost purely for unblockability and bloating. Crypt 12 Adrianne 1 Felicia Mostrom 1 Kallista, Master Sculptor 1 Makarios, The Seducer 1 Radeyah 1 Ramiel DuPre 2 Sigrid Bekker 1 Colin Flynn 1 Delilah Easton 1 Dieter Kleist 1 Isabel de Leon 1 [I don't dare to put in any of the two named Toreador from the checklist before I know what they actually look like, and besides this is a group 1 and 2 crypt anyway and all really new vampires shown this far have been group 3, but it might turn out that a group 2 and 3 crypt may eventually be a better choice.] Library 90 Masters 16 Toreador Grand Ball 5 Blood Doll 8 Society Hunting Ground 1 Club Zombie 1 Galaric's Legacy 1 [We're planning to bloat so bleed-defence is bounce and vote-defence is gaining more pool than we lose if our titles aren't enough] Actions 10 Go Anarch 4 Fee Stake: Boston 1 Fee Stake: Corte 1 Fee Stake: Los Angeles 1 Fee Stake: New York 1 Fee Stake: Perth 1 Fee Stake: Seattle 1 Action Modifiers 22 Awe 6 Bewitching Oration 6 Voter Captivation 10 [Taking a calculated risk here. Without titles we'll risk seeing very few votes go through] Poltitcal Actions 18 Anarch Salon 6 Kine Resources Contested 8 Conservative Agitation 4 Combat 10 Majesty 10 Reaction 14 Wake with Evenings Freshness 8 Telepathic Misdirection 6 Well, this was a try at building a deck using some of the few new cards that we currently know something about in a rather large amount. At the time for the next newsletter we'll know a lot more, giving us a better opportunity to groan, grin and gasp. Sten During