Introduction: A brand new expansion as well as a promo only card for clan Toreador. It has been an intensive autumn with Storyline tournaments, EC and Prereleases for Legacies of Blood. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Let's see what candy we have been given since august. Cards of the Month: Cardname: Helena (Adv) Cardtype: Vampire Set: Promo Sect: Independent. Group: 3 Clan: Toreador Capacity: 10 Discipline: DOM CEL AUS tha pre obf dai Cardtext: Advanced, Independent: Helena pays no blood cost for reaction cards that require Auspex or Dominate. Infernal. Merged symbol: Helena is immune to damage from demons and gains 1 level of Daimonion and Obtenebration If merged we have a reacting combination. Normal Helena's special combined with this card allows us to play Telepathic Misdirection just as if she had played a Wake with Evening's Freshness. Hate political decks? Helena (Adv) will convert a billion vampires votes to your choice with Kindred Coersion at no cost. Sanguine Instruction or even a Master Discipline: Presence helps her overcome Inner Circle vampires as well as giving her full use of said discipline. It might be a good idea to have some vote protection. Helena's being Independent makes her a prime target for Protect Thine Own. Also, remember that you can't make her a prince or justicar for the same reason. Cardname: Panya, The Wicked Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Laibon Group: 4 Clan: Ishtarri Capacity: 3 Discipline: cel pre Basically a cap three Toreador in a bleed / gun deck. Cardname: Kenyatta Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Laibon Group: 4 Clan: Ishtarri Capacity: 4 Discipline: cel pre for A small vampire for those who like to play with the four Toreador who have Fortitude. Cardname: Jibade el-Bahrawi Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Laibon Group: 4 Clan: Ishtarri Capacity: 9 Discipline: CEL DEM FOR PRE aus Cardtext: Jibade gets +1 stealth when recruiting, employing, or taking an action to put a vampire in play. Allies and retainers cost him 1 less blood or pool. At capacity nine this vampire is costly with only inferior Auspex, but his special is a great help should you want to gear up with Marijava Ghouls and use Heidelberg Castle to give your bleeds some extra stealth. Cardname: Ayo Igoli Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Laibon Group: 4 Clan: Ishtarri Capacity: 10 Discipline: AUS CEL FOR PRE obf tha Carddtext: Ayo gets an additional vote for each ready titled vampire you control. You may use a discard phase action to move 2 blood from Ayo to a Laibon in your uncontrolled region. As fortitude based Toreador goes it wont get any better than this. If you play with Madame Guil, Ayo Igoli and small vampires as cannon fodder you're potentially looking at poolgain at a rate of four to six pool each turn if you run the political game. If nothing else she can defend The Rack and Powerbase Montreal just like players have done with Menele. Superior Fortitude makes Ayo a lot more likely to survive any combat though. Cardname: Idrissa Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Laibon Group: 4 Clan: Osebo Capacity: 4 Discipline: CEL aus Another small capacity gunner with blocking capacity. Cardname: Aimee Laroux Cardtype: Vampire Set: Legacies of Blood Sect: Independent Group: 4 Clan: Daughters of Cacophony Capacity: 2 Discipline: for pre Cardtext: You may use four transfers and burn 1 pool to give Aimee an additional level of Melpominee. Aimee can't play reaction cards. Weenie bleeder. So, she can't react with cards. Who cares? After Legal Manipulation, Aire of Elation and Daring the Dawn she's not going to be there to react at all. Cardname: Blessed Audience Cardtype: Action Set: Legacies of Blood Cost: X blood Discipline: Melpominee/Auspex Cardtext: (aus) (D) Tap X-1 allies or younger vampires controlled by your predator or prey. (mel) As (aus) above, at +1 stealth. (MEL) As (mel) above, and this vampire can increase his or her capacity for purposes of selecting the targets of this effect. The cost of this action is increased by one blood for each point of capacity gained (chosen when the action is announced). Assuming that we're playing Toreador Grand Ball with a large acting vampire this is the means to pave the way for a horde of small vampires. Annabelle Triabell with friends becomes a very scary deck if based on this card. I have just had confirmed that you are allowed to tap minions belonging to both of your neighbours. In this case the action becomes undirected, but hey, we're using Toreador Grand Ball anyway. Apart from that most of the cards that at a first glance seems useful have a Laibon requirement. Given that the Laibon clans lack numbers in vampires compared to all clans but the bloodlines they need that edge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Deck of the month: Name: Anathema Description: Scrap the trophies. Pool is as good a trophy as anything else.Vote, rush, block and gain pool. Deck is changed since my playing it. Two princes have been added to replace one Michael Luther and one Madame Guil. The previous version was simply too vulnerable depending on one single vampire. It's a fun deck to play but will succumb to heavy bleed. Decktypes: Vote/Int./Ra. Combat/Clan/Rush Crypt Cards Total: 12 Min: 13 Max: 41 Avg: 7.5 Name Amount Alexandra 1 Annabelle Triabell 1 Emerson Wilkershire III 1 Francois Villon 1 Ira Rivers 1 Madame Guil 4 Michael Luther 1 Sir Henry Johnson 1 Yvette, The Hopeless 1 Library Cards Total: 90 Name Amount Master Total: 20 Art Museum 1 Blood Doll 5 Carver's Meat Packing and Storage 1 Club Zombie 1 Elysium: The Palace of Versailles 1 Fame 1 From a Sinking Ship 1 Powerbase: Montreal 1 Society Hunting Ground 1 Tension in the Ranks 1 The Erciyes Fragments 1 Toreador Grand Ball 5 Event Total: 1 Dr. Marisa Fletcher, CDC 1 Action Total: 1 Aranthebes, The Immortal 1 Political Action Total: 11 Alastor 4 Anathema 5 Parity Shift 2 Action Modifier Total: 18 Awe 5 Bewitching Oration 2 Forced March 5 Freak Drive 1 Voter Captivation 5 Combat Total: 18 Psyche! 3 Pursuit 5 Sideslip 5 Taste of Vitae 5 Reaction Total: 15 Second Tradition: Domain 10 Telepathic Misdirection 5 Equipment Total: 5 Assault Rifle 4 Bowl of Convergence 1 Retainer Total: 1 Mr. Winthrop 1 Sten During