Format name:  "VP"
 
Concept:  Casual league format open to any players with VP decks 
	  as an alternative to normal constructed play.
 
Rules:  Start with any one of the preconstructed starters.  You may add 
up to 10 library cards and up to 2 crypt cards to your initial card universe.  
The 2 crypt cards must be different from each other and from any of the crypt 
cards that come in your precon (grouping rule is ignored).  The 10 library 
cards must be different from each other and from any card printed in *any* 
precon; a list of all cards printed in the precons is available at 
http://www.thelasombra.com/lists/fixed_rarity.txt.  
Promo cards are okay to use.
 
In building your deck, the library must be 40-90 cards and the crypt must have at least 8 cards.
 
When playing a VP game, every player must play a VP deck.  At the beginning 
of the game, before drawing cards from the library, each player antes face 
down the top card of her library.  A player may always look at her own ante 
but not at anyone else's.  When a player is ousted, that player's ante card 
is revealed.  After the game, a player who ousts another player has three 
options for increasing the size of her universe:  she may add a crypt card 
from her own collection to her universe using the same rules as above; she 
may add a copy from her own collection of the card that was up for ante; 
she may add a library card that does not match any card currently in her 
universe or a card printed in any precon.  The cards up for ante are never 
lost - VP decks never lose cards from their universes.
 
A good way to track changes to a particular VP deck is to use a 3x5 card, 
name the deck, and note the specific cards added to the universe, if any, 
for each game.  Deck universe contents are on an honor system.  Decks only 
get stronger, continuously evolving along personal tastes, but still with 
some limitations.  A deck can be retired at any time.  There's no limit to 
how many VP decks a player can have.
 
All of the ante cards - Cunctator Motion, High Stakes, Playing for Keeps - are legal.  
Cunctator Motion is the only way that a player can look at another player's ante card.  
A successful referendum (and only a successful referendum) allows the player to look 
at all of the ante cards and rearrange who antes which; the ante cards still return 
to the cards' respective owners.
 
Designers:  San Francisco Bay Area V:TES players.
 
For rulings:  Send an e-mail to Ian Lee at curevei // at // aol.com.