The card Puppet Master appears in the upcoming Vampire: The Eternal StruggleFifth Edition Lasombra preconstructed deck. This is to be considered as the same card as the previously printed card Mind Rape. The old card is still legal for tournament play.
Hi! We have now added the changed cards Ashur Tablets and Emerald Legionnaire for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle as print-on-demand at Drivethrucards.com with a special discount ($0.15 per card). Direct links:
When you make an order, please have a look at our other offers – currently 34 decks/bundles, hundreds of Legacy Single cards (pick and mix freely) and of course the highly entertaining Card Creator!
This is a Vampire: The Eternal Struggle update on: 1. Errata for Ashur Tablets and Emerald Legionnaire 2. Multi deck change for the tournaments rules 3. Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce legality date
1. Errata announcements
Since August 2021, some cards have been under scrutiny due to power or rule issues. Ashur Tablets and Emerald Legionnaire were among them. We had a few rounds of playtest over 2 years, interrupted by the Covid pandemic, during which multiple variations were tested on these as well as other cards. Based on this feedback, we decided to make the following changes:
Ashur Tablets Errata: Only one Ashur Tablets may be played each turn.
Reason: This change has a greater impact on heavy MMPA deck as it doesn’t allow a player to play as many recursion cycles, which in turn limits the gain pool from other cards such as Liquidation, making decks including 50+ master cards and large pool gain less viable.
This card will be available for print-on-demand at Drivethrucards.com with a special discount.
This change has tournament legality 1st February 2024.
Emerald Legionnaire Errata: You cannot use the Emerald Legionnaire’s ability during your unlock phase if you control as many or more copies of them as ready unique Harbinger of Skulls.
Reason: The intent is to suppress use outside of the clan, and to reduce the explosiveness of turns during which multiple Emerald Legionnaire return from the ash heap. This is closer to the designer’s intent.
This card will be available for print-on-demand at Drivethrucards.com with a special discount.
This change has tournament legality 1st February 2024.
Tournament rules change
The multi-deck system can now be used for any tournament except national championships, grand prix, and continental championships.
3.1.5 Multi-Deck System Players are prohibited from making modifications to their decks between rounds unless the tournament uses the following multi-deck rules. The multi-deck system can be used at any tournament that is neither a national championship, a grand prix, or a continental championship. Organizers choosing to use this system must announce its use in advance of the tournament date. Players may choose to bring any number of tournament-legal decks to the tournament and/or extra cards to exchange with cards in their decks (also known as a sideboard in some games). Between rounds, players may freely switch decks (or cards in their decks).
This change has tournament legality 1st February 2024.
Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce Fifth Edition preconstructed decks
These have now been shipped. The main pallets to the UK still need to arrive but Denmark, Finland, Italy, Poland and Spain should have received theirs so far.
These decks are covered in an eco paper covering with no outer cellophane as a test run. The new print run of Fifth Edition Vampire: The Eternal Struggle boxes shipped later in January will contain 5 decks without cellophane but still with an outer box covered in cellophane.
The new cards in the Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce decks have an official release date 2nd January 2024 and tournament legality 1st February 2024.
Rule Change: Default sect Clans do not have a default sect anymore. This means that if a vampire changes clan, they keep their sect. For instance, a Derange played by Malkavian antitribu on a target vampire who is Camarilla Ventrue changes the target into a Camarilla Malkavian antitribu (not a Sabbat Malkavian antitribu as before).
The following cards have changed: Becoming, The: Inherits the sire’s sect. Brother in Arms: Inherits the sire’s sect. Creation Rites: The vampire is now explicitly Sabbat. Dual Form: Inherits the sire’s sect. Nosferatu Bestial: Inherits the sire’s sect. Third Tradition: Progeny: The vampire is now explicitly Camarilla. Trophy: Progeny: Inherits the sire’s sect.
Drawing Cards (p. 7) Whenever you are asked to draw from your crypt, move the top card from your crypt to your uncontrolled region.
Requirements for Playing Cards (p. 7) Unless explicitly stated, costs you pay must be paid with resources you control: your pool, blood on vampires you control, cards in your ash heap, etc. For instance, you cannot play Enticement if you do not control the Edge, since you must burn it as part of its cost.
An exception is the “Rescue a Vampire from Torpor” action (p. 23) whose cost can be paid by the acting vampire or the rescued vampire, or the cost may be split between them.
Performing an action (p. 16) The term “perform” applies to the entire course of the action, from the moment it is announced to the moment it is resolved. An action that is “performed” can end up by being successful or not. “Performing an action” does not imply that the action is successful.
Political Action Cards (p. 27) Those cards simply say “1 vote”, rather than “worth 1 vote” (which was the wording used in older sets).
Quick Reference (p. 53) The Discipline Blood Sorcery is also called Thaumaturgy in older sets. They are exactly the same.
The clan Banu Haqim is called Assamite in older sets. They are exactly the same.
Similarly, the clan Ministry (whose members are called Ministers) is called Followers of Set in older sets.
For instance, if a card requires a ready Banu Haqim, any ready Assamite will fulfill this requirement (and vice versa).
Rulebook, p. 15 The 30 pool displayed as your pool do not necessarily reflect the state of the game at that moment (since you have spent some of them to bring vampires into play), unless you have found a way to regain enough pool to reach your initial 30 pool. Also, please note that there is no limit to the amount of pool a Methuselah can have.
Fifth Edition Helpsheets errata Leave torpor The cost of the action is missing: “Action cost: 2 blood”.
Diablerise a vampire in torpor The word stealth is missing in the following sentence: “Undirected +1 stealth action if you control both vampires.”
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Fifth Edition is available for all stores and distributors. For more information please visit the Products section at www.blackchantry.com. Contact us by mail or social media.
New card art by Ginés Quiñonero, will appear in the 25th Anniversary set.
A word from Vincent Ripoll, rules director at Black Chantry Productions: With the reprint of Form of Mist, we decided to remove a complex interaction with this card and the rule that prevents a player from adding stealth when it is not needed. Most of the time, Form of Mist would work as you expect: play it as a combat ends, and continue the action with an additional +1 stealth. However, in certain weird cases, you couldn’t play Form of Mist to continue the action. For instance, if the opposing minion with a Raven Spy has blocked an action at 1 stealth and the Raven Spy is burned in combat by the time you play the Form of Mist, then the blocking minion would have 0 intercept, forbidding you from playing Form of Mist that adds stealth. Another situation would be that Stanislava is blocked by a minion with Raven Spy while performing an action at stealth: since the retainers lose their abilities in combat against her, it means that the opposing minion has 0 intercept during the combat, forbidding you from playing Form of Mist. To avoid these unintuitive situations where continuing an action with a stealth bonus does not work, we decided to add the clause “even if stealth is not yet needed” to Form of Mist. It means that you now can play Form of Mist as you expect it to work.
New card text: pro: Strike: dodge. PRO: Strike: combat ends. If this vampire is acting and the action was blocked, they can burn 1 blood after combat ends to continue the action at +1 stealth as if unblocked, even if stealth is not yet needed. A vampire can play only one Form of Mist at superior each action.
