VtES Promo Cards 2010 (Battle Lines)

Since I couldn't find the explicit card texts (other than on card pictures) for the 2010 VtES promo/storyline cards, and the White Wolf webpages on card lists hasn't been updated in months, I am posting them here:

Claudio Severino [Promo]
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Tremere
Group: 5
Capacity: 9
Discipline: cel obf AUS DOM THA
Camarilla: Combat cards cost an opposing vampire an additional blood. During your untap phase, burn 1 pool if there are no Gehenna cards in play.
Artist: Ginés Quiñonero

Guide and Mentor [Promo]
Cardtype: Master
Master. Put this card in play. A vampire you control may search your library for a master:archetype and move 1 blood from the bank and that card to himself or herself as a +1 stealth action that costs X pool where X is the number of copies of that card on minions you control (requirements and cost apply as normal).
Artist: Michael Gaydos

Infamous Insurgent [Promo]
Cardtype: Master
Unique master. Put this card on a Red List anarch vampire. This vampire is infernal, Bahari, and gets 2 additional votes. During this vampire's minion phase, his or her controller may untap a ready anarch he or she controls.
Artist: Erica Danell

Lilith's Blessing [Promo]
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Master. Put this card in play. As a master phase action, you may tap this card to search your library for a Master:Discipline card and choose a ready non-Bahari vampire you control who has no blood. That vampire gains the Discipline card (if any) and 3 blood and becomes Bahari.
Artist: Matt Smith

Karsh (Advanced) [Promo]
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Gangrel
Level: Advanced
Group: 3
Capacity: 10
Discipline: ANI CEL FOR POT PRO
Camarilla: Karsh may play a Blood Hunt card from your hand or ash heap as a prince. He gets 3 additional votes in blood hunt referendums. He cannot block infernal vampires.
[MERGED] Imperator (3 votes): +1 intercept.
Artist: Chad Michael Ward

VtES Promo Cards 2009 Tournament Legality

For those whom it may concern, like VtES tournament organizers, players and such:

Since I hadn't really noticed (and others maybe as well), this post in the VtES Usenet Newsgroup states, that the VtES promo cards 2009

• Abactor
• The Fourth Cycle
• Inceptor
• The Marrakech Codex
• Salt of Thoth
• Rogue
• Rubicon
• SchreckNET

have been officially released on

April 1st, 2009

and therefore these promos became tournament legal on

May 1st, 2009.

And it's still not on the White Wolf website!

Visuals of VtES Promo Cards 2009

Here are the visuals of the eight new VtES promo cards (including "Rogue" that eluded me in the past few weeks):

Left: Abactor -- nice card for those vampire immune to blood hunts.





Right: Fourth Cycle -- Another weenie (and imbued) hoser card, but the use is rather limited due the requirements of two Gehenna cards in play.

Left: Rogue -- way too situational for a deck; might be worth including into trick decks, e.g. one including "Undying Thirst".

Right: Marakech Codex -- this is a game winner card. I would consider this an auto-include for any wall deck, since they can defend it and will profit greatly from using it.
Left: Salt of Thoth -- interesting card for Tremere decks which want to protect their locations, but do not want to spend too many resources for doing so.


Right: Rubicon -- again, like "Rogue" too situational for general purpose use; almost all the time a dead card in your hand.

Left: Inceptor -- very interesting cards, which inspires players finding powerful and/or interesting three card combos.


Right: SchreckNET -- another very good card for the Nosferatu, especially for a Nosferatu Royalty deck, where passing votes is one of the cornerstones.

VtES Promo Cards 2009 (Part II)

Here are the four new VtES promo cards, which are part of the VtES Tournament Kit 2009:

SchreckNET
Cardtype: Action
Clan: Nosferatu
+1 stealth. Unique.
If this Nosferatu's capacity is 6 or more, he or she untaps. Put this card in play. Whenever a referendum succeeds, you may tap this card to look at any Methuselah's hand.

Inceptor
Cardtype: Master
Unique master.
Put this card on a vampire of capacity 1, and put three cards from your hand, ash heap or library on this card, face up but out of play. This vampire may play other copies of these cards as if he or she had the Discipline required (if any) at superior.

Abactor
Cardtype: Action
+1 stealth hunt action.
Gain 5 blood. After successful resolution, a referendum is called to call a blood hunt on this vampire (independent of the action, just as if he or she had committed diablerie).

Salt of Thoth
Cardtype: Reaction
Clan: Tremere
Cost: 2 blood
Usable by a tapped Tremere. Cause a (D) action targeting a location you control to fail and put this card on that location. You may burn this card to cause a (D) action targeting this location to fail.

VtES Promo Cards 2009 (Part I)

Here are the four new VtES promo cards which are part of the VtES Draft Kit 2009 (although I haven't seen the cardtext of "Rogue" yet):

Rogue
(...)

The Marrakech Codex
Cardtype: Master
Unique Master.
Tap to look at and reorder the top four cards of your library. Any vampire may steal this card for his controlled as a (D) action.

Rubicon
Cardtype: Action
+1 stealth action. Requires a titled vampire.
(D) Burn a younger non-titled vampire who has burned one of your non-Red list vampires since your last turn.

The Fourth Cycle
Cardtype: Event
Requires at least two other Gehenna cards in play.
When this card is played, burn all Gehenna cards and conviction cards, and send all vampires with capacity 3 or less in torpor. No Gehenna cards may be played while this card remains in play.

New Promo Card: "Imperator"

A new VtES promo card named "Imperator" has been released. The card is very likely related to/used in VtES Storyline Event "Rise of the Imperator" which is scheduled for winter 2008/2009.

Imperator [Promo-20081023]
Cardtype: Political Action
Choose a Camarilla vampire with capacity 8 or more. If this referendum is successful, put this card on the chosen vampire to represent the unique Camarilla title of Imperator (worth 3 votes). This vampire may play a Blood Hunt card from your hand or ash heap as a prince. This vampire gets 3 additional votes in blood hunt referendums.

"Keepers of Tradition" Promo Cards

The pre-release pack for the new VtES expansion "Keepers of Tradition" contains four new promo cards. Here are the card texts of these cards:

House of Sorrow
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Master: unique location
Tap to untap any card you control that is not a minion. If you do so, neither that card nor this location untap as normal on your next untap phase.

Subdued by the Blood
Cardtype: Master
Master: out-of-turn. Trifle.
Play when a vampire diablerizes a vampires of more that twice his or her capacity (before the blood hunt referendum, if any). Usable on your own turn. Move the victim from the ash heap to his or her owner's ready region, any move all blood from the diablerist to him or her. Remove the diablerist from the game.

Two Wrongs
Cardtype: Master
Master: out-of-turn. Trifle.
Play when a minion controlled by a Methuselah other than your predator is bleeding you. That minion is now bleeding his or her prey. The next card that would change the target of this bleed is canceled as it is played.

Lay Low
Cardtype: Action Modifier
Cost: 1 blood
Requires an anarch.
Only usable when a blood hunt referendum passes and would burn this anarch. Move this anarch to the uncontrolled region (breaking any temporary control effects). Any cards and counters on this vampire remain with him or her (but are out of play as long as the vampire remains uncontrolled).

"Anarchs & Alastors" Storyline: New Cards

The card text of the two new cards usuable/available in the on-going "Anarchs & Alastors" VtES Storyline have be disclosed:

Flames of Insurrection
Unique Master. Requires a ready anarch
When a minion opposing an anarch in combat leaves the ready region, the controller of that anarch may move a counter from the bank to a vampire in his or her uncontrolled region. Any vampire may call a referendum to burn this card as a +1 stealth political action.

Public Enemy
+1 stealth action. Requires a non-Red List, non-anarch vampire.
(D) Choose a non-titled, non-Red List minion who either has succesfully bled for 3 or more pool since your last turn or is infernal or anarch. The chosen minion becomes Red List.

These new promo cards will be legal for use in tournaments on September 9th, 2008.

VtES Promo Cards 2008

A number of new VtES promo cards have been released last weekend. The first distribution was among VtES players on last weekends' TempleCon, which took place from February 1st-3rd, 2008 in Providence, Rhode Island.

Cloak of the Abalone [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Equipment
Unique equipment.
Toreador and Toreador antitribu cannot block this minion.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc

Convergence [LotN:Promo]
Cardtype: Master
Clan: Pander
Master.
Move 1 blood from each ready Pander you control to a Pander in your uncontrolled region.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc

Nergal [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Vampire
Clan: Baali
Level: Advanced
Group: 5
Capacity: 10
Discipline: AUS DAI FOR OBF PRE THA
Independent: Reaction cards cost an additional blood when Nergal is acting. Once each action, Nergal may burn 1 blood to get +1 stealth. Infernal.
Artist: Ron Lemon

Path of the Void [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Master
Cost: 1 pool
Unique master. Path.
Put this card on a vampire you control. This vampire gets +1 stealth, -1 bleed, and can inflict 1 damage on any minion as a (D) action. During this vampire's untap phase, his or her controller must discard a master card or tap this vampire. Burn this card if this vampire commits diablerie. A vampire can have only one path.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc

Reliquary: Shango Remains [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Equipment
Clan: Assamite
Equipment.
Choose an Assamite in your ash heap or burn 1 pool to choose an Assamite in your uncontrolled region. Remove that Assamite from the game or burn this reliquary. Once per turn, if this Assamite is ready, he or she may burn 1 blood to give you +2 hand size for the remainder of the turn; this ability cannot be used during combat.
Artist: Andrew Trabbold

Sound of a Breaking Oath [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Action/Reaction
Discipline: Auspex & Dominate
[aus][dom] [ACTION] +1 stealth action. Put this card on a minion you control. If an action to steal the minion with this card is successful, this minion is burned instead and the acting minion takes 1 unpreventable damage.
[AUS][DOM] [REACTION] As above, but play when an action to steal a minion you control is successful.
Artist: Jeff Laubenstein

Treaty of Laibach [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Master
Clan: Follower of Set/Tremere
Unique master. Requires both Follower of Set and Tremere.
Put this card in play. Each Follower of Set is considered to have a level of Thaumaturgy [tha] equal to his or her level of Serpentis [ser]. Each Tremere is considered to have a level of Serpentis equal to his or her level of Thaumaturgy.
Artist: Torstein Nordstrand

Walks-With-Might [Promo-20080203]
Cardtype: Ally
Cost: 2 pool
Unique werewolf with 4 life. 0 bleed, 3 strength.
Master cards cost you an additional pool. Walks-With-Might gets +1 intercept against Followers of Set. Each strike or damaging effect made against him inflicts 1 less damage on him.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc