Card idea : Sabbat Pressure

Name: Sabbat pressure
Cardtype:
Unique.
Requires a ready archbishop, priscus, cardinal or regent.
Choose a Methuselah. Successful referendum means that you put this card into play. As long as this card is in play, target Methuselah loose 1 pool after each combat between one of his minion and another Methuselah minion. Minions of the target Methuselah can burn the edge to burn this card as a +1 stealth action directed to this vampire

This card would allow a combat deck with a bit of politic to oust a bit more effectively its prey. The burn cause force your prey to go forward in order to gain the edge, alway a nice effect.

You can also use this simply to weaken a player, your predator or any cross-table problem (don't like the psychopath with tupdogs ?)

The flavor of the card is that, when a (camarilla) city is besieged by the sabbat, they will try to press the advantage and put the masquerade at risk or try to find the haven or other important vampiric location as soon as possible. And a combat is generally a good option to make a mess with humans or gather valuables information

Pretty broken with Psyche!

Play this on my prey. Enter combat using a minion with (and preferably someone with a maneuver or with IR Goggles). Go to long, wave, combat ends and my prey burns a pool, play Psyche!, and keep doing it. Every Psyche! is essentially one pool damage. Heck, you could theoretically oust someone on the second turn this way.

echiang wrote:

Pretty broken with Psyche!

Good catch. And indeed there is a temporis card that is even worse.

Well, back to the drawing board, since this form may create stupid combos decks.

Name: Sabbat pressure
Cardtype: political action
Unique.
Requires a ready archbishop, priscus, cardinal or regent.
Choose a Methuselah. Successful referendum means that you put this card into play. As long as this card is in play, target Methuselah loose 1 pool after each combat between one of his minion and another Methuselah minion. once each action after combat involving his minions. Minions of the target Methuselah can burn the edge to burn this card as a +1 stealth action directed to this vampire

I like the idea, but it still seems a bit too strong. Maybe limit it to combat between target Methuselahs non-sabbat vampires and sabbat vampires?
Or allow any Methuselah to do the remove action?

it will almost kill any deck that relies on entering combat with other minions. Why do you think combat decks should be punished so hard?