New format: Fast Hands (1 hour games)

Non-existant user wrote:

Have you tested the format a lot? To me the half-capacity vampires and energy tokens begs for some aggressive vote/bleed, not for spending any more time on tooling up.

It does, at least on initial examination, appear to favour decks that can go aggressively with transient cards, and appears to put an extremely large random emphasis on who goes first.

Flip out four Dem+/Obf weenies and you can do 12-16 damage in one turn without spending any blood - base bleed for one, +1 from something like Computer Hacking, +1 or +2 from Eyes of Chaos. This is potentially before your prey has done anything at all. Similarly, a combat deck flipping out four vampires stands a decent chance of obliterating its prey (or another Methuselah of its choice) - rush, Immortal Grapple, Disarm, Taste etc.

As an alternative to Energy tokens that does not break the game by adding free Freak Drives, one could change the starting sequence to allow tooling up:

Each player secretly chooses any cards from his crypt and hand such that the total capacity + pool cost does not exceed 18. Then players reveal their crypt cards and put them into play. Then they reveal their library cards. Selected equipments, retainers and Master: Location cards can be put into play (costs and requirements apply) or discarded, Other selected cards are discarded.