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Release Date: November 17, 2003.

Black Hand

 

A cabal of infamous assassins.
The Black Hand.
The shadowy warrior elite.

Hidden behind veils of secrecy and mystery, the Black Hand serves as the martial arm of the Sabbat. When the blood and fire of the sect's packs and prisci fail to win the night, the Black Hand arrives like a grim cavalry on the cusp of the night. Now, these faithful warrior elite stand determined not only to fight for survival in these Final Nights, but to win and, ultimately, to claim their reward from Caine himself.


Black Hand

Black Hand is the sixth set released by White Wolf for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, and the second to focus on the vampires of the Sabbat.

The booster packs contain 11 cards (7 common, 3 uncommon, and 1 rare) randomly selected from a set of 138 cards.

In addition, the set features 4 non-random preconstructed decks, Malkavian antitribu, Nosferatu antitribu, Toreador  antitribu, and Tremere antitribu, which contain even more cards and are designed to get beginning players started right away. Each preconstructed deck contains 2 new vampires that aren't found in the boosters.

The booster packs were to be all-new. Due to a printing error, however, the booster packs contain two reprints of previous cards; two advanced vampires were accidentally replaced with their base counterparts on the uncommon sheet. One of the advanced vampires is still to be found in a starter. The other is not found at all in this set.

Update:The two vampires, Jessica and Hannibal, who were replaced by their base counterparts in the booster assortment, as well as Yong-Sun, who was replaced by his advanced counterpart in the Nosferatu antitribu starter, will be printed as promos (without the Black Hand expansion symbol). These promos will be distributed in the usual manner (at tournaments and conventions) and via an exchange program via postal mail (and SASE).

Errata: Imogen was reprinted in the Malkavian antitribu starter with an incorrect capacity of 8. Her capacity is still 9 (errata to the Black Hand version).

 


Preview
This set introduces no new rules. Some rules have been reformulated, however. For instance, the burn option has been extended to cover any "ready minion" requirement, not just a clan requirement.

 

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Checklist

All crypt cards are U2. Library cards listed as "U2" are actually interspersed on the common sheet, but occur at the same frequency as a U2 would. Library cards that are listed as "U" are simply found once on the uncommon sheet.

A spoiler list of just the Black Hand cards (including reprints) is available in plain text.

 

Crypt

Clan

Adv?

Doctor Streck
Brujah antitribu

Henry Taylor
Brujah antitribu

Mariano Pomposo
Brujah antitribu

Miguel Santo Domingo
Brujah antitribu

Sela
Brujah antitribu
Adv
Wah Chun-Yuen
Brujah antitribu

Jalan-Aajav
Gangrel antitribu

Jesús Alcalá
Gangrel antitribu

Maria Stone
Gangrel antitribu

Sébastian Goulet
Gangrel antitribu
Adv
Skryta Zyleta
Gangrel antitribu

Soldat
Gangrel antitribu

Banjoko
Lasombra

Henri Lavenant
Lasombra

Hester Reed
Lasombra

Nahir
Lasombra

Tabitha Fisk
Lasombra

Aristotle de Laurent
Malkavian antitribu

Hannibal (reprint)
Malkavian antitribu

Midget
Malkavian antitribu

Rodolfo
Malkavian antitribu

Mateusz Gryzbowsky
Nosferatu antitribu

Tarbaby Jack
Nosferatu antitribu

Teresita, The Godmother
Nosferatu antitribu

Yong-Sun, Harmonist
Nosferatu antitribu
Adv
Olga Triminov
Pander

Jessica (reprint)
Toreador antitribu

Nicholas Chang
Toreador antitribu

Rosa Martínez
Toreador antitribu

Yitzak
Toreador antitribu

Goratrix
Tremere
Adv
Marino Reymundo Vásquez
Tremere antitribu

Selena
Tremere antitribu

Yasmin the Black
Tremere antitribu

Ana Rita Montaña
Tzimisce

Kazimir Savostin
Tzimisce

Piotr Andreikov
Tzimisce

Szechenyi Jolán, Mother of Horrors
Tzimisce

Blackhorse Tanner
Ventrue antitribu

Charice Fontaigne
Ventrue antitribu

Dominique
Ventrue antitribu
Adv
Katherine Stoddard
Ventrue antitribu

Owain Evans, The Wanderer
Ventrue antitribu

Sister Evelyn
Ventrue antitribu

Yazid Tamari
Assamite

Ezekiel, Lord of Montreal
Follower of Set

Ignazio Giovanni
Giovanni

Zip
Ravnos

 

Library

Rarity

Abyssal Hunter
R2
Admonitions, The
U
Alpha Glint
C
Animal Magnetism
C
Art of Memory, The
U2
Babble
C
Black Gloves
R
Blooding
C
Bloodwork
C
Brick Laying
C
Capitalist
C
Celestial Harmony
R
Chalice of Kinship
R
Chill of Oblivion
R
Chronicle of the Lost Tribe
R
Circumspect Revelation
C
Communal Haven: Cathedral
U2
Consignment to Duat
C
Corporal Reservoir
C
Corpse Balloon
C
Council of Seraphim
R
Creep Show
C
Crusade: Barcelona
R
Crusade: Brussels
R
Crusade: Rome
R
Deed the Heart's Desire
C
Deep Cover Agent
R
Deploy the Hand
C
Día de los Muertos
R
Dominion
C
Ebony Fox Hunt
U
Extremis Boon
R
Flaming Candle
R
Foundation Exhibit
R2
Gemini's Mirror
C
Guru
C
Hand Intervention
C
Information Network
R2
Inscription
U
Iron Glare
C
Kaymakli Barrier
R
Last Stand
R
Legwork
C
Lessons in the Steel
R
Local 1111
R
Loyalist
C
Marijava Thuggee
U2
Martial Ritus
C
Mask Empathy
R
Masque of Judas
C
Mayaparisatya
C
Mesmerize
R
Ministry
C
Mistrust
R
Path of Death and the Soul
R
Path of Evil Revelations
R
Quicken Sight
C
Random Patterns
C
Recure of the Homeland
U
Remover
C
Resilient Mind
R
Reunion Kamut
C
Rooftop Shadow
C
Seraph
U2
Shakar
C
Shape Mastery
R
Sibyl's Tongue
R2
Sire's Index Finger
R
Social Ladder
R
Sociopath
C
Specialization
R
Stealth Ritus
C
Talons of the Dead
R2
Tenebrous Form
C
Thin-Blooded Seer
R
Trainer
R
Typhonic Beast
C
Under the Skin
C
Vendetta
R2
Vox Domini
R
Vox Senis
C
Watch Commander
C
Watchtower: Chosen are Called
R
Watchtower: Four Ride Forth
R2
Watchtower: Greatest Fall
R
Weeping Stone
R
Weirding Stone
R
Winchester Mansion
R
WMRH Talk Radio
R
Zillah's Tears
C
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