Nights of Reckoning

Release Date: April 10, 2006

 

Hunters Arrive to Take Back the Night.

The Dark Ones and the Shining Ones orchestrate their armies while remaining hidden themselves. Seemingly enemies, these armies can only guess at the schemes and goals of their masters. Hunters, the imbued, the armies of the Shining Ones, are only a recent arrival to the World of Darkness, especially to the perception of a Methuselah. Perhaps other Methuselahs are slow to recognize the threat, and even slower to see their utility. But not you. Or perhaps the imbued were empowered by other Methuselahs to fight you, and you're the latecomer. Either way, the Nights of Reckoning have arrived.

Seven creeds of imbued hunters stand, sometimes united, sometimes alone, to take back the night. See that your prey greets the light first.

 

Nights of Reckoning

Nights of Reckoning is a mini expansion for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, the tenth expansion set released by White Wolf, and the first to introduce non-vampire crypt cards.

Each booster pack contains 10 cards randomly selected from a set of 60 all-new cards consisting of 20 rares, 20 uncommon crypt cards, and 20 commons. Each booster also contains one rules cards from the set of five rules cards describing the new rules for the set.

For added use in draft or sealed play, each rules card also doubles as a library card as indicated on the card when turned upside down. The library cards represented on the rules cards are chosen from previous sets for their general utility (that both vampires and imbued can use).

 

Errata

Three cards in Nights of Reckoning are misprinted:

• Smite is missing the "strike" label. It is a strike, as indicated by the rest of the card.
• The reaction effect of Vigilance is usable by a tapped imbued (it would have little use otherwise).
• Elder Library (a reprint found on one of the rules cards) still costs a pool.

Rules

The new rules for this set are given on five rules cards. The rules are given below, with an extension to #5 given in italics. Five other cards from the set are also "previewed" below -- one with each rule.
	1.	Imbued Imbued are new crypt cards. An imbued is considered a mortal ally, not a vampire. Imbued have 1 strength and 1 bleed, by default. Their cost is also their starting life, and it is specified on each card individually (like capacity). They have creeds (like clans). They have virtues (like Disciplines, but only one level). When they have zero life, they are incapacitated (like torpor) instead of being burned (see 5 below). Any "burn ally" effect will still burn an imbued, however.
	2.	Conviction Conviction is a new card type. It is played in the untap phase, so it is an "untap" card, not a master or minion or discard (event) card. During your untap phase, you may play 1 conviction on each of your imbued. You may play these conviction cards from your hand or from your ash heap. When an imbued enters play with no conviction, he may gain 1 conviction from your library, hand or ash heap. In addition to their own effects, conviction cards may be spent (burned) to pay the conviction costs which some cards require. Each imbued has a limit of 5 conviction. Any conviction gained above five is burned instead.
	3.	Power Power is a new minion card type, only playable by imbued. An imbued may get a power as a +1 stealth action, like equipment or retainers. The imbued untaps if the action is successful. An imbued may not have two copies of the same power. Some effects or powers are "always on". Others have a card type icon (action, combat, etc.) indicating when and how the effect can be used. To use one of those effects, you must tap the power card (and pay whatever cost the effect requires). Standard rules for using such effects apply (e.g., a reacting minion must be ready and untapped). "Always on" effects are still on while the power card is tapped.
	4.	Terms and Icons Imbued: a new minion type which counts as a mortal ally. Monster: any vampire or non-mortal, non-animal ally or retainer. Conviction: new card type. Power: new type of action. Avenger   Vengeance Defender   Defense Innocent   Innocence Judge   Judgment Martyr   Martyrdom Redeemer   Redemption Visionary   Vision (click here to show bigger)
	5.	Incapacitated When an imbued has no life, he is placed in the incapacitated region (controlled but not ready). Effects which are not usable by an ally being burned are not usable by an imbued being incapacitated. Any minion may burn an incapacitated imbued and take his equipment as a (D) action. If that action is successful, then each ready imbued may burn 1 conviction to inflict 1 unpreventable damage on that acting minion. An imbued may leave the incapacitated region and gain a life (not to exceed his starting life) by burning 3 conviction during his untap phase. Note that an imbued gains a life (not to exceed his starting life) if he leaves the incapacitated region by any other effect, as well.

Card Rulings

In earlier sets, card effects that deal with crypt cards have generally assumed that crypt cards were all vampires. Now that this is no longer true, some questions arise.

In general, if you (the Methuselah playing the card or activating the effect) can look at the crypt card (e.g., because it is in your uncontrolled region or in any ash heap or in play, or if you're "searching" your crypt), then the target crypt card must match the parameters given by the effect. This usually means that imbued cannot be targets of these effects.

If you target a crypt card "blind" (either an unseen card from the crypt or an unseen card in some other Methuselah's uncontrolled region), then work with whatever you find. If the effect only checks/compares the card's "capacity", then treat the imbued's cost (starting life) as its capacity for that comparision.

Those two guidelines should clear up all the ways of interacting with imbued who aren't in play. But for clarity, individual cases are shown below.

The following effects are imbued-compatible:

• Bear-Baiting (checking cost as capacity from crypt OK).
• Brainwash (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• Cairo Int'l Airport (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• Clotho's Gift at [obf] (moving card from crypt OK).
• Effective Management (moving card from crypt OK).
• Gemini (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• Gisela Harden (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• Goodnight, Sweet Prince (moving card from crypt OK).
• Innocent Bystander (removing card from crypt OK).
• Kindred Intelligence (moving card from crypt OK).
• Lázár Dobrescu (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK, but the recipient must be a vampire).
• Memory's Fading Glimpse (moving unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• Petra's Resonance (checking cost as capacity from crypt OK).
• The Portrait (checking cost as capacity from crypt OK).
• San Lorenzo de El Escorial (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK).
• The Soul Gem of Etrius (can retrieve an imbued, and will even put him in play if he's smaller than the bearer, but he gets no blood or life).
• The Trick of the Danya (targeting unknown uncontrolled card OK, but the recipient must be a vampire).

The following effects are not imbued-compatible:

• Chain of Command (cannot put imbued into play)
• Clotho's Gift at [tem] (cannot target imbued in uncontrolled region)
• Dreams of the Sphinx (cannot move blood to imbued in uncontrolled region)
• Illusions of the Kindred (if the bottom card is an imbued, no new combat begins and the imbued is removed from play)
• Might of the Camarilla (won't force a Methuselah to burn an uncontrolled imbued)
• Recruitment (search as indicated: vampire)

Note: Heaven's Gate text applies in full -- an imbued can be moved to the uncontrolled region, controlled but not ready, and will eventually be moved to the ready region just as a "normal" ally would be.

These rulings go into effect when the set is legal for play.

 

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Checklist (complete)

All imbued are Uncommon (U) rarity.

 

Crypt		Creed
Anna "Dictatrix11" Suljic		Martyr
Béatrice "Oracle171" Tremblay		Innocent
Earl "Shaka74" Deams		Visionary
Erick "Shophet125" Franco		Judge
François "Warden" Loehr		Judge
Inez "Nurse216" Villagrande		Innocent
Jack "Hannibal137" Harmon		Defender
Jennie "Cassie247" Orne		Visionary
Jennifer "Flame61" Vidisania		Avenger
John "Cop90" O'Malley		Avenger
Leaf "Potter116" Pankowski		Redeemer
Liz "Ticket312" Thornton		Innocent
Lupe "Cabbie22" Droin		Defender
Maman Boumba		Martyr
Marion "Teacher193" Perks		Redeemer
Paul "Sixofswords29" Moreton		Visionary
Pedro Cortez		Avenger
Peter "Outback295" Rophail		Redeemer
Travis "Traveler72" Miller		Martyr
Xian "Dzidzat155" Quan		Defender

 

Library		Rarity
Abjure		R
Angel of Berlin		C
Antithesis		C
Augur		C
Blood Cult Awareness Network		R
Bond		C
Break the Code		R
Champion		R
The Church of Vindicated Faith		R
Cleave		C
The Crusader Sword		R
Determine		C
Discern		C
Donate		C
Edge Explosion		R
Expiate		R
Foresee		R
Hide		R
Illuminate		C
Imprison		R
Inflict		C
Inspire		R
Living Wood Staff		R
Lock		C
Moise Kasavubu		R
Muse of Flame		C
Project		R
Punish		C
React with Conviction		C
Rejuvenate		C
Respire		C
The Rose Foundation		R
Second Sight		C
Shame		C
Smite		R
Strike with Conviction		C
Surge		R
Unity		R
Vigil: The Thin Line		R
Vigilance		C

Legacies of Blood

Release Date: November 14, 2005

 

Bloodlines return as New Ones Emerge.

Distinct from the major clans, rare lineages of Kindred also play their part in the great Jyhad. The known vampiric Bloodlines return to the eternal struggle, plus all-new legacies of blood emerge from the Dark Continent of Africa! Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is again exploring the more exotic lineages of Caine's blood.

 

Legacies of Blood

Legacies of Blood is the ninth Vampire: The Eternal Struggle set released by White Wolf, the second to focus on the Bloodlines, and the first to introduce the Laibon.

The booster packs contain 11 cards each randomly selected from a set of 201 new cards and 99 reprints (from the Bloodlines expansion). That set includes 50 new rares and 50 reprint rares, but the rares are distributed so that the new rares occur three times as often (on average, you'll get one reprint rare from every four packs you open).

In addition, the set features 4 non-random preconstructed decks, Akunanse, Guruhi, Ishtarri, and Osebo, which contain even more cards and are designed to get beginning players started right away. Each preconstructed deck contains 6 new vampires and a few new library card that aren't found in the boosters. Each new vampire is included twice in its respective starter.

Card Changes

Some existing cards are changed in Legacies of Blood. The changes go into effect (for all printings of the cards) when the set is legal for play.

• Blissful Agony: Only one can be played at the basic Valeren level each combat.
• Echo of Harmonies: The Political Action card is played as if from hand. (Giving a vote in the referendum, able to be canceled as played, and so on.)

New and updated rules

• Laibon: Laibon is a new sect which is composed of just four clans: Akunanse, Guruhi, Ishtarri and Osebo. Laibon are non-Camarilla, non-Sabbat, non-Independent vampires.
• Magaji: Magaji is a new title worth 2 votes. It can only be held by Laibon vampires. The title is not unique.

• Reflex: A minion can play a reflex card to cancel a specified kind of card played against him as it is played. The minion need not be untapped or even ready to play the reflex card. The cost of the card, if any, is paid as normal, even for the reflex usage.
• Title: A Title card is a placeholder for a title. If the title is yielded or lost, the card is burned. If the title is unique, contests are paid with vampire blood, as normal for titles. (Simplifying the handling of Praxis Seizures and similar cards.)
• Ousted cards: If you are ousted, all the cards you control are removed from the game. (Not burned, just removed from the game.)

Preview

 

	(Osebo)
(Guruhi)				(Akunanse)
			(Ishtarri)

 

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Checklist (Complete)

Unless otherwise noted, vampires are Uncommon (U) rarity.

Note: Uzoma (a vampire from the Osebo starter) was accidentally inserted on the uncommon sheet as well, in place of Kisha Bhimji. Kisha Bhimji is marked with an asterisk below. She doesn't appear in the set at all. She is included in the 2006 promo set (available at conventions and tournaments while supplies last).

 

Crypt		Clan		Adv?
Abebe		Samedi
Adhiambo		Tzimisce
Agru Kabera		Ishtarri
Aimee Laroux		Daughter of Cacophony
Aiyana, The Wolfcatcher		Ahrimanes
Al-Muntaquim, The Avenger		True Brujah
Amavi (PA)		Akunanse
Antoinette Dubois		Daughter of Cacophony
Aredhel		Salubri antitribu
Aren, Priest of Eshu (PG)		Guruhi
Ayo Igoli		Ishtarri
Babalawo Alafin		Harbinger of Skulls
Batsheva (PG)		Guruhi
Bupe Kuila		Follower of Set
Cedric		Gargoyle
Cesewayo (PO)		Osebo
Dame Hollerton		Kiasyd
Dela Eden		Salubri antitribu
Demdemeh		Tzimisce
Dolie (PA)		Akunanse
Effie Lowery		Ahrimanes
Eurayle Gelasia Mylonas		Salubri
Eze, The Demon Prince		Guruhi
Falhu Shibaba		Ishtarri
Fish		Guruhi
Ganhuru (PI)		Ishtarri
Gentha Shale		Ahrimanes
Gualtiero Ghiberti		Giovanni
Hasani		Akunanse
Hermana Hambrienta Mayor (C)		Blood Brother
Hermana Hambrienta Menor (C)		Blood Brother
Homa		Osebo
Honorine Ateba (PI)		Ishtarri
Ibn Khaldun, Scholar		True Brujah
Idrissa		Osebo
Iniko, The Black Lion		Guruhi
Ismitta (PO)		Osebo
Jack Dawson		Samedi		Adv
Jibade el-Bahrawi (PI)		Ishtarri
Jubal		Akunanse
Kamaria		Osebo
Kamau Jafari		Assamite
Kamiri wa Itherero (PA)		Akunanse
Kenyatta (PI)		Ishtarri
Khalu (PO)		Osebo
The Kikiyaon		Akunanse
Kisha Bhimji (*)		Osebo
Langa		Salubri antitribu
Lumumba (PG)		Guruhi
Macoute		Samedi
Maria Stone		Ahrimanes		Adv
Maskini		Guruhi
Massassi		Osebo
Matata		Akunanse
Meno Ngari (PA)		Akunanse
Mina Grotius		Harbinger of Skulls
Misrak (PO)		Osebo
Mr. Noir		Salubri
Muricia		Ahrimanes
Nangila Were (PG)		Guruhi
Nehemiah		True Brujah
Nkechi		Salubri antitribu
Nkule Galadima		Akunanse
Olugbenga		Assamite
Omme Enberbenight		Kiasyd
Onaedo		Lasombra
Otieno		Lasombra
Panya, The Wicked		Ishtarri
Phagian		Harbinger of Skulls
Pherydima		Kiasyd
Prejudice		Nagaraja
Quincy, The Trapper		Kiasyd
Rashiel		Salubri antitribu
Rocia		Gargoyle
Roderick Phillips March		Kiasyd
Rosemarie		Daughter of Cacophony
Sanjo (PA)		Akunanse
Saulot, The Wanderer		Salubri
Sayshila		Daughter of Cacophony
Sennadurek		Nagaraja
Shasa Abu Badr (PI)		Ishtarri
Sobayifa (PG)		Guruhi
Solomon Batanea		Harbinger of Skulls
Tanginé		Samedi
Tatu Sawosa (PO)		Osebo
Thomasso Ghiberti		Giovanni
Troglodytia		Samedi
Tsunda		Ravnos
Tupdog (C)		Gargoyle
Ubende (PI)		Ishtarri
Uchenna (PA)		Akunanse
Ugadja (PG)		Guruhi
Urenna Bunu		Guruhi
Uzoma (U/PO)		Osebo
Wamukota		Ravnos
Yavu Matebo		Nagaraja
Yseult		Daughter of Cacophony
Zhara		Ishtarri
Zhenga		Follower of Set
Zygodat		Harbinger of Skulls

 

Library		Rarity
Abombwe		C
Absorb the Mind		C
Ahrimane Protectorate		C
Akunanse Kholo		PA
Ananasi Vampirephile		R
Ancestor's Insight		C/PO
Ancestor Spirit		R
Anesthetic Touch		C
Armor of Caine's Fury		C
Armor of Terra		R
Art's Traumatic Essence		R
Asanbonsam Ghoul		R
Ashes to Ashes		R
Aura Absorption		C
Aversion		C
Aye		C
Base Hunting Ground		PO
Basilisk's Touch		R
Bastille Opera House		R
Battle Frenzy		C
Belonging Grants Protection		C
Bima		U
Bind the Night-Walker		R
Blessed Audience		R
Blessing of the Name		R
Blissful Agony		R
Blooding by the Code		C
Brother's Blood		C
Brother in Arms		U
Burning Touch		C
Chameleon's Colors		C
Chanjelin Ward		R
Choir		C
Circle		C
Claiming the Body		C
Cleansing Ritual		R
Clio's Kiss		R
Clotho's Gift		C
Coagulated Entity		R
Collapse the Arches		C
Compress		C
Concert Tour		R
Conductor		R
Conscripted Statue		R
Consume the Dead		R
Coordinate Attacks		C
Coroner's Contact		R
Covincraft		C
Crawling Chamber		C
Create Gargoyle		R
Creeping Infection		C
Darkling Trickery		R
Death of the Drum		C
Defender of the Haven		R
Devil-Channel: Back		C
Devil-Channel: Hands		C/PA
Devil-Channel: Throat		C/PA
Dirty Contract		C
Domain of Evernight		C
Duma Rafiki		C
Dust to Dust		R
Earth-Feeder		R
Earth Swords		C
Echo of Harmonies		R
The Eldest Are Kholo		R
The Eldest Command Undeath		R
Elephant Guardian		C/PG
Emergency Rations		R
Enforcer		C/PO
Engling Fury		R
Erebus Mask		R
Excellent Thirst		R
Eye of Unforgiving Heaven		U
Fae Contortion		C
Falcon's Eye		C
Feral Spirit		C
Fire on the Mountain		R
Flow Within the Mountain		R
Folderol		C
Founders of the Ebony Kingdom		C
Free Fight		R
Frozen Object		R
Gestalt		R
Ghost-Eater		R
Ghoul Messenger		R
Gift of Bellona		R
Glare of Lies		C
Glutton		R
Goblinism		R
The Grandest Trick		R
The Guruhi Are the Land		C/PG
Guruhi Kholo		PG
Hag's Wrinkles		R
Hall of Hades' Court		R
Hanging Fermata		C
Hatchling		R
Healing Touch		C
Heaven's Gate		C
High Aye		C
High Orun		C
High Top		R
Houngan		C
Hourglass of the Mind		R
Igoli's Loyalty		C
Infection		R
Informant		R
Inspire Greatness		C
Internal Recursion		R
Invoking the Beast		C/PA
Ishtarri Kholo		PI
Jungle Hunting Ground		PA
Kduva's Mask		R
Kerrie		C/PI
King's Favor		PG
Kiss of Lachesis		C
Lapse		C
Lazarene Inquisitor		R
Leapfrog		C
Legend of the Leopard		C
Little Mountain Cemetery		C
Maabara		R
Madrigal		C
Masai Blood Milk		R
Massassi's Honor		C
Mbare Market, Harare		R
The Missing Voice		C
Mozambique Allure		C
Muricia's Call		R
Neutral Guard		R
New in Town		PO
No Secrets From the Magaji		C
Nose of the Hound		C
Octopod		C
Ohoyo Hopoksia (Bastet)		R
Orun		C
Osebo Kholo		PO
Overseer		C/PG
Palace Hunting Ground		PG
Panacea		R
Pandora's Whisper		C
Paris Opera House		R
The Path of Retribution		R
The Path of Tears		R
The Path of the Scorched Heart		R
Patrol		C
Peacemaker		C
Persistent Echo		R
Phantom Speaker		C
Port Hunting Ground		PI
Pounce		C
Powerbase: Cape Verde		R
Powerbase: Tshwane		R
Predator's Communion		C
Predator's Mastery		C/PA
Predator's Transformation		C
Putrescent Servitude		R
Quicksilver Contemplation		C
Raking Talons		C
Rayzeel's Song		C
Razor Bat		C
Reanimated Corpse		C
Recurring Contemplation		C
Redcap Wilder		R
Redistribution		C
Regenerative Blood		R
Reindoctrination		C
Reliquary: Akunanse Remains		PA
Reliquary: Biague		PI
Renewed Vigor		C
Repulsion		C
Resurrection		R
Rewind Time		R
Riddle Phantastique		R
Rigor Mortis		C
Rock Cat		R
Rockheart		C
Roll		C
Sanguine Instruction		C
Scry the Hearthstone		C
The Secret Must Be Kept		R
Sense Death		C
Sense Vitality		C
Shadow of Taint		R
Shaman		R
Shell Game		C
Sight Beyond Sight		R
Siren's Lure		R
Sires Command, Childer Inherit		C
Skin of the Chameleon		C
The Slaughterhouse		C
Soar		C
Song of Pan		C
Soul of the Earth		R
Speak with Spirits		C
Spike-Thrower		U
Spirit Marionette		C
Squirrel Balance		C
Static Virtue		R
Steal the Mind		R
Stone Dog		R
Stone Quills		C
Stone Travel		C
Stonestrength		C
Strange Day		R
Strength of the Bear		C
Summon Spirit Beast		R
Swarm		C
Swiftness of the Stag		C
Swoop		R
Sword of the Righteous		C
Tabriz Assembly		R
Tangle Atropos' Hand		R
Terra Incognita		C
Those Who Endure Judge		C
Toreador's Bane		R
Tourette's Voice		C
Tracker's Mark		C
Transfusion		C
Travelers Obey the Tenets		R
Truth of Blood		C
Unburdening the Bestial Soul		R
Uncontrolled Impulse		C/PI
Unseen Hibernation		C/PA
Unwholesome Bond		C
Vengeance of Samiel		C
Vitae Block		R
Vulture's Buffet		R
Walk of Caine		C
Wanderer's Counsel		C
Whistling Up the Beast		R
The Wildebeest		R
Winged Second		R
Wise Spider		R
Withering		C
Yoruba Shrine		R
Zaire River Ferry		R