Disciplines: icondisobfuscate icondispresence icondisdaimoinon
Sect: Independent
Nickname: Demons
  Background  
There are those whom even Caine's monsters do not name lightly.
The first Baali is rumored to have forged an unholy pact with those who dwelt in the shadow outside the periphery of this world. In doing so, the devil-child took on something of the place Beyond, becoming something more - and less - than human.
The Baali are explorers, first and foremost - students of the unknown, the unknowable, the unspeakable. They toil for the erosion and eventual destruction of this world, to make way for Those Who Wait Beyond.

icondisdaimoinon Daimoinon: These are the black arts torn whole and beating from the socerer-kings of ancient cultures and prehistoric civilizations, incoherent memories passed from tome to tongue, harkening to times of insensate oblivion.

-- Vampire Storytellers Handbook
  V:TES Notes  
The Baali cards mix well with the Followers of Set. Since the Baali vampires are all identified as "infernal" (see note to the right), they are expensive to play in a single-clan crypt (with duplicates, since their numbers are so few), but it could be done.
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New Term:
Infernal

 Some minions are marked as "infernal." During his or her untap phase, a Methuselah who controls an infernal minion burns one pool or taps that infernal minion.

An infernal minion is one that has sold part of his soul to a demon (or demons). As such, the "control" his controller has over him is tainted by the control the demon has. This struggle for control is handled similar to contesting.

Q: If an infernal minion remains tapped during my untap phase (because of an effect like Mind Numb), do I have to pay a pool?
A: No. You can still elect to tap him (redundantly). Tapping is not a cost to avoid the pool loss. Paying a pool is the cost to avoid tapping the minion.
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Giotto Verducci
Baali. 7 capacity
for pot pre DAI OBF
Independent: During any other Methuselah's discard phase, you may discard a card from your hand (and draw a new one). Vampires must burn a blood to attempt to block Giotto. Infernal.
Giotto increases your discard capability, which can be very useful when mixing clans or playing with four or five different disciplines in your library. Like most special abilities, his can be used even when he is tapped (in case you find yourself without enough pool to keep untapping him during your discard phase).
When you do untap him, though, his actions are more painful for other vampires to attempt block. His Obfuscate can help him stealth past a blocker after the blocker has already paid the blood to attempt to block, further encouraging vampires not to try to block him.

     
Disciplines: icondisfortitude icondispotence icondissanguinus
Sect: Sabbat
Nickname: Frankensteins
  Background  
Conceived and created in crumbling Old World castles and chantries by the Tremere antitribu and a few twisted Tzimisce sorcerers, the Blood Brothers are an artificially engineered bloodline of shock troops and servitors.
Blood Brothers commonly form exclusive packs, in which they undergo Tzimisce fleshcrafting to make themselves look exactly alike.

icondissanguinus Sanguinus is the Discipline granted to the Blood Brothers by the Tzimisce who created them. A curious relative of Vicissitude, Sanguinus allows vampires who practice it to combine parts of their bodies, loan them out to others and coordinate their minds and appendages. Even low levels of it are unsettling (at best) to watch.

-- Guide to the Sabbat
  V:TES Notes  
Of all the clans found in the Bloodlines set, the Blood Brothers are the most suited for single-clan play and are strongest when played single-clan. They are very good at combat but not very strong at much else. They can be mixed effectively into potence-based combat decks featuring other clans.
All Blood Brothers are marked sterile (See Ahrimanes Preview), which means that the question of "What circle is my progeny?" (see new rule at right) won't come up unless someone Clan Impersonates a Blood Brother.
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New Rule:
Circle

 Each Blood Brother is identified with a particular circle. This has no other effect on game play except as card text indicates (as in most minion cards that require Sanguinus). A Blood Brother without a circle designation is his own circle - a circle of one.

Q: What happens when, say, Ian Forestal plays a Sanguinus card or when a Blood Brother creates an Embrace?
A: A vampire without a circle designation is assumed to be the only member of his circle - a circle of one. As such, most Sanguinus cards will have little benefit to him.
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Octopod
Combat. Sanguinus. 1 blood
Requires a ready Blood Brother of the same circle as another one in combat. Can be used by a vampire even if he or she is not involved in the combat.
Sanguinus: Only usable before range is chosen. The Blood Brother in combat gets an additional strike each round this combat.
Superior Sanguinus: As above, but with two additional strikes each round.
Octopod allows a Blood Brother not in the combat to spend a blood and give the Blood Brother in combat additional strike(s), allowing the combatant to avoid spending his own blood for the effect (although this still counts as the combatants one source of additional strikes each round). The interloper need not be untapped, just ready.

     
Disciplines: icondisfortitude icondisnecromancy icondisobfuscate icondisthanatosis
Sect: Independent
Nickname: Stiffs
  Background  
The Samedi may be an offshoot of the Nosferatu or a branch of the Giovanni. Neither clan will take the credit (or the blame?) for these Kindred. The Samedi are easily identified by the shreds of rotting flesh constantly falling from their bodies.
Nosferatu are ugly, but Samedi are corpselike, revealing a bit too much about the true nature of vampirism for other Kindred to be comfortable around them. For their own part, the Samedi enjoy keeping everyone else off-balance, as it makes their usual job of bodyguard that much easier.

icondisthanatosis The practitioners of Thanatosis are obsessed with the appearance of death. This Discipline is used to impart the appearance or the actual debilitating effects of death and decomposition.

-- Vampire Players Guide, Second Edition
-- Guide to the Camarilla
  V:TES Notes  
The Samedi cards mix well with the Giovanni and Harbingers of Skulls, and to a lesser extent, with the Ventrue. The Samedi can be played in a single-clan deck but, like most bloodlines, don't have the numbers to be as strong alone as when mixed with other clans.
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The Baron
Samedi. 9 capacity. dom FOR NEC OBF THN
Independent: The Baron has two votes. During your untap phase, if The Baron is ready, you may look at the hand of each Methuselah who controls a ready Giovanni. +1 bleed.
The Baron is widely viewed as the patriarch of the clan. He is the oldest Samedi in the set and has the Disciplines and special abilities to match.
This card will also be featured in several magazines as a promotional card to mark the release of the Bloodlines set.
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