card ideas: more ado about the gangrel antitribu

Street Smarts

Master: Pack Identity.
A methuselah may have only one Pack Identity. Put this card in play. While you control three or more ready Gangrel Antitribu, they get +1 intercept against actions and during a bleed action they may play any card requiring Obfuscate from your hand as a +1 bleed action modifier that costs one blood.

Feral Ease

Master: Pack Identity.
A methuselah may have only one Pack Identity. Put this card in play. While you control three or more ready Gangrel Antitribu, they get +1 stealth on recruit and employ actions and during a bleed action they may play any card requiring Animalism from your hand as a +1 bleed action modifier that costs one blood.

Unshakeable

Master: Pack Identity.
A methuselah may have only one Pack Identity. Put this card in play. While you control three or more ready Gangrel Antitribu, they get +1 stealth on non-bleed actions and during a bleed action they may play any card requiring Celerity from your hand as a +1 bleed action modifier that costs one blood.

Is there a way to get rid of a Pack Identity once it's in play for you? Maybe add an option to burn it during your Untap phase.

Miasmat wrote:

Is there a way to get rid of a Pack Identity once it's in play for you? Maybe add an option to burn it during your Untap phase.

I was wondering if a Watchtower clause might be appropriate.

"Burn this card if you play (or gain control of) another Pack Identity."

The whole concept tie well with what I believe define !gangrel. Recycling of discipline card is also nice , especially given the discipline problems of the !gangrel.

In term of raw power, I think they should be fine, but the animalism one need some test / care, because mono animalism is already self suffisent, so the +1 bleed modifier may (or may not) be a bit too much.

The first one is the most attracting to me, because +1 intercept on every vampire is indeed a strong defensive advantage, without being added easily to auspex intercept.

jamesatzephyr wrote:

Miasmat wrote:

Is there a way to get rid of a Pack Identity once it's in play for you? Maybe add an option to burn it during your Untap phase.

I was wondering if a Watchtower clause might be appropriate.

"Burn this card if you play (or gain control of) another Pack Identity."

Thematically, it mike make more sense if the character of the pack can only change when a new vampire joins.

"When a Gangrel Antitribu enters your ready region, you may burn this card and search your hand or library for another Pack Identity to put into play."

Then Pack Identities could conceivably be used to adjust your deck's strengths to match new predators or preys, and using enough to consistently draw one early enough wouldn't leave you with a bunch of dead cards.

When trying to balance a minion card, you can't look at any group of vampires and say what can make them competitive. You have to look at the "best" of the vampires that are able to play the card, and say what can be done to help others without making these vampires over powered. So in this case. You need to ask yourself WWED. What Would Enkidu Do? The answer is Too Much. These cards are too strong with Enkidu. The only way to help City Gangrel is to only allow new card effects to affect lower cap vampires, effect equipment/equip actions , or non-animal retainers.