Card Idea: Send a message

Dorrinal wrote:

Reminder: one of the biggest hurdles for a combat deck is to be able to reliably win combats and still have enough cards to survive and/or oust. The proposed card has a good theme but would take valuable deck space without helping win combats, survive a strong predator, or oust a weak prey. It would be great for kindling.

If that's the case, the card would have to be stronger in order to be playable according to you. I'm not sure that's a direction you want to go with this particular card idea

Maybe if it were a Temporis card, with a couple of other effects it would provide the versatility and fit the theme of the card. (yo, i hit that kindred so hard his SIRE felt it!)

Then try this as a version:

Send a Message
Combat
2 blood
Only playable after a combat when a minion opposing a ready vampire you control is no longer ready.
Put this card on the vamprie you control. The Methuselah that controlled the opposing minion must burn 1 blood to attempt actions against you. Burn this card if the minion with this card goes to torpor.

Send a Message
Combat
1 blood
Only usable when the opposing vampire would burn or go torpor. Not usable by a vampire going to torpor. The opposing minion does not go to burn or go torpor. Combat ends. Put this card on the opposing vampire. A vampire may have only 1 Send a Message. If the vampire with this card goes to torpor, the methuselah controlling that vampire burns 2 pool.

$0.02

Prey, please lose 3 pool to Fame, 2 from Send a Message or you don't play Masters... that's nuts.

Because.... playing Govern + Conditioning is hard, right?

"As many times per combat", 1 blood card. I'm sorry but I'd be packing a SHEDLOAD of these into a deck just for that one time where I can catch a TGB deck with a Grapple and then dump 4 into play.

And then the TGB deck simply doesn't play a master, you wasted 4 cards, 4 blood and a "shedload" cardslots making your deck ineffective, unfocused and unable to oust.

Combat needs more reliable ways of ousting preys in general, Many MPA decks should just be another victim under the Combat bus.

No thanks. I don't think an archtype that mostly just makes people unable to play the game needs better ways to oust. If rush decks want to be able to oust effectively, they need to start packing less stuff that kills vampires and more stuff that kills pool.

What they *need* is a way to not get ousted OTHER than going upstream 70% of the time (and making someone unable to play the game in the process).

Vtes needs more ousting power that's not bleed

Fixed it for you