less is more... ?

ICL finally replied.
the GR1 vampires i once saw and liked a lot as starting points were indeed these:

iclee.wordpress.com/2010/05/14/classic-group-1-advanced/

cheers,
P.

mmm... Nice ideas, but some of them are plain silly :

Appolonius (Advanced)
G = 1
Brujah
C = 10
AUS, CEL, FOR, PRE, pot
Laibon. Magaji.
Appolonius gains +1 intercept for each Ishtarri you control. <merge> Any minion attempting to block Appolonius burns 2 blood or 2 life.

Great Special ! Oh but wait. There is NO group 2 Ishtarri. Life is unfair :/

Villein
Master

Master: trifle.
Put this card on a vampire you control and move 2 or more blood from that vampire to your pool. Minion Tap cards cost you an additional pool. Villein costs an additional pool to play on this vampire. This vampire can not gain blood this master phase.

Successfully nerfs the Villein + Giant's Blood/Lilith's Blessing combo.

Reyda wrote:

mmm... Nice ideas, but some of them are plain silly :

Appolonius (Advanced)
G = 1
Brujah
C = 10
AUS, CEL, FOR, PRE, pot
Laibon. Magaji.
Appolonius gains +1 intercept for each Ishtarri you control. <merge> Any minion attempting to block Appolonius burns 2 blood or 2 life.

Great Special ! Oh but wait. There is NO group 2 Ishtarri. Life is unfair :/

It is. Deeply, deeply unfair. However it's a perfect gap to fill. G1/2 would be a solid place to put new Laibon. It'd also be a solid place to put new Imbued, but that'd likely hit the panic button in VTES land, stagnant as we are.

apart from this version of Apollonius ICL created many viable blueprints of vampires for some future GR1 , imho. what i'm saying is: don't focus solely on this Apollonius... even though it could be a great idea to include Laibon in GR2 as others have also pointed out.

Remove the tap cost from Hidden Lurker and Fast Reaction (as only one can be played anyway on an action; card text).

Hidden Lurker
Type: Action Modifier
Requires: Obfuscate
Only usable by a ready untapped vampire other than the acting minion. Only usable after a combat between the acting minion you control and a blocking minion.
[obf] Tap this vampire. This vampire enters combat with the blocking minion. The first round of this new combat, the blocking minion cannot strike.
[OBF] As above, with an optional press.

Fast Reaction
Type: Reaction
Requires: Auspex
Only usable after a combat between a blocking minion you control other than this vampire and the acting minion.
[aus] Tap this vampire. This vampire enters combat with the acting minion. The first round of this new combat, the acting minion cannot strike.
[AUS] As above, with an optional press.