emerald court emissary

snegiem wrote:

Emerald court emissary
ally, can only be recruited by a nagaraja
Cost: 3 pools
strength 1 bleed 1 life 3
Dhampyr
The emissary can maneuver once per combat. Prevent any damages done to him by cards  using vicissitude. He can play cards requiring basic necromancy as a vampife. Any cost for these cards are paid with his life. Any card giving him blood gives him life instead. The emissary can gain a life as a hunt action. This hunt action does not get the usual +1 stealth if the emissary has more than 2 lifes.

I'm not really seeing why anyone would play this, really.

I can get a weenie with Necromancy out much more easily, and it hunts at stealth, and can be used to give me pool via Blood Doll or Vessel or whatever else. The weenie will generally be more resilient than this ally, because it can go to torpor. Weenie Necromancy isn't something super useful where you might think about wanting to bring out dozens of vampires, generally.

What deck are you envisaging that this would be useful in?


On a purely textual note: you can drop the "Any cost for these cards are paid with his life. Any card giving him blood gives him life instead." text. It's unnecessary these days, as it's provided by the rulebook. (It wasn't when such allies were first invented.) Freeing up that text might give you scope to make the card more interesting.

Ok ok ok i need to think it over...

I thought to be cool to have a thematic ally...
But you are right, i shall take into account that at the present time, nagaraja are:
- descent bleeder (almost all of them have at least dom inf and some got aus superior) but get almost no stealth option except a few necromancy cards
- average or bad wall: they have got necromancy and auspex to intercept but they have almost no combat cards (almost no maneuver, no combat ends,...) and consequently blocking is not a good option for them... redirecting with auspex and dominate seems nice against bleed but at the present time i would put intercept cards only if i had guns in hand to provide a backup (and to pray to survive)
- almost worst political vampire: no titles, no discipline suited...
- and besides they are scarce: so you can hardly build a full crypt with them...
So usually you can pick a few but to put in a deck based on a weenie dom or weenie auspex or maybe for bleed/stealth (dominate/necromancy) mix with giovani...
so you are totally right this version does not correct flaws from the nagarajas nor does it allow them to enhance their abilities...

New try

Emerald court emissary
burn option
Unique ally, can only be recruited by a nagaraja
Cost: 3 pools
strength 1 bleed 1 life 3
Dhampyr
He can play cards requiring basic necromancy as a vampire.
The emissary can tap and burn a life to give an independant vampire + 1 bleed or +1 intercept or 1 maneuver or 1 vote during a referendum.
If the emissary has less than 3 lifes, any vampire and ghoul ally you control can give him a life as a +1 stealth action.

so: i added a burn option, i made him unique to make more interaction with giovanni cards such as the kazar diairy.
i removed the vicissitude related aspect, modified the "add life" possibility...

Much better, but if you look at Saatet-ta that is very good. She doesn't require a scars vampire to put into play and only cost 2 pool.
The burn option is very nice thou.

Hmm
saatet "helps" only sethites... my emissary "helps" any independant vampire even cross table.
on the other hand, saatet tap and does not need to burn life, the emissary taps and does burn a life (which allows him to go quickly to ash heap)
and last saatet is reshuffled when burned, the emissary is put into graveyard when burned (and so can affect khazar diary, be used to summon shambling and so on..)

But I think this ally is very bad for Khazars, it cost 3 pool. But in a shamblers deck you could have a lot of them and they would fill a purpurs.