New Ravnos, Salubri & Tzimsice Preconstructed Decks

Today, Black Chantry has announced three new upcoming VTES starter decks. The clans for these starter decks will be Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimice, and the starters will have the usual format of 12 crypt and 77 library cards.

The biggest news perhaps are the “new” clan disciplines, which differ significantly from the previous clan disciplines. But the new clan disciplines for these 3 clans now match the canon of Vampire: The Masquerade 5th Edition now:

• Ravnos: Animalism, Obfuscate, Presence (was: Animalism, Chimerstry, Fortitude)
• Salubri: Auspex, Dominate, Fortitude (was. Auspex, Fortitude, Obeah)
• Tzimisce: Animalism, Dominate, Protean (was: Animalism, Auspex, Vicissitude)

Black Chantry has put three from vampires (one for each clan) on their website, but see for yourself:

• “Upcoming preconstructed decks: Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce”

Ongoing VTES Kickstarter “Unleashed”

On May 10th, 2021 Black Chantry (as publisher of VTES) launched its first kickstarter campaign, Unleashed. As most of you will know, Kickstarter is a crowd-funding platform, where project initiators can present their upcoming product, and people can pledge their support at various levels. Once the funding goals are met, the project initiator will produce the physical product(s), and deliver it to the customers.

VTES Unleashed Kickstarter campaign

The VTES Kickstarter Unleashed will bring the three expansions that were originally created by the VEKN, but only produced as PDFs, as physical products into existence. The expansions are Danse Macabre (2013), The Unaligned (2014), and Anarchs Unbound (2017).

The cards from these expansions will be published in four 90 card bundles (links to the Black Chantry product pages):

• Danse Macabre
• The Unaligned 1
• The Unaligned 2
• Anarchs Unbound

The exact card list can be found on the project’s kickstarter page.

The amount needed for funding the project has already been reached, and the first of several (so called) stretch goals also has been met. Again the exact details can be found the Unleashed Kickstarter page. The campaign has also been announced on the Black Chantry website.

The Unleashed Kickstarter campaign will end on June 9th, 2021 (9:05 AM CEST). So if you’re interested in supporting the project, and acquiring the expansion packs, don’t wait for too long …

Rules Team Rulings – RTR 05/07/2020

On July 5th, 2020, the Black Chantry published a statement about diversity and inclusivity with regards to VTES. The statement also included the latest Rules Team Rulings (RTR 05/07/2020), which bans 5 cards from tournament play from August 1st, 2020 onward. The reason why Black Chantry banned these cards, is that contain words or images that are associated with real world racist caricatures. The 5 banned cards are:

• Gypsies
• Rom Gypsy
• Tarbaby Jack
• Terrorists
• Tsigane

You can read about the details on the issued statement and the included RTR on the Black Chantry website and the RTR on the VEKN website.

New Tournament Promo Pack Released

Black Chantry has released a second promo pack of VTES cards, which is intended to be handed out as rewards for participating in tournaments. This second pack consists of crypt that were previously only available as promo cards during VTES Continental Championships, and a few selected crypt and library for which the card text has been changed recently (or the card was misprinted in a  recent expansion (Murmur of the False Will). The first block of cards have a quantity of 10 each, while the second blcok only has a quantity of 1 each.

• 10 Benedito, a Lanterna
• 10 Bituin
• 10 Casey Snyder
• 10 Jacques Rouge
• 10 Leumeah
• 1 Una
• 1 The Ankara Citadel, Turkey
• 1 Black Metamorphosis
• 1 Murmur of the False Will
• 1 Parity Shift
• 1 Pentex Subversion

The tournament packs are not intended for the regular distribution channels and resale, but for tournament organizers as prize support for participating in or winning a tournament.

You can read the original post on the Black Chantry website.

Black Chantry announces First Blood starter decks

The VTES publisher Black Chantry has announced five new decks for September 2019. The decks, collectively named First Blood, has VTES beginners as its target audience. They are smaller in size (6 crypt cards and 49 library) than comparable pre-constructed decks, on the other hand, Black Chantry also announced that they will be sold a lower price than other pre-constructed decks (e.g. the Sabbat 2019 decks).

	Malkavian Dem Stealth Bleed deck
	Nosferatu Toolbox
	Toreador Vote/Bleed deck
	Tremere Wall deck
	Ventrue Toolbox (“Stickmen”) deck

You can find the original announcement on the Black Chantry website, where you can also have a look at the individual deck lists.

New Sabbat Starter Decks in Feb. 2019

Exciting news for the VTES Community arrived earlier this month. Black Chantry will publish new starter decks with four Sabbat clans being featured. Namely these decks

• Parliament of Shadows — Lasombra
  • A stealth-based vote and bleed deck with a rather high avg. capacity vampires.
• Den of Fiends — Toreador antitribu
  • A breed and boon deck, with a number of hard-to-get cards like Embrace (9) and Foundation Exhibit (3).
• Pact with Nephandi — Tremere antitribu
  • A classic Nephandus deck, even with 5 copies of Antonine d’Erlette and a whooping 8 Nephandus allies.
• Den of Fiends — Tzimisce
  • A bleed & block deck with a heavy emphasis on aggravated damage.

The decks contain 12 vampires and 77 library cards (as with the previous starter decks). In addition, each of the the decks contain some new crypt cards, and new artwork for a few of the crypt and the library cards.  As release date for the new decks February 16th, 2019 was given, the recommended retailer price is 22 EUR/20 US dollars.

What I really like about these starter decks is, that they’re really playable in the sense that these decks are archetype decks, and (with or without some minor modifications) you can even take these decks to tournaments.

Read more: https://www.blackchantry.com/2018/12/29/new-year-new-starter-decks/

Heirs to Blood Reprinted

As a new publisher of VTES, Black Chantry Productions has released two new reprint bundles, namely of the last White Wolf published expansion Heirs to the Blood. There are, similar to the Keepers of Tradition reprint bundle, two bundles with 120 cards each. These contain both crypt & library (each), typically with one or two copies of the same card.

Bundle #1 contains cards for Baali, Blood Brothers, Gargoyles, Harbingers of Skulls, Nagaraja and Samedi, while bundle #2 has cards for Ahrimanes, Daughters of Cacophony, Kiasyd, Salubri, Salubri antitribu and True Brujah. Please take note, that not all of the HttB cards are reprinted, e.g. the Maleficia and Striga cards are not reprinted with these bundles.

The Black Chantry website has some pages with more information on particular bloodlines:

• Baali & Daimoinion
• Daughters of Cacophony & Melpominee
• Kiasyd & Mytherceria
• Ahrimanes & Spiritus
• Salubri antitribu & Valeren

The cards can be purchased via www.drivethrucards.com or retailers like Fantasiapelit (Finland).

Lost Kindred: Gargoyles

Following the previews for a number of other bloodlines, on Friday the preview of the Gargoyles related cards of the for the new VTES expansion “Lost Kindred“. Aside from the two cards actually shown as pictures, the card text of all Gargoyle-related cards are presented (5 crypt cards and 4 library cards).

But see for yourself on vekn.net.

Lost Kindred: Salubri antitribu

Following the previews for three bloodlines, on Thursday the preview of the Salubri antitribu related cards of the for the new VTES expansion “Lost Kindred“. Aside from the two cards actually shown as pictures, the card text of all Salubri antitribu-related cards are presented (4 crypt cards and 3 library cards).

But see for yourself on vekn.net.

Lost Kindred: Blood Brothers

Following the previews for the Samedi and the Harbingers of Skulls, today the preview of the Blood Brothers related cards of the for the new VTES expansion “Lost Kindred“. Aside from the two cards actually shown as pictures, the card text of all Blood Brothers-related cards are presented (5 crypt cards and 5 library cards).

But see for yourself on vekn.net.

Lost Kindred: Harbingers of Skulls

Rather quickly after the initial preview of the Samedi for the new VTES expansion “Lost Kindred“, yesterday the preview for the Harbingers of Skulls was posted on vekn.net. Aside from the two cards actually shown as pictures, the card text of all Harbinger-related cards are presented (5 crypt cards and 5 library cards).

But see for yourself on vekn.net.

Lost Kindred: Samedi

With the official announcement that new VTES expansion  has been released on May 5th, 2018, Black Chantry has provided the list of cards contained in the new expansion. (Card lists are also available on vekn.net for the two reprint packs of Keepers of Tradition). What was lacking so far, were the actual card texts for the new cards that come with Lost Kindred. As of today, Black Chantry/VEKN has begun to share this information in a series of “previews”, starting today with the new cards for the Samedi bloodline.

But see for yourself on vekn.net.

New VTES Expansion & Reprint Packages Released

Rather quickly after the announcement that VTES will be back on print, 3 new VTES products hit the (online) store. On May 5th, 2018, Black Chantry, the new production company for VTES, has put a new VTES expansion named Lost Kindred and two reprint packages of  an existing expansion (Keepers of Tradition) into the demand-on-print-shop Drivethrucards.com.

Here’s the announcement about the release by Black Chantry (read the full post for yourself on vekn.net.) Also check the Black Chantry website for more information about the company that has brought VTES back to print.

We are very happy to announce that Black Chantry Productions now has made their first three Vampire: The Eternal Struggle products available for print on demand on Drivethrucards.com. It is one brand new expansion, designed by the VEKN Design team, illustrated by top notch artists and carefully tested by hundreds of playtesters for more than one year. The other two products are reprint bundles of Keepers of Tradition cards that are highly desired by players who could not get their hands on enough of them back when they were originally printed. Congratulations VTES players all over the world – our beloved game is back in print!

A bit problematic is the rather high price of US$24 for these 120 card packages, but I guess that’s the nature of actual print-on-demand business. On the other hand, the shipping fees to addresses outside of the US are extremely high. Here, the only solution at the moment is to make larger purchase together with friends and co-players, since the price per ordered card pack drops with the number of VTES packs ordered. This is certainly not an ideal situation, but on the other hand VTES is back in print.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle returns to print

When I first saw the announcement, I thought this was some sort of (very late) April Fools joke, but this is genuine and great news indeed. Read the information the VEKN and Black Chantry Productions released today on VEKN.net here by yourself:

Black Chantry Productions brings classic Vampire: The Masquerade-themed card game back to unlife

NOTTINGHAM – April 24, 2018

“We are really excited to do this, together with White Wolf Entertainment. Players all over the world have hungered for new cards for eight long years, and we are proud to serve. And of course, we aim to attract many new players too”, says Hugh Angseesing, CEO of Black Chantry Productions.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle has been called the best multiplayer collectible card game ever published. It is loved for its blend of strategy and social interaction, set in the classic urban horror game setting World of Darkness, home of the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle has a vibrant player base all over the world, with both casual gamers around kitchen tables and those who travel to face the best competition. Hundreds of tournaments are played each year, including continental championships and a Grand Prix circuit in Europe.

Black Chantry Productions hope to both rekindle old players and attract new blood. The company is composed of five veteran Vampire: The Eternal Struggle players from five different countries and with various competences – ranging from art and finance to software design and marketing. All five have been active in the player community for many years, organising tournaments and promoting the game during its commercial absence.

“We are very passionate about this game, and we want to do everything right. White Wolf has trusted us with the license for this precious gem, a true masterpiece in the history of strategy games, and we have every intention to care for it”, says Hugh Angseesing.

Vampire: The Eternal Struggle will be developed in concert with White Wolf Entertainment´s plans for the World of Darkness setting, and as an integrated part of their transmedia experience – all sorts of games and fiction set in the same shared world.

“Vampire: The Eternal Struggle has always been a one-of-a-kind. It is a game that defies established genres and has held its own for decades, a testament to its genius and original design. We at White Wolf are proud to be a part of the revival of what can truly be considered a classic”, says Karim Muammar, Creative Development, White Wolf Entertainment.

Read the full announcement with on VEKN.net