VEKN Newsletter July 2019

Foreshadowing Destruction by Javier Santos. New card art for the 25th Anniversary set.

On August 4th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for July 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely a tournament report of the Finnish Grand Prix, product news from Black Chantry and information on a YouTube channel named Generación V covering VTES starting players topics.

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for July 2019 on VEKN.net.

VEKN Newsletter June 2019

On July 1st, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for June 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an extensive report of the 2019 North American VTES Championship (NAC) (including the respective tournament winning decks), an interview with the NAC 2019 winner Corwin Brindley, and finally an interview with the new national coordinator for VTES in Brazil, Kleber Bertazzo.

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for June 2019 on VEKN.net.

Rewording of Parity Shift & Pentex Subversion

Pentex Subversion w/ pre-2019 cardtext.

Inside the announcement of the contents of the upcoming VTES 25th anniversary set, is the information “hidden”, that both the card text of Parity Shift and Pentex Subversion is changed! Big news indeed, since both cards have quite powerful effects and are therefore staple cards in many decks. Unfortunately the announcement does not contain the exact new card text, but only the general information about what the change is about.

The card changes according to the announcement are:

• Parity Shift does no longer takes a variable amount pool (1-5) from the target of the vote, but rather a fixed amount of pool, namely 3 (three) pool regardless of the number of players at the table. This makes the card considerably weaker in early to mid-game.
• Pentex Subversion no longer prevents a vampire from being able to block and act, but rather only prevents a vampire from blocking actions.

Both changes have quite considerable impact for future (tournament) deck building, but I think that these changes are reasonable considering that a single Pentex Subversion could shut down certain decks completely, and early Parity Shifts a huge pool swing of ten pool towards the player playing the Parity Shift. Both cards are still viable for both casual and tournament deck buildings in my humble opinion.Alongside with these two changes are three other card changes that have a lesser impact on (most) tournament deck building:

• Una‘s special ability has changed, so that only Fortitude combat cards cost her one less blood. (This is basically the death of Una Freakshow decks!)
• The cost reduction provided by Ankara Citadel no longer applies to action modifiers.
• The Black Metamorphosis action now has +1 stealth.

Some explanation about these card changes and the reasoning behind it are given in the announcement by Black Chantry (see link above).

VEKN Newsletter May 2019

On June 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for May 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the 25th anniversary of VTES, some information about the upcoming Russian and Portuguese language versions of VTES, and three short tournament reports (with the respective tournament winning decks) of the 2019 French, German and Polish national VTES championships.

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for May 2019 on VEKN.net.

VEKN Newsletter April 2019

Art by Carmen Cornet from the upcoming VTES 25th Anniversary product

On April 29th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for April 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely two tournament reports (Grand Prix 2019 Spain & Brazilian national championship) including the tournament winning decks, a rules questions & answer section, and the (usual) Black Chantry summary.

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for April 2019 on VEKN.net.

VEKN Newsletter March 2019

On March 29th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for March 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview on the currently production pipeline with Ben Peal, (design director of Black Chantry), a tournament report of the VTES Grand Prix in Brno (Czech Republic), another tournament report of the Italian National VTES Championship 2019, and finally a FAQ on the VTES Card Creator at Drivethrucards.

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for March 2019 on VEIN.net.

VEKN Newsletter February 2019

On February 28th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for February 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely an interview of with artist Javier Santos, a summary of the production activity of Black Chantry, and a list of updated card texts (5).

Read the complete newsletter here: VEKN Newsletter for February 2019 on VEKN.net.