VEKN Newsletter November 2019

On December 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for November 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, this time a large number of tournament reports, namely the Bologna Grand Prix 2019, South American Continental Championship 2019, the North American Cup 2019, the Finnish National Championship 2019, the Hungarian National Championship 2019, the Danish National Championship 2019, and the Portuguese National Championship 2019. In addition the newsletter contains a short interview with the US National VTES Coordinator, Mark Loughman, and some product news from Black Chantry.

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

VEKN Newsletter October 2019

On November 4th, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for October 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the announcement of the North American Cup tournament series, tournament reports of the Australian Continental Championship 2019 and the Asian Continental Championship 2019, and an interview with the German National VTES coordinator, Rudolf Scholz.

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

VEKN Newsletter September 2019

On October 3rd, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for September 2019. The newsletter covers a number of topics, namely the VEKN Code of Ethics, a tournament report of the 2019 Swedish National Championship, and new VTES community content in the forms of Bindusara´s Jyhad Diary blog and the Struggle, Interrupted YouTube channel (and Twitch stream).

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

VEKN Newsletter August 2019

On August 31st, 2019, the VEKN has published its newsletter for August 2019. The newsletter covers this time almost exclusively the VTES European Championship 2019, which took place during mid-August. Topics in this issue include tournament reports of the week of nightmares tournaments and the actual EC tournaments, the tournament winning decks of EC Day 1 and Day 2, and finally an interview with this year’s EC winner, Otso from Finland.

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

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).