Camarilla (VTES)
Camarilla (CE) is the fourth base set of White Wolf, Inc.'s trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle released on August 19 2002. The expansion's theme is the Camarilla sect. The expansion featured a significant change in the layout of the cards, especially the difference between pool and blood cost is more clear than before.
Contents
Part of the expansion are 6 different pre-constructed decks with 89 cards each as well as boosters with 11 cards each (5 common, 3 vampire, 2 uncommon, and 1 rare). There is a total of 385 cards in this expansion. There are 115 new cards, (100 vampire, 5 common, 5 uncommon and 5 rare cards). The pre-constructed decks are:
- Brujah
- Malkavian
- Nosferatu
- Toreador
- Tremere
- Ventrue
Mechanics
- Grouping -- each vampire now has a group number. A player can only use vampires from 2 adjacent groups during a game, i.e. vampires from group 2 and 3. This should help preventing too powerful combinations of vampires as well as supporting more variety of vampires used in play.
- No Repeat Actions -- vampires may not take the same action twice during a game turn.
- Blood Hunts -- after a vampire has been diablerized a Blood Hunt is now called automatically.
Notable Cards
- Baltimore Purge -- an action card sending one of each player's vampires to torpor during the next turn.
- Tension in the Ranks -- a master card making the player pool (life) each time one of his minions is burned or sent to torpor.
- Weighted Walking Stick -- a combat card resembling a Melee weapon for a few turns.