Heirs to the Blood
Heirs to the Blood (HttB) is the seventeenth expansion of White Wolf, Inc.'s trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, and was originally scheduled for release in late October, 2009, then December 2009, and was finally published on February 3rd, 2010. The expansion's theme are the bloodlines, minor clans and often offshots of the 13 major vampire clans, and continuing the support for the bloodline clans started in the Bloodlines and Legacies of Blood expansions. Heirs to the Blood proved more popular than expected, selling out of starter boxes one week after release.
Contents
Part of the expansion are 4 different pre-constructed decks with 89 cards each as well as boosters with 11 cards each (7 common, 3 vampire, and 1 rare). There will be 168 new cards in the booster packs, and more than 24 new cards in the pre-constructed decks. The pre-constructed decks are:
- Lasombra / Kiasyd
- Nosferatu / Samedi
- Tremere / Gargoyles
- Ventrue Antitribu / Salubri Antitribu
Mechanics
- Research -- a new play area for specific cards
- Maleficia and Striga -- two new pseudo disciplines for infernal vampires.