Final Nights (VTES)
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Final Nights is the fifth expansion of White Wolf, Inc.
's trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
released on June 11, 2001. The expansion's theme are vampires of the Independent clans, thereby continuing the support for these clans started in the Dark Sovereigns
and Ancient Hearts
expansions. The name Final Nights derives from the belief of the vampire society that Gehenna, the apocalyptic end of the world, approaches anytime soon.
The vampire Fatima al-Faqadi (also included in this set) was given as a promo card in a number of magazines. All of the vampires released in the Dark Sovereigns and Ancient Hearts have been reprinted in this set; there were also new vampires for the independent clans.
White Wolf, Inc.
White Wolf Publishing is an American gaming and book publisher. The company was founded in 1991 as a merger between Lion Rampant and White Wolf Magazine, and was initially led by Mark Rein·Hagen of the former and Steve and Stewart Wieck of the latter. Since White Wolf Publishing, Inc. merged with...
's trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, published as Jyhad in the first or "Limited" edition and often abbreviated as VTES, V:TES or V:tES, is a multiplayer collectible card game set in the World of Darkness. It is published by White Wolf, Inc....
released on June 11, 2001. The expansion's theme are vampires of the Independent clans, thereby continuing the support for these clans started in the Dark Sovereigns
Dark Sovereigns
Dark Sovereigns is the first expansion of White Wolf, Inc.'s trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle released on December 15, 1995 - then published by Wizards of the Coast. The expansion's theme are the vampires of Europe and introduced the clans Ravnos and Giovanni. It also introduced the...
and Ancient Hearts
Ancient Hearts
Ancient Hearts is the second expansion of White Wolf, Inc.'s trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle released on May 29, 1996 - then published by Wizards of the Coast. The expansion's theme are the vampires of North Africa and the Near East...
expansions. The name Final Nights derives from the belief of the vampire society that Gehenna, the apocalyptic end of the world, approaches anytime soon.
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 uncommon, and 1 rare). Final Nights is one of the larger expansions with a total of 386 cards including 162 new cards, i.e. 54 new common, 54 uncommon and 54 rare cards. The pre-constructed decks are:- Assamites
- Followers of SetFollowers of SetThe Followers of Set or Setites are a clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's books and role-playing games set in the Old World of Darkness .The mythic-historical origins of the Followers of Set are in ancient Egypt, as they claim to be descended from the dark god...
- GiovanniGiovanni (World of Darkness)The Giovanni are a clan of vampires, from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games. In the newest version of White Wolf's Vampire: The Requiem role-playing game they are a bloodline of the Mekhet Clan called the San Giovanni .The usurpers of clan Cappadocian and...
- RavnosRavnosThe Ravnos are a clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages role-playing games....
The vampire Fatima al-Faqadi (also included in this set) was given as a promo card in a number of magazines. All of the vampires released in the Dark Sovereigns and Ancient Hearts have been reprinted in this set; there were also new vampires for the independent clans.
Notable Cards
- Charisma -- a Master card reducing the cost to play allies or retainers for a given vampire.
- Creepshow Casino -- a Master card giving stealth to undirected actions without any further requirements or disciplines.
- Draba -- a reaction card reducing the stealth for a current action to zero, regardless of the amount of stealth played before.
- Enticement -- an action card requiring Serpentis that allows direct pool (life) damage with bleeding the opposing player.
- Jake Washington (Hunter) - a Master card that turns in an ally when played.
- Week of Nightmares -- a Master card enabling a powerful ability to bleed for the Ravnos clan although with drawback in the long run.
- Goratrix -- a Tremere antitribu vampire, the arch-enemy of Etrius of clan Tremere.
- Pochtli -- a Giovanni vampire able to put cards back from the ashheap (discard pile) to the library.
- Tariq, The Silent -- an Assamite vampire.with great fighting skills and capable of committing diablerie without having to fear reprisals.