Kindred Most Wanted
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Kindred Most Wanted is the eighth expansion of White Wolf, Inc.
's trading card game Vampire: The Eternal Struggle
released on February 21, 2005. The expansion's theme are the most wanted vampires (kindred) who appear on the so-called Red List. These vampires are also called Anathema
. The vampires whose duty it is to hunt down and destroy the Anathema are called Alastor
s. The boosters also contain a number of cards which are related to the Independent clans (e.g. Assamites or Ravnos
), continuing the support for these started in the Final Nights
expansion.
The vampire Echo (also included in this set) was given as a promo card in a number of magazines.
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 February 21, 2005. The expansion's theme are the most wanted vampires (kindred) who appear on the so-called Red List. These vampires are also called Anathema
Anathema
Anathema originally meant something lifted up as an offering to the gods; it later evolved to mean:...
. The vampires whose duty it is to hunt down and destroy the Anathema are called Alastor
Alastor
Alastor can refer to a number of people and concepts related to Greek mythology:...
s. The boosters also contain a number of cards which are related to the Independent clans (e.g. Assamites or Ravnos
Ravnos
The Ravnos are a clan of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade and Vampire: The Dark Ages role-playing games....
), continuing the support for these started in the Final Nights
Final Nights (VTES)
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...
expansion.
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). There is a total of 150 new cards, i.e. 50 new common, 50 uncommon (=Vampire) and 50 rare cards. The pre-constructed decks are:- Anathema -- vampires on the red list
- Alastors -- hunters of the Anathema
- BaaliBaali (World of Darkness)The Baali are a bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games.The Baali were a bloodline of vampires associated with demon worship. Much of the Baali in-game symbolism is inspired by real-world Mesopotamian and Phoenician sources. The very...
-- clan of infernalist vampires - Gangrel antitribuGangrel (World of Darkness)The Gangrel are a clan of vampires, often associated with the Camarilla, from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade, Vampire: The Dark Ages, and books and role-playing games....
-- left out in earlier expansions where the Sabbat clans were featured
The vampire Echo (also included in this set) was given as a promo card in a number of magazines.
Mechanics
- Redlist -- A vampire with the Red List trait (i.e. he's on the list) can be attacked by other vampires more easily.
- Trophy -- If a vampire burns a red list vampire he gains a trophy, a powerful artifact or ability.
- Blood Curse -- The Blood Curse no longer affects the members of the Assamite clan by default; only those vampires with an explicit card text are affected.
- Infernal -- vampires with the Infernal trait now have to pay for untapping during the untap phase. Before this expansion these vampires had to pay for not tapping after the mandatory untap.
- Abominations -- A new vampire clan which consists of werewolves who also became vampires. Abominations are both "Sterile" and "Scarce".
Notable Cards
- The expansion introduced a number of ways to create progenies (younger vampires) for the independent clans ("Waters of Duat", "Tumnimos", "Web of Knives Recruit").
- Sudario Refraction -- allows the player to retrieve cards from the ash heap, although at the cost of losing cards randomly from his hand.
- Disengage -- allows a vampire to avoid an "Immortal Grapple" by the opposing vampire during combat.
- Mata Hari -- a Ravnos vampire who can play clan-specific cards as if she belongs to these clans
- Enkidu -- a very old vampire of clan Gangrel antitribu whose combat abilities are unmatched.