Release Date: November 17, 2003. Legal for V:EKN constructed deck tournaments on December 17, 2003. Selena, the promo card, is legal for V:EKN constucted deck tournaments on December 5, 2003. A cabal of infamous assassins. The Black Hand. The shadowy warrior elite. Hidden behind veils of secrecy and mystery, the Black Hand serves as the martial arm of the Sabbat. When the blood and fire of the sect's packs and prisci fail to win the night, the Black Hand arrives like a grim cavalry on the cusp of the night. Now, these faithful warrior elite stand determined not only to fight for survival in these Final Nights, but to win and, ultimately, to claim their reward from Caine himself.   Black Hand is the sixth set released by White Wolf for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, and the second to focus on the vampires of the Sabbat. The booster packs contain 11 cards (7 common, 3 uncommon, and 1 rare) randomly selected from a set of 138 cards. In addition, the set features 4 non-random preconstructed decks, Malkavian antitribu, Nosferatu antitribu, Toreador  antitribu, and Tremere antitribu, which contain even more cards and are designed to get beginning players started right away. Each preconstructed deck contains 2 new vampires that aren't found in the boosters. The booster packs were to be all-new. Due to a printing error, however, the booster packs contain two reprints of previous cards; two advanced vampires were accidentally replaced with their base counterparts on the uncommon sheet. One of the advanced vampires is still to be found in a starter. The other is not found at all in this set. Update:The two vampires, Jessica and Hannibal, who were replaced by their base counterparts in the booster assortment, as well as Yong-Sun, who was replaced by his advanced counterpart in the Nosferatu antitribu starter, will be printed as promos (without the Black Hand expansion symbol). These promos will be distributed in the usual manner (at tournaments and conventions) and via an exchange program via postal mail (and SASE). Errata: Imogen was reprinted in the Malkavian antitribu starter with an incorrect capacity of 8. Her capacity is still 9 (errata to the Black Hand version). List of Prerelease events held Nov. 15 and 16.. Play Vampire: The Eternal Struggle using Black Hand with your friends, or locate players in your area at www.white-wolf.com/vtes/member.   This set introduces no new rules. Some rules have been reformulated, however. For instance, the burn option has been extended to cover any "ready minion" requirement, not just a clan requirement.   Checklist All crypt cards are U2. Library cards listed as "U2" are actually interspersed on the common sheet, but occur at the same frequency as a U2 would. Library cards that are listed as "U" are simply found once on the uncommon sheet. A spoiler list of just the Black Hand cards (including reprints) is available in plain text. Crypt Clan Adv? Doctor Streck Brujah antitribu Henry Taylor Brujah antitribu Mariano Pomposo Brujah antitribu Miguel Santo Domingo Brujah antitribu Sela Brujah antitribu Adv Wah Chun-Yuen Brujah antitribu Jalan-Aajav Gangrel antitribu Jesús Alcalá Gangrel antitribu Maria Stone Gangrel antitribu Sébastian Goulet Gangrel antitribu Adv Skryta Zyleta Gangrel antitribu Soldat Gangrel antitribu Banjoko Lasombra Henri Lavenant Lasombra Hester Reed Lasombra Nahir Lasombra Tabitha Fisk Lasombra Aristotle de Laurent Malkavian antitribu Hannibal (reprint) Malkavian antitribu Midget Malkavian antitribu Rodolfo Malkavian antitribu Mateusz Gryzbowsky Nosferatu antitribu Tarbaby Jack Nosferatu antitribu Teresita, The Godmother Nosferatu antitribu Yong-Sun, Harmonist Nosferatu antitribu Adv Olga Triminov Pander Jessica (reprint) Toreador antitribu Nicholas Chang Toreador antitribu Rosa Martínez Toreador antitribu Yitzak Toreador antitribu Goratrix Tremere Adv Marino Reymundo Vásquez Tremere antitribu Selena Tremere antitribu Yasmin the Black Tremere antitribu Ana Rita Montaña Tzimisce Kazimir Savostin Tzimisce Piotr Andreikov Tzimisce Szechenyi Jolán, Mother of Horrors Tzimisce Blackhorse Tanner Ventrue antitribu Charice Fontaigne Ventrue antitribu Dominique Ventrue antitribu Adv Katherine Stoddard Ventrue antitribu Owain Evans, The Wanderer Ventrue antitribu Sister Evelyn Ventrue antitribu Yazid Tamari Assamite Ezekiel, Lord of Montreal Follower of Set Ignazio Giovanni Giovanni Zip Ravnos Library Rarity Abyssal Hunter R2 Admonitions, The U Alpha Glint C Animal Magnetism C Art of Memory, The U2 Babble C Black Gloves R Blooding C Bloodwork C Brick Laying C Capitalist C Celestial Harmony R Chalice of Kinship R Chill of Oblivion R Chronicle of the Lost Tribe R Circumspect Revelation C Communal Haven: Cathedral U2 Consignment to Duat C Corporal Reservoir C Corpse Balloon C Council of Seraphim R Creep Show C Crusade: Barcelona R Crusade: Brussels R Crusade: Rome R Deed the Heart's Desire C Deep Cover Agent R Deploy the Hand C Día de los Muertos R Dominion C Ebony Fox Hunt U Extremis Boon R Flaming Candle R Foundation Exhibit R2 Gemini's Mirror C Guru C Hand Intervention C Information Network R2 Inscription U Iron Glare C Kaymakli Barrier R Last Stand R Legwork C Lessons in the Steel R Local 1111 R Loyalist C Marijava Thuggee U2 Martial Ritus C Mask Empathy R Masque of Judas C Mayaparisatya C Mesmerize R Ministry C Mistrust R Path of Death and the Soul R Path of Evil Revelations R Quicken Sight C Random Patterns C Recure of the Homeland U Remover C Resilient Mind R Reunion Kamut C Rooftop Shadow C Seraph U2 Shakar C Shape Mastery R Sibyl's Tongue R2 Sire's Index Finger R Social Ladder R Sociopath C Specialization R Stealth Ritus C Talons of the Dead R2 Tenebrous Form C Thin-Blooded Seer R Trainer R Typhonic Beast C Under the Skin C Vendetta R2 Vox Domini R Vox Senis C Watch Commander C Watchtower: Chosen are Called R Watchtower: Four Ride Forth R2 Watchtower: Greatest Fall R Weeping Stone R Weirding Stone R Winchester Mansion R WMRH Talk Radio R Zillah's Tears C

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