Black Hand

Release Date: November 17, 2003. Legal for V:EKN constructed deck tournaments on December 17, 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 arrangements are being made to implement an exchange program via postal mail (and SASE). Details on the exchage program will be given when the exchange program is implemented.

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.

Card texts will be added to the web pages and download files on November 24, 2003.

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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