Bloodlines is the third expansion of White Wolf, Inc.

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 bloodlines, minor clans and often offshots of the 13 major clans.

New clans

The expansion added a large number of new bloodline clans as well as their special disciplines (powers). The new clans are

• Ahrimanes
• Baali
  Baali (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...
  
  
• Blood Brothers
  Blood Brothers (World of Darkness)
  The Blood Brothers are a fictional bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studios Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games....
  
  
• Daughters of Cacophony
  Daughters of Cacophony
  The Daughters of Cacophony are a fictional bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games....
  
  
• Gargoyles
  Gargoyles (World of Darkness)
  The Gargoyles are a bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games.The Gargoyles are a bloodline created by the Tremere as servitors. Although technically not a Tremere bloodline, the bloodline is largely under their control...
  
  
• Harbingers of Skulls
• Kiasyd
• Nagaraja
  Nagaraja (World of Darkness)
  The Nagaraja are a fictional bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games.Mages of the Euthanatos Tradition that experimented with the blood of the Kindred, the Nagaraja are among the most feared of bloodlines...
  
  
• Salubri antitribu
• Salubri
• Samedi
  Samedi (World of Darkness)
  The Samedi are a minor independent bloodline of vampires from White Wolf Game Studio's Vampire: The Masquerade books and role-playing games, native to the Caribbean....
  
  
• True Brujah

Contents

This expansion only consists of booster packs with 11 cards each (7 common, 3 uncommon, and 1 rare). There is a total of 196 cards, all of which are new. The vampire The Baron (also included in this set) was given as a promo card in a number of magazines.

Mechanics

• Burn Option -- to make inclusion of certain clan based cards more efficient, it is allowed to discard cards with the burn option even though it is not the player's discard phase. The player can do this in each player's untap phase when none of this vampires meet the requirements for playing the card.
• Multi-Discipline -- a library card often requires a certain vampiric discipline (power). Multi-Displince cards either require two discipline at once, or if they are require a discipline, native only to a bloodline clan, offer a second alternative use with a "regular" discipline as requirement.
• Cold Iron Vulnerability -- vampires with this trait take extra damage from weapons marked as being made from Cold Iron.
• Flight -- a discipline-like ability.
• Infernal -- vampires with the Infernal trait (usually of clan Baali) are usually more powerful than a vampire of the same generation (age). On the other hand a player must pay a fee to avoid tapping infernal vampires after the mandatory untap. This rule was later changed slightly in the Kindred Most Wanted
  Kindred Most Wanted
  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 who appear on the so-called Red List. These vampires are also called Anathema. The vampires whose...
  
  expansion.
• Scarce -- to avoid a larger number of small bloodline vampires played, the Scarce trait was introduced. It imposes a severe penalty for playing vampires with the Scarce trait after the first of each clan.
• Slave -- vampires with the Slave trait (usually Gargoyles) cannot take directed actions, unless a "master" vampire of a designated clan is ready (in play).
• Sterile -- vampires with the Sterile trait cannot reproduce, i.e. create other vampires.

Notable Cards

• Call the Great Beast -- an action requiring Daimonon which summons a powerful demon although at the cost of sacrificing the acting vampire.
• Beast Meld & Neutral Guard -- action modifiers which deny any block attempts either to vampires (Beast Meld) or younger vampires and allies (Neutral Guard).
• Huitzilopochtli -- an old and powerful vampire of clan Baali.
• Matthias -- a Salubri vampire.
• The Baron -- the head figure of the Samedi bloodline.

External links

• The official site
• Checklist for the expansion