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Release Date: May 27, 2009
Blood of Africa!
Some stand outside the Thirteen, ancients who adhere to even older traditions. They are the Laibon, the vampires born in the heart of Africa, inheritors of secrets unknown to Camarilla or Sabbat. They too have joined the Eternal Struggle &emdash; and they intend to thrive there.
Ebony Kingdom
White Wolf's sixteenth expansion for Vampire: The Eternal Struggle is a boosters-only set entitled Ebony Kingdom, and it revisits the Legacies (clans) of the African continent.
Each booster pack contains 11 all-new cards randomly selected from a set of 60 cards consisting of 20 rares, 20 vampires, and 20 commons.
Launch Event
White Wolf has scheduled the weekend of May 30th for the Ebony Kingdom Launch Event.
Locate players in your area at
www.white-wolf.com/vtes/member.
Order your Ebony Kingdom cards now at your local game and hobby store or order directly from the online catalog.
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Preview
Umdava
Akunanse
Laibon magaji: you may use a master phase action to search your library or ash heap for an Aye or Arun to place on a ready Laibon.
9 capacity
Group 4
Vicissitude, Superior Abombwe, Superior Animalism, Superior Fortitude, Superior Presence
Nana Buruku
Guruhi
Laibon: While Nana is ready, you get two master phase actions (instead of one) each master phase and +1 hand size.
8 capacity
Group 4
Superior Animalism, Superior Potence, Superior Presence
Undele
Ishtarri
Laibon magaji: Undele may call a referendum to move two minion cards from your ash heap to your hand as a +1 stealth political action (discard afterward).
9 capacity
Group 5
Obfuscate, Presence, Serpentis, Superior Celerity, Superior Fortitude
Abiku
Osebo
Laibon: Abiku gets +1 stealth when hunting.
6 capacity
Group 4
Celerity, Obtenebration, Superior Potence, Superior Auspex
Taking the Skin: Minion
Action Modifier/Combat
Abombwe
abo: Reflex. Cancel a frenzy card played on this vampire as it is played.
abo: Skin. Play when this vampire burns a minion. Put this card on this vampire and untap him or her. This vampire may bleed an additional time this turn and gets +1 bleed and +1 stealth when bleeding. Burn this card during your discard phase. A minion can have only one skin.
Remnant of the Endless Storm
Ally
Unique werewolf with 5 life. 1 strength, 0 bleed. Requires a magaji.
The Remnant gets +1 strength for each life it has. The Remnant may enter combat with any minion as a (D) action. If any effect does more than 2 damage to the Remnant, ignore the excess. If the Remnant has 4 or fewer life during your untap phase, it gains 1 life from the blood bank.
6 pool
Neebi
Combat
Burn Action
Requires a Laibon with three or more Aye.
Only usable before range is determined. Set the range for this round. Skip the determine range step this round.
DRAFT: As above, but requires only two Aye.
Guinea-Bissau Carnival
Master
Put this card in play. Each Laibon gets +X stealth when hunting and gains X+1 additional blood from the bank if succesful, where X is the number of Aye he or she has. Burn this card during your next untap phase. Only one Guinea-Bissau Carnival may be played in a game.
Checklist
Crypt Clan
Nestor Kaba Akunanse
Socrate Cidibe Akunanse
Aisata Swanou Akunanse
Umdava Akunanse
Kamiri wa Itherero (ADV) Akunanse
Fode Kourouma Guruhi
Batsheva (ADV) Guruhi
Ngozi Ekwensu Guruhi
Lucian, the Perfect Guruhi
Nana Buruku Guruhi
Abu Nuwasi Ishtarri
Elizabeth Conde Ishtarri
Luanda Magere Ishtarri
Jibade el-Bahrawi (ADV) Ishtarri
Undele Ishtarri
Arriette Sylla Osebo
Titi Camara Osebo
Mamadou Keita Osebo
Abiku Osebo
Cesewayo (ADV) Osebo
Library Rarity
419 Operation C
Bamba C
Bestial Vengeance R
Blood Shield R
Brutal Influence C
Despiral C
Devil-Channel: Feet C
Dusk Work C
Edge of the World R
Exile C
Familial Bond C
Guinea-Bissau Carnival R
Hiding in the Open R
Ilomba R
Impundulu R
Invoke Poison Glands C
Ishtarri Warlord R
Jua Vema C
Kuta C
Make an Example R
Mapatano Utando R
Mundane C
My Kin Against the World C
Neebi C
Nkishi R
Pallid C
Powerbase: Luanda R
Reliquary: Trinket C
Remnant of the Endless Storm R
Savannah Runner R
Sense Vibrations R
Supernatural Resistance C
Taking the Skin: Minion R
Taking the Skin: Vulture R
Taming the Beast C
The Bitter and Sweet Story R
Transcendent Laibon R
Tunnel Runner C
Unholy Radiance C
Well-Marked R
