The contents of25th Anniversaryare detailed below. The number before each card is the number of copies of that card in the product.

PRECONSTRUCTED DECK: Reign of Stanislava
Crypt (12 cards)
2 Hartmut Stover
2 Ingrid Rossler
2 Mark Decker
4 Stanislava
2 Xaviar (Adv)

Library (88 cards)
Master:
1 Backways
1 Coven, The
1 Dreams of the Sphinx
1 Ecoterrorists
1 Ennoias Theater
1 Fear of Mekhet
1 Giants Blood
1 Information Highway
1 Monastery of Shadows
1 Pentex(TM) Subversion (NEW ART AND CARD CHANGE, SEE BELOW)
5 Villein
4 Zillahs Valley

Action:
7 Govern the Unaligned

Political Action:
1 Anarchist Uprising
1 Ancient Influence
1 Ancilla Empowerment
2 Banishment
4 Kine Resources Contested
1 Neonate Breach
5 Parity Shift (NEW ART AND CARD CHANGE, SEE BELOW)
1 Permanent Vacation
1 Political Stranglehold
1 Reins of Power

Action Modifier:
1 Beast Meld
1 Foreshadowing Destruction (NEW ART)
4 Earth Control
1 Enkil Cog
3 Forced March
3 Freak Drive (NEW ART)
3 Instantaneous Transformation

Action Modifier/Combat:
2 Rapid Change

Action Modifier/Reaction:
2 Murmur of the False Will

Combat:
6 Earth Meld
6 Form of Mist (NEW ART)

Reaction:
6 Deflection
3 On the Qui Vive
3 Second Tradition: Domain

ADDITIONAL CARDS (20):
1 Alamut
1 Ankara Citadel Turkey, The (CARD CHANGE, SEE BELOW)
1 Black Metamorphosis (CARD CHANGE, SEE BELOW)
1 Camarilla Vite Slave (NEW ART)
1 Entombment
1 Femur of Toomler
1 Form of Corruption
2 Grimgroth (NEW CARD)
1 Hand of Conrad
1 Heidelberg Castle, Germany
1 Homunculus
1 Khobar Towers
1 Legendary Vampire
1 Life Boon
1 Rutors Hand
1 Sargon Fragment, The
1 Signet of King Saul
1 Talbots Chainsaw
1 Una (CARD CHANGE, SEE BELOW)

CARD CHANGES

In the words of Ben Peal, Design DirectorofBlack Chantry Productions:

Hey, Methuselahs!

As were celebrating the 25th anniversary ofVampire: the Eternal Strugglewith the 25th Anniversary set, Id like to address some card changes which Black Chantry Productions has made with the help of the playtest community, as well as give you the reasons for these decisions.

Ill start withPentex Subversion. This card has three main factors:

• It has an effect we like, which is the wall busting effect of denying blocks.
• It has an effect we dont like, which is preventing a vampire from acting. For star vampire deck types, this frequently means an inability to play the game.
• It is played with negligible game interaction (master vs. out-of-turn effect), requiring one of an extremely limited number of cards to defend against it.

Weve chosen to simply remove the cant act portion from Pentex Subversion.We looked at every option and possibility that has come up over the years, such as outright banning the card, leaving it as it is, increasing its cost, splitting it into two cards, having it burn after one turn, and others. By removing the cant act portion, we preserve the cards utility and an effect that has a beneficial effect on the game and we eliminate an effect that is detrimental to the game.

However, this change isnt made in a vacuum and it has very significant ramifications on the games environment. Pentex Subversion has been the card that has singularly held at bay several deck archetypes that have exploited multi-acting to the point of abuse. In particular, were talking about the Una and Gerald Windham multi-action decks which use cost-reducing effects (Unas special and Ankara Citadel) to exploit Freak Drive.

From a pure design perspective, the correct decision would be to make a change to Freak Drive as its a card that directly enables infinite actions. Ideally, Freak Drive would have been a once per turn card since Day One. However, we also had to consider the impact on the games environment by changing Freak Drive. Researching the types of decks that use Freak Drive, very few of them abuse it. Most use 4-8 copies. Decks that use a heavier amount of Freak Drive say, 10-16 copies dont abuse it, either. For that heavier amount, were talking about decks like Ventrue Law Firm, Arika, Gabrin, Dmitra Ilyanova, Montano, Giotto Verducci, and the like. To make a change to Freak Drive would have an undesirable impact on a large amount of decks that players have been using without issue and which have been operating within the bounds of what the player community would consider normal and acceptable gameplay. As such, weve chosen instead to make changes to Una and Ankara Citadel.For Una, her Fortitude cost reducer is now only for combat cards. For Ankara Citadel, the cost reducer no longer applies to action modifiers.

We acknowledge that the changes to Una and Ankara Citadel do not address similar multi-action abuses by archetypes such as Nergal + Eternal Mask, Turbo Baron, and Turbo Aurora. For the time being, were letting those decks exist as-is and well continue to monitor them to see if their impact on the game environment warrants changes.

Up next isParity Shift. Very simply, weve determined that the pool swing early in the game is too large and too disruptive. As such,weve opted to fix the amount to threeso that it remains a significant effect while bringing it more in line with other political action effects.

Lastly, and on a lighter note, weve given+1 stealth to the Black Metamorphosis action.It was about time.