{% extends "archetypes/_layout.html" %} {% import "archetypes/_layout-erratum.html" as erratum with context %} {% import "archetypes/black-hand.json" as deck_json %} {% block meta %} {% endblock %} {% block archetype_name %}

Black Hand

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Highlights

This is a stealth & bleed deck using {{ card("Reunion Kamut") }} and {{ card("Recruitment Exercise") }} to get more vampires out fast and cheap. Bleed is done using {{ card("Loss") }}, with o modifiers for stealth.

Black Hand Seraphs have acces to the {{ link("/strategy/fundamentals", _("A&B"), _anchor="AB") }} enhancers {{ card("Tattoo Signal") }} and {{ card("Seraph's Second") }}, allowing the same vampire to run both bloat and bleed actions in a single turn.

{{ card("Watchtower: The Wolves Feed") }} hits the table at some point to improve bleed power, after an innocuous Gehenna card like {{ card("Break the Code") }} has been played.

Tips & Tricks

{{ card("The Art of Memory") }} is a versatile modifier and provides a bit of recursion. It can be used to get a {{ card("Loss") }}, {{ card("Seraph's Second") }} or {{ card("Reunion Kamut") }} back, depending on the hand. The second

{{ card("Blood Awakening") }} can be used to improve stealth or to intercept a key action, depending on the context.

The deck should avoid combat until {{ card("Watchtower: The Wolves Feed") }} hits the table, as it has nothing else to help combat.

{{ card("The Fourth Cycle") }} is used as a last resort safety line to avoid dying from {{ card("Watchtower: The Wolves Feed") }} if too many Gehenna cards hit the table.

Variants

The Assamite version as given in example is the most common. {{ card("Truth in Ink") }} can be added along some wakes for bleed defence and {{ card("No Trace") }} for combat ends.

A common variation uses a mid capacity multi-clan Black Hand crypt with d. It looses the o stealth but can be more toolboxy and even include a decent combat module. {{ link("/deck-search", _("Mark Loughman's deck"), twda_id="2018ot2co") }} from 2018 is a recent example.

{{ card("Elimelech the Twice Damned") }} can be the star of a similar construct using A and even E atop o. It looses the access to {{ card("Loss") }} but gets bounces with A and can even get {{ card("Kindred Spirits") }} if E is present enough in the crypt. {{ link("/deck-search", _("Carlo Daniele's deck"), twda_id="2019nbbi") }} from 2019 is a recent example.

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Errata

{{ erratum.pentextmsubversion( 'undecided' ) }}
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