rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad

What is the best booster box to buy?

13 messages from 11 participants · 20 February 2003 – 21 February 2003
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jimmyz

Im getting ready to buy a booster box to go with my VTES cards. Which of the boosters is the most effective for kickin butt? Sabatt? Ancient Hearts? Bloodlines? Dark Sovereign? Camarilla? ??? Im still kickin with my OLD Jyhad cards... but im ready to move on.. : ) zimmy

Kevin M.

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com... > Im getting ready to buy a booster box to > go with my VTES cards. > Which of the boosters is the most effective > for kickin butt? > > Sabatt? > Ancient Hearts? > Bloodlines? > Dark Sovereign? > Camarilla? > ??? There are 2 important questions that I need to ask before I can give you an informed answer: 1. How many cards do you have? 2. What are your favorite clans? > > zimmy Kevin M., Prince of Henderson, NV (USA) "Know your enemy, and know yourself; in one-thousand battles you shall never be in peril." -- Sun Tzu, *The Art of War* "Contentment... Complacency... Catastrophe!" -- Joseph Chevalier

reyda

jimmyz wrote: > Im getting ready to buy a booster box to > go with my VTES cards. > Which of the boosters is the most effective > for kickin butt? > > Sabatt? > Ancient Hearts? > Bloodlines? > Dark Sovereign? > Camarilla? buy Sabbat War ! =) more combat, stronger vampires, cards with never before seen effect (Eternal Vigilance, Direct Intervention, superior mettle) and more combat, yeah =) reyda

Michael Buckley

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com... [ quoted text not captured ] Well, is price an issue? You can get Camarilla, Bloodlines and Sabbat War for $61 each, or maybe less if you get lucky on Ebay. But, Sabbat boxes aren't that easy to come by so don't expect to find one. If you do, they are around $300 I think. You can usually find Ancient Hearts boxes for $60-80 on Ebay and Dark Sovereigns go for $20-30. If you are just playing with Jyhad right now, I'd get a box of Sabbat War. Don't forget about Final Nights though. Instead of hunting down a box of Ancient Hearts and DS, you could just get a box of Final Nights for $60 and it reprints most of the good cards from those sets. Mike

Orpheus

[ quoted text not captured ] Did you mention more combat ? ;-) Did you receive my cards ? Did you send yours ? Do you like to watch gladiators movies ? Orpheus > >

hamdamcwa

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com>... [ quoted text not captured ] Tricky. I'm assuming (probably incorrectly) that you are interested in combat decks ("kickin butt"). The below is still kind of true for all kinds of decks, though. Camarilla has the most potent combat cards as uncommons (torn signpost, Immortal Grapple, new style Thaumaturgy cards) but is much the same as Jyhad with no Gangrel in. The Brujah precon has Disarm in - one of the best combat cards card you can get. Bloodlines is a superb set, but not worth getting unless you want to invest quite heavily since it covers a lots of ground in a small expansion. Well worth it, though. Final Nights is really good... if you want to get into one of 4 clans (Giovanni, Setite, Assamite, Ravnos). It does have some good clan specific and generic cards in, but the real benefit is in the starters which have some good rares in. Sabbat War is a great combat orientated set. The vampires are solid, the cards are great, and it is a highly recommended set all round. Sabbat is marginally better than Sabbat War because it gives access to the amazing Jimmy Dunn and has many more Blood Dolls. Also, it has some great generic cards (computer hacking in particular). However, unless you are very loaded, you are unlikely to get hold of much of this set. "Gold dust" only partially covers how hard it is to get hold of this set. Sabbat War is about as good and easily availible. Ancient Hearts is a very pretty, if slightly dated set. The cards are not great (since they have nearly all been reprinted in Final Nights) and the only interesting element is that it gives access to vampires you will only get in the Final Nights precons. Also getting quite hard to get hold of. Dark Soverigns sucks ass. The cards are very bad on the whole, and only the vampires are worth getting hold of - again reprinted in the Camerilla edition. Cheap as chips for a very good reason. DH

XZealot

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com... [ quoted text not captured ] I would have to say that Camrilla or Sabbat War is going to have the best crossover with your current collection. -- Comments Welcome, Norman S. Brown, Jr. XZealot Archon of the Swamp

Miller Delmardigan

"Orpheus" <orph...@free.fr> a écrit dans le message news: 3e54d232$0$7886$626a...@news.free.fr... [ quoted text not captured ] LOL !!!! =) -- Óiche mhaith Miller Delmardigan, Sabbat Priscus http://sabbainfrance.free.fr/en > > Orpheus > > > > > > > > >

jimmyz

i have a foot tall stack of VTES cards...but have been playing Jyhad to be compatible with friends for antes...... i prefer Malkavians but i can work with whatever...... i like obfuscate and Dominate "Kevin M." <you...@imaspammer.org> wrote in message news:4x05a.11964$Hb.2...@news1.west.cox.net... [ quoted text not captured ]

Daz

"Michael Buckley" <mykbu...@prodigy.net> wrote in message news:<v59keon...@corp.supernews.com>... > -snip- > If you are just playing with Jyhad right now, I'd get a box of Sabbat War. > Don't forget about Final Nights though. Instead of hunting down a box of > Ancient Hearts and DS, you could just get a box of Final Nights for $60 and > it reprints most of the good cards from those sets. > > Mike Somehow I always thought that Final Nights boosters didn´t have any reprints, just the starters.

Talonz

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:<v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com>... > Im getting ready to buy a booster box to > go with my VTES cards. > Which of the boosters is the most effective > for kickin butt? > > Sabatt? > Ancient Hearts? > Bloodlines? > Dark Sovereign? > Camarilla? > ??? > It depends very much....is price a issue? Do you want to complement your existing camarilla cards or start into new clans and sects? Are you able or interested in getting more than 1 box? Based on that, I would recomend the following; 1)Dark Sovereigns I still like this set because it really fleshes out the cam clans and gives you the inner circle vamps. Its also cheap, and what may seem to be wallpaper cards have recently been upgraded or erratted to be more useful. So for a single, cheap, cam box I would recomend this first. 2)Final Nights/Sabaat War These 2 boxes are the strongest boxes for independent/Sabaat clans without costing you an arm and a leg. Either one would be great for gettting into new clans and sects. 3)Sabaat A very sought after set as it has some cards that are just so wicked and long out of print. A good way to get into sabaat and get some unique cards but it will be COSTLY. Therefore not recomended unless price is no issue. X)Ancient Hearts/Bloodlines/Camarilla These 3 are not recomended for you as final nights is superior to AH, Bloodlines is extremely tricky to play, and Camarilla reprints alot of stuff you already have and adds no vamps you can use with your current vamps. Hope that helps, have fun getting that box! T

LSJ

Daz wrote: > Somehow I always thought that Final Nights boosters didn´t have any > reprints, just the starters. Correct. http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/Checklist_FinalNights.html -- LSJ (vte...@white-wolf.com) V:TES Net.Rep for White Wolf, Inc. Links to V:TES news, rules, cards, utilities, and tournament calendar: http://www.white-wolf.com/vtes/

Kevin M.

"jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:v59udpr...@corp.supernews.com... > "Kevin M." <you...@imaspammer.org> wrote in message > news:4x05a.11964$Hb.2...@news1.west.cox.net... > > > > "jimmyz" <zimm...@hotmail.com> wrote in message > > news:v58klfd...@corp.supernews.com... > > > Im getting ready to buy a booster box to > > > go with my VTES cards. > > > Which of the boosters is the most effective > > > for kickin butt? > > > > > > Sabatt? > > > Ancient Hearts? > > > Bloodlines? > > > Dark Sovereign? > > > Camarilla? > > > ??? > > > > There are 2 important questions that I need to ask before I can give you > > an informed answer: > > 1. How many cards do you have? > > 2. What are your favorite clans? > > i have a foot tall stack of VTES cards...but have been playing Jyhad > to be compatible with friends for antes...... > i prefer Malkavians but i can work with whatever...... > i like obfuscate and Dominate It sounds like you'd be happiest buying two or three boxes of CE boosters, as they have serious amounts of Malkavian and Obfuscate stuff. The CE Malkavian starters aren't as popular as the other CE starters, so you may be able to buy 2-3 Malk starters without buying a box of CE starters. Hell, I have 3 CE Malkavian starters that I'll sell to you for cheap. I'll send you an email. :) You might want to get ONE box of Dark Sovereigns, but don't pay more than $25 for it. All the DS Malks are reprinted in CE, but for $25, a single box of DS will make you (and anyone else, IMHO) pretty happy. -- [ quoted text not captured ]