Hi! Black Chantry Productions are proud to announce that another 84 cards has been added to our print-on-demand offer of Vampire: The Eternal StruggleLegacy Singles at Gamepod. Pick and mix freely for €0.48 per card!
This time it is cards of the Malkavian antitribu clan and the Dementation discipline that have been updated to the most recent layout and wording templates.
Cards with functional changes (tournament legal from January 13, 2026): Abandoning the Flesh: The blood hunt (if any) is now canceled. Derange: Now explicitly change the sect to the acting vampire’s. Fabrizia Contreraz: She gets -2 votes also outside referendums. Final Loosening: At [for], the damage is explicitly environmental. Idalia, Prophet of Guadalajara: Unlocking is now optional and happens during the discard phase. Lunatic Eruption: At [dem], the damage is explicitly environmental. Marta: Gaining blood is now optional. Mind of a Killer: At [dem], the damage is explicitly unpreventable and environmental. Shattered Mirror: Now explicitly locks the blocking minion. Voice of Madness: Now ends the action. Walk through Arcadia: The damage is explicitly environmental.
The same cards will appear on Drivethrucards (US printing) soon!
A complete list with all Vampire: The Eternal Struggle Legacy Singles is available separately.
Greetings fellow Kindred! Henrik of Black Chantry here. It is time for another Vampire: The Eternal Struggle roadmap overview. This will echo what our Product Director Ben Peal said in his presentation in Aarhus in October, with some small changes, clarifications and additional details.
First, a quick recap of 2025:
February had the Hecata preconstructed deck, introducing a new clan to the game and expanding support for the Oblivion discipline. In the Vampire: The Masquerade source material, the Hecata is a consolidation of earlier necromancy-themed vampiric lineages, and Oblivion is the discipline that unifies necromantic and shadow- and abyssal-themes under one umbrella (At a very high level in the World of Darkness cosmology, it’s about the unification of the Shadowlands and the Abyss.)
In May, we published the New Blood packs for Hecata and Lasombra, expanding their playable card pool and adding further Oblivion support.
In the summer, we started previewing the four Sabbat preconstructed decks: Path of Caine, Path of Cathari, Path of Death and the Soul and Path of Power and the Inner Voice. A prerelease tournament was also organised at the North American Championship in June. We thought they could be launched a bit earlier than what we did, but in the end, it became an October release. The Sabbat release was a major structural change: Sabbat support is no longer organized around clans as the primary identity, but around Paths.
Parallel to all this, both legacy reprints and other stuff was made available on print-on-demand, in Europe on Gamepod and in the US on Drivethrucards. The pace of this has been lowered a bit in order to dedicate efforts to various other things, including new products, translations and a new reporting system for organised play.
2026 Product Roadmap
February 2026: New Blood Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce These have actually been ready for printing for a long time but had to wait first because Oblivion needed more cards urgently and then because of print window timing and storage space constraints. These packs broaden the deck types you can play for each of these clans; Ravnos go for more equipment, combat and defense, Salubri get more melee combat oriented, and Tzimisce gets a heavy ghoul-ally approach.
2026: Sabbat Legacy cards for print-on-demand Now with the release of the Path-themed Sabbat precons out in the wild, the plan is to increase print-on-demand access to older Sabbat-related cards. This rollout is wave-based, moving through groups in sequence, with first Malkavian antitribu and the Dementation discipline, then other antitribu clans and after that the Sabbat bloodlines like the Harbingers of Skulls and Blood Brothers.
Art previews by Anastasiia Horbunova (two to the left) and one by Krzysztof Bieniawski (right).
April/May 2026: Storyline-style fixed bundles Two fixed-content products are targeted for Q2 2026; a Brazil-themed pack and a New York-themed pack. Each is a 54-card fixed bundle in the same general product style as Fall of London, including both crypt and library additions – roughly 19–20 new crypt cards, roughly 13 new library cards. No single clan theme is emphasized in these; instead, the intent is broad utility across the game. The New York set covers the characters and themes from the interactive fiction games Coteries of New York, Shadows of New York, and Reckoning of New York. Some of the cards in the Brazil-themed pack include memorial portraits honouring Brazilian community members who passed away during COVID-19.
Q3 2026: Two-player product A two-player product is in testing – feel free to join the open playtesting at VEKN.net. It is intended as a lower-cost entry point than the five-player set, good for a better convention or store demos. The theme is Camarilla-focused, as we need a stronger Camarilla identity support after the Sabbat decks.
Q4 2026: Sabbat New Blood decks A further 2026 target is New Blood decks aligned to the four Sabbat Paths. These decks will include additional Sabbat-related cards that was not part of the initial Sabbat product wave.
2026, sometime: New Anthology and other items Several other items are in the works for 2026:
A new Anthology set with legacy reprints and additional content
A replacement for Baba Yaga named Gorgo, necessary due to canon constraints around Russia-related mythos (Check out Ginés Quiñoneros preview art above!)
Some kind of Oblivion converter cards or rules to help older Necromancy and Obtenebration legacy vampires access Oblivion cards – the first implementation attempts failed in playtesting and require redesign
2027 and beyond: Design priorities
Post-foundation support and archetype revitalization Once the Path-based Sabbat New Blood cycle is complete, the roadmap shifts to strengthening the broader environment:
Identifying older deck archetypes that have fallen off competitively and supporting them with new options
Improving Camarilla identity (beyond a small number of commonly played Traditions), so the sect feels as distinctive as Anarch and Sabbat
Making Blood Sorcery feel more cohesive and “ritual magic” themed rather than only a mechanical discipline package
Eventually tackling Thin-Bloods
What is not planned (given current canon constraints)
The talk lists several areas as off the table unless the licensor White Wolf first develops them further in the modern setting:
Laibon
Imbued
Several bloodlines and legacy concepts, including Ahrimanes, Gargoyles and Kiasyd
Daughters of Cacophony, who are canonically ambiguous in current source material
Baali have been reintroduced in a substantially changed form, so any future implementation would need a very different approach
We would like to once again thank event organizers, judges, artists, playtesters and coordinators, and the global player community. While being a niche game, VTES continues to grow, with strong local communities all over the world. The official player organisation VEKN reports +461 active players compared to 2024! Increased streaming of games and online discussion is also encouraging signs for the game’s momentum.
Who is this white-bearded man visiting in the middle of the night? Is it Santa Claus coming with gifts to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle players that have been nice?! NO, it´s a dangerous Salubri vampire out to kick ass! Paolo Puggioni made this fantastic new artwork for the card Sight Beyond Sight, re-published in the upcoming New Blood Salubri pack.
Note: This card re-introduces the burn option rule to the game, and introduces it to the V5 tournament format. The rule is: Some cards have a burn option icon. This icon means that a Methuselah who does not control a minion who meets the requirements of this card or who is a legal target for it, may discard it during ANY Methuselah’s unlock phase and replace it. Each Methuselah is limited to one such discard each unlock phase.
The official release date of New Blood Ravnos, Salubri and Tzimisce are February 28, 2026. This is also the official legality date for using new cards from these packs in VEKN sanctioned tournaments.
The full content lists are available on the Blackchantry.com product pages, as are all previews so far.
This is a short announcement about two cards. A full announcement about Vampire: The Eternal Struggle cards and rules on the watchlist will be published towards the end of the year. No changes are expected for cards that are currently banned.
Life Boon The card Life Boon joins the watchlist.
Why? This card is very 1994 with its design as it breaks one of the fundamental rules of the game, the Predator-Prey relationship. It has similarities with Kindred Restructure and Dramatic Upheaval.
What next? The card is under watch and the Design and Rules teams will continue listening to feedback on Life Boon. An update in this matter is expected in May 2026.
Veil of Darkness The card Veil of Darkness joins the watchlist and is expected to be banned from organised play.
Why? The card provides a limited effect, and it is problematic to handle at the table with a large amount of rollback issues on tables despite its limited use. It was created based on the old Gehenna End Times storyline, so it is difficult to change in the current storyline.
What next? The card will not be banned before May 2026. The Design and Rules teams will continue listening to feedback, but it is not expected that any errata would be viable for Veil of Darkness.
Hi! Ever since we started Black Chantry Productions, we have aimed to support local game stores, and so should you. Yep, this is important even if you find what you want a bit cheaper somewhere on the interwebs. These stores really help to show that Vampire: The Eternal Struggle exists just by having the game on the shelf, close to you and close to potential new players. Some of them also have tables for you to play at!
This weekend Fantasiapelit in Finland celebrates 40 years. They have sold Vampire: The Eternal Struggle products since the game was first released in 1994, possibly making them the longest-running retailer of the game in the world. We want to thank them for this and wish them many more successful years to come. Happy birthday, Fantasiapelit!
The art above by Mitch Mueller is a preview from the card Black Market Cache. It will appear in the New Blood Ravnos pack, in stores early next year. Check out the product page for the actual card and more previews!
