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Jyhad pits rival vampires against each other in a struggle for control over the sinister World of DarknessTM. You are an ancient Methuselah using political manipulation and force to dominate other vampires and drain your opponents' blood pool. Join the Jyhad, where blood is your weakness... and your ultimate weapon.
The limited edition of the base set of Vampire: The Eternal Struggle was released under a different name: Jyhad. The Jyhad edition cards are compatible with the V:TES cards, although they have different designs on the backs of their cards. The set consists of 437 cards. Some cards in the Jyhad edition (Camille Devereux, Chainsaw, Concealed Weapon, Monocle of Clarity, Movement of the Slow Body, Rotschreck, and Rowan Ring) were not printed in the unlimited (V:TES) edition.
Players use two decks in a game. The first deck, called the crypt, consists entirely of vampires (at least twelve of them). The second deck (the Library) is limited to forty cards plus ten additional cards for every player in the game. One nice feature of Jyhad is that whenever you play a card, you immediately draw from your library to replace it. This rapid infusion of new cards to your hand keeps the game lively. Often you'll find yourself using a card you don't really need to play in the hope of drawing something better to replace it.
Everyone begins the game with a "blood pool" of 30 life points and deals the top four cards from their crypt face-down in front of them. These are the player's uncontrolled vampires. During your turn, you may transfer up to four blood counters from your pool to these uncontrolled vampires. Each vampire has a blood capacity ranging from one to ten. When that number of blood counters accumulates on the vampire, it becomes active and is turned face up. Note that in order to activate a vampire and bring it into play, you've got to sacrifice your own blood-- so every transfer must be carefully considered. In Jyhad, players invariably do more damage to themselves than their opponents do to them!
There are two types of library cards. Master cards, with grey borders, may be played only once per turn. Minion cards are played by a player's vampires and other controlled creatures (known collectively as minions). These range from equipment which enhances a minion's combat abilities to direct attacks against other minions or players.
Minions and Master cards tend to be "permanent"-- that is, they stay in the game once played. Most other cards are discarded when played. When a minion acts or a permanent card's ability is used, that card is "tapped" by turning it on its side. A tapped card can't be used again until it is untapped at the start of the owning player's next turn.
Each vampire is unique, and only one of each vampire may be in play at a time. If a second vampire with the same name appears, both are "contested" and are turned face down. Players with contested cards lose blood each turn until someone yields by discarding the contested card, allowing the other card to be turned face up and used again. This doesn't seem to happen often in practice.
The player to your left is your prey, while the one to the right is your predator. If your prey dies, you get a victory point. The last player left in the game also gets a point, and whoever has the most victory points is the winner. The most common way of damaging your prey is by having your vampires "bleed" him. Any number of your untapped vampires can attempt this on your turn, and any of your prey's untapped minions can try to block. Cards can be played to help make your bleeding vampire stealthier (harder to block), but your prey can counter by boosting his minion's ability to intercept and block. If the bleeding vampire gets through, its victim loses a blood. If the vampire is blocked, combat ensues.
By default, combat occurs at close range and vampires do 1 point of damage to each other. Cards can change that, moving combat to long range (thus preventing damage by all except ranged strikes) or inflicting more damage. One counter is removed from a vampire for each point of damage it receives. If it takes more damage than it has counters, it goes to "torpor" and must be rescued by another vampire before it can act again. Combat normally lasts for only one round, but some cards allow a player to extend combat.
Most actions taken by minions can be blocked by other players' minions if the blocker has enough intercept to do so. Whenever a block succeeds, the blocker is tapped and the acting and blocking minion enter combat. Regardless of the outcome of combat, the blocked action fails. Unlike Magic, where all creatures attack at once, minions in Jyhad act one at a time.
Jyhad can be played with just two people, but it was really designed for more. The political action cards take particular advantage of this aspect of Jyhad's design. These minion cards offer a scenario, such as "Propose a new seating order," leaving it up to the player to fill in the specifics. A vote ensues. Each player gets one vote. The issuer of the proposal gets an extra vote. Some vampires give their owners up to three additional votes, and any player can burn a political action card from their hand to cast a vote. If the proposal receives a majority of votes, its effects are carried out. Since these effects can be quite dramatic, making sure you've got clout in elections can be crucial.
Although wounded vampires can regain one blood each turn by tapping and "hunting," it is extremely difficult to replenish lost blood to your blood pool. This makes every drop of blood precious. The balance between spending blood to bring vampires into play and keeping enough to survive attacks from your predator is a delicate one.
The most prevalent way of gaining blood is via possession of The Edge. The Edge is a special counter or token (it can be anything you have handy, like a hat or a book) which starts the game unowned. Whenever a player successfully bleeds his prey, he gets The Edge. If you have The Edge at the start of your turn, you may add a point of blood to your pool. The Edge tends to bounce from player to player, with players conspiring to take it away so that the current holder doesn't benefit from it at the start of her next turn. The Edge can also be surrendered in exchange for an additional vote during political actions. Handy in emergencies, or if you think you're going to lose it before your next turn anyway.
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