We are currently playing a season of the Ithaca
Starter Deck League using rules adapted from the VP Starter Deck
League rules that are floating around on the web. Check out the
league rules here:
I'm Peter D Bakija, and I've decided to host this here V:TES web page, mostly to archive all my Nosferatu Strategy Newsletters, but to also occasionally post tournament reports and what-not. If nothing else, it lets the world know that we have a good V:TES community in Ithaca, NY.
I set up a listserve to keep Western NY VTES players in contact, and kind of keeps players in Ithaca, Binghamton, Syracuse, and various other nearby locatons in touch, mostly by announcing events--we hold fairly regular constructed tournaments every few months, the occasional booster draft event, and the annual VTES Orgy of Mystery around October. It is a pretty low traffic listserve. If you want to check it out or join, go to:
As we have a good supply of pretty good V:TES players in Ithaca, I figure I might as well make a local deck archive, featuring decks from various players from Ithaca and the local environs:
We are currently playing a season of the Ithaca
Starter Deck League using rules adapted from the VP Starter Deck
League rules that are floating around on the web. Check out the
league rules here:
Ithaca recently held a Create-A-Clan tournament. I'm archiving the crazy home made crypt and library cards here:
Just 'cause it seems like a good idea, and 'cause otherwise, I'll lose track of it, here is a list of the chances of drawing a particular vampire in your initial crypt draw, based on how many you have in your crypt:
I also maintain a FAQ for the VTES newsgroup, rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad. The FAQ can be found here.
I'm the official organizer of the VEKN VTES clan newsletters, and along with publishing my own monthly newsletter, I coordinate the efforts of the other Newsletter writers.
The Nosferatu (you know--the creepy, bald, pointy eared guys from, say, either version of Nosferatu. Think Klaus Kinski with blue makeup on) were the vampires of choice, in my book, so I write strategy newsletters all about them. Here they are:
Nosferatu Newsletter 1: Basic Strategies.
Nosferatu Newsletter 2: Deck--Dr. Doomlittle.
Nosferatu Newsletter 3: Basic Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 4: Deck-Sheldon Rush Combat.
Nosferatu Newsletter 5: Nosferatu Specific Masters.
Nosferatu Newsletter 6: Deck-Weenie Nosferatu Rush.
Nosferatu Newsletter 7: Expansion Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 8: Deck-Political Pool Gain.
Nosferatu Newsletter 9: Potence and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 10: Sabbat Vampires.
Nosferatu Newsletter 11: All Diablere Special!
Nosferatu Newsletter 12: Deck-Joanie Loves Chachi.
Nosferatu Newsletter 13: Obfuscate and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 14: Deck-Tiberius has a Home!
Nosferatu Newsletter 15: Deck-6 Sheldons, One Deck.
Nosferatu Newsletter 16: Animalism and the Nosferatu.
Nosferatu Newsletter 17: Hey, hey, It's Marty Lechtansi.
Nosferatu Newsletter 18: Poor Little Daliyah.
Nosferatu Newsletter 19: Ymmm. Selma the Repugnant.
Nosferatu Newsletter 20: Judah, Judah, Judah.
Nosferatu Newsletter 21: It's KoKo. He Looks Really Angry.
Nosferatu Newsletter 22: Look! New Vampires!
Nosferatu Newsletter 23: Deck-Courier Discard
Nosferatu Newsletter 24: Deck-Disguised Weapons!
Nosferatu Newsletter 25: Deck-Beast-a-mania!
Nosferatu Newsletter 26: Deck-Nosferatu Politics
Nosferatu Newsletter 27: Deck-Fortitude Stealth and Bleed
Nosferatu Newsletter 28: Deck-Dr. Doomlittle Redux
Nosferatu Newsletter 29: Bloodlines and the Nosferatu: Any Good?
Nosferatu Newsletter 30: The Nosferatu and Samedi Bloodlines deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 31: More Bloodlines Reviews
Nosferatu Newsletter 32: Deck-Nosferatu backed Weenie Bleed
Nosferatu Newsletter 33: The Camarilla Pre-Constructed Deck
Nosferatu Newsletter 34: Tier 3 Nosferatu!
Nosferatu Newsletter 35: Deck-Tier 3 Nosferatu Parity Shift!
Nosferatu Newsletter 36: Deck: We Got Flight!
Nosferau Newsletter 37: Nosferatu and the Anarchs!
Nosferatu Newsletter 38: It's the Samedi!
Nosferatu Newsletter 39: Coolers, Coolers, Coolers!
Nosferatu Newsletter 40: Anti-Nosferatu Pre Con Deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 41: Black Hand Vampires!
Nosferatu Newsletter 42: Deck: Cailean and Tock!
Nosferatu Newsletter 43: Deck: Ingram and The Black Hand!
Nosferatu Newsletter 44: Gehenna Vampires!
Nosferatu Newsletter 45: Gehenna Cards!
Nosferatu Newsletter 46: Tenth Anniversary Set!
Nosferatu Newsletter 47: Tock Strikes back!
Nosferatu Newsletter 48: I Am An Anarchist!
Nosferatu Newsletter 49: Insurance Scam!
Nosferatu Newsletter 50!!!!!!: Kindred Most Wanted!
Nosferatu Newsletter 51: Animalism Horde Deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 52: Ghouled Couriers!
Nosferatu Newsletter 53: Deck: Marty Lechtansi Returns!
Nosferatu Newsletter 54: Legacies of Blood!
Nosferatu Newsletter 55: More Legacies of Blood!
Nosferatu Newsletter 56: Feline Saboteur Deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 57: Rabbat and the Imbued Deck!
Nosferatu Newsletter 58: Nosferatu Anarchs!
Noseratu Newsletter 59: 3rd Edition Vampires!
Nosferatu Newsletter 60 (!!!!!!): Raphael Catarari Deck!
The Ithaca Jyhad meets, pretty much, every Friday night at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. We play lots of stuff (VTES, Shadowfist, SFB, Titan, Bridge, etc.), but are always looking for more VTES players--drop me a line if you want to come by for a game!