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Labyrinth, The
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 1
Required Clan: Nosferatu
Master: unique location.
Tap to give a Nosferatu you control +1 stealth for the current action.
But in vague ways, I most insanely yearn
To meet some lean, dwarfed, fetid, hairy thing
With loathsome skin and bulging eyes of rheum...
Francis Saltus, "A Courtesan's Whim"

Artist: Pete Venters; Mark Nelson
Jyhad:U VTES:U CE:U KoT:U

Lam Into
Type: Combat
Discipline: Fortitude/Potence/Vicissitude
Requires an anarch. Do not replace until after combat. Strike: hand strike or use a melee weapon strike.
[for] This strike is at +1 damage, with an optional maneuver.
[pot] This strike is at +2 damage.
[vic] This strike is at +1 damage, with an optional press. If another round of combat occurs, range is automatically close.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
TR:C

Lapse
Type: Combat
Blood Cost: 2
Discipline: Temporis/Potence
Only usable before range is determined.
[pot] This vampire gets +2 strength this round.
[tem] The opposing minion cannot maneuver this round.
[TEM] The opposing minion cannot strike during the initial strike phase this round (other strike resolution effects are not affected).
Artist: Leif Jones
BL:C2 LoB:C

Laptop Computer
Type: Equipment
Pool Cost: 1
Electronic equipment.
The minion with this equipment gets +1 bleed. A minion may have only 1 Laptop Computer.
Artist: Darryl Elliott; Brian Snoddy
Jyhad:C VTES:C Sabbat:C SW:PB/PL2/PT FN:PR CE:C Anarchs:PAG2/PG BH:PN LoB:PA

Last Stand
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 6
Unique master.
Put this card in play. When any other Methuselah is ousted, the current turn ends, and this card is burned. The predator of the ousted Methuselah (if more than one was ousted, go clockwise from the left of the Methuselah whose turn just ended) takes the next turn.
There may come a day when I'll dance on your grave / Unable to dance I'll still crawl across it
The Grateful Dead, "Hell in a Bucket."

Artist: Peter Bergting
BH:R

Lay Low
Type: Action Modifier/Combat
Blood Cost: 1
Requires an anarch.
Only usable when a blood hunt referendum passes and would burn this anarch. Move this anarch to the uncontrolled region (breaking any temporary control effects). Any cards and counters on this vampire remain with him or her (but are out of play as long as the vampire remains uncontrolled).
Artist: Efrem Palacios
Promo-20081119

Lazarene Inquisitor
Type: Master
Required Clan: Harbinger of Skulls
Burn Option
Unique master.
Put this card on a ready Harbinger of Skulls you control. The Harbinger of Skulls with this card can burn up to 2 blood from a ready vampire as a +1 stealth (D) action. Any Sabbat vampire can burn this card as a (D) action.
This sadistic Inquisitor comes in and they all scurry to the shadows. It'll take months to get Quira settled down again. But try to correct him, and you're likely to face auto-da-fé yourself.
Lachlan, Archbishop of Chicago

Artist: Christopher Shy
BL:R1 LoB:R

Leadership Vacuum
Type: Master
Master: out-of-turn. Unique.
Only usable when a ready titled vampire controlled by another Methuselah is burned or sent to torpor. Usable during your turn. Put this card in play and put X counters on this card where X is the number of votes that vampire has. That Methuselah burns X pool during each of his or her untap phases. During his or her untap phase, if he or she controls a ready vampire with a capacity of 8 or more or with a title, burn this card.
Artist: Christopher Shy
Gehenna:R KoT:R

Lead Fist
Type: Combat
Discipline: Visceratika/Thaumaturgy
[tha] Strike: hand strike at +1 damage.
[vis] As [tha] above, and once this round this vampire can burn a blood to get a press, only usable to continue combat.
[VIS] As [vis] above, but at +2 damage.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
HttB:C/PGar2

Leapfrog
Type: Combat
Discipline: Spiritus/Obfuscate
[obf] Maneuver, only usable to go to long range.
[spi] Maneuver.
[SPI] Strike: combat ends.
Artist: Josh Timbrook
LoB:C

Learjet
Type: Equipment
Pool Cost: 1
Vehicle.
Each time you draw to replace a card this minion played as an acting minion, you may draw an additional card (discard afterward). A minion may have only one vehicle.
Pieterzoon's got a plane waiting, or if you've arranged one I can get you there, but we gotta go now.
Theo Bell, Brujah archon

Artist: John Bridges
KMW:C KoT:PM2

Leathery Hide
Type: Combat
Required Clan: Gangrel antitribu
A vampire may play only one Leathery Hide each round.
Prevent four non-aggravated damage from the opposing minion's strike.
Artist: Richard Thomas
KMW:C/PG3

Leather Jacket
Type: Equipment
Equipment.
If the action to equip with the Leather Jacket is successful, untap the acting minion at the end of the turn. Bearer may burn Leather Jacket to prevent all the damage from the opposing minion's strike. A minion may have only one Leather Jacket.
Artist: Tim Bradstreet & Grant Goleash; T. Bradstreet & G. Goleash
Sabbat:C SW:C/PB/PT/PV FN:PS CE:PTo/PTr BH:PN Third:C/PB2/PM2

Leech
Type: Action
Requires a ready mortal, ghoul, or mage.
(D) Steal a blood (it becomes a life) from a vampire controlled by another Methuselah and untap this ally. Burn any conviction [1 CONVICTION] cards on this ally. This ally may play cards requiring Potence [pot] as a vampire until his or her next untap phase.
Artist: Marian Churchland
KoT:U

Left for Dead
Type: Master
Master: out-of-turn.
Only usable when an ally would be burned in combat. Combat ends. Put this card on that ally; that ally is not burned. Put 1 life on the ally from the blood bank if he or she has no life. Tap the ally. This ally does not untap as normal. If he or she enters combat, he or she is burned. Burn this card during his or her next untap phase.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
FN:R2 Third:R

Legacy of Caine
Type: Master
Master.
Put this card on a vampire with a capacity above 6 controlled by another Methuselah. This vampire cannot hunt as normal. He or she may hunt by stealing 1 blood from another vampire as a (D) action.
Artist: Harold Arthur McNeill
Sabbat:R SW:R/PL Third:R

Legacy of Pander
Type: Political Action
Requires a Sabbat vampire.
If this referendum is successful, put this card in play. Each non-titled Pander has 1 vote. Any Sabbat vampire may call a referendum to burn this card as a +1 stealth political action.
Artist: Dave Seeley
Sabbat:R SW:R

Legacy of Power
Type: Reaction
Blood Cost: 3
Requires a ready prince, justicar or Inner Circle member.
Only usable when another vampire you control enters combat. Tap this reacting vampire and end combat. Each of the vampires involved in that combat goes to torpor.
Artist: Steve Casper
DS:U Tenth:B

Legal Manipulations
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Presence
[pre] (D) Bleed with +2 bleed.
[PRE] As above, and gain 1 pool if the bleed is successful (for 1 or more).
Believe me... if there's one thing I cannot abide, it's deceitfulness.
Christopher Hampton, Dangerous Liaisons, act I, scene 5

Artist: Stuart Beel
Jyhad:C VTES:C SW:PB2 CE:C/PB BH:PTo2 KMW:PB5 LoB:PI3

Legendary Vampire
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 2
Unique master.
Put this card on a vampire with a capacity above 6 who was moved into your ready region during your last influence phase. This vampire gets +2 bleed and an additional 2 votes. Any vampire may call a referendum to burn this card as a +1 stealth political action.
Artist: Pete Venters
DS:U2 FN:PA LoB:PG

Legend of the Leopard
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 1
Required Clan: Osebo
+1 stealth action.
(D) Inflict 1 damage on a vampire controlled by your predator or prey or take control of an ally controlled by your predator or prey.
The leopard's coat is beautiful, but his heart is evil.
Baluba proverb

Artist: Glenn Osterberger
LoB:C

Legion
Type: Action
Requires a ready vampire with capacity above 7. +1 stealth action.
Put this card on this acting vampire. This non-Sterile vampire can put a Master Discipline card from your hand or ash heap in play to represent a fledgling with 1 level of that Discipline and discard the rest of your hand as a +2 stealth action. The fledgling is a 1-capacity, non-unique vampire of the same clan as this vampire. The fledgling cannot act or block or play cards if this vampire is not ready.
Artist: Leif Jones
Promo-20030901

Legwork
Type: Reaction
Blood Cost: 1
Do not replace until your next untap phase.
+1 intercept. Not usable by a vampire with more than 0 intercept.
Artist: Andrew Bates
BH:C Third:C

Leonardo, Mortician
Type: Ally
Pool Cost: 1
Required Clan: Giovanni
Unique mortal with 2 life. 1 strength, 0 bleed.
Leonardo may move 1 blood from the blood bank to any ready vampire as a +1 stealth action.
Unnoticed in the house
Of Hades, too, you'll wander
Flittering after faded corpses.
Sappho

Artist: Drew Tucker
DS:U2 FN:PG

Lesser Boon
Type: Master
Master: out-of-turn. Boon.
Only usable when a minion you control successfully blocks. The action resolves as if unblocked. Put this card on the acting minion. This minion cannot block your minions. Burn this card if you block this minion again, or when this minion's controller has less than 6 pool.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
LotN:R

Lessons in the Steel
Type: Combat
Disciplines: Auspex & Fortitude
[aus][for] Only usable when damage is successfully inflicted on this vampire. Look at the opposing minion's controller's hand, and this vampire gets an optional press this round. A vampire can play only one Lessons in the Steel each round.
[AUS][FOR] As above, and that Methuselah discards a card of your choice.
Knowledge by suffering entereth, / And life is perfected by death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, A Vision of Poets. Conclusion.

Artist: Jeff Holt
BH:R

Letter from Vienna
Type: Master
Master.
Tap all ready Tremere.
The rulers of the Tremere clan, the Circle of Seven, reside in their chantry in Vienna. All Tremere obey the decrees of the Circle of Seven without question.
Artist: Amy Weber
Jyhad:U VTES:U

Leverage
Type: Action Modifier
Burn the Edge to get +1 bleed for this action. You cannot gain the Edge this action. If you would get the Edge, it is burned instead.
It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.
Sir Winston Churchill

Artist: Jim DiBartolo
LotN:C/PR2 KoT:C

Lextalionis
Type: Political Action
Choose a Methuselah who has received a victory point since your last turn. Successful referendum means the Methuselah must immediately tap all of his or her minions; the minions do not untap as normal during the Methuselah's next untap phase.
Artist: Pete Venters
Jyhad:V VTES:V CE:PTo

Libertas
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 1
Master. Requires an anarch.
Put this card on an anarch. Allies cannot block this anarch. Cards that require Dominate [dom] or Presence [pre] cost other minions an additional blood while this anarch is acting, attempting to block, or in combat.
Artist: Andrew Trabbold
TR:C

Liberty Club Intrigue
Type: Action
Requires a ready titled non-anarch vampire. +1 stealth action.
Choose up to two anarch vampires with capacities of 5 or less. Each chosen vampire is tapped and does not untap as normal on his or her next untap phase.
Artist: Peter Bergting
Anarchs:R KoT:R

Library Hunting Ground
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 2
Required Clan: Tzimisce
Master: unique location. Hunting ground.
During your untap phase, you may move 1 blood from the blood bank to a ready vampire you control. A vampire can gain blood from only one hunting ground card each turn.
Artist: Mike Weaver
Sabbat:U SW:U/PT Third:PTz

Lifeless Tongues
Type: Action
Discipline: Necromancy
+1 stealth action.
[nec] (D) Remove a vampire in any Methuselah's ash heap from the game and give this card to that Methuselah. During this acting vampire's untap phase, this acting vampire's controller may look at the hand of the Methuselah with this card. Any minion may burn this card as a +1 stealth action.
[NEC] As above, but during any untap phase.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
KMW:R

Life Boon
Type: Master
Master: out-of-turn. Boon
Give pool to a Methuselah with no pool to keep him or her in the game; put this card in play. During each of his or her untap phases, you can collect 1 pool from that Methuselah. The first victory point that the Methuselah wins is given to you (unless you are ousted by then). This Life Boon is then burned.
Artist: Kaja Foglio
Jyhad:U VTES:U SW:PV CE:PTo

Life in the City
Type: Master
Master: trifle.
Move 1 blood from the blood bank to a ready vampire.
I steer clear of paying customers who might be missed, but solos are fair game. The black marketers think I'm doing a little slave trade on the side.
Ingrid Galt, anarch

Artist: Fred Hooper
Anarchs:C2 KMW:PAn LoB:PA2/PI2 KoT:C/PM4

Lightning Reflexes
Type: Combat
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Celerity
[cel] Additional strike.
[CEL] This vampire may burn X blood to gain X additional strikes.
Celerity is never more admired
Than by the negligent.
William Shakespeare, Antony & Cleopatra, act III, scene 7

Artist: Michael Astrachan; Eric Lofgren
Sabbat:R SW:R/PB KoT:R

Light Intensifying Goggles
Type: Equipment
Electronic equipment.
This minion gets an optional maneuver on the first round of combat. You may move any aim card this minion uses to this card (even if it is canceled). This minion may play an aim card on this equipment as if from your hand. Remove that aim card from the game.
Artist: Juan Calle
KoT:U

Lily Prelude
Type: Political Action
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Melpominee
[mel] Allocate 4 points among one or more Methuselahs. Successful referendum means each Methuselah burns 1 pool for each point assigned.
[MEL] As above, and choose a Methuselah. Successful referendum means that chosen Methuselah gains 1 pool.
Artist: Leif Jones
HttB:C

Liquefy the Mortal Coil
Type: Combat
Blood Cost: 2
Discipline: Vicissitude
[vic] Strike: burn the opposing ally or burn 3 blood from the opposing younger vampire. If the opposing vampire has no blood after strike resolution, combat ends.
[VIC] Play before range is determined in combat with a younger vampire. This vampire cannot strike this round. As his or her initial strike next round, this vampire may strike to diablerize the opposing younger vampire.
Artist: Heather Kreiter
SoC:R

Liquidation
Type: Master
Master. Do not replace until your discard phase.
Burn seven cards from the top of your library to gain 3 pool.
How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.
Ovid

Artist: James Stowe
Tenth:A/B

Little Mountain Cemetery
Type: Action
Required Clan: Samedi
+1 stealth action.
This acting Samedi and all younger Samedi in your uncontrolled region each gain a blood from the bank.
Dark hills at evening in the west,
Where sunset hovers like a sound
Of golden horns that sang to rest
Old bones of warriors under ground...
Edwin Arlington Robinson, "The Dark Hills"

Artist: Brian LeBlanc
LoB:C HttB:PSam2

Living Manse
Type: Equipment
Blood Cost: 1
Required Clan: Tzimisce
This equipment card represents a location and does not count as an equipment card while it is in play.
The vampire with this location gets +1 bleed. He or she can burn this card before range is determined to end combat. A vampire may have only one Living Manse.
Artist: Mark Tedin
Sabbat:R SW:R Third:R

Living Wood Staff
Type: Equipment
Conviction Cost: X
Required Creed: Avenger
Unique melee weapon.
Strength damage each strike. Imbued inflict +X damage each strike with this weapon. Using Cleave with this weapon will not burn this weapon.
If you can't kill the damn thing, stop wasting your time.
Lupe "Cabbie22" Droin, Defender

Artist: Travis Ingram
NoR:R

Lobotomy
Type: Action Modifier
Discipline: Vicissitude
Only usable when recruiting an ally.
[vic] If the action is successful, put this card on the ally and tap the ally. Actions that require Dominate [dom] or Presence [pre] do not affect this ally. This ally has -1 bleed and cannot use maneuvers.
[VIC] As above, but the ally is not tapped.
Artist: Drew Tucker
SW:R Third:R

Local 1111
Type: Equipment
Blood Cost: 2
Requires a ready Sabbat vampire. This equipment card represents a unique location and does not count as equipment while in play.
The Sabbat vampire with this location may move 2 blood from the blood bank to any other ready Sabbat vampire as a +1 stealth action.
Artist: Brian LeBlanc
BH:R Third:PTz

Lock
Type: Action
Virtue: Defense
This action is at +1 stealth if it is undirected.
Put this card on any minion. Other Methuselahs' actions targeting this minion cost monsters an additional blood or life. If this minion is a monster, he or she burns a blood or life when he or she attempts an action or a block. This minion may burn this card as an action. A minion can have only one Lock.
Artist: Peter Bergting
NoR:C

Loki's Gift
Type: Action
Discipline: Protean
+1 stealth hunt action.
[pro] Gain 1 blood and this card. This vampire can burn this card and 1 blood to get +1 stealth. A vampire can have only one Loki's Gift.
[PRO] (D) As above, and burn a blood from any vampire. This vampire may burn this card as above, or may burn it during a referendum to gain 2 votes.
Artist: Justin Norman
KoT:C

London Evening Star, Tabloid Newspaper
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 3
Master: unique location.
Tap to give any minion +1 intercept for the current action.
He... remarked that the smuts in London were not so bad as they used to be when he was a student there.
Bram Stoker, Dracula

Artist: Dave Roach & Pete Burges
DS:U2 FN:PR Third:PB

Loner
Type: Master
Master: archetype.
Put this card on a vampire you control. During your influence phase, if this vampire successfully performed an action this turn and none of your other minions attempted any actions this turn, he or she gains 1 blood from the blood bank, if he or she is ready. A vampire can have only one archetype.
Artist: David Day
Gehenna:C

Loose Cannon
Type: Action Modifier
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Dementation/Thaumaturgy/Vicissitude
Requires an anarch. Only usable as the action is announced. If this action is blocked, apply the following effect (before combat occurs):
[dem] Tap a younger non-blocking vampire controlled by the blocking minion's controller.
[tha] Move 2 blood from a non-blocking vampire controlled by the blocking minion's controller to this vampire.
[vic] This acting vampire's hand damage is aggravated in the resulting combat.
Artist: Alejandro Collucci
Gehenna:C

Lord of Serenity
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 3
Discipline: Obeah/Fortitude
+1 stealth action.
[for] Rescue up to two vampires from torpor. Any ready vampire may attempt to block this action.
[obe] Put this card on the acting vampire. During your untap phase, this vampire gains 1 blood. Any vampire may burn this card as a (D) action.
[OBE] As [obe] above, but this vampire gains 2 blood.
Artist: Vatche Mavlian
HttB:C

Loss
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Quietus
[qui] (D) Burn an equipment or location on a minion controlled by your predator or prey.
[QUI] (D) Bleed at +2 bleed.
Artist: Veronica Jones
LotN:C/PA3

Lost in Crowds
Type: Action Modifier
Discipline: Obfuscate
[obf] +1 stealth. Into Thin Air and Lost in Crowds cannot both be played on the same action.
[OBF] As above, but for +2 stealth.
...he knows a frightful fiend
Doth close behind him tread.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Artist: Doug Gregory; Drew Tucker; Melissa Uran
Jyhad:C VTES:C Sabbat:C FN:PS3 CE:C/PM6/PN4 BH:PM4 KMW:PG2 Third:C/PM4 HttB:PSam4

Lost in Translation
Type: Reaction
Blood Cost: 2
Only usable when an ally or younger vampire is bleeding you, after blocks are declined.
Tap this reacting vampire. Choose another Methuselah other than the acting minion's controller. The acting minion is now bleeding the chosen Methuselah. Only one Lost in Translation may be played each action.
Artist: Becky Jollensten
LotN:C/PA

Louvre, Paris, The
Type: Master
Required Clan: Toreador
Master: unique location.
You may tap this card to tap any Toreador. If you control the Prince of Paris, you may tap this card to tap any minion in play. Any minion can steal this location for his or her controller as a (D) action.
Artist: Ken Meyer, Jr
DS:C2 CE:PTo

Loving Agony
Type: Combat
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Valeren/Animalism
Only usable at close range.
[ani] Strike: hand strike at +1 damage.
[val] Strike: combat ends and the opposing minion takes 1 damage.
[VAL] As [val] above, and this vampire may burn 1 blood to untap before combat ends.
Artist: Juan Calle
HttB:C

Loyalist
Type: Reaction
Required Clan: Ventrue antitribu
Only usable during a referendum. Usable by a tapped vampire.
This vampire gains 3 votes against the referendum. If the acting vampire is Sabbat and the referendum fails, move up to 2 blood from the acting vampire to this vampire.
Old-fashioned Loyalists don't last all that long, even when they've got your potential for power.
Andrew Emory, Lasombra bishop

Artist: Christopher Shy
BH:C

Loyal Street Gang
Type: Ally
Pool Cost: 1
Required Clan: Brujah
Mortal with 2 life. 1 strength, 0 bleed.
These are the hired bravos who defend
The tyrant's throne -- the bullies of his fear.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Queen Mab"

Artist: Chris Stevens; Bryon Wackwitz
Jyhad:U VTES:U CE:U KoT:U

Lucky Blow
Type: Combat
Do not replace until after combat.
Strike: hand strike or use a melee weapon strike. This strike is at +1 damage.
Artist: Pete Venters
Jyhad:C VTES:C SW:PT CE:C Anarchs:PAG

Lunatic Eruption
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 2
Discipline: Dementation
[dem] (D) Put this card on any ready minion. During his or her minion phase, the minion with this card must enter combat with a ready minion controlled by his or her prey as a (D) action (unless the minion must hunt). Any minion may burn this card as an action.
[DEM] As above, and the minion taking the action to burn this card takes 1 unpreventable damage when this card is burned.
Artist: Steve Prescott
SW:R Third:R

Lupine Assault
Type: Master
Pool Cost: 1
Master. Do not replace until your influence phase.
Each Methuselah (including you) discards 5 cards of his or her choice, then draws back up to his or her hand size. Only one Lupine Assault may be played in a game.
Artist: Steve Prescott
FN:R Third:R

Lure of the Serpent
Type: Action
Blood Cost: 1
Discipline: Serpentis
[ser] (D) The acting vampire takes control of a retainer controlled by another vampire.
[SER] (D) Take control of an ally controlled by another Methuselah.
Artist: Ron Spencer
AH:U5 FN:PS

Lyndhurst Estate, New York
Type: Equipment
Blood Cost: 3
This equipment card represents a unique location and does not count as equipment when in play.
Once during each political action, the vampire with this location can burn X blood to gain X additional votes.
Artist: Mike Dringenberg
Sabbat:U