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As some of you may have noticed, this page hasn't been updated in several years. I'm not going to apologize for that. I haven't been interested in maintaining it for quite some time.

However, I do not mean for it to go out of circulation. If you want to host these pages, they are available in zip format at your leisure. This original page should stay up for the forseeable future, becoming more and more out of date.

L. Scott Johnson took over the rules team in June of 1998, and proceeded to issue some highly controversial rulings, errata, clarifications, and changes. The game changed significantly on July 7th, 1998, and I'm adding text to the articles written in response to those rulings to help clarify what people are talking about.

On this Page

Strategy Articles.
Articles about card limits.
Variant Rules of Play.
Not the Jyhad Deck Archive Deck Archive.
Jyhad Humor.
What's New on this Page.

About the Authors

• A short bunch of blurbs about Mark and Judith.

Other Jyhad Pages

• Read the hype! Learn about the background! Look at a page designed by people who get paid to design pages! And best of all, its the information-free official WoTC Offical V:tES page.
• L. Scott Johnson's Jyhad page. An attractive and informative page, written by the official V:tES network representative.
• Alain Rover has a beautiful page, heavy on game background, and short on game rules.
• The Corrupter's Jyhad page, combining beauty with the functionality of the Sensible Player's Tournament Rules and the second largest deck archive around.
• Andrew Freese has set up a fairly useful Card Database, which has an automatic crypt builder based on common disciplines.
• The V:EKN Austin Homepage. Mark Langsdorf's gaming group.

Jyhad Rules Resources

• Offical Jyhad Rules and the new, official rules for Vampire: the Eternal Struggle.
• L. Scott Johnson's compilation of Design Team Rulings.
• The Revised (February 1996) Duelist's Convocation's Tournament Rules.
• Peter Bajika's explanation of how Immortal Grapple works.
• Additional information about Jyhad, especially Design Team Rulings and Card Lists can be found at L. Scott Johnson's website.
• Adrian Sullivan's short article against sideboards in tournament Jyhad.
• A description of the points system for vampires.

Other Jyhad Resources

• rec.games.trading-cards.jyhad, the Jyhad newsgroup.

• Curt Adams' article on why a 4 card limit is no good for Jyhad.
• Alan Kwan's article comparing Jyhad to Magic and explaining why Jyhad does not need a 4 card limit.
• Curt Adams' permanents, transients, and ephemerals article on card types and limits.
• Someone once suggested using a 3 card limit, and Curt Adams told them why this was a bad idea.
• Curt Adam's has also written an article on the theory of card limits in CCGs.
• Dave Gausebeck expanded upon Curt's theory post, developing how card limits apply to Jyhad.
• B.D. Redmond's defense of the four card limit, and his defense of the 1 card limit on uniques.
• Peter Bajika's discussion of some of the Implications of Sabbat on the 4 Card limit.

Articles on Tactics

• Curt Adams' discussion of Jyhad tactics.
• Wyatt Chang gave helpful advice on how Gangrel can deal with Strike: Combat Ends cards.
• Adrian Sullivan talked about defenses against Sneak and Bleed decks, as part of a discussion of why Archon Investigation is unnecessary. James Hamblin offers another take on the same issue.
• Peter Bajika has some hints for Rush decks.
• Chance believes that weapons can improve your deck, too!
• Chance discusses how to guarantee you'll get that critical card in your opening hand.
• Peter Bajika also has some hints on the effective uses of fortitude.

• Mark Langsdorf's article on designs for two clan decks in Jyhad.
• Curt Adam's article on standard two clan decks in Jyhad.
• Alan Kwan's article on the theoreticals of deck building.
• Curt Adams wrote an article about the basic advantages and disadvantages of the various strategies in Jyhad.
• Many people think that deck s with twenty Majesties in them are abusive. Adrian Sullivan refutes them.
• B.D. Redmond suggests ways for combat decks to defend themselves in combat.
• John Whelan wrote an excellent article on the basic strategies in Jyhad.
• Robert Goudie discusses ways to master tournament play.
• Robert Goude writes analyzes the costs of a Master Phase Cards.

Broken Cards

• James Hamblin's rant against Thoughts Betrayed.
• Adrian's complaint against Thoughts Betrayed.
• Robert Goudie discusses and classifies trump cards and their power.
• John Whelan laments the fact that Concealed Weapon was misclassified as a discipline card.
• Chris Berger argues that Pulled Fangs shouldn't do aggravated damage.
• Chris Boget's lament for Political decks. Post 7/7 Article.
• Mark Langsdorf's complaint about Archon Investigation and Protected Resources.
• Alan Flesch's statement of why Direct Intervention doesn't belong in Jyhad.

• Wizards of the Coast's compilation of variants called War of Ages.
• Stephen Beaulieu's Bloody Politics is a politics and hunting-intensive oriented variant.
• These variants are a mix of small changes and tricks.
• The Clan Wars is a clan-based struggle for supremacy, based around the clan Justicars.
• Rules for playing Jyhad with two teams of two people.
• The Madison League Rules and the World Domination League Rules, two seperate attempts at creating league rules for Jyhad.
• Expect the unexpected requires the use of a universal deck of random events.

News

• The name of Jyhad will be changed to Vampire: The Eternal Struggle. Here's Wizards of the Coast's press release talking about the name/card back change.
• Wizards of the Coast's Dark Sovereigns Press Release.

• A sampling of the new cards from the Dork Sovereigns expansions.
• Cards from the Lark Sovereigns expansion for Vampire: the Eternal Silliness.
• Cards for Vampire: the Alternative Struggle.