At Your Disposal : Ascendance

Well. This is one card you don't really see. Why? 'Cause this is one card that you shouldn't be using if you at least have some options left.

You see, Master cards are very powerful actions in a game, so powerful that it has a phase dedicated to it, and you can generally only play one Master card during your turn. Ascendance is a good example of wasting that privilege. In a nutshell, spending one card and one "action" for gaining a miserable pool is an absolute indicator of a newly embraced player. (Or one that is so superior he needs to handicap himself in a game)

Look at all the other options you can have to gain that one pool. For example, a Powerbase Montreal. The Powerbase is generally alright for giving you that 1 pool too, as long as you have somebody at the uncontrolled region and some spare transfers to bring it back - and you can use it again and again provided you can defend it. Even a Blood Doll (bless'im) can bring back 1 pool as long as you have some blood lying somewhere with your vampires, and again it is a lot more permanent than an Ascendance. Various Investment cards, though unable to give you the pool immediately, can provide more kick for your card space in the long run.

And if you consider action cards, then you have even more options. From the ever popular Governed the Unaligned, to the very popular Off Kilter lately, the ability to get pool back from action cards far surpasses Ascendance.

However, with all that said. I think at the end of the day, Ascendance is still the only card that give you 1 extra pool from the bank, immediately as the card is played, with absolutely no other requirements besides the need to play this card successfully.

It is therefore one of the best cards to include in a demo deck.

And therefore, it'll never go away, despite the lack of support.

I think it is a great Vtes card.

(o.o)v