Charisma

About Charisma

Charisma, Master, designed by Talon Dunning, Ginés Quiñonero-Santiago first released in June 2001 in the set Final Nights and was printed exactly in 5 different ways.

Charisma is best in dedicated ally-recruitment decks—especially Tzimisce War Ghoul, Giovanni/Hecata Shambling Horde, Gargoyle, or other decks that repeatedly use the same vampire to recruit expensive allies—because saving one blood or pool on every recruitment can become significant over a long game; it is much less useful in toolbox decks, decks that recruit only one or two allies, or decks whose allies enter play through other effects. There is no universally superior direct replacement, but The Unmasking is generally a better master-card investment for an ally deck because it improves all of your allies’ survivability and utility rather than only reducing recruitment costs, while cards such as Wider View, Information Highway, or master-phase acceleration may also provide more consistent overall value depending on the deck. Charisma should see play only when ally recruitment is a central, repeated part of the strategy and the deck has several expensive recruit actions; otherwise, its