Stutter-Step

About Stutter-Step

Stutter-Step, Combat, designed by Steve Ellis first released in June 2001 in the set Final Nights and was printed exactly in 4 different ways.

Stutter-Step fits a **close-range Celerity combat deck** that wants to wear opponents down with hand strikes while avoiding their return strikes, especially if its vampires have increased strength. At superior CEL, it offers a useful mix of offense and defense for zero blood, but it is a poor fit for decks built around Blur or other additional-strike cards: playing it rules out additional strikes that round. There is no clear strictly better replacement for that particular combination. If your priority is simply surviving combat, combat-ending cards such as Majesty or Earth Meld are usually stronger where your vampires have the required disciplines; if your priority is dealing lots of damage, additional strikes are usually stronger. **It can see play as a situational choice**, but I would test a few copies rather than make it the core of a Celerity combat package.