- Q: About Studious and Another Day, Another Dollar: when do you gain the additionnal card and the additional resources? For the second one, it doesn't really matter, but for Studious, is the extra card gained before mulligan (and thus you mulligan with 6 or 7 cards), or is it at the end of the setup? The wording "in your opening hand" seems to refer to the "drawing opening hand" step of the setup. But the wording "you begin the game" seems to refer to the end of the setup. A: The additional card or resource is granted during the relevant setup step (Step 7: “Collect starting resources” for Another Day, Another Dollar, and Step 8: "Draw opening hands" for Studious).
Talent.
Permanent.
You begin each game with 1 additional card in your opening hand.
- H. P. Lovecraft, The Dreams in the Witch House

There's a card that will really shine
Every time
Stu-stu-studious, oh-oh
It lets me draw an extra card
And I get it from the very start
Stu-stu-studious, whoah-oh-oh
Oh, even better, I'll buy two
Now I have a bigger hand than you
And when I hard mulligan
My chance for Rook is oh-point-seven-one
Stu-stu-studious, point-seven-one
Oh Stu-stu-studious
Now it's only three XP
That's really not many
Stu-stu-studious, oh-oh
Try it out, you'll see it's fine
It's like a card gold mine
Stu-stu-stu-studious, oh-oh-oh
Uh, I've got to buy it, buy it now
I tried to play Mystic but I don't know how
The doom on Initiate, it makes me scared
But I feel so good when I play Seeker and
Stu-stu-studious play Seeker and
Ohhh St-t-t-t-st-t-studious
Ohhh
Ah, it's all I need in my deck
I just don't care what other cards I draw
Stu-stu-studious
Ah what else I draw
Ohhh Stu-stu-stu-stu-studious
Oh what else I draw
Ohhh Stu-stu-studious
What else I draw
Ohhh St-t-t-t-st-t-studious
Ohhh oh oh
Alright mathematicians, I've got a question that requires some technical wizardry. If I had the option between this and Stick to the Plan, which one gives me better odds of drawing a tarot in my opening hand? We all know SttP thins your deck down by almost 10%, making your opening hand around 1/6th of your deck, assuming the deck is "clean" (i.e. it doesn't have a bunch of clutter from the campaign). Studious here has a similar effect by allowing us to see more cards with our opening hand, which lets us mulligan into our tarot more often. With 6xp put into Studious, we start with 7 cards, about 20% of our deck, so we see about 40% of it if we mulligan as aggressively as possible, right?
I'm not pitting the strength of one card against the other; I'm just curious what the math bears out in this particular scenario. Assuming we mulligan the whole hand, and the deck is clean and only 33 cards, which gives us better odds to draw card "x"? How about if we have two copies? How about if we mulligan 3-4 cards instead of the whole hand? Where do the curves meet up?
Anyway, I was just deckbuilding earlier and started to wonder about it. I think only Lola can actually take both cards, so maybe it'll be useful to someone deep into building her. What say you?
If you have two of these, does that mean you draw 7 cards during setup step 8? So you could potentially draw another 7 during a mulligan?
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