Katarina Sojka
Emissary from Ulthar

Asset. Ally

Ally. Clairvoyant. Dreamer.

Cost: 2.

Mystic
Health: 1. Sanity: 2.

When you reveal chaos tokens during a skill test you are performing, exhaust Katarina Sojka: Reveal tokens from the chaos bag until a token with a symbol is revealed. Resolve that token and ignore the rest.

Daniel Watson
The Drowned City Investigator Expansion #69.
Katarina Sojka

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Until you realize the auto-fail is also a symbol this sounds like an amazingly good card. The insanely increased odds to just fail the test, no matter how many Ritual Candles you pack, make this card hard to play, I'd argue.

But who knows, maybe you don't wanna pass the test (survivor tech, anyone?), or just fire Agatha Crane's ability, or have Seal of the Seventh Sign out (although it won't last long if you play this card)...

EDIT - Fun fact: In theory, you could be stuck in an endless loop if you put Katarina Sojka together with Seal of the Seventh Sign and people sealing the other symbols via Protective Incantation, The Chthonian Stone, The Chthonian Stone, Bulwark, Crystalline Elder Sign, Day of Reckoning, Dial of Ancients, Serpents of Yig, Sign of Xelotaph, The Codex of Ages, and/or Unrelenting. This is also a great example why knowledge should be made easily accessible to the players in any game - because I am not even sure if being stuck in an endless loop counts as "having the potential to change the game state" and therefore would allow triggering Katarina's reaction ability or not. Yeah, the chaos bag is not endless, but it is at least undefined, if not an unreachable state. So what happens when you do this?

AlderSign · 363
I'm not even sure this is good in Agatha. If you exhaust Katarina and then reveal a symbol token, you don't ignore anything and then Agatha's ability isn't active, is it ? That makes it really unreliable ... — aurchen · 114
That's true, if your first revealed token is a symbol, that's even more meh. — AlderSign · 363
I agree with the fact that pulling the Autofail 20% of the time sucks, but if that means that you pass 80% of your tests when using Katarina, it can be worth it. Especially if you pack some payoff like Sixth Sense (4). — Valentin1331 · 76212
If you're worried about the auto fail, since the wording is "when you reveal" and not "when you would reveal" it seems like you can grab one token and then decide you dont like it and reveal new ones, so it could be a rudimentary form of test protection? — Spamamdorf · 5
A typical mid-campaign scenario will have the elder sign, auto-fail, 2-3 skulls, and probably 4-5 other symbols IME. So Katarina is probably autofailing only 1 in 8 or so. — OrionAnderson · 111
The good but boring use for this is to hunt blesses for Ancient Covenant, making life boring since 20-whenever it was. — OrionAnderson · 111
I think the timing opportunity in question is the step of the skill test, not "when you reveal A chaos token". — AlderSign · 363
Some investigators can also mitigate the auto fail by taking the upgraded token of faith, which allows you to do the test again. — Tharzax · 1
Thanks for this comment, my goal next campaign is to seal all the non elder sign symbols so that sojka can always pull elder sign — Frogg · 3