Note: Stella Clark's Neither Rain nor Snow is a survivor skill card! Arcane is a noncompetitive slot for her, so any Stella deck with even halfway good XP can absolutely justify a copy of Gift of Nodens.

Stella also likes to run Take Heart, which is another fantastic combo here.

This creates a loop and is a fantastic card. It is presently probably the best card in the drowned city cycle.

Basically survivors already have cards that like to be in the discard pile. Improvised shield, winging it, improvised weapon, moonstone, glimmer of hope, etc.

Gift of Nodens lets you retrieve good skills (i.e., resourceful) and put cards that want to be in the discard into the discard. By using this pretty much exclusively with resourceful, you basically guarantee that you both keep resourceful going in your deck (and keep survivor assets that got tossed in your hand) while setting up these "from the discard pile" effects.

Does this break Silas or is it required to solve the whole text of this cards leaving no room to Silas's ability? I mean, he doesn't need more broken tech, Unrelenting is such a badly designed card (in a powerful way).

Even if this doesn't work the way I mentioned before, the card is bananas in Silas. Doubling on your Brute Force and Resourceful copies just by playing skills and fueling your discard pile is incredibly powerful. It's the wet dream for Survivor players.

Finally a 5xp Survivor Card and WOW What a Card!!

Perfect Target to use is obviously Resourceful to use it multiple times per Round. Gumption or Brute Force are insane too.

Turns from Silas Marsh can already be very crazy. This Card might get him to S Tier Levels.

Another Investigator can use it Gift with Scroll of Secrets to get your card back from the bottom of your Deck immediately. I use Resourceful to get my Lucky! 3 back to my Hand and have it every turn. The 3rd Card of Fortuitous Discovery is another good target for example. Neither Rain nor Snow as mentioned. The list is almost endless what to get back.

I guess we will see a taboo nerf on this Combo (like the nerf to Scavenging) in a later time. But the Problem with Combo is might not be Gift of Nodens, its maybe more Resourceful. Something like 1x Resourceful per Round or the Card from Gift of Nodens gets shuffled back into the Deck, rather then on the Bottom of the Deck. So play it while its hot. :)

I am usually doing extensive reviews, but here I think the main combo hasn't been mentioned by other reviews yet, so I'll make a short one.

This card should always come with its symbiotic partner: Persistence.

Joking, I can't keep things short, so let me develop.

Phase 1: Play Gift of Nodens and thin your deck.

• Short Supply is a tremendous help to start with a far thinner deck
  • Add Resourceful and Scrounge for Supplies to your deck to make sure you don't discard Gift of Nodens without any options to get it back.
• At a Crossroads and Unrelenting also help a lot, and any other draw card your investigator has access to

Phase 2: Loop and never re-shuffle

Initial State

1. One Persistence in your hand
2. One Persistence and one Resourceful in your discard pile
3. You have Gift of Nodens on the table.

During any

1. Commit Persistence from your discard pile
2. Use the of Gift of Nodens
3. Discard Persistence from your hand
4. Commit Resourceful from your discard pile

Results

1. +2 skill value to your test (if it wasn't )
2. Resourceful is placed at the bottom of your empty deck
3. Persistence is then shuffled with Resourceful, into your deck
4. Resourceful brings back any card to your hand
5. As soon as you draw Persistence again, you are back at the initial state of 1 Persistence in your discard pile and 1 Persistence in your hand.

This is so strong because:

• Once you set up Gift of Nodens, you really don't want to shuffle your discard pile into your deck. This would remove all the targets of both Gift of Nodens and Resourceful.
  • Persistence is the easiest way to add a card to your deck to prevent it from happening.
  • Persistence is also the easiest way to commit a card to a test, to trigger Gift of Nodens's , since it has a and doesn't even require you to have it in your hand.
• Resourceful is the most versatile target for Gift of Nodens, but if you want to use Resourceful to recur a skill card like Contemplative, Long Shot, or Brute Force, you can target it right away.
• If you draw exactly 2 cards per round (1 during the upkeep and one other), you have an unbreakable loop where you can basically use Resourceful or any other skill every single turn until the end of the scenario.

The last question is:

Why not simply using Gift of Nodens on a chosen skill card, place it at the bottom of my empty deck, and draw it during the Upkeep phase, rince, and repeat?

This doesn't work because Gift of Nodens wants you to:

1. Commit one card to a test
2. Discard a card from your hand

So you need an input of 2 cards in your hand every turn to feed Gift of Nodens, which would require you to draw more than the 1 card placed at the bottom of your deck.