Enemy weaknesses always scale well (from a player's perspective). If you're playing solo Trish, you better have the hammerless or the cane ready to go. In multiplayer, this is the guardian engaging and attacking. 4/2/4 means it's not going to be a guaranteed hit in the first scenario, but when you're packing big guns, this guy is a speed bump in a way that "spend two actions or something really bad happens" isn't. Trap him with Restrained. Seeya.

A reminder that if you exhaust Machete to gain the +1 damage you can still spend an action using the Action trigger to gain +1 fight as this ability does not require exhausting the card. An important distinction especially for new players to chapter two as I feel this is not well highlighted in the rulebook.

I have a question regarding this card's ability: if you attack an enemy with the elusive keyword with the first attack, does the enemy disengage instantly so that you cannot trigger the second attack during this action?

This card enables lots of interesting shenanigans, but the most obvious one is “reloading” an asset that’s out of Uses. As of 2026 it’s probably the M1903 Hammerless, but will soon apply to various rings and lockpicks, among other things.

Just remember to hold onto an item in your hand like a Cigarette Case or Magnifying Glass to enable playing this. I think that we might even have a use for the terrible Fedora: fodder for this card!

At first glance you’d be reminded of the Old Book Of Core from the 2016 core set.

But due to several small differences (limited uses, free trigger, and mandatory draw of weaknesses) this is actually Mr Rook in book format. And when you get some use out of it you’ll remember the upside (free draws but you only pay 1 action up front!) as well as the downside (seeing weaknesses).

And you’ll also see the upside to the downside. You’ll tend to get the weaknesses in your deck resolved early and on your terms rather than in middle of a crisis. And those are free bonus draws rather than dead draws. Highly recommend for any deck that can take it.