Is this a joke? Nerfing good ol hardboiled Joe down to the ground with similar Milan Christopher's effect but a card draw instead?

Loren ipsum del toro yada yada in order to make this review 200 words long because I am speechless that Fantasy Flight Game not only massacred Joe, but they cut off his manhood and made wimp out of the corpse

After a decade of Dr M, his student is annoying to play (maybe just for me). It used to be, for most checks the margin of success is binary. You can pass by one or a million, in most classes it doesn't matter. Dorothy means that every time you investigate, you have to do the math again, running a checksum of (total-penalties = 1 or 3).

Not that you won't appreciate the money, but without some of the combo pieces released with Drowned City, it's going to be tough for seekers to adjust their results, and you'll need to get the test four times over four turns to make her revenue neutral. Still, even mutated Dr. M was one of the best Seeker allies ever, so maybe this is what it looks like when you get a stat bonus, random $ and soak.

People responsible for chapter II have said that machete (core) was a card it was nearly impossible to balance around, because in many circumstances, it was infinite 2 damage. Now, for better or worse, there with the broken bottle (which costs less, but gives the same bonus and discards, and lets you hit an enemy engaged with the teammate).

If you have a signature weapon, it's better than machete now. Guns, with limited ammo, are better than taking a jungle cleaver to the streets of Arkham. It's still a must pick due to the incredibly narrow cardpool, but I don't see it surviving through the next two expansions in anything but a niche role. Which might be a reasonable thing for a level zero card.

This might seem like a one-to-one parallel Dr Milan Christopher, but it's harder to get. Chapter 2 doesn't have as severe an imbalance in economy as before (crack the case has become bounty, and there's no Midnight Oil), but $4 and a slot is still a lot. Seekers can get clues every turn in almost every scenario of the game. Some scenarios have only one enemy, or don't spawn them for a few turns... Or even punish you for killing them with Vengeance. It's still good and a reason to get charisma, but this guy might sit in your hand longer than you'd like.

This is a stone simple, mill your deck and get to the good stuff card. It has a trigger that's going to hit multiple times per game (even if your Guardians are at 100% efficiency, enemies will still spawn). You're trading a card and a dollar for two cards, a trade that gets better and better the more XP you put into your deck.