Cat Mask

Cat Mask

This comboes extremely well with Blood Pact and Sin-Eater. It is 9 xp, but for that you get pretty much inexhaustible Guts/Overpower on demand:

  • 2 charges to start with
  • recharge the mask with one use of Blood Pact (and gain +3 from there)
  • after the mask is again empty, move the doom to Sin-Eater, the mask refills again. You do have to occasionally use an action to empty the doom (and while there is doom in there, moving another doom doesn't fill the mask), but it's extremely action and resource efficient.
heikkip · 3

Ample Supplies

Ample Supplies

Unless I'm missing something, even George would prefer Nothing Left to Lose most of the time.

This requires waiting to accumulate supplies (starts with 2, but the other can give up to 5). That's not great if you need the money now.

Nothing Left to Lose also gives card draw, which George usually can take advantage of.

This costs one resource, for a card that you use when you're short on resources.

Nothing Left to Lose has a ? symbol in case you don't need it when you get it. (Marginal benefit, but it's there).

Pro: this can be re-used, when you re-shuffle your deck, I guess.

1 less xp here, even though survivors usually have extra xp laying around.

Iduno · 18
Maybe an insurance for Preston, as a way to easily deal with his weakness, or in general to save resources for later since they go directly to your pool. I don't see him discarding a lot of cards, though... — AlderSign · 435
It's hard to even justify using it for that role in a Preston deck when Investments exists; are you really going to be discarding more than one card a round? — Thatwasademo · 59
er uh wait this card exhausts to add a supply anyway so welp — Thatwasademo · 59
Yeah, it's bad :( — AlderSign · 435
Seems like it could be good with Yorick; even without discarding it goes Resource positive. Could combine it with Glimmer of Hope and a discard outlet for some kind of synergy? It'd be a lot nicer if it wasn't limited to 1 per Investigator. — ClassyD · 1
For George, I agree you should get Nothing Left to Lose first. For me, I think Ample Supplies is still good that you may want it, especially if your running Forced Learning since you want some redundancy. — tactis · 22
Yeah, but the exhaust really hurts. — AlderSign · 435
I think this is mostly good in Patrice, who triggers it trivially every turn and may want to have resources banked for later... but asking exp for it when E-Cache exists (which this card needs at least another round to even tie) is questionable — Shandras · 3
Ashcan Pete can build up a nest egg with this passively by feeding Duke card treats. Even if you're playing poor-man Pete, you can save up some 'emergency cash' without it impacting your zero-resources strategy. — khoshekh · 8
Wouldnt this card be broken on Patrice Hathaway? — Buzzsaw · 8
George has no assurance he's going to get Nothing Left to Lose when he needs it. Ample supplies lets you get your resource at any point, and it's also on your playing field therefore your weakness will not cast it adrift. Also it's recursive as it doesn't leave the game, so things like resourceful+gift of nodens let you pull it back out for some more resource. Make sure and play ample, then do a discard on your turn, then if you have forced learning it auto discards right after upkeeping. So the turn after you play this it will have 4 resource, which you can choose to keep around. The one thing I will say is it should start at 3 imo but it's still useful, also only 2xp — MechaStrizan · 1

Prophecy of the End

Prophecy of the End

I today received the below ruling through the official rules question forum, which gives this weakness rather more teeth than I and others originally anticipated:

"If Gloria looks at multiple copies of Prophecy of the End with her ability, each “Forced” ability on the treacheries resolves, and each are placed facedown beneath Gloria."

Voltgloss · 393
This reading of "Prophecy of the End" can be devastating. In two out of four games in a campaign so far, Gloria already had one "Prophecy of the End" facedown when two more appeared at once knocking her out of the game. To play it safe, once one copy ends up being placed beneath Gloria, you should avoid using her ability until another copy of "Prophecy of the End" ends up in the discard pile. — LlarqasqaPuma · 1
This just means you are really encouraged to permanently nerf Prophecy with Fool Me Once. Gloria can ensure whoever has FMO draws Prophecy, with cards like Parallel Fates, the Eye, Let Me Handle This, or even just Alyssa on lower player counts. It does railroad her into a Guardian role in solo though. — MindControlMouse · 48

Lost Arcana

Lost Arcana

Since, unlike Hawk-Eye Folding Camera, the reaction ability has no limit, we have yet another card that enables Luke Robinson to break the game. Move clues to your Dream-Gate, drop them (e.g., Bizarre Diagnosis, Captivating Discovery, Analysis, Quick Study, Forewarned, Dr. William T. Maleson), or just use Luke's own ability or Pocket Telescope to snatch them out of the bunker and power up your Enchanted Bow* for sniping enemies off your team's back.

*Hand slots are no issue due to, e.g., Astral Mirror, Arcane Enlightenment, The Raven Quill.

At this point, I all but wonder why they did not just allow the charges to be spent for Relic assets to power up the Gate Box as well...

AlderSign · 435

Dreams of the Clay

Dreams of the Clay

something to keep an eye on for investigators that have one stat that is quite high and one that is quite low (eg Gloria Goldberg with 5 and 1 )

it converts a success on a treachery you're able to handle into free relief from a treachery card you couldn't

note that currently every investigator who could run Dreams of the Clay minus Lucius Galloway can already run Ward of Protection, and in my opinion the 1 horror and 1 resource is worth the Spell trait, saved xp, and reduced variance.

Patrice Hathaway might prefer Dreams due to not being able to hold on to her Wards, but it still relies on her (or an investigator at her location) drawing a passable treachery test on the same round as drawing Dreams

mordequess · 98