This is the perfect card for Amina Zidane. With her ability that 3 resource cost turns to 0, and the downside of her ability (adding doom to the asset) is entirely negated when you remove this. 0 cost, 0 action, 0 downside, +2 to all skills for this turn. This is especially good if you're playing Spectral Razor or Read the Signs, where it gives you a +4 to the skill test since you're buffing both skills.

Somehow the child of On the Hunt and Scene of the Crime ended up in the Rogue cardpool.

On the Hunt the encounter deck, then get a clue and a few bucks if you hit something non-Elite. You would still have to deal with the enemy you drew in whatever way you see fit so this essentially gives you 1 testless clue and usually 1-3 resources for a card and around two actions. The best case scenario is of course drawing an enemy you can one-shot in one or fewer actions, making this card a worthy competitor to Scene of the Crime (2 resources + 1 card + 1 action for 1-2 testless clues) as long as you can find a suitable enemy.

Emphasis on that last part, of course. This shares a problem with 0XP On the Hunt in that it can miss. It hurts less in that this card is 0-cost but also more in that it's now a wasted action. You'd probably want to consider Crystallizer of Dreams to ensure that you at least get a or icon out of this thing. Alternatively, it is also possible to only hit an exceptionally tough enemy in your search and waste your actions dealing with it. Access to testless and/or actionless damage or extra fight actions are welcome additions, and try not to play this when, for example, you know a certain Carcosa enemy that tests your intellect is in the deck. In other words, what's stopping this card from being a better Scene of the Crime is its inherent uncertainty - perhaps that's why it has found itself in the Rogue faction.

Investigators I can see taking this:

• Trish Scarborough - a decent pick for 0XP that will probably get upgraded into something else. Play it first and decide whether you want the extra clue or the auto-evade after you see the enemy.
• Tony Morgan - Tony loves fighting, and he has no lack of actions to kill whatever he kicked out of the encounter deck. Getting some clues in the meantime is just icing on the cake.
• Leo Anderson - At least in my experience, Leo is often starving for deck space because he has to slot in quite a few allies to put his own and Mitch Brown's abilities to good use, not to mention support cards for said allies and the big guns if you're playing them. Having a card that both finds clues and gives him money to fund his Assets really helps with his versatility, and his Beat Cops and Guard Dogs are more than happy to deal with the enemy.
• Zoey Samaras and Mark Harrigan - Both are powerful enemy handlers with poor , so testless clues are appreciated. They may not need that resource boost that much (even less so in the case of Zoey) depending on how you build their decks though.
• Parallel Roland Banks - Play it fast with Red Tape and get another card from Seek the Truth. As far as I know playing it fast does not count as your first action, so you can also punch the enemy in the face or grab 2 more clues from under its nose, though this combo costs you your entire Red Tape quota for the round. Parallel Roland likes fast and testless clues and this card delivers - some of the time at least.

At first this card looked quite janky to me, but on closer inspection it seems to fit in quite a lot of decks. Certainly not an auto-include by any means, but at the very least primary enemy handlers with access to Rogue cards will want to give this a look.

The evolution of that card over the course of its upgrade is the same as a wizard for a DnD campaign. It starts really, really underwhelming but reaches stratospheric level of power in its late stage. Be it enemy mitigation, sustain, getting clues, this card does everything and testless. It becomes so absurdly powerful that when you get to draw three of them in its fully upgraded form, it will trivialize a scenario on its own. Many ennemies spawn in the first few turns of a scenario when your fighter isn't set up yet? Slam them on the biggest threats, transform them into powerful allies, and distract the other monsters from hurting your friends. This card effectively reads: convert a bomb card from the encounter deck into a boon for yourself. Not only the fact that your allies can also trigger all the effects makes it so versatile, but you effectively remove the biggest threats from being a problem, and thus, instantly.

However the card really needs tonguetwister to get going, but when you get it with thrice spoken things start to escalate. You evade most monster you meet, testlessly get two clues, heal friends, and effectively, definitely remove any monster (except elite) in the game, in a class that has access to ward of protection level two. Congratulation, on your own, you disabled not only the most menacing treacheries, but also the most terrifying monsters the game has to offer. Anything else is just between your main fighter and the boss of the scenario, and your cluever who has all the time of the world to do his job. If you think that as a mystic, you ever needed a weapon, this card solves all problem you need, being slotless and fast. By the way, you don't need weapons when you convert any otherwordly abominations to your cause. This card is worth any xp point you can spend on it.

Just a lore observation, not a real review: This is likely the Art Student mapping the area. Why? Because she is also left-handed. And left-handed people were quite rare in the 1920s, when they were generally forced as children to learn using their right hand instead.

Then again: Mark Harrigan is also left-handed. And this is a Tactic... :)

While the design and the flavor of that card is great, it is sadly underpowered imo. I've run it in a dedicated Luke deck with plenty of static book boost (magnifying glasses, st Hubert key, yellow tarrot card), enablers and even then, at most, the summon picked up three to four clues over the course of the scenario, even fully upgraded. Sure, sometimes, it came handy because it evaded a few monsters for my fellow investigators, but if you had to choose between that card and Powerword, the latter is far more useful and versatile, and doesn't require a build around deck to function (even if the comparison is unfair, since a fully upgraded Powerword is the most absurd card in the game).

You clearly don't run it for the extra bit of unreliable damage, but mostly for its evade and investigation ability (also its 3 health pool that counter balance the squishyness of most mystic investigators). It's also awkward to use since it cannot explore on its own, and can only navigate through explored areas. Most of the time, I just landed it on a location I was tasked to investigate, then joined the rest of my team while it picked some clues on its own. The best point of this card is it offers you a good presence across the board, no matter your location (your own dream world for exemple). I absolutely recommend it if you want to do a Luke run. It's really a lot fun to watch the little buddy lives its life to its fullest on its own but you should rather skip it if you plan to play anybody else.

The card would've been great if it wasn't considered "unique" and you had to fantasy to be able to run two of them at the same time. In its current state, it is a below-average/okay card in a dedicated deck, but it won't carry you your investigator on its own. It kinda fits a peculiar archetype (flexing) as an element of the whole, but not at the foundation of the archetype. The ability to go through uncharted locations would make the card far better than it is now, even if the owner of the summon would have to be hurt the revelation ability from those locations. Putting two extra xp as fee with a taboo on "Wings of Night" with this said ability would solve a lot of its problem, without hurting the balance of that card.

Here is the list I used for a return to Dunwich playthrough: Initial version: arkhamdb.com Fully upgraded: arkhamdb.com