Stella Clark is on the card, so it must be good for her, right? True - at least until she becomes a Quick Learner, which she probably wants and with 2 copies, +3 instead of +2 for 1 turn is not that impressive. Aside of early-campaign Stella, Gritting Your Teeth seems mostly useful for and pseudo-.

If you want to get value out of Gritting Your Teeth, you want to take multiple tests after playing this card. In the ideal scenario, you fail a mythos test (that is a thing) and get as many +1 actions as you can (also happens to be thing).

More value comes if you also use cards that care about testing two skills. Accidentally, most of such cards happen to be .

So we're looking at investigators who can get the most value of Gritting Their Teeth. Rita Young likes Tricks that add her to a skill test (and can hide an Ace in the Hole). Similarly Bob Jenkins has the right cardpool and stats. Certain Dark Horse Preston Fairmont builds can appreciate this, getting to a reasonable skill value and having ways to generate actions. Patrice Hathaway can reasonably run this card as a with potential extra use (see the synergy with Grisly Totem?). Possibly helpful also for Jenny Barnes and Finn Edwards, but they probably find more impactful cards as their 5 off-class pieces.

Well there are reasons why this card doesn't see much play - but at least there are investigators who can make it do some work. And maybe it's the that makes the real difference between a garbage card and not that good, but never wasted and situationally quite helpful card.

This card is so overpowered, that you basically take it in any mystic or guardian deck and that's it, all-mighty monsters are no longer any threat to a team.

No charges, no ammo, no special mechanics to balance such a power, just a +2 damage weapon with on average +3 to your main skill, meaning that you do not even need to boost your weapon with a Beat Cop or Holy Rosary to make it effective.

Why would now Akachi use any battle magic, if she never runs out of charges with this card and in terms of the damage it is comparable to the latest version of Shrivelling but without any magical drawbacks? Why would you collect 5-10 cards to make a Shotgun work on Leo when you can just take this endless hammer?

Even old granny Gloria Goldberg will easily become your ultimate monster hunter, smashing monsters with this giant hammer in her hands, because any card that increases your willpower strengthens this weapon too.

In other words, this card is so good that it simply makes a lot of other interesting cards and mechanics completely useless.

My friends and I have already played 3 campaigns with this card, and compared to previous playthroughs, this card actually feels like cheating.

It has been said by Elkeinkrad already, but I want to point out how this can be good in any investigator that has around 10 skills or more in their Deck.

Digging your deck with the Scroll of Secrets (3) allows you to do the following, without spending a single action:

• Look in your deck for Written in the Stars and place it in your hand

• Place the skill you've chosen on top

• Potentially discard a weakness

• And then immediately use Written in the Stars.

Also, the fact that the Secret is spent during the trigger makes it a perfect synergy with Abigail Foreman who can trigger it twice, and the fact that you use the cards at the bottom of your deck makes sure that you don't take the same cards again (unless you chose to return one card at the bottom of your deck).

Also one quick mention to Eidetic Memory that can give you extra uses at the end of a Scenario though I'm not so sure it's the most effective way to spend your XP.

It is of course better to use this in Astronomical Atlas-Norman or Amanda as pointed out, but also:

• Deck-cycling Harvey Walters can benefit from this, especially as it helps deal with that terrible weakness

• Minh Thi Phan who is the Skill- would love it too (imagine finding Sharp Vision), and can also Scavenge it!

• Mandy Thompson loves digging her Deck and would love to find Eureka! (even though it doesn't use the "search" words so it doesn't trigger her )

• Rex Murphy would love Perception (2) to draw a lot of cards while triggering his

• || Daisy Walker loves a Tome,

• Daisy Walker can also use Parallel Fates, Alyssa Graham and why not use Written in the Stars on Enraptured to fill up the Scroll with even more Secrets

• Joe Diamond is happy to have an Insight to recur with his

• Ursula Downs to get rid of that crippling Call of the Unknown though she's not the best user of this combo.

• Luke Robinson, Jim Culver could also use the card with Alyssa Graham and Scrying (3) but it seems less worth it.

Just a small review to say how good this card is in Jenny Barnes.

• Get an additional resource at the beginning of every round if you decide on taking it each time as you can collect the cash before placing the Charge.

•• It brings you rather easily to +4 resources each turn with Lone Wolf, making you as rich as Preston Fairmont, but with a 3-3-3-3 stat-line instead of 1-1-1-1.

• Get a +4 to your first Test each round, which brings you to 7 at least at any skill.

•• This is the equivalent of 4 resources sinked in one of your test boosters like Hard Knocks, Arcane Studies or Physical Training.

• Collect a second Charge to get 3 move actions (so no AoO if you trigger it), which is amazing to go Searching for Izzie

If you have that card in your collection while playing the Dilettante, give it a try, you won't regret it!

Just wanted to note that this card is great in a Diana deck with Sixth Sense, as it both increases the odds of getting the right kind of chaos token, and as it has an 'ignore' effect, you can stuff it under Diana to boost her will, get the spent resource back, and another card.