Alchemical Transmutation

Alchemical Transmutation

Consider these synergies:

  • Dragon Pole - needs to fill arcane slots cheap, and this does that
  • Arcane Initiate - wants to find spells like this
  • Torrent of Power - wants to burn charges for , and this has the highest charge-to-cost ratio at 0xp, tied with Scrying
  • Ever Vigilant cuts the total cost of this card considerably (zero tempo to play in a batch, zero supply, still costs a draw)

Oh yeah, you could also click it for supplies, I guess.

In short, I think there's a Lily Chen deck here.

MrWeasely · 42
Lily is SO much better with the Hammer, it feels bad to build around her at 0xp to fulfil the dragon pole. I like building Lily at 0xp to be an encounter fiend with Alyssa Graham, (1) Scrying, and Prepared for the Worst. The synergies you've posted aren't great for Lily, I think? — fiatluxia · 69
I'm gonna give it a shot. I'll report back. — MrWeasely · 42
I ended up taking Prophetic, as my In the Thick of It buy. Prophetic pays for Alchemical Transmutation, then Alchemical Transmutation gets boosted by Prophetic and pays for Prophetic. Or Ever Vigilant pays for both, and then Prophetic pays for Azure Flame. There's strange things afoot. — MrWeasely · 42
Game 1 it didn't see play. Game 2 both copies hit the table, cranking a Dragon Pole up to up by +2 fight and +1 damage, powered two different Torrent of Powers on other investigator's perilous skill checks, and got clicked for a buck and a card with Crystal Pendulum. At one point I knew I could get 4 resources in 2 actions for a big purchase, if I drew the big card I wanted. It pulled its weight. — MrWeasely · 42

Ethereal Slip

Ethereal Slip

Played this in Undimensioned and Unseen 2P today, did absolute work corralling the Broods where we wanted them and less clunky than managing them from the Whately Ruins.

Highly recommended for that scenario!

fiatluxia · 69

Ethereal Slip

Ethereal Slip

Amazing for Devil Reef in the Innsmouth cycle - especially on solo. So much ground to cover and if you can get this out a couple of times (even Painting It with Sefina Rousseau), boat-hopping becomes a little easier.

Krysmopompas · 367
Aren't 95% of those foes Hunters? — MrGoldbee · 1502

Untimely Transaction

Untimely Transaction

One of the limiting factors of this card is that many investigators already fill all or most of their slots. So let's make a list of all slotless items. Well, ones that aren't investigator specific or from campaigns. Bandages, Handcuffs, Hiking Boots, Kerosene, Liquid Courage, Mk1 Grenades, Painkillers, Schoffner's Catalogue, Segment of Onyx, Smoking Pipe, Strange Solution, Tennessee Sour Mash, The Councils Coffer, Skeleton Key, Thermos, Track Shoes,

Special shout out to Dexter Drake's Occult Scraps, which appears playable but is a -1 for the rest of the game for them, and Charon's Obol, which is technically an item but will never be in your hand.

drensley · 5
The scraps are NOT playable with this card, even if the other player would want them. Signature weaknesses are signature cards, and the RR clarifies, that these can never be controlled by another player. — Susumu · 383
Bandages and Schoffner's Catalogue...Other investors could also use it when in same place. Segment of Onyx, similar with mirror and crystallizer. If the investor does not have bonded cards at the beginning, they can't use these cards even you sell the item to them. — BoomEzreal · 9

Bloodthirsty Spirits

Bloodthirsty Spirits

I was playing Winnie though this campaign, and she did well, I had Stella bail her out most of the time, but I've never seen any card go so nicely with her weakness.

"You must commit arrogance to eligible skill test."

Yeah, it's 1 test, but come on. It's really gonna force it on me. :/

Therealestize · 76
Just wait until you play this with Amanda Sharpe. — dscarpac · 1263
Lol — Therealestize · 76