It's a testless clue, fast, for a reasonable price.

This card is flat amazing. Anybody who can afford the cost and doesn't emergently need to draw something more important will directly contribute to winning the game with this card. Doesn't care about shroud, doesn't care about enemies. This is an absolute staple.

I’ll take an alternate view. This weapon and the accompanying net are just too complicated, expensive and action-intensive for the simple way I play Silas. Much prefer him with the costly but no fuss Timeworn Brand and cards that recur skills like Resourceful and True Survivor. Sure it’s more xp but Silas can run well with little Xp. Just Meat Cleaver and Sylvestre with Track Shoes, and maybe a couple copies of Brute Force, until you can afford the time-tested Brand.

Daniela can use Toe to Toe on health damage enemy to instantly obliterate it without touching the chaos bag, by having the additional cost go to her Guard Dog. Spilled horrors can go to Precious Memento (Former Life) and spilled damages on Daniela if enemy hits harder than 1 damage required for the dog. Dog bites for 1 damage. Dog is considered "you". She is angry her dog is hurt and auto-whack for 1 damage. Then this Toe to Toe fight deals 2 damages, to the total of 4 damages which should kill most annoying enemies. The dog gets Bandages. Memento can be restored perhaps with Relic Hunter + Bangle of Jinxes to help over-succeeding, which would got jinxed as a part of Toe to Toe. The test to over-succeed can be the next Fight or Earthly Serenity (4), which its difficulty is 0 vs Daniela's 4 , which would also restore some chip damages/horrors off Daniela taken while distributing leftovers from the dog and the stone. Handy!

(This combo also needs only 2 packs : Revised Core and EotE Investigator.)

These two cards are an interesting way to keep the Level 3 Composures in play -- particularly Moxie (3) for Rogues and Plucky (3) for Survivors (Carolyn can also take these and Combat Training, if that's the route you're going). The interesting thing about the Level 3 Composures over their older Level 1 counterparts is that they soak BOTH health and sanity, and in the case of the aforementioned cards, if you want to keep them in play you'll need to soak the lower numbered soak somewhere else. So, for Plucky, you'll need a reliable damage soak, and for Survivors this is another option to Jessica Hyde (although if you're a Survivor who wants to fail, take the other version instead).

For Moxie, you need a reliable sanity soak. Hopefully with that card in play you can spend some money to not TOTALLY fail on a Rotting Remains. You can put one or two points of horror on this card and then heal it back when you inevitably fail some other test. Conversely, this card is perfect for Sefina Rousseau paired with Moxie, as she regularly has other horror soak due to Mystic access, and the damage that she puts here instead is easily healed with Rogue succeed-by-two shenanigans.

Norman loves her at level 0, but he loves her even more at level 2. She boosts his two main stats (turning him into a 5/6 willpower/intellect investigator) and helps him find critical game-breaking assets like Livre d'Ebon and Astronomical Atlas. She also acts as a soak and helps him reshuffle his deck to change his top card.

Whitton is not the right ally for most investigators, but she's great for certain investigators.