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Nine of Rods

How does this card interact with overzealous? Would the second card that you draw from this card not have surge? Is this an effective counter to it? 200 characters 200 characters 200 characters 200 characters

6/20/25

MrMewMews · 1

Since overzealous says that first card get the additional trait surge, I think the cancel effect of the tarot also works on this. Also you draw a another encounter card and do not replace the original draw, so the effect of overzealous has no further effect — Tharzax · 1 6/20/25

Magnifying Glass

To all the "new" players around here, this card doesn't really justify the xp cost, so yes 0 in ressource instead of one is nice, is it critical ? no It will maybe be useful in some very niche decks with recursivity to push assets in the bin but it's really a QOL upgrade and nothing more.

6/19/25

blobe · 4

Why is "new" in quotes? — MrGoldbee · 1497 6/20/25

https://youtu.be/4DqoQq1zME8 — snacc · 1023 6/22/25

Riot Whistle

The cool thing about this card is that you only need to play it on the turn you need it - you get the action for playing it back immediately. Even more, Wilson Richards can play it for 1 resource cheaper! Also, with Tinker or Tool Belt the slot should not be an issue anymore.

6/18/25

AlderSign · 423

Tool Belt isn't a very good solution. The slot is only available if the other accessory is also a tool. Currently, that's only Cleaning Kit or Chemistry set for the cross-class investigators - that's not exactly a large range. — Ruduen · 1025 6/19/25

The problem with waiting to play it until you need to use it is that typically the whole reason you are using it is that you want to do as many actions as you can in a single impactful round, in order to rescue your cluever. At that point, spending an action to play this completely defeats the purpose of even having it. Fighters are all about squeezing as much damage as they can into their important rounds, and trying to spend their time productively when they have nothing to fight. Riot Whistle is absolutely the sort of card a fighter should be equipping on their downtime, not when their actions are needed! — snacc · 1023 6/22/25

Artistic Inspiration

This may not be obvious at first, but for George Barnaby this card is insanely good. You can use the fast action on Artistic Inspiration during the enemy phase to trigger his ability.

As there are not many cards that can trigger a discard during the enemy phase, this essentially nets you +1 card per turn.

6/17/25

Nallej · 2

Luger P08

The Luger has very interesting potential for initiating a test and dealing damage during any phase.

Parralel Zoey Samaras can use this to net more bless tokens, and George Barnaby can use it in tandem with Gift of Nodens or Cornered to draw more cards.

Especially nice for Zoey, whose access to enchant weapon can turn this into a 1/turn 2 damage attack at base 9. Or 3 with her bless token manipulation.

Mark Harrigan may also be interested in the option to use it, but doesn't have access to the card and already has a fair few alternatives that work better for him.

6/16/25

Olimarrex · 6