"Anirniq" in Inuit religion is the soul or "breath" of all living things. Put nicely, you're shepherding the souls of your dead allies into the afterlife, sheltering them from the cruel whims of the mythos. Put in another way, you're capturing their souls in a soul jar for use in your necromantic rituals.

Even ignoring the fact that this is copies 3 and 4 of your The Red-Gloved Man at a fraction of the XP, don't sleep on the draw 3 effect. This is a basically a 1 cost Cryptic Research with a more restrictive play condition. At just half the XP, that's a steal.

Consider that seekers and mystics run many disposable allies: Arcane Initiate, David Renfield, Art Student, Research Librarian, Laboratory Assistant, and the new Medical Student, and so on. It's easy to get value out of the card, be it from a Mystic killing off their Arcane Initiate from spell backlash or a Ward of Protection or from Dexter's ability, or the Seeker simply drawing through their deck, or just passive damage from the mythos. And you can even play both copies to draw six cards actionlessly!

Most Seekers can easily fit this into their decks as Seekers tend to run low resource curves with plenty of skills. Mystics on the other hand need to consider whether they'll have the resources to make use of all the cards they'll draw. It does mean it's a lot easier to actionlessly use Winds of Power (funding the cost with Prophetic) or set up your Favor of the Moon/Recharge combo.

Edit: I've also somehow missed the excellent though thematically ridiculous combo with Sacrifice. This is now my favorite two card combo.

It's thematic, but kind of a bummer for the investigator, who would like it most, that this card tests : Nathaniel Cho. He loves cards, that could trigger his ability out of the investigator phase, and there are not that many. So far, I've found:

• "Get over here!" (2)
• Ambush (in particular, if you pair it with On the Hunt, or better yet the upgraded version)
• (of course) Counterpunch and the upgrade
• Dynamite Blast (3) (which is nice I guess, but kind of situational: you play it mainly to hurt many, not for the one additional damage)
• Heroic Rescue and the upgrade
• Taunt (3)

So unless I have missed one, this would be the seventh option for him. (Not talking about really weird exceptions, like a Teamwork to take Chuck Fergus to do either version of One-Two Punch out of turn. ) But testing ? The only possibility I see, how this might work for Cho, would be spending money on Combat Training. This card also got an Upgrade, which is coincidently right the next card in this pack. It makes, among other things, passing the check 2 resource cheaper. But I'm still not sure, if this would be worth it.

I'm working on a rich over succeed Tony Morgan combat build that wants to use this as one of the primary weapons. Sawed-Off Shotgun will make it's way in too as it also wants to over succeed. Hard Knocks will probably be a huge get in this deck as well.

A couple of nifty combos in the deck around this card:

1. Overcommit with Momentum since you're trying to succeed by the fight value of a monster at your location this will make the next attack much easier.
2. Watch This, the extra money will be poured into hard knocks when you need some extra double taps.

Some core cards and why you'd choose them:

1. Opportunist & Opportunist - Generally good in over succeed but since you often will want to over succeed by a lot it's useful here.
2. Tabboo'd Sleight of Hand works with this gun.
3. Narrow Escape helps when you need to play a new gun after picking one up with Well-Maintained. The +2 on your next shot is welcome for mowing down 2 enemies in one check.
4. Daring Maneuver is probably gonna pull some weight in terms of adding consistency to your double taps.
5. Since you're already going for oversucceed pair your main gun with some Mauser C96's to get some added resource generation when doing normal fights and Switchblade to round things off.
6. The upgraded Joey "The Rat" Vigil will be a great way to clear your cheaper weapons and make some money for your main one and let you compress actions in general since you're already money focused.
7. With Contraband (and Contraband) both in class and this weapon being an ammo hog it might be worth it to run.
8. Decorated Skull & Decorated Skull probably work ok here as you're a primary fighter and when You're not fighting you need to be preparing while sitting on top of your clue gatherer.
9. "Let God sort them out..." might actually work in this deck, probably as a 1 of, as you will have the kill potential and action efficency for offing 6 dmg worth of enemies when combing across multiple enemies.

I'm not sure yet if the deck is going to be great but looking at this card I do feel like it has potential, especially in campaigns with lots of enemies like Dream-Eaters. I feel it particuarly pairs well with evasion heavy investigators such as Trish Scarboroughor Ursula Downs.

This is great in a draw heavy Mark Harrington deck. You're able to constantly use your self dmg for +2 ability and continually reap the heal from this. It's built in draw + your ability to to draw in several rounds makes this a priority upgrade for Mark when I play. It might even be the only heal he needs when paired with some soak from allies. I used to spend 5 xp on Spirtual Guidance as an early priority but that xp might be better used on earlier guns now.

This is a spectacular card for Calvin. +2 to all stats and an extra action to boot, and he can get enough resources to fuel it with Drawing Thin and a small loan. There's the small problem that he can't actually include the card in his deck, but just Teamwork it to him and Bob's your uncle.

For actual rogues, I'm not the biggest fan. It works in exactly one type of deck: big money rogues. Even in such a deck it's a luxury purchase that takes at least a few turns to come online. You can always grow an extra neck to hang your clock on but you can't buy extra hands, and for most rogues those hand slots are somewhat important. However, for Sefina and Preston Fairmont, rich folk who's hands are often idle and who's never done a honest day's work, the Black Fan is an excellent capstone to their builds.