As one of the most expensive seeker cards, this might be worth a second look with the release of eldritch sophist. It’s a pricey combo, so it might be worth adding Dr. Horowitz to the mix (which can trigger astonishing revelations to pay for combo pieces). But with the sophist, and cheap secret containers like the encyclopedia(0), you can prevent the encounter deck or must pass checks. But if you absolutely need to pass checks every turn, it might be worth just buying Jaqueline Fine, getting the scrying mirror, or Sun's Favor. Five XP and five resources is extremely expensive.

This card is wonderful if you have the permanent “On Your Own“. Suddenly, you can have as many allies in your tableau as you can recur this card... and you play them at a two buck discount. With Wendy's amulet, you can play it, then get another shot it chance encounter from your discard pile. It’s a wonderful combo because it provides soak, and if nothing else, allies are wonderful at that.

By itself, this card isn’t worth four XP. But if you’re playing a rogue, you make your own luck. Combining this with your teammates covenants means intriguing things, like flipping curses, using them as blessings, and if they end up as curses, taking them out of the bag with false covenant. With sacred covenant, 50% of the time when you draw a curse, which you can trigger intentionally with the pact of the moon, you get +2 and end the check there. Dexter can also use this with a paradoxical covenant, as can Sefina. But with 50-50 odds, you’d better cover both your options, because the accessory slot is valuable and the effect is forced.

This card is hilarious when taken with either Luke in the party, or adaptably by the dreamer himself. Enemies cannot appear the dreamgate. If you give them to someone there, they go into the discard pile. Treacheries that make locations more difficult can be given to him as well. Worth a dollar anytime you can use it.

Do you like playthroughs that are low on risk and high on cheese? Do you enjoy quiet evenings in the Quad, talking about life and literature with your friends? Then read on!

This scenario is a tough 'un if you play it straight up. You have to race around the board grabbing clues, which let you shuffle tome assets into your deck, which you then have to find a way to draw and play -- all so that you can succeed in one climactic parley check with the malevolent geist that dwells within the pages of the Necronomicon. The main challenge is finding those dang tomes once they are shuffled into your deck. Whitton Greene and Research Librarian can help, and of course any form of accelerated card draw is nice, but all the same, bad draw luck can still sink you. Which is why...

You bring your book club! The setup instructions here only say that DAISY has to remove all tomes from her deck. Doesn't say anything at all about Sister Mary and her Book of Psalms, or Wendy Adams and Grimm's Fairy Tales, or anybody else that Daisy enjoys meeting with on Tuesday evenings for scones and bookish conversation. In short, just make sure Daisy's friends have a few tomes each in their decks, and that someone in the part, ideally more than one to be safe, has Teamwork. Hang out in the quad or better yet the Student Union and have Daisy's crew churn through their decks, playing tomes as they go. Daisy can focus on getting out her Tote Bag and/or Arcane Enlightenment. Someone can beat up on the Namer of the Dead every now and then when he ventures out of the library. Then, when you have all 6 or so tomes in play, slap down teamwork and hand them over to Daisy. Parley the Namer, and savor the dirty but delicious feeling of having completely abused this otherwise well-balanced and well-crafted scenario.