Head chef Samaras can put her willpower to use in surprising fashion. The key is "You owe me one!". Suddenly, your mystic's second copy of rite of seeking or mists of r’yleh have use. Holy rosary, blessing cards... it gives Zoey something to do between slaughtering foes. Plus, it works from anywhere on the board and lets the target draw a card. A borrowed flashlight or ring of keys could mean getting a few clues easily instead of having to backtrack.
Leo Anderson finally gets another good cheap ally. Father Mateo or any bless token build gets another great tool. Also gives rogue a chance to even out the chaos bag with their other cards that dump cursed tokens.
My only down side is this feels like a survivor card more than a rogue.
This card is very versitile. For 1 you can add three bless tokens to the bag and discard it at the end of the turn. Later in the game it offers good cheap soak if your charging into danger. Or if your running a cursed token build you get one cursed token added each round.
The favor of this card is also phenomenal! A priest who fronts for a good diety, but has a darker side.
Top notch card, will likely see a bit of play.
Hasn’t been a lot of chatter about level 0 yet, but I can attest that it is very solid in Preston. If he can get it down, his extra 4 resources a turn can put him at a 5 in agility or intelligence for a test. And he’s usually building to have a lot of resources anyway. That’s a lot of flexibility for level 0 Preston. After tabooing level 3 so heavily, I’m surprised they released level 0 as such a strong card. Granted, for other rogues it can be expensive, but this is the class built for making resources. This card fits well in any resource-heavy builds.
One thing the other reviews didn't touch on is how amazing Stella's health and sanity are. With very few exceptions (Calvin and Lola, and Pete except with Duke he does), an investigator's combined value adds up to 14 or 15. Stella is blessed with a generous 16! This might not seem like a huge deal, but health/sanity is king in Arkham Horror. Many scenarios are down to the wire and 1 more damage or horror can make the difference. And not only that, Stella has 8's in both sections, so she has no clear weakness! This, in combination with her access to Peter Sylvestre and Jessica Hyde and all the other survivor soak, makes her incredibly tanky! And remember, this is all just gravy on top of an amazing ability and solid skills. In fact, considering how good Stella seems to be with her current card pool, I don't know if she needed that additional hp. But I won't complain.
With the taboo, in addition to it just being a pretty good "draw three cards", there are I think two investigators who might find its ability even more useful:
Both their weaknesses shuffle themselves back into your deck. Scroll of Secrets being able to discard weaknesses straight from your deck can give you a reasonable shot at getting rid of it for this run-through of your deck, especially if you only start using the scroll after you've just shuffled the weakness back in and your deck is starting to run thin.