Survival Knife

Survival Knife

I’m surprised nobody has mentioned the usefulness when paired with Heroic Rescue. You can take the attack that would be directed against another investigator, do an auto damage, and get an attack. Nice simple 3 damage, and a feasible way of killing a pesky 3 health enemy engaged with another investigator (Which forgotten age has plenty of!) though with a risk of collaterol damage to your buddy!

Phoenixbadger · 198
It’s pretty conditional though. Sure, it is great for Hunter enemies that deal damage, but if it doesn’t deal damage then level 0 Survival Knife can’t counter attack, and if the enemy isn’t a Hunter, that means they needed to spend an entire turn with the enemy on their face since Survival Knife only counters attacks during the enemy phase. — Death by Chocolate · 1485
It could also help if your fellow investigator foolishly drew an Enemy weakness as an action, but that seems scarely less of an edge case.... — LivefromBenefitSt · 1067
The only thing I don't like about this card (and it's upgrade) is that you can only use it during the enemy phase. Yes, all the tricks mentioned apply, but it would be really handy to use this off an AOO. — LaRoix · 1645
@LaRoix That'll be the level 5 version, the trigger will just be, "When an enemy attacks you: etc." — SGPrometheus · 821

Dread Curse

Dread Curse

Tamest basic weakness in the game? It doesn’t cost you any actions at all to deal with, all it really does is cost you a card and maybe a test or two down the line. Draw it late? No issues. Playing on expert? You have testless options abound anyway. Playing with new cards that care on any level about curse tokens? This is actually beneficial to you. And finally you might actually be using cards that convert curse to bless, in which case this is easily circumvented. This might hurt more in Innsmouth depending on what the scenarios do with curse and bless, but outside of that campaign, this seems incredibly easy to deal with.

EDIT: I take it back, only because Day of Reckoning got spoiled unexpectedly. Check that one out for an even tamer weakness.

StyxTBeuford · 13028
I think this card might make you overcommit cards more often than you think and will thus end up quite annoying when you draw it. Since I haven't played with Curse tokens yet, it's hard for me to correctly estimate this card's impact. However, if someone in the group has this card in their deck I would probably buy the Blasphemous Covenant (or False/Paradoxical Covenant, depending on what they do) as soon as possible, to potentially turn this weakness into a boon. — PowLee · 15
I do think that 5 curse tokens left unchecked can be quite frustrating, but it'll usually burn itself out fairly quickly, even going so far as to pull multiple curse tokens for an already doomed skill test. On top of that, if you already know you're going to be dealing with this many curse tokens, you can always plan ahead and have 1 or 2 cards ready to oppose it, or even include cards that BENEFIT from it. And comparing that to the average basic weakness, yea this is a very tame one. — TheDoc37 · 468

Shining Trapezohedron

Shining Trapezohedron

Combine it with Dayana Esperence and low cost powerfull spell like Deny Existence. Shining Trapezohedron will cancel the additional cost (spend secret and exhaust Dayana) and allows you to play Deny Existence each round after passing 0 test.

Śliski · 25
It says "resource cost", though. So you still pay the secret if you succesfully perform the test. — trazoM · 9
Ah... i have misread the card... I have mixed the success part with failure "any cost" part... — Śliski · 25
Wroooong, additional cost cant be canceled. — yarhma · 1
This still feels good in a Mystic/Seeker deck, as Seekers have access to Truth from Fiction and Eldritch Sophist for putting additional secrets on. I might try it with honorary Mystic Norman Withers. — BlankedyBlank · 23
This card is still good with Dayana, since then you have plenty of targets to use Shining Trapezohedron on. Attach something like Read the Signs on dayana, and you have a good chance of finding 2 clues with a 0-cost event. — flamebreak · 22
This item should be coded as a unique item in arkhamdb.com — TheCampaignGuy · 1

Harlan's Curse

Harlan's Curse

Note that this search only checks the encounter deck, not the discard pile (and victory display). For that reason, it's a good idea to advance "Harlan's Curse" when all 3 Acolytes are in the discard/play (or even just 2 Acolytes in the discard/play when 3/4 player) - this prevents the spawn.

Of course you might be dealing with the other version of this act, so this gambit might have no effect. But if it works well, it can be nice.

duke_loves_biscuits · 1264

Knowledge is Power

Knowledge is Power

How does this work together with cards that need multiple actions to activate like the new forbidden tomes?

Forbidden Tome Forbidden Tome

Is the multiple actions needed as a part of the trigger or a part of the cost?

iro · 5
I'm pretty sure that you don't need to spend any actions because the actions are part of the cost — Zinjanthropus · 229
I am also of the opinion that KiP should activate a use of either Forbidden Tome, but the is the argument that "an action of fast action ability" indicates only one arrow. That seems kind of stiingy, but "Grim Rule" and all.... — LivefromBenefitSt · 1067
@LivefromBenefitSt Check the Reference guide for the different types of triggered abilities. Even if they cost multiple actions, they are still an ‘action triggered ability’ or ‘=> ability’(I can’t embed symbols in comments). So, KiP can activate the forbidden tome regardless of Hand Size. — Death by Chocolate · 1485
That's good then, because it seems kind of cheap otherwise. — LivefromBenefitSt · 1067
So, if you put a Forbidden tome on Abigail Foreman, you could trigger it twice with KiP and then Ms. Foreman's ability.... — LivefromBenefitSt · 1067