How does this card work with Scavenging? If I play it from my hand by discarding instead of exhausting, does the discard happen before I make the skill test and perform the action? And because it's in my discard pile, would I then be able to get it back with scavenging if I succeed by two or more?
Have been playing this card with a blessed || Zoey Samaras to great effect. This card can reliably allow you to trigger Zoey's investigator ability every round for 5 damage in two actions - add 2 bless, do your damage to add a 3rd, pull all 3 out to do a +1 damage on the second swing. Barring any story monsters or massive, generally 5 will take anything off the board and leave Zoey her third action to do something else. While this is a heavy early xp investment, not needing ammo and only costing 3 to put into play is huge. Depending on how you build her, Down the Rabbit Hole could help defray. Zoey has plenty of options for upgraded cards if you go that route.
Clarification request rather than review...Can this be added to the "Market Deck" when you have purchased Underworld Market for 6xp (not 8xp as shown on this site (2xp, exceptional +2xp)). The deckbuilder doesn't allow this due to deckbuilding rules not being observed, but I can't see anything that requires it to be in the main deck, or am I just hopeful!
This guy is an exp monster.
With In the Thick of It, you can start with Charon's Obol. Then you have The Great Work and 2x Delve Too Deep. Guess what then? You can also run 2x Arcane Research since you likely will run a spell asset heavy deck to swap among them. Now, you get 2+1+2+2=7 guaranteed free exp after every scenario at the cost of 4 trauma. It is a lot of trauma, but man, it is also 7 guaranteed exp. If you want to push this even further, you can run Down the Rabbit Hole for 2 more free exp (I'd be a bit more careful because there are a lot of busted cards you may want to purchase as well, like Black Market, Dayana Esperence, Geas, and etc.)
Doing the math alone makes me so hyped already.
You want to fail at a test to seal a "bad" chaos token ? And then you need charges to keep the token(s) sealed ?
It seems to me that it's best in a mystic deck (or a deck with some access to mystic cards):
So Daisy Walker, Norman Withers or ... Akachi Onyele. She has +1 charge and Spirit-Speaker to recharge the dial by putting it in her hand and replaying it.
And as several of the cards mentioned above work on test made by an other investigator or on assets controlled by an other investigator you can give the dial to an investigator and the token-manipulation an/or recharge to an other one.