So in combination with Bounty Contracts this pretty strong. Use this to either keep topping up your bounties; to give extra actions when you kill lots of relatively basic enemies (even a rat exterminating job isn’t beneath Tony!); or as a stronger weapon against a difficult enemy with up to +3 strength available. With Tony’s 5 strength line, an attack of 8 is a very strong option against even the most advanced elite enemies.

Better yet, with two chances of drawing it from your hand there is a good chance of drawing it near the beginning, giving the option of using your bounties more generously.

Realistically it is unlikely you’ll be in a position to activate that trigger and get two colts out for a single action.

(edit: thanks TheNameWasTaken for spotting that there is no synergy with Sleight of Hand, which doesn’t “play” but “puts into play”, so no trigger to allow both colts out on the cheap)

Regrettably few ammo for what you’ll want to use it for, so it’s a good bet that Contraband, Extra Ammunition (if you are a guardian) and Sleight of Hand will be pretty good options, likely to complement other cards you’ll have in Tony’s deck.

How does this card interact with Patrice Hathaway? I understand Patrice draws her hand all at once, but since it's being checked as she's drawing them, does this mean she would only draw 2 cards a turn, or does she draw 5 and then discard 3 of them every turn?

I assumed the latter last time I played so while the treachery is relatively harmless for a lot of characters, it was absolutely crippling for Patrice. I also had Self-Centered for my basic weakness, and drew Deeper Slumber not once, not twice, but three times. I literally felt like I played only half my allotted turns that game, all soaked up getting rid of these things. Where was Ward of Protection when you need it?

My strategy is to pick up Versatile and get Laboratory Assistant for my bonus class card. But if I have all that in play and draw this, would I be drawing 4 cards a turn, or drawing 5 and discarding 1? Might seem like a fluke, but the card was so debilitating, I'm making a fear purchase for next game. If it's drawing 4 a turn, that would actually work well with the build I'm going for as it slows down how fast I would go through the deck. The only downside would be only having 4 cards a turn instead of 5 (3 if I have the Watcher from Another Dimension but he's usually a one and done), but as I said, that might work in my favor and I'm curious to play a slower draw Patrice. It sounds like fun. More fun than grim ruling it anyways.

One strike against this card is that it is a skill card with a single willpower pip. The effect is, conditionally, heal 1 horror, but mystics generally have more trouble with physical damage than with horror. You would generally want 2 pips from a skill card, like Guts or from assets like Arcane Studies(2).

You can get single pips from about half of the mystic assets or events, with the upside of having another use for the card when the current problem is not the next will power test. Better skip this one and invest in Fearless(2) later, or just play allies and Painkillers to soak horror.

Correct me if I'm wrong: But does this give +1 at the skill tests done in the Mythos phase? Because if it is I can see this card entering my "none Stella Clark" decks, even if it is, to date, the most expensive Survivor card in the collection.

I think this card is really underrated. The 1 damage is helpful, but not hugely relevant as any Mystic has a lot of ways to deal out damage. The true purpose of this card is to be able to evade with an event at level 0. Of course, there are competitors with this card for that exact role, but when you just need to evade something having this as an option is helpful.

While this card has largely been overlooked, this card might be seeing some new life in Jacqueline, who can pretty nimbly avoid the penalty on this card and who also has low base agility.