Jessica Hyde

Good card. Boosts and solves Health as a potential problem.

Silas Marsh, Rita Young, Tommy Muldoon and William Yorick can all put it to worthwhile use simply for the +, although some of those can fit Beat Cop which may be significantly more useful to them.

Jessica Hyde's only problem is, other good cards! Grab Charisma and field them together! Jessica Hyde + Peter Sylvestre is a brilliant combo to enable a variety of folks to tackle threats for a veritable eternity, Jessica Hyde+Beat Cop for obvious reasons.

Tsuruki23 · 2577
Other than the fight boost, I think Tommy has better options to cycle through his friends. However, he might want her for the same reason Agnes will take Sylvester: sometimes you want to take damage, but there's a little too much damage. It's a shame Mark can't take her. — SGPrometheus · 847
But Mark CAN take Teamwork. — Death by Chocolate · 1489
You cannot use Jessica Hyde to take damage from Beat Cop. The damage needs to be dealt to Beat Cop itself. — Toor · 1
Surprising Find

Meh.

This thing directly competes with Astounding Revelation and +1's are easier to come by than chunky resource boosts and bonus secrets.

What Surprising Find does is thin your deck to a rather insane level, it's what you do to mitigate the decision to build a 50 card Mandy Thompson deck or if a lengthy campaign has stuffed your deck that was already using Astounding Revelation with half a dozen extra weaknesses and story cards.

The fact that you dont draw an extra card unless you hit it with a search effect is a real problem for this thing. It'd actually be somewhat playable if the Draw were'nt locked into the search.

So, outside of 50-card Mandy, stay away.

Tsuruki23 · 2577
I took it in "Parallel Skids" and it was great. He can't take "Astounding Revelation", but can trigger searches with Lockpicks and PMP. Incredible value, to play with much more than 3 Aces. — Susumu · 381
I meant of cource LCC (3) instead of Lockpicks, but they help for deep searches. — Susumu · 381
I would avoid this card with Mandy as we want to avoid drawing cards as much as possible with her. I think Surprising Find goes great in a Practice-Makes-Perfect deck with Amanda Sharpe. — Portwills · 1
Practice Makes Perfect

Crazy good when you have several options for Practiced skills.

A Roland Banks might try to hit Vicious Blow / Deduction / Leadership. A Finn Edwards might pull out a Three Aces to set up the combo (also Momentum and Deduction obviously).

Overpower and Perception are in the pool of hittable skills, good complements to Deduction and Vicious Blow respectively to make sure you do actually hit something. Mandy Thompson can pull and commit two skills simultaneously!

Getting a second hit from a whopper skill card like Deduction or Vicious Blow is great value all on its own. Also as a search mechanic you might manage to find some research goodies while you're at it.

The problem is that this is'nt just one card, it's 10! You need to make some olypmics level informed decisions about the deck youre building with this in (and really, Practice Makes Perfect is'nt the key card here, it'll all those other ones you're trying to get repeat uses from), but the end result is pretty cool.

Tsuruki23 · 2577
So far this card has been a standout for Roland, Joe, and I think most of all Mark. — StyxTBeuford · 13049
By Luke do you mean Finn? — Kergma · 11
Messed up with luke — Tsuruki23 · 2577
No mention of Minh? The Seeker who can make double use of double skills? Seems like an auto-include for her. — SGPrometheus · 847
I could see it being decent in Minh, but she doesn't have access to as many Practiced skills as Joe, Roland, Mark, or even Mandy — Zinjanthropus · 230
that being said, this was pretty solid in Ursula, and she has even fewer practiced Skills — Zinjanthropus · 230
Extensive Research

Gimicky, good inside it's niche.

If youre playing Higher Education, using Dream-Enhancing Serum and some other hand-size combos both existing and upcoming, this is a no-brainer good addition to that archetype. When set up you can easily expect to be playing this for completely free, routinely.

Tsuruki23 · 2577
Astounding Revelation

Love it, also hugely frustrating.

You need some "search" groundwork to make this thing useful, Mr. "Rook" and Eureka! are good startpoints. If you get an opening "Rook" and slam a couple Astounding Revelation in the first set of searches you'll be in a great spot to win the scenario, if you dont find an early Mr. "Rook" then you're a bit screwed as your draws will get muddled with an Astounding Revelation here and there.

If the wall of text on the in-depth review seems like a lot, here's a couple outstanding combos for this card other than Mr. "Rook":

This thing is frustrating, but trust me, it's strong.

Tsuruki23 · 2577
It is quite a wall of text, but this is definitely a card that deserves it. Very good and very intimidating. — StyxTBeuford · 13049
Zoey can also love a single copy of Astounding Revalation for Stick to the Plan. It's basically a 0xp Another Day Another Dollar for Roland and Zoey that ALSO tightens the deck by another card. She could splash the other two with the same combos you've mentioned, but might want the flex slots for other things. — Death by Chocolate · 1489