Free move, lower cost, a brilliant upgrade to a niche card.

Heroic Rescue has historically had the issue that, despite your best attempts, your friends WILL run all over, thus the card can't be played due to distance. The pre-move on this upgrade solves that issue and the dropped cost is a useful addition in of itself.

DO remember that you can play Heroic Rescue in responce to an attack of opportunity, this means that when a friend wants to get away from an enemy all they gotta do is have you close enough to play this card, in so doing you intercept the enemy and the ally is free to progress the scenario safely. Absolutely awesome card for dedicated tanks.

This card has a solid home now in Winifred Habbamock. In fact, I would say it will be a core card for her.

1) Wini can commit this to any test, meaning she only needs 1 other card committed to get her 2 card commitment bonus. Basically, Wini loves having Wild icons in her hand, and Opportunist has one, so that's a point in its favour.

2) If that test succeeds by 3 or more, she gets this card back in her hand. In addition to the card drawn with her investigator ability, getting Opportunist back prevents her from reducing the raw number of cards in her hand when she commits 2 and draws 1 in return. This allows her to continue to use her ability multiple times a round. Think of Opportunist as fuel for her ability.

3) Wini can easily succeed by 3 or more, because she tends to overcommit anyway. Especially true if she uses this on an Agility test! This means you can feel a bit better about using this card, knowing you'll actually get it back.

4) Wini can very successfully lean into the "succeed by X" Rogue archetype meaning that Opportunist is often not the only effect being triggered on a big success.

Overall, while this card is not as great on other investigators, it is really amazing for Winifred specifically.

After slotting this into an Akachi deck, this feels like an excellent card. As long as you have the deck space, I think any mystic can take this as a great tech card. Mystics don't even have to build around it; putting in cards that are good will guarantee this has plenty of targets. Investigators that can take mystic as a secondary might find themselves with this in hand but nothing to use it on, unless they're Norman (who's really a mystic, if we're being honest).

I think in general, cancelling a bad RoS pull is the best use of this, as has been mentioned. However, there were several times that a bad Shrivelling (5) pull would have killed me that I was able to ignore. Additionally, doubling the effects from Wither and Wither (4) reduces the enemy's fight twice and deals 3 damage with the upgraded version. Doubling the effect on Sixth Sense is pretty pointless, since you replace a replacement effect and still only get one clue, but it can net you 3 clues with Sixth Sense (4). Pretty neat, I think.

This card is weird but in some particular cases it is awesome. With rogues, if you have Lola Santiago and Flashlight you have a really efficient combo where flashlight makes your investigate action easier by 2 and you can use Lola's during the test at a cheaper cost. You can do that 4 more times with Emergency Cache (3). If you have to use Streetwise to bump your intellect then the value of this card is off the charts (a little bit less than 16 ressources). Not a first buy obviously but a really cool card.

I feel like this card might not get enough consideration in multiplayer games where a character is able to run cards like ["Let me handle this!"] and absorb other investigator's encounter cards. A lot of weaknesses are treachery cards, too.

Considering this can only fire once a turn, it's probably not all that great. But if your group is drawing 3 or 4 encounter cards a turn, according to the review below, 30%+ of cards have skill tests on them so you should be drawing a skill test every turn. So, if you're able to control who gets what card each turn, you can (kind of) be sure you're going to draw a card each turn.