John & Jessie Burke

Just as Monstrous Transformation is the dream rewards of a few investigators (Calvin, Preston, and arguably Diana), this might be a side scenario reward that Tommy, Leo, Zoey, and Mark salivate over.

Mark adds "draw a card" to the activation of this ability, Leo massively reduces the cost of playing them and is likely playing them alongside a whole host of allies who have means of dealing one damage. Zoey can combine this with her cross to just smite enemies where they stand.

Though for Tommy, most allies do not have more damage+horror than they do initial cost. Brother Xavier and similar cards reach +1 on the total, meaning you eventually profit if you max them out perfectly. However, you usually break even. The Burkes break even fairly easily, and have the potential of 2 resources of profit. In my experience you often get to cash out an ally for -1 their max, which means the Burkes are capable of breaking even and loading Becky more often than not.

Just have to deal with Egypt being pretty spicy. At least unlike the other two rewards, it doesn't matter how bad dealing with the cultists goes as long as you managed to wake everyone up. No fighter hates the Khopesh of the Abyss either, so if you think you can take the heat, visit Egypt. If you do well on your first excursion you might be able to score a nice weapon for clearing generic monsters.

Swekyde · 65
Easy Mark

If you are short of cash, XP and require significant set up this card can help you to pay for those core assets you desperatly need at a very cheep price (1XP for 3 copies). I have been testing this card in the 19XP enemy management decks (Leo A. and Rita Y.) that I will be taking to Arkham Nights 2019. In the context of stand alone mode where XP is very limited If you don't want more Weaknesses and multiplayer where you tend to have actions to spare (specially as the enemy manager) I would recommend this. On the other hand, If you have acces to Drawing Thin and ignore the updated Taboo List and/or if you alredy have Hot Streak in your deck, then you can definitely skip Easy Mark. Also the reaction effect is very sweet but is very unreliable so I rate this card considering that I will most likely be expending an action to play each copy of Easy Mark.

Alogon · 1144
Astral Travel

It might not be worth the slots in your deck, but I wonder if this is Luke Robinson's get-out-of-pointless-reality card. You can ignore the 6 shroud investigate OR horror penalty and just use this action to move away.

Giffdev · 85
True, the pendant of the queen also does the job though its a lot harder to assemble than just finding an astral travel — NarkasisBroon · 10
That's one way, but considering you'd move to any revealed location at the end of the phase anyway, it's probably easier to just cancel or tank the 2 horror. Mr Rook can eat it for you while also fetching the weakness, Deny Existence is amazing, and Rosary/St Hubert's Key are probably already being run. — StyxTBeuford · 13043
At 3 ressources this is very expensive and has about 1/3 chance to discard an important item or ally. — Django · 5148
Also, you would never want to Astral Travel out of Pointless Reality without a throwaway Item already in play. You really don't want to draw a spooky token while resolving Astral Travel and be forced to discard your Gate Box. — ClownShoes · 160
Perseverance

This works well for any investigator that needs to hang on with low sanity and/or health. The two willpower icons make sure that this is not a dead card even if you are doing well. Could replace Guts in some decks.

I played Perseverance in a solo Zoey Samaras deck with great success. Her 6 sanity isn't much, and a few failed Smite the Wickeds makes you weep. Would have saved me from spoiler, but another spoiler prevented playing it! As a thematic bonus the art kinda looks like Zoey.

wjr · 148
Logical Reasoning

I have two questions about this card:

  • is it possibile to split the healing between more investigators? or do i have to target the same investigator with every "2 heal" chain?

  • is it possibile to split effects of card? example:(in case i have 2 clues ) healing 2 horrors to an investigator, and then remove a terror card ?

or do i have to choose only 1 effect and stick with that for all the clues i have?

Thanks

Rosco · 7
Yes, you can split the effects, that's why it says "for each clue you have" — Sassenach · 180
That could just be referring to the number of times you can perform a single action. "do it 3 times (i.e.)". It's not clear about the split. Since is a relatively new card (return to carcosa) i suppose there's no FAQ about this right? — Rosco · 7
Since it’s ‘for each clue, either’ you can split the effects as per your second bullet point. Re: your first ‘heal 2 from an investigator’ clear states ‘an’ then it’s pretty clear it can’t be split further. I could also interpret it as only being able to clear horror from one investigator total, but I think it’s intended to be read as ‘pick an investigator for each heal 2 chain.’ — Death by Chocolate · 1488
If Carolyn Fern plays this card, for 3 clues/effects, and is targeting the same investigator (ex: Agnes): does Agnes therefore gain 3 resources from Carolyn's ability because each 1 clue = 2 horror are separate effects? — VanyelAshke · 181
@VanyelAshke I would say yes. If you review the FAQ on Carolyn's page, I believe it's helpful to see the clarification the Liquid Courage doesn't give extra resources because it's "additional" instead of a second instance of healing. In this case, the card does not say "heal 2 additional horror for each clue (up to a maximum of 3)." — Time4Tiddy · 247
@Time4Tiddy I'm really late, but I'm fairly certain that's not the case. Terrible Secret is a card that is worded similarly ("For each card underneath Diana, you must either discard that card or take 1 horror"), however we've already got a ruling for that saying that the horror is considered cumulative and that's why using Deny Existence cancels all horror dealt by it. Given how similar the wording is on Logical Reasoning it probably works the same way and so would be considered only one instance of healing if you dump them all on one target. — Lasiace · 23
Sorry, correction, Deny Existence ignores all horror, not cancels. — Lasiace · 23
That "For each..." on Diana's Terrible Secret also highlights that you can split the choices. (So you can make a different choice for each clue with Logical Reasoning.) — Yellow_Peril · 4
@Lasiace idk where you got your ruling from, but it's completely the opposite — stephwhatever · 1