Holy moly, you made me realized they use a different wording here, compared to e.g. Eon Chart. The design team never ceased to amaze me, ambiguous indeed. Although it is just because we are used to the words in lower case letters and non-bold ("fight", "evade") - I actually think the way it's written here is the better/clearer one IF they mean any card/ability/basic action with the bold action designator. But then again, what about additional costs? I wish the used the power of reminder text more often... — AlderSign · 423 6/15/25

It's a reaction, it had to use a different wording. The bold denominator indicates it is a basic fight or evade, you can't activate assets and stuff, if you could it'd say immediately take a fight or evade action, just check how Ursula Downs is worded for reference. — DakonBlackblade · 13 6/23/25

Doppelgänger is a reaction printed in the same set that does the same thing with a different wording. It says <reaction> “ After an enemy enters or leaves attached location, return Doppelgänger to your hand: Either perform an evasion attempt against that enemy, or immediately move to attached location.” If they just now decided just now decided that the bold “Evade” was their reaction shorthand for “perform a basic evasion attempt,” it’s weird they printed two assets with that identical reaction in the set and worded them so differently. — Eudaimonea · 6 7/1/25

In other words, Doppelgänger proves that this card didn’t have to use different wording due to its reaction status, and in fact if this card is supposed to do the same thing as Doppelgänger, those two would be expected to use the same wording. Doppelgänger could save several words and be uniform if it said “Either *Evade* that enemy or *Move* to its location.” I guess one way to interpret the different wording is that they decided on this new phrasing late in The Drowned City’s design and didn’t go back to standardize Doppelgänger. Another would be that different people designed the two cards and didn’t consult one another. A third could be that they failed to send Doppelgänger through the proofing process. But it seems to me that a pretty good explanation for them being worded so differently is that they are intended to function differently. So again, what is this card supposed to do? Whoever’s confident it is a basic fight or evade action, I’d like to know your reasoning on why the wording is so different from Doppelgänger. — Eudaimonea · 6 7/3/25

Preston? Charlie? — AlderSign · 423 6/14/25

Many ways to deal with enemies in better ways even with gators with low foot and fist, it says so in the review itself. For Charlie specifically, you are actually like a 6/6/6/6 investigator, you do not need this at all, I woudl never waste my XP and deck slot here. Also you can never relly on the card, low shroud locations exist in droves, getting Preston up from 1 foot to 2 foot will sure help a lot. — DakonBlackblade · 13 6/14/25

Yes, I read it, but I disagree. Raising the base skill is effectively the same as getting a modifier, so it does help those two I mentioned. What you omitted from your review as well is the fact that this card saves you actions, which is quite important IMO. — AlderSign · 423 6/14/25

Charlie doesn't need to raise his stats, Preston has much better things to do to raise his skills if you even want to do that cause he mostly can just pay for test less success anyway. This maybe has a fringe use in true solo since it saves you an action but even in that situation you have no real control when it triggers, you might just be in a 0-2 shroud location. — DakonBlackblade · 13 6/14/25

i don't follow most of your train of thoughts (guess we just have to disagree), but I also think this is a solo card because of the re-sealing condition. — AlderSign · 423 6/14/25