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Commit only to a skill test you are performing. As an additional cost to commit "Watch this!" to a skill test, spend up to 3 resources.

If you succeed by 1 or more, gain twice that many resources.

"You're still a show-off."
Andreia Ugrai
The Drowned City Investigator Expansion #61.
"Watch this!"

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This is a niche upgrade. Sure, you get +2 to the things you were testing before (foot/fist/brain), and you can put on book tests (which is great news if you’re Trish), but there are a lot of great cheaper rogue cards. I can see this fitting into Winifred once you pass 30 XP and have all the assets and events you’re looking for. You can spend up to three, which means spending zero is possible, but at that point, you spent 3XP to add a pip to unexpected courage.

MrGoldbee · 1506
It can be fun in a Dark horse deck: you keep taking resources during your upkeep (up to 3), at some point you commit "Watch this !" and spend all your resources, which gets you the Dark horse bonus (so you are at +4 for this test) and after the test you have a lot of resources to end your set-up. For example to play Leo de Luca. — AlexP · 300
This is not just an extra pip on Unexpected Courage: this is an Unexpected Courage that gives you cash. It's totally worth the exp on anyone that can buy it, beside Skids, who can turn the level 0 version of the card into the level 3 through Bestow Resolve. — HeroesOfTomorrow · 69

What a loaded card!

One of the main issue the basic version of "Watch this!" had was that it was only worth using on skill checks you were likely to pass, which for most Rogues would be only Agility, as it is their usual best stat, while their second best, Intellect, cannot benefit from the basic skill card in normal circumstances, lacking the matching icon.

Enter the level 3 version of the card , which simply converts all of the skill icons into wilds, that can be commited to any skill check!

That makes the card ludicrously easy to use, and makes it easier to fulfill the clause to get cash from it, as you can commit it to whatever trivial skill check you run accross

But what is great about this is that it turns "Watch This!" from exclusively a utility/economy card to a mix between utility, economy AND defense, as the three wilds are immensely more helpful to deal with treacheries than the lone Will pip of the basic version.

This gives the card amazing versatility: if you don't care about money, you can just use this to save your butt against a bad treachery that would punish you badly for failing its test!

Some people compare it as being an overpriced upgrade to Unexpected Courage, and I couldn't disagree more: the combination of both its resource genration and skill bonus, makes this much, much more versatile than UC, and far easier to slot in and use in many situations. You sometimes have to choose between skill cards that either give you strong effects (like Vicious Blow) and cards that provide high skill bonus for a number of situations (like Survey the Area) but "Watch this!" does BOTH at once, which is far more value than what most skills have to offer, and its versatility makes it that much easier to cut down the need to run similiar cards to fulfill different functions. It makes your deck more compact by combining multiple uses of different skills into one card and give you the option to replace overlapping skills with something different.

That is without considering the great synergy it has with other Rogue cards, and the "overachiever" archetype: it can help you reach a high result to trivialise your next test with Momentum, give you 3 wilds you can look for with either Daredevil (a card which really likes finding wilds that are eligible to any test) and make it more likely for you to get max draw with All In

I don't think this is a luxury upgrade at all: I think this is definetly worth considering for any Rogue that has access to it and is running the basic version or Unexpected Courage, or is making heavy usage of Rogue skills. It's just a brilliant card that is ludicrously easy to use and slot in any deck, which is what all skills should aspire to be.

I feel Momentum (1), Copycat (3), Justify the Means(2) or Savant (1) solve more problems or are/cheaper. Hence luxury. — MrGoldbee · 1506
Momentum doesn't help you in most cases during the mythos phase and is dependant on your being able to oversucceed on your own, Copycat's usefulness is tied on other Investigators' decks, Justify the Means leaves you to deal with a tons of curses as the fallout, Savant is reliant on your statline and the skill you are testing whether it's worth jack or not. I think for 3 exp, getting a skill that can be commited to any test and always be useful no matter the circumstances, is a perfectly reasonable price. — HeroesOfTomorrow · 69
Not that those skills are bad, by any means: they have great functionality on specific circumstances (with the exception of Justify the Means, which is always useful, and unsurprisingly costs the same). But upgraded Watch This is far easier and brainless to slot in most decks. Having said that, all of those skills (beside Justify the Means) are still accessible to off-class Investigators, Watch This isn't, so more people have more access to them than upgraded Watch This. — HeroesOfTomorrow · 69