Ascetic

One more thing this card is especially useful for is when you have a team of investigators who have different needs for experience.

If you're a survivor who finishes their core build by 13xp and just gets luxuries afterwards, maybe you should take this card and In the Thick of It. This will help your rogue teammate out - the power boost in early scenarios of the campaign will help you get more xp each scenario and your other teammates will get stronger faster.

Frost · 281
Blessed Blade

One underrated benefit of this card is that it's one of the few weapons you can use as a sidearm in a Flamethrower deck. With the flamethrower blocking up the body slot, there aren't that many guardians who can get an extra hand slot all too easily.

Roland Banks could take scientific study to help him wield a Sledgehammer, and Leo Anderson could take Hidden Pocket alongside an enchanted Hunter's Armor, but these are all somewhat faffy multi-card combos that come with various restrictions.

Anyone can spend 3 exp on an Occult Reliquary and have a permanently available extra hand slot to carry this thing around in, no additional effort needed. Heck, you can run it alongside any two handed weapon to remove the need to run Bandolier , letting you avoid having to play a relatively slow card. That, or take it anyway, run some Survival Knives or something and turn yourself into a ridiculous toolbox of death.

nictron90 · 13
Eye of Ghatanothoa

This card is awesome on Gloria Goldberg. It's a Holy Rosary, Scroll of Secrets, and Heavy Furs all in one. For 4 XP, you see which card is on the top of the encounter deck before every card pull in the Mythos Phase. With Gloria, this card allows you to help your team out immensely before they each draw a card and deciding the order who takes the top card.

Busted. Highly recommend it with the use of Foresight as well for maximum Mythos phase ignoring.

m22danley · 7
This would be busted even without the +1 will and 3 health soak. — Pinchers · 134
I’m not understanding why this is better than Alyssa for Gloria. You cannot use her innate with this while you can with Alyssa. Otherwise Alyssa’s free trigger lets you see the top card every turn. — MindControlMouse · 48
Never mind I get it now. The next card is revealed every time a card is drawn so Gloria can decide at that moment who gets it during the Mythos phase. This assumes she doesn’t need to decide the order at the beginning of the phase but given the Eye was released in the same expansion as Gloria I’m assuming it was meant to benefit her in this way. — MindControlMouse · 48
Marion Tavares

Marion is very broad in terms of ways to build her deck, so in writing this review I'll provide an overview rather than the impossible task of summarising ever possible deck style you can make with her. I've broken this down into a couple of sections, and provided a couple of exemplar decks around specific concepts.


Features:


Deckbuilding considerations:


I hope the review has been useful in showcasing what you can do with Marion. In particular, I think there's been so many good and distinct Marion decks already that there's a lot of inspiration to draw on! Let me know your thoughts.

HungryColquhoun · 10468
Detective finds her arm in her sleeve, school-play style. — MrGoldbee · 1505
@MrGoldbee lol at the mental image of that! — HungryColquhoun · 10468
That Detective is so stubborn that he Denies the Existence of an amputation... and it works. — DrOGM · 25
I wonder If her ability triggers an attack of opportunity, when playing the second event (lets say emergency cache)?)? — muzi · 1
I believe it doesn't trigger attacks of opportunity since it is Fast. — AndersGabrielsson · 1
Blood of K'n-yan

Full Binder's Jar + Astral Mirror + Familiar Spirit + The Hierophant • V + Occult Reliquary = 7 empty arcane + 9 empty hand slots.

Which = +18 skill value and 10 damage Blood of K'n-yan

Good luck to the boss!!

gnarb · 3
Only 3 non-permanent parts for the combo. Not perfect but not bad! — MrGoldbee · 1505
Meaning you COULD start with Hierophant and only need to play 3 others. — MrGoldbee · 1505
if Hierophant is out you might as well toss Relic Hunter on top, Charisma for Anna Kaslow with more Hierophants, Rod of Animalism for another Familiar Spirit — mordequess · 100