The bane of Rogues everywhere. This card, along with Rotting Remains, make Finn have trouble sleeping at night. You're going to be doing those sorts of tests more often than not, so having an answer for this card is important. Notable interaction: Momentum - Use Lockpicks or something to oversucceed by 3 as your last action, then test Frozen in Fear at difficulty 0!

Amanda wants upgraded perception and deduction in her deck. The problem is, even with practice makes perfect, you can only play these cards so many times. ... so why not use obscure studies to loop them? Play them twice, then use obscure studies to put deduction(2) back in your hand. If you’re feeling frisky, or have control of the encounter deck (teaming with Gloria for example, or people with First Watch), You could even use your favorite skill card three times before replacing it. If you’re finishing up clues in a scenario, five uses of deduction(2) should do it for you, even if you miss a few times. Consider Cryptographic Cipher also gives you a fast action.

Another use of studies is to get rid of your weakness! The forced effect of whispers takes place at the beginning of a turn, so as long as you can apply whispers to a skill check before next round, you can get rid of it.

I like this card a lot in combination with A Glimmer of Hope, which becomes three additional Unexpected Courage with "buyback" in your deck with the totem, and you don't mind committing them before totem is out because you can get them back at any time.

Wendy Adams doesn't like this combo because she'd rather play Wendy's Amulet, and Abandoned and Alone ruins the ability to bring glimmer back from the discard pile (unless you get it before committing glimmer of course).

This also turns Resourceful into Perception, Overpower, or Manual Dexterity, with a recursion rather than a card draw, which I think can be better depending on what you have in your discard pile.

Any investigator who can take this and doesn't have strong competition for the accessory slot can use an additional skill icon when committing cards, and the upgraded Survivor Grisly Totem returns the committed card to your hand if the test fails - easing the burn when failing with a committed Resourceful - while the upgraded Seeker Grisly Totem lets you draw a card if the test is successful (like those fore-mentioned skills).

So one deck I've tried to get of the ground for a while now is Cho with boxing gloves and a weapon, bandolier style, My logic was always that cho often runs out of steam given each card in his deck basically only kills one enemy, adding a gun (or other reliable weapon) would give much more gas, the issue I always run into is this:

I have a .45 in play with 3 ammo, I then draw boxing gloves, what do?

A) If I keep the gun in play I lose out on the efficiency of getting draws when I kill.

B) If I play the boxing gloves (without waiting for bandolier) I lose three bullets that my deck has no way of getting back and sacrifice total killing power.

Now my collection has the colt (2), unlimited bullets on a card that can return to hand at any time, I think it solves both issues instantly to the point of probably just not bothering with bandolier at all.

And this probably works with any two handed big weapon, play the colt as soon as you can, when you need to play your big "thingie" you just bounce the colt, then you wait till you run out of ammo/spirit cards in your deck and just replay it.

what if you get near the game and you aren't out of spirit cards/ammo, well then, this card just became an overpower, and that's the worst it can ever be, which to me seems like a bargain for a card subclass characters can take.

So, this is half a review half a question.

First the review, you are paying 1 resource more than beat cop (and having a unique ally which matters sometimes) to trade "deal 1 damage" for "gain 3 clues" (or gain 2 clues and keep the fight bonus), beat cop is good because untested damage is good, but is 1 untested damage worth 1 clue?, is it worth 2/3 clues?, probably not. Her expense is not something you can ignore, but she got introduced with a ton of guardian economy cards and just before guardians got the most balanced economy card at level 0. (rite of hot streak)

Now the question, say I kill an enemy, as say...yorick, and I trigger her ability and she dies, I then trigger yorick's ability to bring her back at that moment I then trigger her ability again responding to the fact I am still "after I defeat an enemy" is there something in that chain of events that doesn't work?

1: Defeat Enemy. 2: Trigger Grete and pick up Clue. 2.5: Grete Dies. 3: Trigger Yorick's Ability, Play Grete. 4: Trigger Grete again.