I firstly under-estimated Blessing of Isis, but this has good potential. If you have Favor of the Sun, you may utilize this as Ancient Covenant. Non-permanent 3xp is expensive, but you could gain effects and save your . Also, I found that you could find 2 easily by Olive McBride. In many case, + + any token will be succeed.

(Additional rule note: if you're autometically succeed, you do not reveal additional token as part of the effect of the token. It means that Mateo do not need to reveal one additional token when you reveal two token with Olive's ability and trigger Bless of Isis).

One problem is that you need to keep your bag with lots of . This means that if you plan to seal tokens, such as Rite of Sanctification, Shield of Faith, and Holy Spear, it's hard to trigger Isis.

I add probability table for bless of isis. Row is the number of tokens in bag except tokens with "revealing another token" effect including /, and Column is the number of tokens in bag. I assume that we always choose tokens with "revealing another token", so that the probability is slightly less if we focus on "succeed" instead of "triggering isis".

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(review updated May 30, 2021)

This card seems super good for Mateo and Mary. But using it for an entire campaign in three-player, with a bag often crammed full of blessings, it didn’t trigger tremendously often. The people who really want this card, rogues who can go through their decks fast and get both favors of the sun, can’t take it.

In four player, you have enough skill checks and people per location that this will trigger more often. In solo, it feels completely skippable; if you can reliably get two blessings in a row, you can probably just succeed without paying three XP and two bucks.

2024 Edit: Blessed blade(4) gives this card a shot in the arm. Because the blade can reveal bless tokens without removing them from the bag, Zoey has very good odds of triggering her elder sign when she wants it… When attacking enemies. Definitely worth another look after the Hemlock Vale pack.

To define how good this card can be. Take note of Favor of the Sun. You can trigger Favor of the Sun after you've seen the first bless token in your draw and thus guarantee Blessing of Isis triggers right there. It's a strong combo, but I'm not sure Blessing of Isis is worth it by itself.

The probability to see two bless tokens goes from neglible at 2-3 tokens in the bag, to nearly 20-30% at the maximum 10 tokens, with a Mary doing her very best to fill the bag with goodness, and/or other characters helping out somehow, those odds can actually be rather good and consistent, netting perhaps 3-5 extra triggers. The trick then is to take characters who've got great abilities, Leo Anderson, Nathaniel Cho and Sister Mary herself all like this effect.

As a last method to support this card, there's seal mechanics. When you've got a Chthonian Stone, the Day of Reckoning weakness, Seal of the Seventh Sign and other mechanics to block out other tokens, this in turn enhances your chances at seeing back to back tokens, this is actually a reciprocal synergy so a large group playing into this theme together can set up games where a heap of negative tokens is locked out entirely and blesses are more then half the bag.

I dont think Blessing of Isis is a particularly excellent card, for the simple reason that it relies on setup and randomness, but it's fun and can be extremely powerful in that niche window when you're consistently seeing those lucky draws. At least once you've set up, the that trigger Blessing of Isis do go back into the bag when triggered, so Blessing of Isis is a bit of a "self refueling engine".

This card seems very good for bless heavy decks, however I feel Mateo is where its strengths lie, the wording on the card states “when a second token is revealed” and it’s the last word I’m focused on, “revealed”. We can pretty much guarantee 2 are revealed by use of Olive McBride to “reveal” 4 tokens instead of one, which on a good day may be enough however a fast player window lies within the skill test so we can also use Rod of Carnamagos to reveal more tokens, and if that’s not enough then surely as a bless focused Mateo you will have a Favor of the Sun sat to finish the deal, and with Mateo’s ability we need not worry about any other tokens we drew unless the dreaded shows up at an inconvenient moment (remember Olive can not choose that token and Mateo’s ability and he has access to Eucatastrophe all of which could combat that unfortunately prevalent token) so using this card on Mateo, you are almost guaranteed an automatically successful test no matter the difficulty or situation (even works if the is sealed on either The Codex of Ages or Crystalline Elder Sign, both good Mateo choices!)