Grift

I love this card!

On the surface it's just another green economy card, with stipulations and risk factors that make it hard for it to compete with the likes of Faustian Bargain. However, when used as a combo piece, this card can be incredibly clutch. First of all it's a trick that requires the presence of an enemy. This makes it a perfect target for Bewitching.

The real beauty of this card however, is in combination with the many "succeed by" skills. Both within the rogue class itself, and elsewhere. Need to take out an Acolyte? Just commit a copy of Momentum to your Grift to get one extra resource (assuming you succeed and wouldn't already have done so by 6). And as long as you succeed by at least 3, you'll be fighting that Acolyte at 0 difficulty. And because Grift is a parley, there is no attack of opportunity.

I love pairing Grift with cards like Nimble, Purified and Lucky Cigarette Case for big value plays.

Other great synergies include: Opportunist, "Watch this!", All In, and Manual Dexterity.

And if you're playing without the taboo list, adding a Double or Nothing to any of the aforementioned combos is a great way to make 100% certain you will draw an auto-fail token. Jokes aside this card goes crazy with Double or Nothing and it is a very fun time as long as you don't make a habit of abusing it.

Uffruption · 103
Microscope

I brought this card to a convention meetup play. The removal of exhaust condition on the compared with Lv. 0 one make it very suitable for high player count, where you get more enemies and the team can flex and perform both evasion and fighting. A single flex fighter that evade before doing stuff (Sneak Attack, Dirty Fighting, etc.) might be filling your evidence many times in their round. You just have to make sure you are present there.

The maximum 3 evidence you can spend discovers 4 clues, so it covers all the way to 4 players if you found a high shroud 1 victory location. With peace of mind if somehow you failed with +6 you can try again later without losing neither clue compression nor accuracy.

5argon · 9067
Hand-Eye Coordination

It's a lil' bit costly way to gain a specific type of action once per game, because this card does only that. Have a look at the Shortcut. You gain the same amount of value from those two cards, but Shortcut is 0xp 0 resource and can be used on any player creating opportunity for some wild shenanigans. On the other "Hand" -Eye Coordination special effect could be sth like avoiding attacks of opportunity. Sometimes. In very rare and strange occasions it might be a thing you need. So as long as you have access to pool whenever you start to think about this card, just remember Shortcut. In fact guardians have more much nicer action compression cards like Safeguard, Ever Vigilant, Geared Up or even Galvanize, so if you find use for Galvanize and you don't care for its exhaustion effect and it's possibility to play events than maybe it's a card for you.

Drostt · 65
Marion Tavares can't use shortcut. For her, this is a fast "play another event" card. — MrGoldbee · 1439
The costs are ok if you consider that the usual cost of an action are 2 resources (skids ability and quick thinking). Also an action with tools or weapons are two of the main types of action you do to progress the scenario. — Tharzax · 1
Olive McBride

I updated foobar's excellent jsfiddle from their Olive McBride (0) review to include Olive McBride (2) as well. You can play around with the chaos bag to see specific values. However, to summarize:

  • Olive McBride (0)'s weakness was that she was often not worth it. If you were up by 2-4 on a skill test, which is common on Standard difficulty, Olive's ability would often lower your chance of success. The same is also true if you were even (up 0) on a skill test and didn't have Father Mateo's auto success on Elder Sign to save you.
  • Olive McBride (2) does not have that weakness. Using her ability raises your chance of success for almost any chaos bag and skill value, sometimes up to 10-20% more.

Even without considering token-hunting shenanigans (Elder Sign for Father Mateo, Skulls for Jim Culver, Bless/Curse in general), Olive McBride is a considerable upgrade just for passing skill tests, and should be prioritized accordingly.

blackjet3 · 11
Amazing, I was terribly sad that it wasn't accessible anymore. One thing, it asks for a login at the moment when I click on the link — Valentin1331 · 65233
@Valentin1331 Thanks for letting me know. I don't see a way to make the full-screen view visible without login, so I changed the link to the editor view which should work. — blackjet3 · 11
Terrible Secret

That is a terrible rulling. Deny existence shouldn't negate Diana's weakness. The point of ignore vs cancel is that if a card has multiple bad effects you simply ignore one of them and do all the rest. It wasn't written that way to wiggle out of a signature weakness such as this. If you want to use bad templating as an excuse to give yourself an easier time that's fine, you can play the game however you want. But it's pretty obvious this isn't what they had in mind with Deny Existence and simply forgot to to add "or ignored" to the weakness.

cabalpaxiarch · 114
I mean... they literally came in the same box. If you wanna make the argument that they didn't design the mystic cards in the box with the mystic investigator in the box in mind. Then I can't stop you. — NarkasisBroon · 10
Im not sure how ignoring one horror out of potentially 5 is also that extreme. When it outright negated her weakness, I felt it was too strong, but now Deny doesn’t help her all that much. — StyxTBeuford · 12971
I disagree with Styx here. Deny (0) is still pretty good. Diana takes max 5 horror from her weakness anyway, Deny saves her 2. One because of the card effect, and one, because she can let a card go and replace it with Deny. TS isn't the hardest signature weakness to beginn with, as you can always discard cards or take horror accordingly. Deny (5) is overcosted, if you use it on TS. 5 XP for just one more horror is not worth it, but you could of course try to heal excessive horror dealt by TS elsewere, in particular, if you stick it on Dayana. — Susumu · 360
I agree with you Susumu, I just meant it’s not absurdly powerful at negating it, I think it’s super fair and also always a good card to run with her anyway. — StyxTBeuford · 12971
Yeah, that I'm agreeing on. I've read often people writing: "Now, after the errata, DE does not work on TS anymore", which is not true. It is still good, just not annihilating the weakness anymore. — Susumu · 360