I'm becoming a fan of this card for my mystic cluevers: play Dayana Esperence, attach Read the Signs to her and now - as long as she has a secret on her - once per round you can play Read the signs for free. Considering the mystics have Enraptured and you test + , you have really good chances to have 4 - 5 uses of this copy of Read the signs.

And considering several good - mystics (Gloria Goldberg, Marie Lambeau, Luke Robinson, ... and Norman Withers) have some access to seeker cards, you can find other ways to recharge the secrets: Truth from Fiction, Eldritch Sophist (+ Forbidden Knowledge or Astounding Revelation.

With all cards worth 3 XP or less, from now on, I will ask myself "is this the card I will put in my deck at the very beginning of the campaign thanks to In the thick of it ?". And I think for this one the answer will almost always be "yes" if i'm playing a "rich rogue" deck.

Until now my way to go in standard difficulty was to use Gregory Gry to slowly get resources at each successful test, and it was especially effective with Tony Morgan + Tony's .38 Long Colt or Mauser C96 as you test 6 against the enemy value and you often succeed by 1 or 2 but it needed a few turns before Well Connected gave me a bonus good enough to bet 3 resources from Gregory at once and grow my resource pool at a steady pace with him.

Now, with a single action and a single card, I can from the start of the game (of course I need to draw it first!) have a +2 bonus with Well Connected and once I upgrade to Well Connected, it's event two +2 bonuses.

I assume it works with Dark Prophecy, right ? I'm not sure if using both the result is:
a) I can't select a special token with Dark prophecy as they are now considered as "0" tokens or
b) I MUST select one of these tokens by the effect of Dark prophecy and I treat it as a "0"
but either way now I have very low chances to have a big negative modifier.

For TCU in expert difficulty, of the 15 tokens, 5 are now considered as "0" tokens and the worst case is, depending on the interaction between both cards (see above):
a) because I can't select the special tokens, I can choose the one I want among the 5 and so between -2, -3, -4, -6 and -8 I choose the -2
b) if there is a special token among the 5 I must select it and so I resolve a "0" or there isn't a single one and I'm back to the case above

So by combining both cards in expert difficulty I spend an action to be sure that the following action I won't have worse than a -2 modifier for my attack with Shotgun, Sawed-Off Shotgun, Beretta M1918, or other, right ?

Firstly, this is not intended to be an in depth review of the card. I think the other current review of this card does a pretty good job covering when this card is good and when it isn't.

No, my aim is more specific: i think this card shines when used to counter any enemy weakness. Some investigators have nasty enemy weaknesses that can pack a punch or are extremely resilient:

• Watcher from Another Dimension Specially given how Patrice can cycle her deck several times per game.
• Tommy Malloy is a pain to fight but if you run a survivor with Nacho, they can basically delete him from the game.
• Hoods (the card that motivated this post)
• Stubborn Detective Silver Twilight Acolyte (beware the doom though) Your Worst Nightmare (as somebody mentioned) ... sadly doesn't work in the Accursed Follower which makes me very angry.

These are mere examples though. The silver lining is that you can cycle your deck while these remain in play completely harmless. You can (for instance) fend off a Guardian of the Crystallizer from your Trish player and let them carry it around for nefarious purposes. If your Mandy keeps reviving their enemy weaknesses you can pin them on the board so they can do their seeker things even better.

All in all, i think it's a great card to make your deck safer and you shouldn't underestimate it.

Is this card available via deck creation or upgrade? What means base value? Will Maginyfying glasses and Dr. Milan Chritophers +1 book still be added or are they worthless with Monstrous Transformation? I think this would be super cool with Amanda.