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Mechanic's Wrench

Read the full card before you get an opinion. Because you don’t have to use that ability if the enemy attacked you last turn. That hunter made a huge mistake coming to you, and now you’re going to bash its head in. Consider it at a cheaper, more specialized machete that pairs especially well with your power and level zero guard dog.

9/22/21

MrGoldbee · 1493

Thanks for this, I definitely missed the timing subtlety here that makes this effective vs. hunters from the prior round. — HanoverFist · 756 9/25/21

I still don’t understand how this weapon works — Aslan_IFLY · 1 10/20/21

Did the enemy attack you recently? Cool. You can use the wrench to attack that enemy. — Darthcaboose · 286 11/5/21

Enchant weapon cannot be used on this card as it is not a weapon. I too don’t understand how o use this card properly. Is it just that if you were attacked in the enemy phase, you can use the Fight action of the wrench on your next turn, since you have been attacked since your last turn? The lightning bolt would allow you to have an enemy spawned during the mythos phase, attack you, but then you would have exhausted the wrench and couldn’t use the fight action on the wrench. — 2DotsontheI · 1 11/6/21

The fight action on the wrench does not require exhausting it as part of the cost, so you can use the fight action even if the wrench is exhausted. — Frost · 275 11/15/21

The entire point of the fast trigger on the wrench is to let you use Daniella's reaction trigger and the Wrench's action trigger later that turn. The action trigger doesn't exhaust the wrench or check if it's exhausted, so the most straightforward way of using the wrench is to exhaust it, deal 1 damage back, then attack however many times you need to in the same turn, to relatively efficiently kill any odd-health enemy. — Thatwasademo · 58 3/14/22

Hunter or no hunter doesn’t matter. If you get attacked in the enemy phase, you can use the action arrow on this card your next turn (up to 3 or more times depending on how many actions you have that next turn). In addition, you can use the free trigger ability to have an enemy attack you if you haven’t been attacked so that you can use the action arrow your next turn on that enemy. Heck, you can even attack multiple enemies with this action arrow if you were attacked by more than one enemy since the end of your last turn. — rainman1646 · 2 9/16/23

Descent into Madness

I have a dubt with this card. It means 3 horror in my main chara or 3 or more horror in total including assets? Because I have a case with Yorick has 2 horror and the asset beat cop has 1, the total is 3 but only 2 on me. So should lose the action or not?

9/22/21

Emisario · 4

"You" here only means your investigator card. So in your case, no. — toastsushi · 74 9/22/21

High Priest of Hastur

This guy unsettles me. What exactly IS that thing on his chest? A nipple? A huge snake eye? And the end of that trumpet is SO not even near his mouth, it's lodged in the middle of the throat, and he's happy as a clam to be blowing through that gaping throat wound hidden under the hood.

Also, any enemy that can outright eliminate you is scary as all hell. Objectively this guy is not REALLY that much of a threat, meaning you need a serious bout of bad luck to step on his landmine, but still...I don't like seeing him, and once he's out and about, he just makes me nervous.

But mostly it's that eye.

9/21/21

ratnip · 68

Daniela, be careful! — MrGoldbee · 1493 9/22/21

Daniela Reyes

I love the deckbuilding restrictions of this cycle of investigators, but I have to say I am saddened beyond words that you can't squeeze a Survival Knife in her list. It's a real shame too; it's been a long time since I got as excited about a new investigator as I did when I read this card. Who knows, I'm not terribly familiar with the Survivor card pool. There's probably some busted stuff in there for her

9/20/21

fractalhack · 3

she can take and works fine with survival knife level 0 :) — isuscbrmid · 56 11/14/21

With Transfiguration existing, it's the perfect time to make a Sister Mary deck focusing on turning into Daniela. Sister Mary's deckbuilding restrictions perfect bypass Daniela's weakness of not being able to take Survival Knife. — kongieieie · 28 5/26/25

Hoods

As there is only the one review at time of writing, I want to throw my two cents in.

This is a tough weakness to deal with, though you do have options.

1) As everyone has mentioned Ornate Bow can both handle this. The problem is they cost XP, 6xp for the bow. As well as the reload cost.

2) Auto Evade with Breaking and Entering plus Waylay. A zero health cost method for dealing with the weakness. This costs 1 more resource than Ornate Bow, arguably the best method of dealing with hoods by yourself, but requires two cards, though it nets you a clue.

3) Use her combat stat of 3, to boost damage with Brute Force, .18 Derringer, Fire Axe Chainsaw. The problem with these is they are unreliable without over-commiting meaning you must drop in additional resources/cards/actions to handle the problem.

Edit: As people have pointed out Brute Force can't be used with Cheap Shot making hoods even tougher to deal with.

Now of course if you have a guardian on your location with a one shot weapon and a turn after, that's ideal...but unrealistic. So I'd say compared to other investigators this is a rough one. I would place it up there, but behind, with Call of the Unknown, Abandoned and Alone, and the horrific Dark Memory.

9/20/21

. · 35

Cheap Shot sounds like a very bad idea. You certainly *don't* want to evade the hoods. — trazoM · 9 9/20/21

I'm assuming that they were suggesting to "boost" Cheap Shot to deal 3 damage, defeating them before you apply the evade. But, Cheap Shot isn't a basic fight action anyway, so you don't get the bonus damage. — toastsushi · 74 9/20/21

Brute Force by itself is a pretty good answer to Hoods if you can find another combat pip or two to commit. — Death by Chocolate · 1484 9/22/21

Made massive edits to gramamr, spelling, and cleared up my thoughts. Was obvisouly way to tired when writing the review. Though I didn't recognize the interaction with brute force so I have left an edit: to that. — . · 35 9/23/21

Breaking and Entering still triggers the reaction attack from Hoods. The reaction from Hoods is on the evasion, not an evade traited action. — suika · 9506 9/23/21

My vote would go to Reckless Assault and a Brute Force if you aren't running the bow for some reason, though I'm not sure Rita can do much better than the Bow for her hand slots. — suika · 9506 9/23/21