I think thematically this character is pretty cool, shes the "chosen one" which is probably why she is an mystic. She is sworn to defend others,or fight evil. that's why she upgrades into a guardian, but is a martial artist, so no guns allow, but that's probably why she likes using her agility, this is odd because agility is the rogues stock n trade, but she is not even close to being one.

I think my favorite part about her are her 4 disciplines, and the weight they carry when playing. You chose one discipline at the start, And as you gain more experience, you become more disciplined, which is a unique Idea, granted this comes with a burden.( her weakness's)

Let's say you started with the strength one. It grants you a constance 1+ Strength. Which is great. She fights at 5 now. And can take down many foes. It gets crazy when you start to add weapons(no firearms), and alies. All guardian (or mystic I guess but usually with Will) love to fight at a 5.

However

There is a temptation. Every discipline has a unique action, which when used causes the discipline to break(filp) and you will have to rediscipline yourself afterwords, (or get lucky with her elder sign) you could just forgo using it, stay regit and maintain your discipline so you never lose that 1+.

But getting a 5+ to a skill test is amazing, that can allow you to fight the toughest of foes or pass those parley checks that you have to pass, but afterwords, you lose your static bonus, and are required to not preform a single skill test for 1 whole round. This is a tall ask, especially since this includes the mythos phase, which loves to force test on you, or enemies. You would be amazed of how many skill test you actually do, untill you are told not to perform them.(I'm not looking at you, testless builds)

Your weakness, burden of destiny, is yet again a really nice thematic weakness that pits you with a decision, you break your discipline, or you force you body and soul to maintain it.(1 damage and 1 horror.) This is worst if if you already have a broken discipline, as it forces you to take that damage and horror."how can I save them when I can't even save myself"

I think this game has many investigators that are very thematic, and with as many cards as there is, you can build anything, for anyone, there is a character for you. I can't wait to see more character this game has to offer.

Finally, a Weapon, I would put into a 's hands. I was never a fan of any version of Enchanted Blade, even for Diana, Akachi or Jim, who have 3 , because trading to fight with instead of is still not a great thing to do for them, and spending an arcane slot for it even more awful. (Of course, there are other tools like Sword Cane or in some decks maybe Spirit Athame for , but I wouldn't see their main use as a fighting weapon.) I think, the Cyclopean Hammer will shine exceptionally in the hands of Diana Stanley, who gets an awesome card for Well Prepared synergies to boot with it, which also makes it easier for her to over-succeed by 3 on the test on this card. A disadvantage, compared to Shrivelling or Azure Flame will be, that have to rely more on or pips. Overpower becomes a consideration for them, possibly also Vicious Blow for Diana. This needs extra deck space, compared to a build, where you only rely on . Also, if I understand the syntax of the card right, you will deal the extra damage from over-succeeding only to non-Elites as well, on par with Spectral Razor. (Another interpretation would be, that on over-succeeding Elites would go flying as well, but that would be really strange and sounds silly to me.)

That's not to say, won't like it. They all come with at least 3 , several of them have 4. Of course, in this class, it has to compete with Flamethrower, with it's unpaired amount of damage. Sister Mary likes her Holy Spear, but she could wield the Hammer as well, and it might even be as good and less clunky. On the plus side, the Hammer improves the value of cards like Brother Xavier, Bandolier (2) or Police Badge, because suddenly get another offensive stat, they can buff with these. A minor consideration, but much more important for than , are enemies like Poltergeist or Wraith, who can be squished with the hammer quite easily. But it's really minor, in particular Poltergeists are only to be seen twice in Carcosa, and the first time in the first scenario, when no can currently have a Cyclopean Hammer.

The card is of course expensive in XP and Resources. In particular for , who get an XP discount from Arcane Research on cards like Shrivelling, which cost (at most) 3 resources. But it has not the spill-over effects, we usually see on cards, and unlimited uses (except on a Conglomeration of Spheres), so I think, the card is not overpriced. Some people like to put Spectral Razor on Dayana Esperence, and that's twice the resources (unless you discount the spells with Robes) for 3 uses of a similar effect. (You don't need to over-succeed, you can engage enemies, but can't bounce off non-Elites.) I'm very much looking forward to the release of this box to try it out!

Oh boy... there are bad cards, there are laughably bad cards, there's Flute of the Outer Gods, then there's this absolute hunk of junk. My goodness, what a terrible waste. Let me point some things out...

You'll need dedicated support curse token bag manipulation to make this card even close to being viable. That is going to almost certainly mean help from a red character running the absolutely overpowered Spirit of Humanity. Nothing else is going to come close in multiplayer in keeping the chaos bag stocked full of tokens. Even so.... good luck ever getting 5 charges on this card purely from curse tokens that ONLY you can pull. You're lucky to pull 5 curse tokens in an entire mission with a chaos bag filled with 10 at most times. So even if you DO manage to get 5 charges on it, and you manage to ignore one single encounter card, what have you invested...

You've struggled through the untranslated grimoire, which is just a dead card in your deck.

You've spent a whopping 4 xp to purchase this card.

You've had to find this card early in the mission so that you have a prayer of getting 5 secrets.

You have a precious hand slot taken up for the entirety of the mission.

You make all this investment for a card, that if drawn in the last half or so of a mission, is completely dead. There's no point trying to play this card when you only have a few turns left. It's only viable if found and played early.

All that to ignore MAYBE.... and I say MAAAAAAYBE 1-2 encounter cards (and draw 2 cards).

My goodness. You can make it your life mission to manipulate secrets via Eldritch Sophist, Ariadne's Twine, Favor of the Moon, etc... but my god. You're devoting all this effort simply to cancel a couple encounter cards with a big fat maybe attached.

There's no comparison to say, A Watchful Peace. Absolutely none. Cheaper to play. Far easier to play. No silly untranslated hoop to jump through. No hand slot to take up, and simply 5 bless tokens from anywhere.

I've run a campaign with a dedicated support curse token, Spirit of Humanity Agnes Baker, keeping the bag full of curse tokens, and i proc'd this card precisely zero times. Give it a wide miss.

A simply taboo fix that is DESPERATELY needed is to proc the curse tokens from any investigator at your location.

Not a review but a question: does this work with Bless and Curse tokens?

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B R O K E N

You are playing The Forgotten Age, got 5 exp in first scenario. Then, you buy this card.

Hard mulligan to get it. When you got it, make the entrance The Locus. It means u have this efect until the end of scenario. When you will get the Relic, give it to other player, move him to entrance, win.

There is a lot of other scenarios that can work with it. Cassino with Peter Clover, Theater in Carcossa, and every scenario with resigning.