When this card came out it was very difficult to make it work. There weren't very many rogues that were good at combat and the triggering condition was very unreliable.

Few scenarios have single enemies with 6+ health, other than elites who often ended the scenario when defeated. This meant that you needed to wait to draw multiple enemies and then kill two or more in the same turn, with an action left over to play the event.

In low player counts, you could wait a long time to spawn enough enemies all at once, especially if you needed them all to be in the same place. Then if you missed any attacks, you were likely to end up killing one or both but losing your chance to play the event. To make sure you got the event off, you often had to keep enemies alive intentionally through one or more rounds, which the old play patterns strongly discouraged.

But the game has changed, and I think this card may finally be ready for prime time. Rogues now have two events that let you pull enemies into play on purpose when you need them. Kicking the Hornet's Nest and "Where's the party?". The second one even exhausts the enemy, so you can spend one turn softening it up and then finish it off more easily on the next round. Evasion tech in general has gotten much better and made enemy juggling more feasible. Dirty Fighting builds mix evasion in to your damage plan without losing tempo. And green has picked up much better soak options, too, such as the Lonnie Ritter Leather Coat combo.

With the Drowned's City's release, consider breaking this card out of the binder. Michael McGlen want's to know "Where's the party?", while Lucius Galloway and Kymani Jones are probably happy to String Along some victims.

This is an interesting alternative to Mr. Pawterson, but with a somewhat smaller use case. It operates exactly like Improvised Shield but for Horror instead of Damage.

It’s best for the oldest survivors of the game: Wendy and Pete. They need fodder to discard, and this will be a staple, along with Glimmer of Hope.

Also, this plays well with the suite of new assets from the Drowned City cycle that permit you to discard to enhance actions: Anchor Chain, Hand Hook, Nautical Charts, and Lawrence Carlisle. Not to mention events like "Catch!", Act of Desperation, or Unconventional Method.

Obviously, a deck with those cards and an investigator who has an innate ability to discard has more opportunities to leverage this theme.

This is the best card in the core set.

It has two main uses:

1) When hosting newbies or walking a fresh group through their first game of Night of the Zealot, keep an eye out for the player that zones in on this card, manipulates the dynamic so they're selected as lead investigator, and proceeds to gleefully burgle the crap out of every location. "B-b-bbBut isn't this your own home?" other players might observe, incredulously, as the bathroom twists and churns in and out of several realities and the toilet burps out a rat ghoul. "I said. I blrujgle." The player replies, arm outstretched, palm up and open for the chaos bag. That's the one you want in your long term gaming group. Keep them for life.

2) Inversely, it can be used as a litmus test for that one player who'll inevitably advise others against the very thought of including this POINTLESSLY INEFFICIENT, WHOLE DECK SLOT TAKING CARD INTO THEIR DECK WHEN LITERALLY JUST SPENDING THREE ACTIONS TO GAIN THREE RESOURCES IS EQUALLY AS VALID GIVEN THE AVERAGE AMOUNT OF TIMES ANYONE CAN EVEN PROC THIS THING IN A GIVEN SCENARIO AND LEAVES THE DECK SLOT OPEN FOR BASICALLY ANYTHING ELSE TO BOOT. DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW TO USE EXCEL VBA? That's the player you tell to go back to playing their meticulously charted mono blue decks in the commander groups that inwardly groan whenever they show up.

Invaluable I tell you.

Im not sure what the developers were thinking for this weakness.

For one, it's never going to be a dead draw. McGlen is always going to have a gun on the field.

For two, this card essentially reloads all guns on the field and puts them back in his deck. Simply keeping a gun in your hand and using the card "Sleight of Hand" makes this weakness a non issue. It actually even turns this into a buff.

McGlen somehow got two signature assets and no weaknesses.

Is this really a 2 xp for a single wild icon? I mean.. It does make a difference, but I feel that's a bit uninspired and maybe a bit expensive? There's probably a sheet somewhere telling me it's not expensive and I do feel there's definitely use for it, but it definitely feels a bit expensive.

Or am I missing something? I've been staring at the two cards side-by-side for a moment and I can't see anything else.