This card shares some similarities with Flashlight: It has 3 charges and reduces shroud by 2. However it costs 4 XP, is a free action and can also help other investigators.

It's so much better:

• Flashlight stacks with this card, which makes it very powerful on Hard and Expert, as you can reduce shroud 4 to 0, for nearly auto success (only auto fail)
• Any test that is based on shroud benefits here (some enemies depend on local shroud, like spoiler)
• As a Spell, can be searched with Arcane Initiate (only Daisy Walker at this time)
• Can be used to trigger Rex Murphys ability more often

• Can be Recharged

• Not sure about it, but i think if several players have this card at same location, they can stack it's effect. It think the limit on the card is player specific, otherwise i'd have to be "Group Limit once per turn"

Okay, first off start with the basics. everyone knows that you shouldn't do Rex Murphy solo. You have been warned.

2ndly, it is really hard to get all of the cultists in midnight masks.

When playing a game with Rex Murphy you need to consider the following: 1. do I have someone to cover me? 2. is this scenario about clue gathering? if the answer to both of these is yes, then you will be pretty successful.

Rex's curse: To bypass the effects of this, what you need to do is always stack the odds in your favor. Have higher education and 5 or more cards in you hand with plenty of resources to feed it. It also helps if you have lots of cards that you can commit. this way, once you draw the second token you will have a very good chance of success.

Rex is all about clue gathering which makes him awesome for scenarios like Essex county express. There will be some monsters that your buddy can't get to fast enough so you want to pack I've got a plan.

There are a couple good uses for this event:

For Roland Banks and William Yorick: fetch a monster to serve as fodder for your special ability.

For all Guardians: Dig for VP enemies in the deck. This is especially valuable in lower player-count games, when the odds are pretty good that one or more VP enemies will go undrawn.

So as Roland or Yorick in a low player-count game, I think this is worth serious consideration. Beware of spawning something really nasty for yourself like a Poltergeist or Conglomeration of Spheres, though.

One of the most difficult events in the game to actually use. It only does anything if there are enemies that move during the enemy phase on the board (usually this would only be non-exhausted Hunter enemies.) Most of the time there won't be any such enemies, but if there are, then you can try to get them moving in the direction you want by attaching Lure to a location. But the fact that you have to be at that location yourself makes this a very rare situation. You can't just direct enemies to the opposite side of the map because, well, that's not where you are. You have to pull them to a location you're at, which is pretty much where Hunter enemies move anyway.

You also have to spend an action to play Lure! This is very inconvenient and makes it much more difficult to e.g. move to an out-of-the-way location, play Lure, and then get out of there before the enemies come. I guess Elusive would be helpful here but that is a seriously janky combo. Even if everything goes just right, you're only affecting enemy movement for one turn. And bear in mind that in multiplayer it's often possible to manipulate Hunter movement just through clever positioning, without needing cards like this.

Now, Lure does have a nice pair of agility icons, which helps compensate somewhat for how incredibly difficult it is to play. But given that it costs an XP, that's probably not going to be enough to entice people to actually run this. If Lure were Fast, and/or 0 XP, and/or caused enemies that don't have Hunter to move, and/or stayed in play until the enemies reached its location (instead of always disappearing after only one round), any or all these things might make it an attractive card. As is... not so much.

When you have this card in your hand, you have a choice. Either draw a card for zero resources or spend a resource to play Quantum Flux and basically draw a card. I'd rather have the resource and I'd definitely rather have filled this card slot with a card that did something worthwhile. The default cost of drawing through your deck is just a horror. Perhaps you're better off putting a card in that just heals horror, if that is a concern.

It is worth mentioning that there's an encounter card in Dunwich Legacy that this card perfectly counters. I wouldn't fault someone too much for playing Quantum Flux in the Dunwich campaign, but there are ways to counter that encounter card that aren't a waste of a card slot, like Ward of Protection or just finishing the scenario in a timely fashion or resigning when your deck gets low.

This card will also occasionally benefit you by updating the distribution of your deck as you shuffle in your good cards before you happen to draw your weaknesses, but this is offset by the times you have already drawn your weaknesses and Quantum Flux becomes a sub-par skill card.