Quick 'Math' review for folks considering this card in their deck. I wanted to answer the question, "What are my chances of 'hitting' a Practiced Card, based on the number of cards left in my deck?" So here's a quick chart to consider, the rows are showing how many cards are in your deck, and the columns are how many 'practiced' cards you have left.

Example: If you have 2 practiced cards left in a deck of 22 cards, there 's a 66% chance that you will find at least 1 practiced card when you play Practice Makes Perfect

    Practiced Cards left in deck                    
      1   2   3   4   5   6     
25  36% 60% 76% 86% 92% 95%
24  38% 62% 78% 87% 93% 96%
23  39% 64% 79% 89% 94% 97%
22  41% 66% 81% 90% 95% 99%
21  43% 69% 83% 92% 96% 99%
20  45% 71% 86% 93% 97% 99%
19  47% 74% 88% 95% 98% 99%
18  50% 76% 90% 96% 99% 99%
17  53% 79% 92% 97% 99% 99%
16  56% 83% 94% 98% 99% 99%
15  60% 86% 96% 99% 99% 99%
14  64% 89% 97% 99% 99% -%%
13  69% 92% 99% 99% -%% -%%
12  75% 95% 99% -%% -%% -%%
11  82% 98% -%% -%% -%% -%%
10  90% -%% -%% -%% -%% -%%
 9  -%% -%% -%% -%% -%% -%%

This card really interested me when I saw it. Besides sticking it into any Seeker deck, I can see this doing the most damage with Mark Harrigan. As Practice Makes Perfect is a Tactic card, he can use it. With cards like Vicious Blow, Take the Initiative and The Home Front, you're playing 5 out of 30 targets for Practice Makes Perfect.

When you attack, use Practice Makes Perfect. Either you boost the damage with Vicious Blow, get a variable (1-3 ?s) boost with Take the Initiative, or find The Home Front and all-but-guarantee your attack, as well as transfer a damage to your target. Not only that, but if the skill test succeeds, you get to return the card to your hand! Which means you get to use The Home Front twice in a game reliably.

Crazy good when you have several options for Practiced skills.

A Roland Banks might try to hit Vicious Blow / Deduction / Leadership. A Finn Edwards might pull out a Three Aces to set up the combo (also Momentum and Deduction obviously).

Overpower and Perception are in the pool of hittable skills, good complements to Deduction and Vicious Blow respectively to make sure you do actually hit something. Mandy Thompson can pull and commit two skills simultaneously!

Getting a second hit from a whopper skill card like Deduction or Vicious Blow is great value all on its own. Also as a search mechanic you might manage to find some research goodies while you're at it.

The problem is that this is'nt just one card, it's 10! You need to make some olypmics level informed decisions about the deck youre building with this in (and really, Practice Makes Perfect is'nt the key card here, it'll all those other ones you're trying to get repeat uses from), but the end result is pretty cool.

While Practice Makes Perfect has some good uses with combatants, I also wanted to point out that Mandy Thompson can use it to rather ludicrous effect. Using it on an arbitrary investigate can turn it into a single trigger where you can pick two of the most fitting cards to use out of a selection of cards including Deduction/Deduction (2) and Perception. This can turn a single card into both a boost and bonus clues or card draws over multiple tests. It only gets better depending on the secondary class picked - you can also branch into things like Enraptured with mystic access, or Momentum or Three Aces with rogue access.

The ability to improve Practice Makes Perfect from one draw/boost/bonus effect into two draws/boosts/bonus effects is immense, and given the symbols on many of those cards, it means she can throw it on pretty much any investigate action to get a lot of effective resources on top of a notable boost.

List of all practiced skills

And here as scans

And here you can find a beatiful drawing of a creature that I need to add so this review gets to 200 characters because otherwise a popup appears saying "Your review must at least 200 characters long."