- Q: Regarding Heirloom of Hyperborea, the text reads "After you play a Spell card: Draw 1 card". When I play Read the Signs, when can I trigger the trigger ability of the heirloom to draw 1 card? Does it trigger when I play this card, or after I completely resolve Read the Signs and discard this card? A: Yes, the Heirloom of Hyperborea can trigger off of any Spell card its controller plays. This trigger occurs after the Spell card has resolved in full.
Heirloom of Hyperborea
Artifact from Another Life
Здобуток. Accessory
Item. Relic.
Cost: 3.
Agnes Baker deck only. Advanced.
Only damage and/or horror from player card effects can be assigned to Heirloom of Hyperborea.
After you play a Spell card: Draw 1 card.
Related Cards
- Heirloom of Hyperborea: Artifact from Another Life (Core Set #12)
- Heirloom of Hyperborea: Artifact from Another Life (Revised Core Set #12)
FAQs
(from the official FAQ or responses to the official rules question form)Reviews
There is no card page for Parallel Agnes, so let me leave this here for you all instead. For anyone wondering what that even is, its some fantastic free content from a recent FFG article (Link here)
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Hello Agnes, my old friend
I've come to play with you again
A cool new version of you just crept in
Left its cards while I was sleeping
While the version of you smiting with your pain
Still remains
It feels most sound with violence
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In early days you walked alone
Signature cards that made us groan
That weakness gave your brain some cramp
Your Heirloom collar needed a revamp
That elder-sign never did much to excite
None of them quite
Work when you’re bound to violence.
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And in your new Agnes I saw
Grabbing clues without Rite of Seeking
Dealing damage without a Shrivelling
Spell events, replayed with their expenses spared
As few had dared
When you were bound to violence
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Tools that I feel I barely know
Hypno Gaze now feels pro!
Hear my words that I might teach you
With a recurring HP soak or two
You can do this for almost all the game
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Soaking all the pain... in silence
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And then the people proudly played
The event spell machine they made
Your elder-sign gave out its healing
Your Heirloom makes sense when it keeps drawing
Dark Memory burns only horror that standing in full bloom
Making the doom
Safer, to delay, in silence
In the original Agnes, there are better cards for this slot, so you should probably play the Unadvanced version of the signature asset and weakness.
In parallel Agnes, this card is excellent, especially when paired with Scavenging (2) (using Parallel Front for Agnes, and Original Back / Deckbuilding for Agnes). This card can take the damage used with you ability to play spell events for cheap and with recursion. It can also take the occasional horror from Shrivelling, Clairvoyance, and every mystic's favourite Ward of Protection. Once it's use up, recur it back with Scavenging and go again, playing an endless supply of cheap events.
It's not clear whether the horror taken by Agnes' weakness can be placed here. When I played this, I assumed I could tank the 2 horror onto the Heirloom because the weakness has a player card back, not an encounter card back, and thus is a player card?
This is definitely a signature card worth building your deck around. There are of course other ways to manage the excess damage taken from using your ability, but this card providing a great soak-to-cost ratio, and allowing you to draw a card every time you play a spell (usually going to be an event), really does cement Parallel Agnes as a solid investigator option for your next game.