I think this is the best card in the game.

Drawing 2 cards for 1 is insane (Pot of Greed, anyone?). It doesn't need to succeed the test unlike Overpower and friends. It doesn't have hoops to jump through unlike Take Heart as you will want to be succeeding skill tests basically every turn (but failing a skill test without wasting an action is much more situational).

But on top of that, it even boosts the skill test by . Many times in my campaigns I have committed my "dead cards" like the third gun in hand or second copy of an ally for 1 matching icon, and this card provides that value on top of its main mode of draw 2. And if you're worried that removing the 0's will make the test worse - don't. Most decent tests will be helped by the way more than hindered by removing the 3 good tokens. E.g. if you're testing at +4 against a bag of 16 tokens and failing on -5 and , that's a 12.5% chance of failure. If you add Unrelenting to pass the -5 token and remove 3 others, you're at a 7.7% chance (would be 6.2% if you didn't remove 3 tokens). With bigger bags and more tokens to beat it only gets better.

And lastly, there is the flexibility of the other modes. You can help an important test by removing some nasty that adds doom or just securing that late game test by removing the -8. Or you can throw in Unrelenting on a failed test just to draw 2 like you would Take Heart.

There are only two downsides I see with this card.

One, the deck archetype that likes cycling the deck a lot with cards like Unrelenting gets countered by certain basic weaknesses like Through the Gates, Amnesia or even Chronophobia. Some of these can be countered with Ikiaq, Deny Existence, Peter Sylvestre etc. if you have access to these cards.

And two, the expert difficulty usually only has 2 tokens that let you draw with Unrelenting. I've been testing the usage of Keep Faith to enable Unrelenting in this case, and I think it's still playable in this state although the nerf of needing to wait for your other combo piece is definitely noticeable.

Question:
Can we stack more than 2 offerings? Or are we limited to only 2?
I can't find anything about the word "replenish" in the rules, and of course I've got the same queston for all those cards with this world....
Thanks.

It seems Zoey didn’t get a scenario released with her new parallel card. A pity and a bit of missed opportunity if you ask me. i feel like there is some great story telling potential in how this chef went into mythos hunting with divine justice and what her life was like before all that.

I recently tried to make the Sled Dogs work in a Leo Anderson deck, thinking that his investigator ability would be the centerpiece of what made the dogs truly shine. I was wrong, wrong, wrong. What truly matters is draw speed.

So after a swift rebuild (due to a certain snake-infested second scenario) I replaced a third of my deck with spirit events, equipped my Boxing Gloves, and choose the 5th dog for my combo piece. Bark Harrigan, the Barkham Investigator who starts with two additional weapon hand slots. I didn't upgrade into any weapon, trusting only to my Sled Dogs and Catling Gun. The 8 dmg per round carried us through the entire 4P TFA campaign (with the help of a dedicated evader for big HP pools) since my fight value was at 10-11 with these options.

But Sled Dogs should work even better with Nathaniel Cho. NatCho has the least setup of all Guardians. He hits the floor running and just needs to keep drawing events with his Boxing Gloves. Sled Dogs is a nice addition to him since you're not reliant on the dogs to function so you can churn through your deck to get the combo pieces (Ever Vigilant, Rod of Animalism, minimum 2 dogs) in your hand.

And when you do have them in your hand they're a solid complement to a weapon-less Event playstyle. Instead of wasting one of your best events on a 3 or 4 health enemy harassing the cluever you can simply tap the dogs for a highly accurate attack and save your event for when you need to deal 15 damage in a round against the big Elite.

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Other observations

• Considering Duke's investigate FAQ, all subsequent move actions after the first action don't provoke attacks of opportunity. Like say there's an Acolyte two locations away with a massive enemy dealing 3/3 damage/horror inbetween. With 4 sled dogs you can run over there, get the acolyte engaged with you, and end your movement back where you started. Without taking any attacks of opportunity.

• Every dog is worth +1/1 soak before you need to kill them off. This value is doubled with The Star when they go to 3/3.

• The Sled Dogs only give some value (beyond soak) when you have at minimum two of them. So the priority is to get the Rod ready. Not to spend three resources to get one dog out early.

• You only ever need 3 resources when you play Ever Vigilant since Rod of Animalism doesn't exhaust. Either you're playing the Rod and two Dogs for a total of 3. Or you're playing three dogs for a total of 3 because you've already played the Rod.

• While Rod of Animalism gives you all the Ally slots you need, it is not a bad idea to buy a Charisma later on as insurance against effects like Crypt Chill and Snakescourge.

So from deckbuilding on the app, it seems that you do not have to spend the XP to add in allies that are higher than level 0 to the spirit deck? So they not count? Kind of cool I can toss in allies like Priest of Two Faiths, Miss Doyle, etc. even at 0 xp. Looking forward to playing Parallel Jim one of these days.