Easily one of the best card of Tommy's pack: Custom Grip fixes so many issue with firearms (mainly the risk of running out of ammo at the wrong moment) and actually makes guns worth building around at least and gives a serious blow against melee's supremacy in Guardians deck (alongside the Machete nerf)

For one resource, you get INSANE value: a play action of a weapon, the ability to return the weapon to your hand and play it again or another one. So essentially you get to refresh a gun or replace it while keeping in hand the original gun you played. That is incredibly good tech at level 0 and it scales so, so well when you start using higher level guns, like the Lightning Gun.

This is a staple in all of my firearms deck that can access it: it singlehandely removes any risk of running out of ammo in inopportune moments.

Tempt Fate is a weird event that really didn't quite find a home in any deck beside few odd ones using Paradoxical Covenant... Until Kōhaku Narukami joined the team, where this card is basically an auto-include in his deck. Why? Because of his ability to burn 2 curse and bless token to get an extra action. Basically this card on him reads:

"Fast. Play when your turn begins.

As an additional cost to play this card add 1 Bless token and 1 Curse token to the chaos bag.

Draw a card and take an additional action this turn."

It's incredibly good and effective at level 0 and gives a lot of flexibiliy to Kōhaku on how to act. The draw is basically a net gain of 2 actions, which is almost unheard at level 0 decks normally.

I love when niche cards find such an effective home in certain decks, like Opportunist on Winifred Habbamock!

The weird wording rose an eyebrow immediately after the card was spoiled. RAW, this can make you succeed on the , if another token was drawn before. Travis from PBG argued, this is not terrible relevant, because the cards are designed for current, and there are no , or tokens (yet). I would have said, that there is always the , which frequently draws additional tokens, and does so in the new core, too. But well, the chaining of into is rather nieche. It will happen occasionally, but not that often.

Now we have the spoiler announcement for "Children of Blood", and guess what: they come with their own set of 12 (!) blood tokens, that draw extra tokens. Have fun with that interaction, until CoB falls out of current. (Or FFG is going into errata this card.) It was just a matter of time, unless this was really intentional, which I would not totally rule out. (Who was playtesting this card otherwise?) I guess, we will get again token manipulation in sooner or later, and probably a return of and later in Chapter 2. But I was not expecting to happen it so soon.

With Oops!/Oops! this card finds a place in a fail deck. Compared to other weapons Old Shotgun's damage scales with the amount you fail by, which makes it easy to get the 3 damage when built around it. Drawing Thin, being Preston Fairmont or Charlie Kane helps immensely with this (especially when cursing a lot), as well as packing some recursion via Salvage, Scavenging/Scavenging, Pushed to the Limit, Professor William Webb/Professor William Webb (and Sleight of Hand, which is a staple synergy with this card anyway). Sadly, both Resourceful and Scrounge for Supplies don't work on this one.

Remember when, as Nathaniel Cho you had to run one copy of Handcuffs to just disable Tommy Malloy for good?

Well, now for the cost of only 2 damage, a resource and this card, you can basically take Nathaniel's personal weakness out of rotation for good

This is a fantastic event: against humanoids they are good as basically dead if locked down with Restrained, if not even deader as much as someone hit with Bury Them Deep because they cannot respawn. As long as they don't get or produce Doom, you don't need to put them down.

Even against non-humanoids this is great, because the card only gets discarded after cards ready in the upkeep phase, which means it works as a longer stun like Slip Away and Disguise without a test. This is incredible tech and insurance against retaliate enemies just like Adapt and Overcome: if you trigger the counter-attack, you can ensure the enemy won't get a chance to strike you again if you fail your follow up attacks.

Very good card: so happy Guardians got great tools in Chapter 2.