I feel like I have been sucked into a parallel dimension or something. This card has some restricted uses but it isn’t good guys, what are you on about? "Not having to care about XP", like one review suggested is not a pro, you can “not care about XP” if you want and you will outpace Ascetic very fast just from incidental XP, there is no need to take this card for that. All the other XP cost reduction cards you can "combo" with Ascetics you can just run without it and you will outpace an Ascetic deck in one two scenarios max. Also 10 XP makes scenario 1 easier and then by scenario 2 you are level with the intended difficult more or less, so it does a super poor job of frontloading anything, you guys are jumping through some serious hoops to find value on a meh card. It's inventive, it helps groups going into the last stretch of a campaign after having an investigator go insane or die and its great for new players joining late into a campaign, and that’s it.

Hell yeah

I feel like Robert Castaigne can breathe new life into this card. Whether you're Tony Morgan or Michael McGlen, you can have it sit in your hand and fire it once per turn as a fast action.

I wouldn't be shocked if Robert ends up with a similar taboo to something like Sleight of Hand, limiting the level of cards he can affect - although if he does, it'll impact the Remington Model 1858 that pretty much feels like it was designed to work with him. That, or a taboo saying "actually no you do have to actually play or discard the card".

Using this on Michael McGlen right now. Gosh is it great. I imagine that's also the case with Silas Marsh, Roland Banks, and Rita Young

The theory is simple: if you have a max sanity of 5, take a Say Your Prayers and after taking two Sanity damage this card is up and running. The prereq for using this card is quick to fulfill, and it'll work for you when you precisely need it. Some use cases include:

• Acting as an important skill booster against head checks threatening sanity damage/mythos cards.

• At a whopping +4, it allows you to flex head later in the game: useful for parleys and act/agenda advancements.

• With no "only commit to a skill test you're performing", it can greatly aid other investigators (especially mystics!).

I think it's an elegant card paired with low sanity users: just mulligan it away in a starting hand. And if you draw it too early hang on to it like a talisman.

"Be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong."

- 1 Corinthians 16:13

Zoey Samaras is the only one I thought that may make the fire max without Versatile. Cuz she can take Act of Desperation, Sleight of Hand, Well-Maintained. Without taboo, 2xSleight of Hand use it twice, so do Act of Desperation (and Well-Maintained take back), and finally just play them and use other things occupy hand slot to discard them.