I think this is a trap card even for Jim Culver. The Cultist, Elder Thing and Tablet tokens are usually worse than Skull tokens only by a bit; usually its around 1-2 points harder. Sometimes they even has the same difficulty and only rarely is it more than 1-2 points. I'd rather take a +1 to all skill tests from a different ally (so you can nullify high negative numbered tokens as well).

The benefit Nkosi has is that you can ignore the effects of the other special tokens which sometimes helps. I don't think this small benefit is worth the cost of 3 (6) exp and a very expensive 4 cost in the ally slot. Seems like you'd be better off taking an ally that gives you +1 Willpower or sticking with Arcane Initiate for more consistency and use your exp for something that'll make a bigger difference.

Might have some really exotic use with naming bless/curse tokens but needs a really dedicated build for it.

With Occult Lexicon 3 and DES, this card sees renewed use and is honestly overpowered with that. Essentially, every turn you now have a free fast Blood Rite. This is a fast action, three cards and three damage or three resources.

It basically turns Blood Rite into a cryptic research that does damage or generates resources. Basically, a Seeker staple now.

Since nobody's said it yet, I'll be the first to say it:

Peter. Sylvestre.

The Big Man on Campus is now an economy card, netting you an entire resource every turn, that you play a card. Not to mention, the 2 (one from Peter(2), one from TBB) can make anyone resilient to treacheries.

I'm currently playing this combo in an Advanced Wendy deck, and it makes it extraordinarily easy to afford her constant slew of events. Now I just need to find a way to cash in on her whopping 6

My problem with this weapon is no investigator makes great use of it because all rogues have low strength. 3 strength +2 only gets you to 5 (Wini, Skids, Jenny, Finn). That's not enough to hit anything above normal difficulty.

Even with +1 from something else you're really going to struggle with a mid level enemy still. Wasting those bullets is going to really hurt because while this is fast, it's still pretty expensive at 4.

I guess at best its used to hit a low strength, low threat enemy as a secondary fighter but then why would you evade it first (to make use of the free shot reaction ability)?

Tony doesn't need this either of course with his poor evade.

I was playing mythos draw like investigator phase, letting the team choose draw order differently each time. But in reality you must abide to the In Player Order rule, starting from the lead investigator then going clockwise always. Therefore an ability that reveal just 1 top card like this basically means seeing what's destined for the lead investigator. (What I was playing is supposed to be Gloria's special ability.)

At the same time to play with this card it is important to realize that the lead investigator could be changed each scenario, not fixed for an entire campaign. (my another wrong impression) It may matter when replaying a scenario when you know the density bias of encounter set, so you can choose the right person that could see the future through Alyssa. Or you can make the person with the most risk (e.g. full of trauma) to be the lead and continue protecting that investigator with Alyssa.

Just knowing the treachery is powerful as you can exploit its condition. For example something along the line of "attach to your location, nearest location with.." : You reposition and force it to have favorable choice you want, "lose resources" : You spend all the resources ahead of time.

Adding doom is expensive, but generally imo just having never out of charge way of looking at it is enough to improve the chance of dealing with the encounter massively (e.g. just group up to prepare commit icons), as opposed to Scrying and "miss" because you don't see anything interesting. Doom bury is just an extra icing to cheat a certain defeat that you see revealed, like an Elite enemy coming up when no one is equipped to fight.

Lastly doom is placed on Alyssa and not the agenda. It is not hard to put 1-2 horrors on her early so she can die swiftly with the doom if you are forced to use it.