Favor of the Moon

Might be one of the best neutral cards released in a while. Works very well in every class but Guardian, and even then subclasses can make it work.

The best is Mystic - allowing you to trigger curse spells at will. If you draw a curse, you can Moon into the second curse and trigger Curse of Aeons. If you draw a bless, you can use it to trigger Paradoxical Covenant. Furthermore, since it isn't limited to tests, it can make cards like Recharge, Parallel Fates and Astral Travel 100% reliable, which might make recharge worth actually buying. If you drew the curse spells, use Moon to recharge them. If you got other spells, you can use Recharge with Moon to recharge them.

Rather than Rogue or Seeker, I'd say the second best is probably Survivor, because it works really well for teamplay. Get rid of the curses by using them on harmless tests you intend to fail with Take Heart, Drawing Thin and Rabbit's Foot, and get even more of a profit for it. It's less reliable when you need to fail by a certain amount with "Look what I found!" or the similar cards, but still works very well. Stella, Calvin, Patrice and Wendy are probably best for this, but anyone who likes running the failure engine cards loves this. Yorick can constantly recycle it and make a big profit, though he likes Sun just as much or more. Nothing saying he can't run both, at least.

After that, Rogue and Seeker are probably about tied. Seekers like to draw curse tokens for both translations of Cryptic Grimoire and can benefit from them with Blasphemous Covenant. They can tag one extra damage with Gaze of Ouraxsh, too, and even hold off for as many pulls as they want until the seventh to see if they need it. They can also guarantee returning Fey to hand, which could make for a crazy combo in Amanda - for three whole turns, make sure your last test (or mythos phase test if you can guarantee having one, or want to risk it) pulls a curse, return it to your hand from underneath her after the test for a guaranteed three turns of a 5/4/4/4 statline, extra draw that you don't have to put underneath her, and a few resources.

Rogues benefit mostly with their exceptional curse cards. and can get a guaranteed benefit with Skeptic. It can also be used to tag in a third curse or bless for Tristan Botley. In a pinch, Rogues could also use it simply as a way of profiting from harmlessly wiping all the curses from the bag with their Covenant, but this generally doesn't seem worth it. Both classes are also more likely than the others to have a lot of deck cycling, and the ability to draw through their deck into playing the two copies of this once or twice more.

Guardians get a lot less benefit, though subclass users like Tommy, Leo and Mary certainly have a case for them. Roland can't really take enough high levelled seeker cards to benefit too much, but Fey or Gaze plus the extra resources could make it useful.

That said, the worst thing about this card is that it's so good in basically everyone while being unique. Though it would certainly be broken if it wasn't, it does make it difficult to decide who actually takes it in a large group. Multiple people can take it, but if you have Yorick recycling it or a Seeker deck cycling to keep one in play at all times, there's little reason for more than one person to build into it. If it does end up jamming up someone's hand while another person has it in play, it's going to feel bad not being able to play it for up to three turns, and even though its icons are decent, you'll never really want to commit it unless everyone has a copy.

SSW · 216
How does it enable Parallel Fates/Astral Travel? It seals curse tokens, whereas they trigger off the standard symbol tokens. — dr_scitt · 1
They trigger negatively off the standard symbols. If you reveal a curse token they won’t shuffle the deck/damage you. The token would return to the bag though so a mixed result — Dalyn85 · 4
Dexter likes this card - as SSW mentioned, it's great for curse spells if he's using them. However, on top of that it's a fast for 1 resource, so he can effectively turn any asset into a fast asset with his signature ability (a la switchblade (0), but more useful overall). — Bloodw4ke · 81
The Star • XVII

Just finished playing this in Tommy. Alongside Spiritual Resolve and Spirit of Humanity, this card is completely insane. Works great with Guard Dog, Beat Cop (2), basically all of the cards you were already playing. Absolutely 10/10 card.

KasaiAisu · 41
Okay, now I'm confused. You finished playing this with Tommy? You must have played alongside a Mystic using Time Warp as well, since this card hasn't even been released yet! — thakaris · 199
You can always proxy unreleased cards — StyxTBeuford · 13043
Operating Room

Somebody at Fantasy Flight really likes Medical Texts. They must be stopped.

Thematically, a place in St. Mary's to do some quick emergency aid is a great idea, but my goodness is this a hot-garbage way to implement that. (To further compound the issue, Waking Nightmare has more horror pressure than damage pressure anyway.)

anaphysik · 97
Maybe, but check out that hot John Carpenter's "The Thing" artwork. That's good pedigree; Bob Laskey knows his horror. — SGPrometheus · 841
@SGPrometheus: Absolutely; I also really like Laskey's Orderlies and Stairwell in this scenario. — anaphysik · 97
Yes, they are perfectly awful. — SGPrometheus · 841
Parallel Fates

This seems really good for Gloria Goldberg. "Look at the top 4 cards of the encounter deck." - period. She gets to pull 5 and use her ability to filter a really bad card. Then perform the token draw and possibly place the rest back as needed.

Taevus · 782
On the positive end, it's a deep search, which has great utility in multiplayer especially. On the negative end, it takes an action and is highly likely to whiff. You still get to use her ability here, but I think this card is not as much of a priority for Gloria as Alyssa, Scroll, Scrying, or even other Encounter deck one off search effects like First Watch. — StyxTBeuford · 13043
I agree that it's good for Gloria. If there was a 0-cost event that read "Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck, then discard one and shuffle the rest back into the encounter deck" it would get played. Look at the glass half-full: it's not that there might be a downside of shuffling, it's that there is an upside of maybe they won't shuffle. :) — jbailey86 · 1
Moon Pendant

This card looks interesting. Gives you the ability to have 2 tarot cards in play while also mitigating some of the drawback of taking 2x tarot cards for consistency. Who actually wants this is another question, and it's hard to know until we've seen the full cycle of L3 tarot cards. Off hand, Sefina comes to mind, as I had decent success playing 4x tarot with her and 2x Anna Kaslow. Perhaps also Calvin, as the tarot is already an auto-include, and this could effectively give him an additional +1 to all stats at a lower cost than Anna.

Zinjanthropus · 229
How about a janky Lola deck 2 x Moon Pendant, Relic Hunter, all the Tarots as ????. It's neutral as well so doesn't get destroyed by her weakness. — EnglishLord · 1
Yeah, the idea of 2x Moon Pendant to get a bunch of ???? cards is definitely intriguing. +4 goes a long way. Lola would probably be the ideal taker. — Zinjanthropus · 229
And for Patrice ! Ina Patrice deck my thought is "each card in my deck must be usable whatever I have to do during the round". With the Moon pendant all the Tarot cards I can't play at the moment become copies of Unexpected courage to have even more wild skill icons to commit to whichever test I have to make. — AlexP · 268
Patrice already has Cornered to pitch a useless Tarot to, but this definitely doesn't hurt — supertoasty · 40