Thrice-Damned Curiosity

Thrice-Damned Curiosity

Taking 1 damage is pretty harsh, but honestly I've seen other weaknesses that don't even have the upside of dealing 0 damage under certain conditions.

Seriously there are two approaches to this card A: play a big hand deck, well just throw in a body Armour, if you don't have enough cards in hand to have drawn body armor you have less need for it.

OR my personal choice

B: play Harvey as a hyper committing engine, you draw fast, play and commit fast and end up treating this card as occasionally blank which is hilarious, even if you float at five cards for higher education you only take 1 damage from this "instant death" card. I've played Harvey this way and only had a single magnifying glass in play and just picked up every clue in play without ever stopping to to refresh, not having to ever take a draw or resource action and only having about 3 play actions in your whole deck leads to some crazy speed. (once you lose the move actions you begin to laugh like a bond villain)

Zerogrim · 295
Or Forbidden Tome to toss your damage onto foes. — MrGoldbee · 1484
Once, I play Harvey in a big campaign, I want to try him big-hand, versatile with "Deny Existence". Though there are currently several other investigators, I want more urgently to play — Susumu · 381
For your "plan B", I think Minh Thi Phan is better as she can get and give additionnal icons, commit from an other location and have access to a larger cards pool. — AlexP · 267
The committing from another location isn’t that important for a greedier hypercommit for clues rather than support, and otherwise both of their signatures give another card per round pretty reliably. So Harvey trades 1 pip/player for an entire card each round and trades survivor 0-2 for +1 Intellect. I don’t think those are bad trades and, if you have the card pool at this point, there are more than enough options in just yellow. Actually scratch that, there have always been more than enough options in yellow. I think my original blind run TDL Daisy had two Ward of Protections and that’s it outside of yellow/neutral. — Death by Chocolate · 1488
Plus, as Brr decks go, Minh’s Signature Weakness is a much more annoying bump each rotation. — Death by Chocolate · 1488
Minh's weakness can be pretty much cleared on the turn you draw it unless you autofail. Now with Third Time's a Charm, clearing the KIY has never been easier. Plus the true loss for not having Survivor 2 is always Scavenging (2). — suika · 9497
I think curbing Harvey's weakness is easier as long as you're playing your Bulletproof Vests. Minh's weakness more or less just has to be dealt with every cycle, and I remember distinctly having to clear it 5 times in one scenario from all my deck cycling. That said, I don't think either weakness is too scary. Harvey's is scarier early in the campaign. — StyxTBeuford · 13043
I think Minh and Harvey both are nice options, the fact you don't need your signature as much in harvey is a big reason of why I play him at least 51% compared to minhs 49%. — Zerogrim · 295
@Zerogrim thanks for your review. Would you mind posting the hyper-commit Harvey deck you're playing? I'm always on the hunt for more ideas to play this investigator, who's one of my favourites, and it seems you've got a few good suggestions there. Thanks! — SilverTwilightLodgeJanitor · 7

Creeping Darkness

Creeping Darkness

Is this a typo or what is creeping shadows?

Has it been officially errataed?

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BraidsMamma · 8
...How can I not see this in the past 2.5 years. I hate you. — ak45 · 469
I always _thought_ something was weird about that card. Anyway, I've submitted it to FFG, maybe it will show up in the next FAQ — Sycopath · 1
Wow, I'm amazed that I never noticed that XD — Zinjanthropus · 229

Haste

Haste

Question: How does Haste interact with on commonly found on weakness cards?

Examples:

1) Spend two actions to discard Hypochondria. Can I take a free on another card afterwards?

2a) What about taking a action first, then wanted to discard Hypochondria. Can I use 1 real + 1 haste action to discard it?

2b) I took two actions first, can I use 1 haste + 1 real action to discard it?

Aesyn · 585
An action triggered ability introduced with more than one arrow is a single action with an additional cost of spending some additional actions. This means that case 1 and 2a don't work - 1 because you've only taken a single Activate action, 2a because Haste is triggered after performing the action (it may trigger in case 2a though, if you have a third activate action to take). Case 2b works. — Thatwasademo · 58
Could you use haste after the two movements on the red clock? — IntoxIcatIon · 1

Disc of Itzamna

Disc of Itzamna

Interestingly, Roland actually prefers the downgrade to the original. This Disc softens up big enemies and still allows him to get the killshot for the clue, and it's an outright testless clue when used on small enemies. Other than Hallowed Mirror (maybe), I don't think there's another accessory I'd rather have for Roland at level 0.

ClownShoes · 160

Eye of the Djinn

Eye of the Djinn

When this card was first announced everyone was quick to say it was broken, but I think the truth is that it's trying to give you an almost guaranteed success.

Your base skill is 5, which is great. But what if you draw a bless token? You probably just wasted your Eye of the Djinn on a test you were going to succeed on anywa-- oh wait! You can ready the Eye of the Djinn and get the bonus again next test.

But what if you draw a curse and fail? Bad luck. Wasted the Eye of the Djinn again-- hold on! Get your action back! The curse still punishes you a little, but the Eye of the Djinn will do everything it can to make sure you will get some bonus and security.

DavidRyanAndersson · 54
Ah but what if you draw a curse and a bless? Then you pass *and* get another action with Djinn! — Difrakt · 1313
it does get a lot better if you can draw a bless and a curse, but I would agree that it's not even remotely broken — Zinjanthropus · 229