Read the Signs

Read the Signs

This card is commonly compaired with Drawn to the Flame. Both cards can discover 2 clues with 1 action. Here is pros & cons.

Pros

  • Read the Signs has spell traits. This cards can work with Arcane Initiate, Dayana Esperence, Agnes Baker.
  • Read the Signs initiates investigate test. Enraptured can be committed to get 1 charge/secret.
  • Read the Signs can ignore some effects by investigation or discovering clues.
  • Read the Signs don't cause to draw any encounter cards. Sometimes, a encounter card break your plan.

Cons

  • Read the Signs has 2 costs. Many suffers leaks of the resources, and 2 costs may be critical.
  • Read the Sings cannot detour some penalty of investigation, such as Obscuring Fog, Locked Door, Orne Library.
  • Read the Signs requires the test, and may be drawn. For hard/expert, the effects of some tokens (, -8...) may cause bad effect.
elkeinkrad · 500
Love Read the Signs for Norman (who will frequently just pay 1 for it.) — CaiusDrewart · 3193
You can also discount it to 1 (or Norman even to zero), if you run Robes. — Susumu · 381
Similarly great for bad blood Agnes — SGPrometheus · 835
Note in addition to Enraptured anyone with access to Seeker 0 could also commit Deduction to pull 3 clues with this one action. Deduction 2 plus this card would create a massively high skill test and reliably grab 4 clues at once. — Time4Tiddy · 247

Blessing of Isis

Blessing of Isis

I firstly under-estimated Blessing of Isis, but this has good potential. If you have Favor of the Sun, you may utilize this as Ancient Covenant. Non-permanent 3xp is expensive, but you could gain effects and save your . Also, I found that you could find 2 easily by Olive McBride. In many case, + + any token will be succeed.

(Additional rule note: if you're autometically succeed, you do not reveal additional token as part of the effect of the token. It means that Mateo do not need to reveal one additional token when you reveal two token with Olive's ability and trigger Bless of Isis).

One problem is that you need to keep your bag with lots of . This means that if you plan to seal tokens, such as Rite of Sanctification, Shield of Faith, and Holy Spear, it's hard to trigger Isis.

I add probability table for bless of isis. Row is the number of tokens in bag except tokens with "revealing another token" effect including /, and Column is the number of tokens in bag. I assume that we always choose tokens with "revealing another token", so that the probability is slightly less if we focus on "succeed" instead of "triggering isis".

Normal case (%)

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10 1.52 3.85 6.59 9.52 12.50 15.44 18.30 21.05 23.68
11 1.28 3.30 5.71 8.33 11.03 13.73 16.37 18.95 21.43
12 1.10 2.86 5.00 7.35 9.80 12.28 14.74 17.14 19.48
13 0.95 2.50 4.41 6.54 8.77 11.05 13.33 15.58 17.79
14 0.83 2.21 3.92 5.85 7.89 10.00 12.12 14.23 16.30
15 0.74 1.96 3.51 5.26 7.14 9.09 11.07 13.04 15.00
16 0.65 1.75 3.16 4.76 6.49 8.30 10.14 12.00 13.85
17 0.58 1.58 2.86 4.33 5.93 7.61 9.33 11.08 12.82
18 0.53 1.43 2.60 3.95 5.43 7.00 8.62 10.26 11.90
19 0.48 1.30 2.37 3.62 5.00 6.46 7.98 9.52 11.08
20 0.43 1.19 2.17 3.33 4.62 5.98 7.41 8.87 10.34


Olive case (%)

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10 9.09 20.28 31.07 40.66 48.90 55.88 61.76 66.72 70.90
11 7.69 17.58 27.47 36.54 44.54 51.47 57.43 62.54 66.92
12 6.59 15.38 24.45 32.98 40.69 47.50 53.46 58.65 63.16
13 5.71 13.57 21.89 29.90 37.28 43.92 49.82 55.04 59.63
14 5.00 12.06 19.71 27.22 34.26 40.70 46.51 51.70 56.32
15 4.41 10.78 17.83 24.87 31.58 37.80 43.48 48.62 53.24
16 3.92 9.70 16.20 22.81 29.19 35.18 40.71 45.77 50.37
17 3.51 8.77 14.79 20.98 27.05 32.81 38.18 43.14 47.69
18 3.16 7.97 13.55 19.37 25.13 30.66 35.87 40.72 45.20
19 2.86 7.27 12.46 17.93 23.40 28.70 33.74 38.48 42.88
20 2.60 6.66 11.49 16.64 21.84 26.92 31.79 36.40 40.72


(review updated May 30, 2021)

elkeinkrad · 500
Now you gotta retabulate for Olive(2)! — MrGoldbee · 1484
Apologies, my review is rather similar to yours, sorry! — Mystic101 · 25

Administration Office

Administration Office

I'm currently evaluating the usefulness of the ignore effect of Read the Signs throughout the different campaigns (for an upcoming review).

Unfortunately for this card, like it's brother, that checks for cards in hand, this effect whiffs. Because it prevents initiating the sequence, you can not play the card otherwise and therefore cannot ignore the condition.

Susumu · 381

Arkham Woods

Arkham Woods

This is an interesting location, if you are using Read the Signs. Of course, you could simply ignore the effect, which might make sense, if for instance Marie wants to commit Enraptured or Luke (in a 3 or 4 game) Deduction. But if you don't ignore the effect, you can investigate with twice your . While it doesn't hurt, it's probably overkill for most , even on expert, on a 2 shroud location. Unless the bag is full of -tokens, or Agnes wants to Draw Thin.

As pointed out below, Read the Signs won't be able to ignore that one.

Susumu · 381
Double good for Agnes if she's also running her Bad Blood front and can shuffle RtS back in. — SGPrometheus · 835
Read the Signs doesn't ignore this, since it's not a triggered ability or a triggered-ability-like keyword, though. — Thatwasademo · 58
(You may want to check the FAQ on the page for Read the Signs before you do any more reviews for this project you've mentioned) — Thatwasademo · 58
You are absolutely right. I didn't read the FAQ thoroughly, because it was quite obviouse to me, it does not work with "Locked Doors", due to the second reason. Good to know, I will edit this review, and take the new gained knowledge into account on other cards. Thank you! — Susumu · 381

Galvanize

Galvanize

Q: Can Galvanize be used even if you do not control an exhausted Guardian asset (or no Guardian asset at all), simply to gain a bonus fight action?

A: It sure can! Generally speaking, in the absence of the word “then” or any other text that would infer that one effect is conditional on another effect functioning, you do as much as you can in all instances. In this case, there’s no text that says that the additional action is dependent on the asset being readied, so you can absolutely do one without doing the other. Enjoy, MJ Newman

anaphysik · 97