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Hemispheric Map

I just want to highlight our good friend Luke, who has the following things going for him to make this work: 1) A secret box that brings him to places connected to every open location about three times a scenario, and 2) a pretty much uncontested accessory slot. So yeah, this card is about better than average with him.

2/21/21

supertoasty · 40

With Edge of the Earth, Luke with Relic Hunter can equip two of these, jump into his secret pocket dimension and use his telescope to get clues from anywhere. — joguitarist · 1 1/1/22

Spirit of Humanity

An interesting pick for a blessed/cursed Carolyn Fern. Letting her take damage/horror when she has none to heal and helping her to heal when she does. Also I can see Father Mateo+Paradoxical Covenant being insane, basically adding 2 bless and 2 curse tokens every 2 rounds (taking damage then healing it).

2/20/21

jonklin · 515

For the purposes of Paradoxical Covenant, this because an expensive reusable Tempt Gate. — suika · 9511 2/26/21

Father Mateo can also profit from drawing both Bless and Curse tokens with Eye of the Djinn — Zinjanthropus · 230 3/6/21

Was thinking of running the covenant, eye of Djinn, with both favor of the sun/moon to ensure I gain an additional action for 3 turns while being able to use the Eye at least twice per round. — gmmster2345 · 2 3/7/21

Spirit of Humanity

Calvin Wright will love this card. +1 to each of his skills and Bless tokens in the Chaos bag as a fast action.

Other survivors running Peter Sylvestre and/or Jessica Hyde won't mind this either.

Of course, being 2XP, Agnes Baker can also make use of this as the horror will trigger her ability, while the curse tokens can be used to power up Armageddon & Eye of Chaos if you then use this to heal her.

Preston Fairmont, with False Covenant in play, will like this. So will Minh Thi Phan with Blasphemous Covenant.

Father Mateo can also make use of it, thanks to the Blessed keyword. Allowing him to more reliably make better use of cards like Radiant Smite and Blessing of Isis.

Edit:

As has been pointed out, I missed a couple. ;)

Tommy Muldoon, thanks to his interaction with defeated assets (and ability to recycle them), can synergise this card nicely with the likes of Brother Xavier and Tetsuo Mori. Allowing him to fill the bag with bless tokens whilst building to those cards being defeated. Thus triggering their abilities and earning Tommy a load of resources into the bargain.

Carolyn Fern, on the other hand, gains an asset that can be used to place horror that can be healed later, though some painkillers might be needed to deal with the collateral damage (and create more horror to heal later).

2/20/21

Dam13n · 11

I think, you forgot Tommy? ;) — Susumu · 381 2/20/21

Looks like I forgot Carolyn as well. :o — Dam13n · 11 2/20/21

There's new Tarot coming in RTTCU that will make this easier to use in OG Agnes! — Zinjanthropus · 230 3/6/21

Guided by the Unseen

I'm not sure how this card made it through playtesting, but Mandy in particular would love this card. Since there is no limit to how many times it can be activated (and you don't even need to use any secrets), she can easily fish out her weakness along with all the research cards in her deck before moving on past the player window to finish the skill test. If it was a particularly difficult/important test (or if she felt like it), she could even fish out all Three Aces at the cost of 3 of the secrets.

I anticipate errata for this card coming very soon.

Note: I say easily, but it'll be very time consuming at only 3 cards at a time. The rest of the players will not be happy as they wait for the performing investigator to go through all the necessary searches until they are satisfied they've found everything that needs to be found in their deck.

2/20/21

eapfel · 6

Errata is once/turn. — MrGoldbee · 1492 2/20/21

Once per test, phase or round though? Makes a big difference in playability. — andrgc1 · 16 2/21/21

Source MrGoldbee? — possessedbychaos · 7 2/23/21

Combos great with #Astounding Revelation — Merlin8000 · 1 6/4/21

Official errata is once per test — possessedbychaos · 7 6/28/21

Eldritch Inspiration

So, can this be used to double elder sign effects? I have seen a couple people claim this but it wasn't widely agreed upon. If so this is a fantastic card for father mateo.

This is a secret filler for 200 characters :P

2/19/21

jonklin · 515

While investigators could be considered mystic cards, elder sign effects would need to have a triggering condition of "if" "when" or "after", there is currently only one such mystic elder sign and it is Jacqueline fine's elder sign that triggers if the elder sign is cancelled. — Zerogrim · 295 2/19/21

Elder Sign effects are by definition triggered "if" an elder sign is revealed. "If this token is revealed for a skill test, resolve the [elder sign] effect on the investigator card belonging to the player performing the skill test." So I would think yes. — suika · 9511 2/20/21

The thing about that argument, though, is that the line that has the "if" (the quote) is a game rule and not a card effect, and it only indirectly resolves the elder sign effect — Thatwasademo · 58 2/21/21

My interpretation is that nothing says the "if" needs to be on a mystic card, just that the effect must be on a mystic card, and the triggering condition for the effect must be when/if/after a chaos token is revealed. There could be an alternate interpretation that the when/if/after must be on the card itself, but I don't see anything that would support such an reading. — suika · 9511 2/21/21

Unfortunately, I don't think this works. The corollary is Defiance, which ignores token effects but not effects which trigger based on the "revelation" of a token. I.e. shrivelling dealing you horror etc. Gator elder signs are not by definition "IF an elder sign is revealed," when/if/after effects are in response to a token being revealed regardless of the token's effects themselves. So unfortunately not even Jackie's elder sign is eligible as the effect of the E.S. is simply +1 and the cancellation/ignoring must come from a different source. — Sycopath · 1 2/21/21

That's persuasive, though while Defiance makes such a distinction, nothing says that Eldritch Inspiration has make the same distinction. It's self-consistent to interpret effect of a token be "if revealed, do X" and for Defiance to ignore this effect, and for Eldritch Inspiration to work on also work on the effect. Although again, nothing supports such an interpretation. — suika · 9511 2/22/21

Revealing a token and trigger when a token is revealed are two different things. if you ignore/cancel it's effect, the token is still revealed and can trigger other abilities. if you cancel/ignore the token, it is as if it was never revealed. — Adny · 1 2/22/21

And I agree with suika's interpretation. Nowhere does it say, that the 'if' must be on the card. — Adny · 1 2/22/21

'If' triggers happen at the time a thing happens, after 'when' and before 'after' triggers for the same timing point, and at the same time as 'at' (and 'as' and 'each time' as best I can tell). But the Elder Sign chaos token effect initiates in Step 4, while the chaos token is revealed in Step 3. The 'when', 'if', and 'after' triggers Eldritch Inspiration reacts to all proc in relation to that step 3 timing. The 'if' used in 'Chaos Tokens' for 'Elder Sign' therefore must be informal, since we know the effect actually initiates in Step 4, *not* at the time abilities that really trigger 'if' a chaos token is revealed would trigger. — Yenreb · 15 2/22/21

@Yenrub agreed, I think step 3/4 quite definitively shows that chaos token effects are distinct from on reveal effects that Eldritch Inspiration is meant to apply to. — suika · 9511 2/23/21