This review is coming atcha from a fellow who has never used this card. I therefore speak with all the confidence and all the experience of a political pundit.

Here's my golden dream: couldn't this card be the ultimate answer to enemy control? Now that it also prevents monsters from spawning at its location, when you are camped out in your barricade, you WANT to draw monsters. And there are cards that can help you do it. If you're a couch-bound Rex, you could take a couple copies of On the Hunt and "Let me handle this!", and greatly increase your chances of drawing monsters or taking friends' monsters. Your buddies can help with cards like Scrying, "You handle this one!", and other encounter deck manipulation tools.

What happens to those monsters bouncing off your bunker roof? It's embarrassing for them, but they just sort of pile up. The hunters are totally neutered, because despite your inaccessibility, you are always going to be the closest investigator, and therefore, unless their instructions say otherwise, they will try to hunt you. Even if there is another investigator just as close, the rules still allow you to designate yourself as the target (again, unless special prey instructions dictate otherwise) And so, on the enemy phase, they will pathetically nose around your impenetrable cocoon, accomplishing nothing, while your friends clear the board of clues.

The advantage of having the vast majority of monsters drawn do NOTHING at all doesn't really need to be spelled out. It's so good, that it's almost worth it in a four player game to have one person just camp out and do nothing but try to draw enemies. But of course, as we all know now, it's possible to work remotely. All investigators with access to Barricade also have access to In the Know, Seeking Answers, and Pendant of the Queen, among other tools. Connect the Dots chains very nicely with In the Know, allowing you to gobble clues efficiently from the comfort of your little sanctum. And though In the Know will run out quickly, there are ways to recharge it: Truth from Fiction, Enraptured, and Eldritch Sophist, specifically.

To me, the question is, how many scenarios give you the luxury of camping out like this? Obviously in scenarios like Essex County Express, it's a no-go. It's worthless in The Miskatonic Museum, because the only enemy in the deck is elite. But take a scenario like The House Always Wins. How cool would it be to chill in the Clover Club Bar all game? When the first abomination spawns in the Lounge, rather than making for a beeline for your compatriots in the back rooms, he'll just lurk around the lounge, giving you dirty looks and maybe kicking over a table every now and then. When the second abomination tries to show up in the bar, he'll find himself ignominiously shunted into the lounge instead, thus doubling the stupidity. Maybe you'll be lucky enough to draw the third, so all three stooges can chill there together. The only potential complication is the damn Clover Club Pit Boss, who is elite. The team needs to find a way to make him hunt west rather than east, possibly tough to do if you are the seeker...

And now my dream ends, and I await the rude awakening which I'm sure will be delivered to me by the first commenter!

Any of the “reveal token, if it’s bad take a punishment“ pair extremely well with adding blessings and curses to the bag. At the same time, these make cards that are “draw a token, if it’s bad get a reward“ less effective.

So one thing the other review aren't trying to tackle is how efficient is this as horror "healing"

Let look at the facts, Quantum flux replaces itself in your hand so it does not cost a card, so its true cost is 1 resources and 1 action (to play the card), given it is only an insight (outside of Joe) I don't think there's anything special you can do with that tag so you are probably always paying full price for this.

Would you use a location that had the effect "1 action, 1 resource>Heal 1 horror" and the answer is "sometimes!", sure its probably not worth doing but "sometimes!" it might be the difference between insanity and being king of the deep ones!. (I'm not sure what this game is about)

So Pro's can be listed to: Recharging a search heavy deck Diluting Weakness Avoiding Punishment for decking out 1 Beautiful point of horror prevented

I think this card is obscenely good in Dunwich and as a one of that just shuts down the main punishment mechanic its efficient at its job but not a card that should be instantly dismissed elsewhere, because a card with art that pretty needs to go into decks.... "sometimes!"

As @ChristopherA said in his review, this card is good if you need additional spells in your combat mage build. Maybe you have a limited collection where you only have Shrivelling or Azure Flame

But if you have a large collection that includes both Shrivelling and Azure Flame, then Shards of the Void should probably only be considered if you're playing a chaos bag manipulation deck. The math indicates that Shards of the Void performs better than Shrivelling and Azure only if you manage to draw at least one "0" token AND you keep at least one token sealed for all the charges.

Here's the math behind my statement.
Shrivelling and Azure Flame give you 4 attacks, at +2 and 2 damage per attack.

If you don't draw a "0" token, Shards of the Void gives you:

• 3 attacks at +2 and 2 damage per attack (if you keep the "0" sealed on)
• and 1 attack at +0 and 2 damage
  OR
  
• 4 attacks at +0 and 2 damage per attack (if you immediately spend the "0" sealed)

Verdict: That's worse than level 3 Shrivelling / Azure Flame!


What happens if you only draw one "0" token during all of your attacks with Shards of the Void? Here's the math:
if you keep the "0" tokens sealed on, spending them as your last two attacks:

• 1 attack at +4 and 3 damage
• 2 attacks at +4 and 2 damage per attack
• 1 attack at +2 and 2 damage
• 1 attack at +0 and 2 damage

Verdict: That's better than level 3 Shrivelling / Azure Flame.

OR
if you immediately spend the "0" token, draw one "0" token on your first attack and immediately use it after:

• 1 attack at +2 and 3 damage
• 4 attacks at +0 and 2 damage per attack

Verdict: That's worse than level 3 Shrivelling / Azure Flame.

As others have stated, remember that sealing a "0" token is probably bad for your team, as it removes a good token from the bag. So consider whether this card is providing your team with enough value to be worth the cost of sealing "0" token(s).

One seemingly overlooked thing by other reviews is that the upgraded version says "You may fight again" while the basic version says "you may fight THAT ENEMY again".

So the upgraded version allows you to attack two different enemies, which is really nice considering it would be easy to one shot an enemy (even a very strong one) with the first automatic success and then you can then follow up with a second attack on another enemy.