I really like this card. I've tried it in Wini through TCU this week -- it's been great.

2 -2 tokens are not really very much to someone who plans to overcommit anyway, and sating her thirst for resources is really nice. It's an extra Cache (but better!) and given her signature weakness you could even try and sag a test tactically if the opportunity comes along on a WP treachery etc.

The fact it comes with WP and Int icons is even better, though at 0 cost I can't imagine not playing this except in a pinch.

I'm thinking this has to be one of the easiest investigator weaknesses to deal with in the entire game, short of the ones you can afford to outright ignore sometimes. Most of the cards that help Trish deal with this weakness are cards she would have strongly considered running anyway.

Narrow Escape is already fantastic for Trish, this weakness practically makes it a cornerstone.

Obfuscation also helps with this and slides right into a completely uncontested slot (arcane). Since it's Fast, she can hold onto it until she needs it.

Cryptographic Cipher helps as well. Despite making the resulting investigate slightly tougher, at any 1 or 2 shroud location it's hardly noticeable and it lets her grab a clue AND discard her weakness without spending a single action. If it's sitting in her hand she could always Sleight of Hand it out as well...

Shortcut helps her position herself on top of a clue if she draws into this weakness at a location with 0 clues.

...and if there are no clues around you could always stoop to the level of more mortal investigators and simply spend an action to evade it and poof, it's gone.

Pretty cool. Trish seems extremely hard to slow down.

In Arkham, we know that faith can keep us sane. The Holy rosary is one of the few zero xp sanity adding assets. But you can throw that on for one action before leaving the house. The book of Psalms is going to take us more effort. This is a support card. Generally, it’s not useful to take two actions to heal one damage or horror. (Every healing asset requires us to put it in play after all.) Every three actions you take, generally, the encounter deck is going to drop more problems, which means we need other reasons to play this.

First, we could be a therapist. Carolyn, being at the top of medical science in the 1920s, is willing to use Hypnotic Therapy and prayer. She gets a buck and can heal one or two san while adding bless tokens to the bag. Super effective: 8 bless tokens and a net profit for the team.

Second and more obviously, this is useful for a support Mary or Mateo. Most of the Conspiracy investigators have good sanity, but Silas has five. Keeping him alive while you feed the bag plays into the support archetype.

Least obviously but most thematically interesting is taking this card with Joe or Roland. As blue/yellow investigators, they find Astounding Revelations...and discover secrets in the writings of King David! The idea of secrets in the Psalms may make money indirectly, because people are still publishing books to that effect more than 100 years later.

Which is enough to cause you sanity damage.

(1) I'm very surprised this isn't blessed-traited item like every other card that adds blessed tokens to the chaos bag.

(2) This is much better with a lower player count (1 or 2). After it exhausts, It can no longer convert tokens and becomes dead weight. "Ashcan" Pete can use his ability to ready it, and there may be a build here if he takes cards like Deep Knowledge, Faustian Bargain, and Tempt Fate.

(3) This works for any skill test. Not just your skill tests, or ones at your location.

(4) It takes an accessory slot and has to.compete against the card draw of Rabbit's Foot.

(5) I have a feeling this will become a staple in some solo survivor build. Perhaps a fail focused build that can benefit from having a lot of cursed tokens in the chaos bag. Currently the bless/cursed card pool is slim, so only time will tell.

What was once simply a Toni Morrison novel is now an interesting pick for Silas.

My starting assumption is this: if you’re running a bless heavy deck, you probably have sister Mary.

(Predestination is not gonna fill up the bag unless you’re cycling it with resourceful.)

Now, Silas can give this a shot once a turn, hoping for the token, withdrawing if he doesn’t get it. It’s not the most efficient use of his time, but there’s no action loss involved.

The wild symbol is what makes it truly neat. Let’s say you’re using Olive McBride, a scrying mirror, and/or Jacqueline to look at multiple tokens. (Premonition also works.) You can play this on a teammate to make them automatically pass a check, something that would otherwise cost a lot of XP (or four resources). And with the wild symbol, it can apply to any skill. One of the ridiculously high ones in the circle undone. An evade of a brutal monster in the Yucatán. A sawn-off blast with double or nothing.

Sure, it takes a lot of time, effort, and you can’t do it alone. That’s how you know it’s love.

Edit: Now that we’ve seen the pact of the sun, this card becomes “use ancient covenant another time this turn, but a tad better“.