Lucky Dice

Lucky Dice

The Exceptional keyword doubles the printed experience.

Do the investigator's deck building restrictions refer to printed XP or total XP cost?

For example, could Wendy Adams add this card to her deck, as she can only buy rogue cards costing up to 2 XP?

Django · 5154
Yes, Wendy can buy this. — CaiusDrewart · 3183
Deckbuilding restrictions are by level (number of pips under the cost). For most cards, the cost is the level. Exceptional doubles the cost, not the level. — Khudzlin · 1

Dark Horse

Dark Horse

This is quite an interesting card. Note that the triggered ability only requires that you not have resources at that moment; there's no reason you can't use this with Physical Training or Arcane Studies, or even better the permanent Scrapper or Keen Eye. Fire Axe should also work, as you would use the card action, then the free action to convert resources for +. And it's 0XP to boot, so all of the Dunwich investigators can use it, as well as Wendy Adams and Agnes Baker.

I could very easily see this becoming part of my standard kit in many many decks.

kolmar · 19

Mind Wipe

Mind Wipe

With Undimensioned and Unseen, we might have seen the first real target for Mind Wipe. And man is it a big one. Spoilers ahead:

Taking down a Brood of Yog-Sothoth is no easy task. First, you need to find the Esoteric Formula before you can even attack it. Then, you are faced with making a combat check against 6 to damage it - made easier by clues you can put on it, but 6 is nevertheless the highest combat we've seen on an enemy thus far. Even if you succeed, you only deal one damage to it, whereas it has 2-5 health depending on how many investigators you are playing with.

Or, you can skip all that and play Mind Wipe. Better yet, since you are probably playing Agnes Baker anyway and have Forbidden Knowledge, immediately follow up with taking 1 horror using Forbidden Knowledge and kill a house sized invisible monstrosity without breaking a sweat.

Oh, but you don't get its Victory I. But I think that's a fair price to pay for the amount of effort you save.

sgtmook · 1437
Actually you cant use the Agnes Ability and deal a damage to the Brood by taking a horror from Forbidden Knowledge as all damages have to result from the Esoteric formula ann not other sources. — Notturno · 38
@Notturno I am sorry, but the part with the formula is blanked! All that is left are the traits "Monster. Abomination." — Synisill · 803
This works, it's true, but it must be said that the Brood is put in the encounter discard if you kill it this way, NOT the Victory display. When you kill it with Mind Wipe, its text box is blank, which also removes the Victory points from the enemy. It won't have victory points again until it hits the discard pile, at which point they won't matter. — SGPrometheus · 841
And actaully, you can kill a Brood of Yog Shothoth with 1 damage on him since the mind wipe wipes the health added by investigator present. — NotSure · 22
Okay, so I had a very interesting thing happen. A Mind-Wiped Brood of Yog-Sothoth — Treadmill · 1
Okay, so I had a very interesting thing happen. A Mind-Wiped Brood of Yog-Sothoth would be much easier to kill, but, would not go into the Victory display. Unless, that is, you have a Yorick in your party with his signature card, Bury Them Deep. Fascinating combo. — Treadmill · 1

Rise to the Occasion

Rise to the Occasion

This Card can be played after Double or Nothing, as it raises the difficulty (if the resulting difficulty is 2 higher than your base value). This card refers to the modified difficulty of a test, not the base value.

With +3 to any test, this is very cost effective solution to resolve Tests, with Double or Nothing, even if another Player uses her Double or Nothing for you.

Django · 5154
Sadly the FAQ for Double or Nothing says something different. All cards are committed simultaneously. :( — Csys · 1
Where can i find this FAQ? I only know about one for the base game. — Django · 5154
He seems to be referring to the FAQ on the page of Double or Nothing on ArkhamDB. However, I cannot find any other sources that corroborates this. — sgtmook · 1437
Some of the FAQ entries explain existing Rules applied to specific cards, but others seem somewhat out of the blue. The FAQ entries on this website never mention any official source or how the author may be affiliated with FFG, so i'm not sure how to evaulate them, without reading all rules again and how they may effect which card... — Django · 5154
All of the FAQ entries on ArkhamDB are based on either official FAQ entries or correspondence with the designer — jayelbird · 1

Dr. Henry Armitage

Dr. Henry Armitage
  • Can you use this ability when you draw a treachery weakness card (like Abandoned and Alone)?
  • Is the drawn card considered "in hand" when you use this ability? If not, it would allow you to discard agnes's weakness without effect.
Django · 5154
As I read it, the revelation keyword triggers as a part of the draw, so you never get a chance to use Armitage. — NatesPromNight · 896
I also seem to remember the rules saying somewhere that you are also never allowed to discard weaknesses by choice. They can be hit by deck milling or in odd cases like Agnes's Dark Memory i believe if something caused you to discard randomly from hand it has a chance of being hit. But not by a player sort of directly targeting the card. — StartWithTheName · 71672
Note that Dark Memories does not have a revelation effect, so it is possible that this card could be used to avoid that card. — FBones · 19414
@FBones, it is correct that Dark Memory does not have the revelation keyword, but Armitage's reaction triggers "After you draw a card", so the card is on the player's hand at that moment. And under Weakness there's this rule "A player may not optionally choose to discard a weakness card from hand, unless a card explicitly specifies otherwise." The text on Armitage does not specifically exclude Weakness cards, so - no, Armitage can not avoid any Weakness. — Synisill · 803
Dr. Armitage's triggered reaction ability fires "after..." (p.3) the card draw is fully resolved. Rex's Curse's revelation ability must be resolved before the card is "in play" (p.18). Resolving the revelation ability puts the card into Rex's threat area. As it is no longer in hand, the rule about not optionally discarding weaknesses from hand (p.21) no longer applies. I see no reason Rex's Curse can't be discarded per Dr. Armitage's triggered ability. — TonganJedi · 53
You can't, as per the FAQ: "Armitage's ability cannot be used on encounter cards." And Rex's Curse is. — jd9000 · 76
as of version 1.3 of the FAQ, you can't use Armitage to discard a weakness — jd9000 · 76