Katarina Sojka
Emissaria da Ulthar

Supporto. Ally

Alleato. Chiaroveggente. Sognatore.

Costi: 2.

Mistico
Salute: 1. Sanità Mentale: 2.

Quando riveli segnalini caos durante una prova di abilità che stai effettuando, esaurisci Katarina Sojka: Rivela segnalini dal sacchetto del caos finché non riveli 1 segnalino con un simbolo. Risolvi quel segnalino e ignora gli altri.

Daniel Watson
La Città Sommersa, Espansione Investigatori #69.
Katarina Sojka

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Until you realize the auto-fail is also a symbol this sounds like an amazingly good card. The insanely increased odds to just fail the test, no matter how many Ritual Candles you pack, make this card hard to play, I'd argue.

But who knows, maybe you don't wanna pass the test (survivor tech, anyone?), or just fire Agatha Crane's ability, or have Seal of the Seventh Sign out (although it won't last long if you play this card)...

EDIT - Fun fact: In theory, you could be stuck in an endless loop if you put Katarina Sojka together with Seal of the Seventh Sign and people sealing the other symbols via Protective Incantation, The Chthonian Stone, The Chthonian Stone, Bulwark, Crystalline Elder Sign, Day of Reckoning, Dial of Ancients, Serpents of Yig, Sign of Xelotaph, The Codex of Ages, and/or Unrelenting. This is also a great example why knowledge should be made easily accessible to the players in any game - because I am not even sure if being stuck in an endless loop counts as "having the potential to change the game state" and therefore would allow triggering Katarina's reaction ability or not. Yeah, the chaos bag is not endless, but it is at least undefined, if not an unreachable state. So what happens when you do this?

AlderSign · 424
I'm not even sure this is good in Agatha. If you exhaust Katarina and then reveal a symbol token, you don't ignore anything and then Agatha's ability isn't active, is it ? That makes it really unreliable ... — aurchen · 300
That's true, if your first revealed token is a symbol, that's even more meh. — AlderSign · 424
I agree with the fact that pulling the Autofail 20% of the time sucks, but if that means that you pass 80% of your tests when using Katarina, it can be worth it. Especially if you pack some payoff like Sixth Sense (4). — Valentin1331 · 81705
If you're worried about the auto fail, since the wording is "when you reveal" and not "when you would reveal" it seems like you can grab one token and then decide you dont like it and reveal new ones, so it could be a rudimentary form of test protection? — Spamamdorf · 5
A typical mid-campaign scenario will have the elder sign, auto-fail, 2-3 skulls, and probably 4-5 other symbols IME. So Katarina is probably autofailing only 1 in 8 or so. — OrionAnderson · 133
The good but boring use for this is to hunt blesses for Ancient Covenant, making life boring since 20-whenever it was. — OrionAnderson · 133
I think the timing opportunity in question is the step of the skill test, not "when you reveal A chaos token". — AlderSign · 424
Some investigators can also mitigate the auto fail by taking the upgraded token of faith, which allows you to do the test again. — Tharzax · 1
Thanks for this comment, my goal next campaign is to seal all the non elder sign symbols so that sojka can always pull elder sign — Frogg · 3
That's smart. Also for blurse decks. — AlderSign · 424
The real best use for Katarina is to use her in a deck that uses the upgraded spell event suite (Spectral Razor, Read the Signs, the evade one) to guarantee that the event you use comes back to your hand. Combine this with Prophetic or the Robe of Endless Night and the resource cost of playing for example Read the Signs every turn is non-existent. — JWitjes · 1

I want to share a light onto this card, during a session I played lately, a friend of mine pulled out this combo that made me realize this card is more than meet the eyes:

He plays Charlie Kane, classes were Guardian and Mystic, constantly ready Venturer to bump ammo into his .32 Colt (return to hand by Calling in Favors then play again through Motivational Speech)

Then he plays Eat Lead! lv2 spent 17 ammo, and at the 16th token, he triggered Katarina to reveal another 5 tokens. The guy almost pulled out the entire chaos bags.

Why you ask? so he can see all 10 curse tokens, followed by Drawn Star to deal 10 DMG straight to the boss's face.

Now it was a three player game so the boss is not dead yet, but that 10 DMG was quite shocking, while I don't think his combo was the best highlight of Katarina, there definitely more to her than just passing the test

LoveApple · 10
Because the trigger for Katarina is "when you reveal tokens" rather than "when you would reveal a token," it's not clear whether you're supposed to be able to use her on one token of a multi-token pull. Possibly she's supposed to replace all other tokens you would have revealed, or ignore them. — OrionAnderson · 133
Yeah, OrionAnderson is right (or not, because in fact it IS clear). The wording is different from Olive McBride. At this point they should just directly mention framework steps to avoid this confusion. — AlderSign · 424
While I agree that mention framework steps will be good. There is a center charm in experiment different combo is see what is possible, take Robert Castaigne lv4 for example, right now his text said you may so you could choose NOT to discard the gun and thus have a free attack every turn for ever. And the dev said: yeah, have fun — LoveApple · 10

I do wonder - how does she interact with The Wicked Witch?

If I first use Katarina and then subsequently use Witch on the token Katharina pulls, do I fish for 4 symbols to eventually use 2 of them? Might make a horiffically efficient way to pull Elder Signs. And even nicer way to find Skulls for Song of the Dead, particularly for Jim. Also might make fishing for 2 matching symbols for Breath of the Sleeper or Eyes of the Dreamer fairly feasible.

That makes hell of a combo or I got too excited too easily? There are quite a few mystics with solid Elder Signs.

Also some can take the combo off class, notably Sister Mary and Sefina Rousseau

Eruantalon · 104