Pretty strange basic weakness for an investigator who doesn't have any search mechanic. Joe Diamond isn't especially crazy about Right Tool for the Job anyway. It is also pretty mild and helps you lower the number of cards in your deck if you'll get rid of it just before the end of the scenario. Until then, you are free to cycle the Detective's Intuition like crazy to earn to pay the cost of this one.

Just judging this card on a Core Set 2026 run, I don't like it.

It's very expensive to get rid off, 2xp stings if your group can't reliably get all the relevant victory points, and while Joe can draw like crazy, his resource generation is lacking, and a lot of the good cards, right now, are expensive.

You also don't have the always-on money maker that is Dr. Milan, and instead you have the pre-nerfed Dorothy Simmons, whose money generating powers are much narrower.

It's definitely a play around weakness - you can probably keep 5 Resources open towards the end of the game - but it's still very feelsbad in my eyes.

Also, again, in the Core Set 2026 context, I'll say that one of the best cards Joe has access to, Unbridled Knowledge, is essentially dead in your hand until you found this weakness, because you absolutely aren't gonna play a 5xp card on the high chance it'll fizzle because of the "cancel the effects of the search" text.