Out the Door

Abilità

Gambit.

XP: 1.

Canaglia

After Out the Door is committed to a skill test, the performing investigator gains 4 resources. If this skill test fails, that investigator loses 4 resources.

Anders Finér
André Patel #23.
Out the Door

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Reviews

Cards like this one make me sad.

Part of the promise for Chapter 2 was to remove staple cards like Dr. Milan Christopher to make room for other designs. While they were successful at nerfing that specific card, they introduced cards like this one, which is basically a powercrept version of "Watch this!", better in every regard.

  • For zero actions, you get 4 resources with no downsides, which is absurd.
  • You can give these to other investigators who would traditionally struggle with economy, which is absurd.
  • With the icon, you can commit this to anything, which is absurd.

This is an auto-include for every investigator who can take it, no decision making needed.

PS: In the FAQ, the devs talked about having no problems playing with the new rogue cards, even though Fame and Marcus Sengstacke exist, both absolutely unplayable. Well, I am not surprised when they make up for it by printing THIS MONSTROSITY, which will end up poisoning all of chapter 2 with its power and reduce deck building complexity.

Cards like this one make me sad.

MalteArkham · 7
No, this is totally balanced dude. You see, every new printed card (that is a not a reprint of chapter 1) in Andre's pack is useless trash, so this card exists to balance out how worthless the rest of the pack is. This is such incredible good design bro :) — HeroesOfTomorrow · 105
Fame is usable...for one specific CH1 Rogue. In her it's good! — MrGoldbee · 1576
@MrGoldbee Even then, I think Zorzi has better things to do with her extra action — HeroesOfTomorrow · 105
I decree that if you include this card you must include Marcus. He's the bonded weakness card to Out the Door. — McJames · 336
I mean Faustian Bargain was never tabooed, and that's arguably a little better or equivalently good (a play action, but no risk of failure, and committable if you don't need the resources). It's definitely powerful, but you're never going to build a complimentary non-Rogue deck where it's resource economy is based on someone committing this to your tests. And Rogues do have plenty of other ways to make money. I don't think it's in quite the same camp as OG non-taboo Milan, but it is a powerful card. I also think the community elects not to play cards like Fame or Marcus (as they get dunked on quickly) - this is different to these cards being utterly useless, not all cards need to be equivalently powerful. — HungryColquhoun · 18211
I think the effect is quite fine, but I would have went the same route like the watch this upgrade and made it a lvl 3 rouge card. That would prevent most off class shenanigans with cards like gift of nodens etc. — Tharzax · 2
@Tharax FFG have said though that they're not balancing vs. Ch1, so I think combos with that are largely irrelevant TBH (there's plenty of wonky combos between Ch1 and Ch2 cards). Agree it could have higher XP though, I suppose they want Rogues as the big money class and so cards which enable that aren't going to have high XP costs tacked onto them. — HungryColquhoun · 18211

Previous reviews didn't address the most important aspects of this card.

  • When committed, the performing investigator gains 4 resources (at ST.2).
  • The card has a (wild) icon.

You can commit it to another investigator skill test that they are sure to pass, instantly giving them 4 resources. Just imagine solving the economy issues of a during a skill test or a during a skill test. Two classes that traditionally have economy issues.

Additionally, it is possible to use some of those resources on assets with actions to increase the odds before ST.3.

And then, if and only if the skill test fails, that investigator loses those 4 resources.

This is bonkers!!!

Dash83 · 30

This is part of my mass deletion for the reviews I have written as I am no longer proud of them of what I have wrote and I feel uncomfortable leaving them up for everyone to see.

The quick brown Duke jumps over the lazy fox dog creature.

fishingbrogl · 21
There isn't any risk. If you're at 1 resource and commit this and you fail, you're at 1 resource. — Thatwasademo · 59
If you are at zero resources before you test, you can just spend the ones you have on stat boosters like Streetwise/Silver Tongue. If you fail, you literally lose nothing! — HeroesOfTomorrow · 105
Have I been reading this card wrong the whole time? I thought I was looking at it correctly — fishingbrogl · 21