Since the checked box is immediately usable (unlike Delve Too Deep which let you shop for more only after clearing the scenario) you can :

• Make any Customizable with single box choice suddenly usable while playing the 1st scenario where you are not supposed to have any XP yet.
• When you are missing only 1 box to get a key upgrade from all the XP you got in your previous scenario, or you may intentionally check boxes such that it is missing just 1 and use remaining XP for regular card purchases instead. Carrying Refine into the next scenario and bet for it to check the final box can stretch the limit of how fast you can get good in first half of the campaign.
• Maybe able to stretch this more with In the Thick of It, for example checking 3/4 box of Pocket Multi Tool Spring-Loaded then bet on Refine to check the final box. Or starting Runic Axe with Saga and then use Refine to add one more inscription inside the scenario to go with it.

Also, if you are planning to add in some Customizable cards into the deck later together with boxes checked (e.g. would rather use deck space for something else than 2x Summoned Servitor in the 1st scenario that cannot do anything), then you do not "own" the card just yet, and cannot use Refine to check the box. (However 1x Summoned Servitor is enough to receive Refine.)

(Ownership and Control : A card's owner is the player whose deck (or game area) held the card at the start of the game.)

If you usually draw simultaneously in Upkeep you may need to slow down a bit to play with this card correctly. Actual steps is drawing in player order (lead first, then clockwise).

For example if someone drawing this card goes the last, the other players all had already seen their Upkeep draw when deciding which pile to pick. If goes first, then other players do not yet perform their Upkeep draw until you finished picking the pile.

Playing correctly may matter with other Dilemma, cards with effects on draw, when you pick a pile with weakness like Amnesia, or you may draw the shuffled back weakness from unpicked piles.

My next deck is going to be trying to use Eldritch Sophist with the new The Red Clock and Runic Axe as sources of infinite charges to keep my Archaic Glyphs, Divination, and Wish Eater powered up.

Ursula Downs can run Relics 0-4 so she can take the Axe once you put one point into Heirloom. She wont be able to take The Red Clock (5), but that's alright. I wouldn't have been able to pocket the money anyways if I was pulling the charge off every round.

Core encounter sets scenario cards which has a skill test on it :

• The Midnight Masks : 2x False Lead
• Ghouls : 3x Grasping Hands
• Striking Fear : 3x Rotting Remains, 2x Frozen in Fear
• Chilling Cold : 2x Crypt Chill
• Nightgaunts : 2x On Wings of Darkness
• Locked Doors : 2x Locked Door
• Agents of Hastur : 2x The Yellow Sign
• Agents of Cthulhu : 2x Dreams of R'lyeh

Just a quick question regarding her ability: Can someone tell me, whether one can switch roles while using geared up? I'm not quite sure, whether there is a player window between each card played. Right now I would like to try her big cardpool for geared up.