I haven't played it yet, so I don't have a good read on how well it works.

Here's the list of investigators through Drowned City that can take it: Amina Zidane Diana Stanley Father Mateo Lily Chen Sister Mary Stella Clark Zoey Samaras

Act of Desperation, but for evades. Unfortunately, Act of Desperation's kicker is to pay back the resources, which makes is amazing for replacing an empty weapon. "Catch!" can still buy you the space to play down a new weapon but you'll need to hard pay for it. I can envision a Yorick deck with too many hand slot items using this, ditching a .45 Automatic for +4 to the test.

Poor Daniela! Yet another upgraded Guardian card that the mechanic can only gaze longingly at. It's a real shame because I struggle to see how other investigators can consistently make good use of Bulwark. The strong use case might be Survival Knife (2) to preemptively counterattack, then nope the enemy's attack with Bulwark.

Bulwark is a sort of dodge-on-a-stick. Most investigators who can take it will be killers and thus have plenty of opportunities to charge it back up with seals. But is the 2 xp and 2 resource cost worth it, when dodge is right there at level zero? I suppose there could be some instances where you are subject to multiple attacks at once, such as a pursuing conga line of hunters or a relentless enemy that attacks twice.

The ability to ready another asset you control has some jank potential, but that's usually not useful during the enemy phase when you're about to ready your assets anyway. To make full use, you'd want it to be enabled by opportunity attacks or cards like Toe to Toe that prompt an attack.

Ruling from Alex Werner, FFG Game Rules Specialist via the official rules question form:

Question: Hello. I just succeeded a skill test in which I committed Memories of Another Life, which allows me to search my collection for a level zero card and play it "at no cost." Can I choose Thorough Inquiry and ignore both the resource cost in the upper left corner and also the "As an additional cost to play Thorough Inquiry, spend an action" cost listed in the first line of its text box? Thank you in advance.

Answer: No. If an ability allows you to play a card “at no cost,” you ignore just its resource cost, and must pay any additional costs.

(So Doubles are not eligible for Memories of Another Life— at least not if you don’t have an additional action to burn—and by extension, a Summoned Hound played via Motivational Speech (4) will still create an Unbound Beast, and Warning Shot will still burn an ammo, and Faustian Bargain will still put in curses. “At no cost” means the same thing as “ignoring all costs,” apparently, meaning it can still have costs.)

Hot garbage, arguably one of the worst Specialist cards around (Feel free to tell me I am wrong and provide examples of Specialist cards you think are worse)

It is inevitable to make a comparison to Haste when looking at this card, as it is basically the inverse of it: the main two differences is that Captivating Discovery is slotless and Haste is, you know, a good card! Take 2 actions of the same type to perform an extra one, which also allows you some mix and matching because some actions are hybrids of each other (playing an event with Fight is both a Play action and a Fight action) and makes the card fairly flexible to use in most builds

That is not the case here: now you need to perfom THREE different actions, spend your entire turn, before maybe getting an extra action, and all of these actions, both to activate the card AND to gain the extra actions need to be different!

Originally, as it is written this was botherline useless, because the same thing that made Haste strong, also made Captivating Performance weaker, you had to avoid performing actions that overlap in order to be elegible to an action you may or may not be able to perform, and that most of the time was gonna be a Resource or Draw action: given the card's cost in exp and resources, that is pathetic

THANKFULLY, the FaQ did specify hybrid cards ONLY count in the sequence the way you want them to, if you for example use Sixth Sense, you can say you are either Investigating or Activating a card, which turns Captivating Performance to nearly unplayable to just... Bad, to still being a bad card, but actually being usable.

Even then that doesn't remove the problem that the card locks you into really sub-par turn to use, as you need to make sure doing 3 different actions each round to be elegible to another one, which often is of limited use because 3 different type of actions ALREADY covers a good amount of types you can do (at the time of these writing, action types include Activate, Engage, Evade, Fight, Investigate, Move, Play, Resource, and Draw, another FaQ added Parley. I think jury is still out for Forgotten Age's Explore)

And while the resource cost is same as Haste, this is a Level 3 card as opposed to Level 2, costing an extra exp to buy: that is incredibly dumb. This card definetly isn't worth 3 exp, as it is strictly worse than its Rogue's counterpart (which arguable should be higher level) with a stricter requirement of an extra action to trigger (basically a 50% difficulty increase to trigger the effect): even the fact it is slotless does little to change my opinion; sure, a slotless asset is stronger than one taking up a limited slot by design, but it still does take up your decksize space, and if it is far harder to use and has a less tangible benefit, it still not worth using, especially given you have time to play only so many assets before you Doom out.

It's really sad, because I like the concept of Specialist cards, but this ain't it chef: it's cumbersome and underpowered! I tried it on my Jim deck (where I even mistook this took an Arcane slot, hence I had to edit the review) and I wasn't impressed. Doesn't help, most of the people that can use it are Mystics with the exceptions of Lola, Patrice and Lucius, which are the most likely to repeat the same type of action by either keep activating a Spell asset or playing Spell events: if it wasn't for the FaQ specifying how "Hybrid" actions work in relation to Captivating Discovery (as in, you pick as which action they count for between the various eligible options), it would be literally unplayable. And this isn't that great even for the few non-Mystic that can run it.