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Forced Learning

I think best use is for a seeker/survivor with scavenging+resourceful (so you can pick back scavenging) and pair this with short supply, and a lot of survivor cards that can be used from discard or gets advantage of discard cards.

I think the biggest problems are the weaknesses. Basically in 15 rounds you go through the same size of your deck with this card as without it (not counting tutoring). You get +15 cards but mill 15 more so it nets 0. So it is nearly the same chance to see your weakness. But if you draw your weakness you have to discard your other card (as you have to discard 1 but you cannot discard weakness) so you lose your chance to choose one. So the main problem is if you draw your "best" card and a weakness at the same time.

9/30/21

vidinufi · 69

Sweeping Kick

This card is good Survivors with high agility like Rita, who likes this for her passive, or Guardians who take it for the occasional evasion to get an engagement break to play the next big beatstick.

For me though, this card really shines in Calvin. Since he boosts both Strength and Agility in equal measure, a base skill value of 6 or higher is easily achievable even in the early scenarios of a campaign.

9/30/21

g4nk3r · 4

Do you know how it works with Elusive enemies? Could I evade the enemy before him going to another location after the attack? — Jarguy · 1 6/22/24

In the Thick of It

This card creates even more possibilities: In the Thick of It + Versatile +

This is the only chance to get these cards for every investigator because of “purchase at deck creation” text

9/30/21

Vexer · 5

Yeah but is it useful? — MrGoldbee · 1524 9/30/21

I already covered this in my review: I think, it might be useful for the boxer and the rabbit. The reast I don't see. "Underworld Support" is sure terrible, if you counter it with Versatile, similar "First Learning". You dont't want to increase your deck size to 20. Investigators who can't take "Short Supply" also have hardly any cards to provit from the discard and "Geared Up" looks like a terrible card to me, period. — Susumu · 386 9/30/21

As for other guardians: I think, the high amount of upgradable Guardian events and the fact, that Nataniel has several tutor options for his Gloves (I would include "Calling in Favors" to tutor his signature-tutor), and once he has his Gloves good card draw to counter the bigger "versatile" deck, gives him an edge over other guardians. Sure, they will take a couple of these events, too. But your regular "big gun" build relies much more on upgrade cards, that do not exist at level 0. — Susumu · 386 9/30/21

This combo will enable all sorts of wonderful jank! — Gibby · 1 11/22/21

Forced Learning

The limits of Mandy's deck size just got a whole lot larger. Starting out with a 65 card deck is sure to make the other players at the table question how much horror you've taken. But combine it with two Versatiles to make a 75 card deck and the others will surely drive you to the asylum for the clear bout of insanity that you're experiencing. Then, combine that with Ancestral Knowledge to make a pseudo 80 card deck. What does one even put in an 80 card deck? Everything? At least the Dunwich encounter deck will lose much of its power. These combos would probably make activating Beyond the Veil an achievement in the most draw-heavy class but it would also make it a challenge to find the cards you need. Have fun shuffling this monstrosity! Combine it with the other new permanents for even more deck shenanigans.

9/30/21

Tay5967 · 20

two cards in your now 83 card deck are weaknesses, enjoy the one game you actually draw both. — Zerogrim · 302 9/30/21

Aren't there 4 weaknesses in her deck due to the scaling of her signature weakness with her chosen deck size? — Tharzax · 1 10/2/21

That's her signature (good) card, not her signature weakness — SnowOnACactus · 1 10/11/21

Black Market

An amazingly fun card, brings back vibes of Eldritch horror, having a suite of cool things your entire team has access to, really really crazy if you sit down with your team and come up with some combo's with it.

A side note is I cannot seem to add this card to decks, it doesn't show up in card lists when I am making a rogue deck and when I manually search for it no "add copies to deck" function is available, anyone else having this issue with this or any other cards?

EDIT: the issue seems to have been fixed now.

9/29/21

Zerogrim · 302

Yep, have the same issue sadly. — DrMercy · 1 9/30/21

Qn: Does this trigger Revelation effects or does it enable any investigators to trigger those revelation effects or are treachery wasted slots? — Hulahoop12 · 1 10/14/21

@Hulahoop12 it's a reveal effect not a search effect, so it doesn't trigger research effects. — Lasiace · 24 10/14/21

@Hulahoop12 A treachery/weakness would be a wasted slot and cannot be played via Black Market. Page 16 of rules reference states that a play action can target an asset or an event. A treachery/weakness is neither of those. — snacc · 1052 3/2/22