
This card is actually really good in a Gloria deck. Alyssa Graham and scroll help Gloria mine the encounter deck further; it's also a good backup in case you haven't got your Alyssa out yet, and takes up a hand slot instead of arcane.
This card is actually really good in a Gloria deck. Alyssa Graham and scroll help Gloria mine the encounter deck further; it's also a good backup in case you haven't got your Alyssa out yet, and takes up a hand slot instead of arcane.
Five years into the game's run, Gregory is still the best rogue(0) ally. Leo and Lonnie both have amazing abilities, but they’re expensive. Probably not viable outside of big money builds or fighting. But anything a rogue might wanna do they can do better with Gregory. Lock picks, Mauser shots, funneling your money with hard knocks(4)...all fun.
There’s one advantage nobody’s mentioned, though. In scenarios that attack your resources, Greg keeps your money safe. He doesn’t mind if you only get a few bucks a turn all game, then call in favors to replace him with Delilah or Tristan. He’s a gambler, he knows how the game is played.
Art note: The letter Stella is carrying is addressed to Jacqueline Fine, albeit misspelled as "Jakueline" -- this is easier to see on her investigator mini-card (or, I imagine, on her investigator card in Arkham 3rd, since to my knowledge that's where the art is from). Useful info if you're looking for flavor justifications for card pairings (similar to the also-mail-related Indebted and Finn Edwards).
icon makes it easy for Dexter Drake to use this as another way to pay for cycling expensive assets (alongside cards like David Renfield and Faustian Bargain). Sometimes you have to work to find good or tests to use this on, but tests are trivial to both find and pass as a mystic.
Honestly just utterly confused as to why this was designed as a level 3 card rather than a level 2 one. Leo Anderson is THE investigator that would most love an upgraded Decorated Skull, and yet he can't play it. Has anyone playtested it in him "for science!" and found that denying him it was a wise design decision? I.e. would it just be too good for him? How about a hypothetical level 2 mutated version (e.g. where you can spend up to 2 charges instead, or is exceptional, or a similar variant)?