Blessing of Isis

Blessing of Isis

I firstly under-estimated Blessing of Isis, but this has good potential. If you have Favor of the Sun, you may utilize this as Ancient Covenant. Non-permanent 3xp is expensive, but you could gain effects and save your . Also, I found that you could find 2 easily by Olive McBride. In many case, + + any token will be succeed.

(Additional rule note: if you're autometically succeed, you do not reveal additional token as part of the effect of the token. It means that Mateo do not need to reveal one additional token when you reveal two token with Olive's ability and trigger Bless of Isis).

One problem is that you need to keep your bag with lots of . This means that if you plan to seal tokens, such as Rite of Sanctification, Shield of Faith, and Holy Spear, it's hard to trigger Isis.

I add probability table for bless of isis. Row is the number of tokens in bag except tokens with "revealing another token" effect including /, and Column is the number of tokens in bag. I assume that we always choose tokens with "revealing another token", so that the probability is slightly less if we focus on "succeed" instead of "triggering isis".

Normal case (%)

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10 1.52 3.85 6.59 9.52 12.50 15.44 18.30 21.05 23.68
11 1.28 3.30 5.71 8.33 11.03 13.73 16.37 18.95 21.43
12 1.10 2.86 5.00 7.35 9.80 12.28 14.74 17.14 19.48
13 0.95 2.50 4.41 6.54 8.77 11.05 13.33 15.58 17.79
14 0.83 2.21 3.92 5.85 7.89 10.00 12.12 14.23 16.30
15 0.74 1.96 3.51 5.26 7.14 9.09 11.07 13.04 15.00
16 0.65 1.75 3.16 4.76 6.49 8.30 10.14 12.00 13.85
17 0.58 1.58 2.86 4.33 5.93 7.61 9.33 11.08 12.82
18 0.53 1.43 2.60 3.95 5.43 7.00 8.62 10.26 11.90
19 0.48 1.30 2.37 3.62 5.00 6.46 7.98 9.52 11.08
20 0.43 1.19 2.17 3.33 4.62 5.98 7.41 8.87 10.34


Olive case (%)

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10 9.09 20.28 31.07 40.66 48.90 55.88 61.76 66.72 70.90
11 7.69 17.58 27.47 36.54 44.54 51.47 57.43 62.54 66.92
12 6.59 15.38 24.45 32.98 40.69 47.50 53.46 58.65 63.16
13 5.71 13.57 21.89 29.90 37.28 43.92 49.82 55.04 59.63
14 5.00 12.06 19.71 27.22 34.26 40.70 46.51 51.70 56.32
15 4.41 10.78 17.83 24.87 31.58 37.80 43.48 48.62 53.24
16 3.92 9.70 16.20 22.81 29.19 35.18 40.71 45.77 50.37
17 3.51 8.77 14.79 20.98 27.05 32.81 38.18 43.14 47.69
18 3.16 7.97 13.55 19.37 25.13 30.66 35.87 40.72 45.20
19 2.86 7.27 12.46 17.93 23.40 28.70 33.74 38.48 42.88
20 2.60 6.66 11.49 16.64 21.84 26.92 31.79 36.40 40.72


(review updated May 30, 2021)

elkeinkrad · 501
Now you gotta retabulate for Olive(2)! — MrGoldbee · 1492
Apologies, my review is rather similar to yours, sorry! — Mystic101 · 25

Administration Office

Administration Office

I'm currently evaluating the usefulness of the ignore effect of Read the Signs throughout the different campaigns (for an upcoming review).

Unfortunately for this card, like it's brother, that checks for cards in hand, this effect whiffs. Because it prevents initiating the sequence, you can not play the card otherwise and therefore cannot ignore the condition.

Susumu · 381

Arkham Woods

Arkham Woods

This is an interesting location, if you are using Read the Signs. Of course, you could simply ignore the effect, which might make sense, if for instance Marie wants to commit Enraptured or Luke (in a 3 or 4 game) Deduction. But if you don't ignore the effect, you can investigate with twice your . While it doesn't hurt, it's probably overkill for most , even on expert, on a 2 shroud location. Unless the bag is full of -tokens, or Agnes wants to Draw Thin.

As pointed out below, Read the Signs won't be able to ignore that one.

Susumu · 381
Double good for Agnes if she's also running her Bad Blood front and can shuffle RtS back in. — SGPrometheus · 847
Read the Signs doesn't ignore this, since it's not a triggered ability or a triggered-ability-like keyword, though. — Thatwasademo · 58
(You may want to check the FAQ on the page for Read the Signs before you do any more reviews for this project you've mentioned) — Thatwasademo · 58
You are absolutely right. I didn't read the FAQ thoroughly, because it was quite obviouse to me, it does not work with "Locked Doors", due to the second reason. Good to know, I will edit this review, and take the new gained knowledge into account on other cards. Thank you! — Susumu · 381

Galvanize

Galvanize

Q: Can Galvanize be used even if you do not control an exhausted Guardian asset (or no Guardian asset at all), simply to gain a bonus fight action?

A: It sure can! Generally speaking, in the absence of the word “then” or any other text that would infer that one effect is conditional on another effect functioning, you do as much as you can in all instances. In this case, there’s no text that says that the additional action is dependent on the asset being readied, so you can absolutely do one without doing the other. Enjoy, MJ Newman

anaphysik · 98

The Endless Stairs

The Endless Stairs

Q: Can "I'm outta here!" be used to resign during A Thousand Shapes of Horror's Act 2a: The Endless Stairs regardless of whether or not the bottommost location is revealed, due to Act 2a's constant ability? (Assuming, of course, that one's current Mysterious Stairs location does not prevent resigning.) I.e., what is "a 'resign' ability" specifically defined as, for the purposes of "I'm outta here!"?

A: No, you cannot! The bottommost Mysterious Stairs location does not gain the “Resign” ability until it is revealed, as per the text on act 2. Essentially, the resign ability only exists while the bottommost stairs is revealed; until then, there is no scenario card with a “resign” ability in play, so you cannot play I’m outta here. Cheers, MJ Newman

anaphysik · 98