The Star • XVII

The Star • XVII

Just finished playing this in Tommy. Alongside Spiritual Resolve and Spirit of Humanity, this card is completely insane. Works great with Guard Dog, Beat Cop (2), basically all of the cards you were already playing. Absolutely 10/10 card.

KasaiAisu · 41
Okay, now I'm confused. You finished playing this with Tommy? You must have played alongside a Mystic using Time Warp as well, since this card hasn't even been released yet! — thakaris · 199
You can always proxy unreleased cards — StyxTBeuford · 13052

Operating Room

Operating Room

Somebody at Fantasy Flight really likes Medical Texts. They must be stopped.

Thematically, a place in St. Mary's to do some quick emergency aid is a great idea, but my goodness is this a hot-garbage way to implement that. (To further compound the issue, Waking Nightmare has more horror pressure than damage pressure anyway.)

anaphysik · 99
Maybe, but check out that hot John Carpenter's "The Thing" artwork. That's good pedigree; Bob Laskey knows his horror. — SGPrometheus · 855
@SGPrometheus: Absolutely; I also really like Laskey's Orderlies and Stairwell in this scenario. — anaphysik · 99
Yes, they are perfectly awful. — SGPrometheus · 855

Parallel Fates

Parallel Fates

This seems really good for Gloria Goldberg. "Look at the top 4 cards of the encounter deck." - period. She gets to pull 5 and use her ability to filter a really bad card. Then perform the token draw and possibly place the rest back as needed.

Taevus · 784
On the positive end, it's a deep search, which has great utility in multiplayer especially. On the negative end, it takes an action and is highly likely to whiff. You still get to use her ability here, but I think this card is not as much of a priority for Gloria as Alyssa, Scroll, Scrying, or even other Encounter deck one off search effects like First Watch. — StyxTBeuford · 13052
I agree that it's good for Gloria. If there was a 0-cost event that read "Look at the top 5 cards of the encounter deck, then discard one and shuffle the rest back into the encounter deck" it would get played. Look at the glass half-full: it's not that there might be a downside of shuffling, it's that there is an upside of maybe they won't shuffle. :) — jbailey86 · 1

Moon Pendant

Moon Pendant

This card looks interesting. Gives you the ability to have 2 tarot cards in play while also mitigating some of the drawback of taking 2x tarot cards for consistency. Who actually wants this is another question, and it's hard to know until we've seen the full cycle of L3 tarot cards. Off hand, Sefina comes to mind, as I had decent success playing 4x tarot with her and 2x Anna Kaslow. Perhaps also Calvin, as the tarot is already an auto-include, and this could effectively give him an additional +1 to all stats at a lower cost than Anna.

Zinjanthropus · 231
How about a janky Lola deck 2 x Moon Pendant, Relic Hunter, all the Tarots as ????. It's neutral as well so doesn't get destroyed by her weakness. — EnglishLord · 1
Yeah, the idea of 2x Moon Pendant to get a bunch of ???? cards is definitely intriguing. +4 goes a long way. Lola would probably be the ideal taker. — Zinjanthropus · 231
And for Patrice ! Ina Patrice deck my thought is "each card in my deck must be usable whatever I have to do during the round". With the Moon pendant all the Tarot cards I can't play at the moment become copies of Unexpected courage to have even more wild skill icons to commit to whichever test I have to make. — AlexP · 296
Patrice already has Cornered to pitch a useless Tarot to, but this definitely doesn't hurt — supertoasty · 40

Altered Beast

Altered Beast

Does this card contain a typo? It isn't clear if you are supposed to attach this card to the abomination or not. We went ahead and attached it, assuming it was a typo.

SaraNoH92 · 2
for others benefit it says "attached" with a D, took me three reads to realise where the typo was. — Zerogrim · 296
I know, the English version is the relevant reference for everything, but still want to point out, the German version has not this kind of typo, and it reads the way, it's obviously suposed to be read in the original version as well. — Susumu · 383