Fell in love with this card at first sight and it turns out I was really impressed with it on my solo Luke Robinson run on Dunwich ("Return to" version, in standard). It takes some XP to gather all the needed pieces (the Blasphemous Covenant is a must have) but once you have them, this spell is basically 4-5 damage among enemies (yes, you chose how to assign the damage, its crazy good) in your location for only one action. The fact that it does not require a test is what makes this card so great and efficient (direct-damage cards are always more valuable than skill-dependent ones). In a campaign with annoying distant enemies such as whippoorwills, it got several shining moments, even in solo. This card was able to one shot Silas Bishop in Blood on the Altar and his buddy Seth Bishop later ! Combine this spell with an ally such as Dayana Esperence to replay it over and over again, and enemies won't be as problematic as before, even for a fragile mystic.

This card is good for :

• Luke Robinson (best option I think)
• Daisy Walker
• Mandy Thompson
• Amanda Sharpe
• Trish Scarborough
• Lola Hayes (if you go )

This card works well with :

• Blasphemous Covenant (must have)

• False Covenant (less powerfull)

• Dayana Esperence

• Promise of Power

• Deep Knowledge

• Priest of Two Faiths

• Stirring Up Trouble

• Favor of the Moon

• Olive McBride

• And some weaknesses such as Accursed Follower, Crisis of Faith, Dread Curse that actually help you out.

This is a card (and its upgrade Pilfer) that truly make sense in a high agility Rogue deck that also uses Chuck Fergus. Being able to make it fast + 2 makes this event pretty phenomenal to clean locations in a 3 person team.

The upgrade in a Winifred Habbamock deck will also often come back to your hand making you clean locations one after the other until you hit an auto-fail.

There is no card page for Parallel Agnes, so let me leave this here for you all instead. For anyone wondering what that even is, its some fantastic free content from a recent FFG article (Link here)

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Hello Agnes, my old friend

I've come to play with you again

A cool new version of you just crept in

Left its cards while I was sleeping

While the version of you smiting with your pain

Still remains

It feels most sound with violence

.

In early days you walked alone

Signature cards that made us groan

That weakness gave your brain some cramp

Your Heirloom collar needed a revamp

That elder-sign never did much to excite

None of them quite

Work when you’re bound to violence.

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And in your new Agnes I saw

Potential spell events galore

Grabbing clues without Rite of Seeking

Dealing damage without a Shrivelling

Spell events, replayed with their expenses spared

As few had dared

When you were bound to violence

.

Tools that I feel I barely know

Hypno Gaze now feels pro!

Hear my words that I might teach you

With a recurring HP soak or two

You can do this for almost all the game

...

Soaking all the pain... in silence

.

And then the people proudly played

The event spell machine they made

Your elder-sign gave out its healing

Your Heirloom makes sense when it keeps drawing

Dark Memory burns only horror that standing in full bloom

Making the doom

Safer, to delay, in silence

Without Chuck Fergus, this card is pretty expensive (except to Preston, Tony or parallel Skids.) With him, it gains fast and costs a buck, which is pretty good: it makes a hunter enemy lose its ability to damage your team for that turn, plus a clue!

But where this card gets very clever is in forced movement: Warning shot, or spells that move enemies mean that the foe skips two enemy phases instead of one. That means a lot of fun in TFA.

Other interesting combos is putting this with On the Hunt: your chosen foe spawns on you, is immediately evaded, and you get a clue. Leo can use this with evidence, as can Tony... or anyone who wants to give Roland Banks a fun turn.

With Dark Prophecy or Premonition or Scrying Mirror, this card is decently reliable even for non-token manipulation mystics.

The real problem is that there's a lack of really good recur targets. Your spells with charges don't self-discard. Seal of the Elder Sign, Seal of the Seventh Sign, The Eye of Truth all can't be recurred. Deny Existence (5) can be, but it's a defensive card, not a combo piece. If there were a really strong repeated mystic event, Dayana Esperence would be much stronger than she already is. The best target is probably just a Ward of Protection or a Recharge (4).

Also worth mentioning that Eldritch Inspiration (1) allows you to recur two cards.