This card is great for a certain millionaire. His hand slots are typically free, only really used for flashlights, key rings, or fire axes. He can’t take any of the fun illicit weapons that rogues have. But with this, you can nail one more skill test a turn. And with survivor access, he has multiple ways to fill the bag with positive tokens, and Faustian bargain already works with him to supply his teammates with cash. It even upgrades easily in your deck, you can replace trial by fire guilt-free.

The experiment is a super interesting card. Unlike the hunting horror, which moves rapidly and can spawn any time, it moves very slowly. Inexorably. But it will always ready, punishing people in its space who don’t have a Dodge. Four years on, and there aren’t a ton of ways to fight it easily, especially if you come here before the Clover club and have OXP. Hand of fate can put blessings in the bag. Dynamite Blast is good. With an easy evade and no retaliate, the .25 can help more agile investigators lay in the hits. But unless you prepare precisely for him and get lucky, he’s going to continue inexorably. And the encounter deck rolls on. Hopefully you have some tricks up your sleeve.

Edit: Predator or Prey ruins this guy's year.

Actually a pretty good ally even if you aren’t running many relics/books. Most people would agree St. Huberts Key is a pretty good Card. This one gives the same stats, is able to tank more horror and can soak damage as well, which is pretty nice for seekers. The search ability is actually just bonus at that point.

Most seekers won’t have much trouble finding her early due to strong card draw/search effects. Yeah she takes up an ally slot, but in the right deck that can be mitigated by picking up Miskatonic Archeology funding.

All in all this seems pretty nice if you are running a seeker that runs at least 1 tome/relic that you are going to get out early and consistently (which she obviously helps you doing) and that can make use of the extra willpower. You don’t need to build your entire deck around this card.

One of my most memorable plays with Brother Xavier was at the end of Dunwich Legacy, where I was facing a big 5 health enemy, and had Brother Xavier in play.

I played upgraded Dynamite Blast, which put 3 damage on me (well, on Brother Xavier) and then 3 plus 2 on the enemy. Not that memorable in terms of fluking a lucky draw from the chaos bag, but testless 5 damage in a single action was incredible.

No, what made it memorable was thematically I think we can all work out what Brother Xavier did. What a noble sacrifice.

This might be useful for Luke Robinson on some maps. If you have it at the beginning of the game: play 'The Truth Beckons' and pick an unrevealed location as far away as possible, move there hopefully revealing 3-4 locations on the way. All of those revealed locations are now connected to your 'Dream-Gate' (you can play events from your Dream-Gate to those locations -once per turn- or teleport there when you leave the 'Dream-Gate')!

should have read the card more carefully :(