Stick to the Plan

Edit (7th Feb 2023): The original post below is no longer valid. As Killbray pointed out in the comments, the latest FAQ (2.0) clarified this:

(1.26) Searching During Setup
If an investigator is instructed to search a deck for 1 or more cards during setup, abilities that trigger when a deck is searched (such as Mandy Thompson’s reaction ability or abilities on Research cards) cannot be resolved, as the game has not yet begun.

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One extra cool thing about Stick to the Plan that nobody else seems to be mentioning here:

For Roland Banks, Zoey Samaras and Carolyn Fern - you can include one copy of Astounding Revelation in your deck. This will trigger when you do your initial search with Stick to the Plan, causing you to consistently start every scenario with 2 extra resources (and your deck is thinned by one extra card!). This is equivalent to having Another Day, Another Dollar, for free!

snacc · 1046
That's fair. It is discussed in a few Astounding Revelations reviews, but none on Stick to the Plan. I'm a big fan of using Zoey's 5 flex slots on 2x Rook and 3x Astounding Revelation, especially with how strong her signature asset is and the value of improving the consistancy of finding it. But 1x splashes of Surprised Rabbi is just very powerful with Stick to the Plan for those who can take it. It might even be worth considering Versatile as a budget Another Day Another Dollar if you don't mind adding the other four cards to your deck. (trading resource consistancy for card consistancy) — Death by Chocolate · 1510
I'm assuming that this also means Stick to the Plan cannot have duplicates of any card under it? Just thought I'd ask since I didn't see it clarified elsewhere. — LaRoix · 1649
STTP says "different" events so you can't stick the same card twice. — Django · 5228
Don't forget the lovely Lola Hayes! — Redwardian · 10
@Redwardian Lola can't use Stick to the Plan at all - by the time when the reaction would trigger, she isn't in any role at all but her limitations are already active. And even if she could somehow choose the guardian role in time and trigger the reaction, she couldn't then trigger the Astounding reaction due to not being a seeker. — TheNameWasTaken · 3
Unfortunately since August 2022 with the new FAQ (2.0) released, this Astounding Revelation trick is no longer possible. This is because the newly introduced rule states that abilities that trigger on searching the deck do not work during scenario setup, they can only be used after the game has started. — Killbray · 13605
Thanks @Killbray, I've edited the review so it's clearer. — snacc · 1046
"Fool me once..."

"Fool me once..." is an alright card if played fairly, for it purpose of cancelling a future encounter card - it comes cheaper than Ward of Protection (since you don't have to pay a horror), but costs an extra XP and has more stringent restrictions on when it can cancel a card. Other reviews give more in-depth descriptions of this.

However, there's an important (perhaps unintended) usage of this card: unlike most treachery-interaction cards, this one doesn't specify that it only applies to non-weakness treacheries, so you can use it to trap a weakness to avoid redrawing it when you reshuffle your deck.

Most Guardians don't really have the draw to take advantage of this, but this effect can be especially strong in Joe Diamond, who does have access to the tools needed to repeatedly draw his deck, and this can let you really easily facilitate infinite combos, even if you draw a particularly nasty weakness (such as Amnesia).

Tskami · 17
That's especially juicy if your team happens to draw duplicate random basic weaknesses. — Yenreb · 15
While most Guardians might not be able to make the best use of it themselves, if someone capable of deck cycling draws a treachery that goes into their threat area like Chronophobia, the Guardian can be the one to discard it, then subsequently seal it. — Whimsical · 53
Segment of Onyx

This card is actively bonkers for Daisy Walker, who can frequently draw through her entire deck to find it using Old Book of Lore and other search/draw. It costs 1 XP Total, thanks to Myriad rules, and gives you tons of free actions for resources provided you are meeting the requirements. Actions and autosucceeds are way more important than resources. And in a pinch, it pitches as a wildcard!

If you expire Pendant of the Queen when your deck is near empty or empty, you can stack your deck with three Segments and immediately draw into and play them again. Combined with secret charging abilities like Astounding Revelation and Enraptured, this card can make five-action life a reality for seekers.

LocoPojo · 235
You can't recharge this with astounding revelation; secrets are not charges. — SGPrometheus · 861
Dark Prophecy

When it says “if no such token is revealed, choose one of those tokens and ignore the rest”, does it mean “one of the skull, cultist, tombstone, elder thing, auto fail” or does it mean “one of the 5 revealed” tokens?

Phoenixbadger · 206
One of the five revealed. I see the confusion, but it’s the same ‘those’ from the previous sentence. — Kergma · 11
I wonder how this card, Dark Prophecy, made it into print as written. If the intent was to confuse the reader, mission accomplished. The explanations on what it does are equally vague. The way I treat this card is as such: Play Dark Prophecy then reveal 5 chaos tokens from the bag. Compare your draw to the 5 symbols printed on the card and choose one that matches and reslove it, ignoring the rest. If none match then pick any one of the tokens you drew and resolved that instead, ignore the rest. — Lotharun · 2
As it says "those tokens" it can only refer to the drawn tokens. Otherwise it should say "those symbols" as the text differentiates between the ~symbols~ printed and the ~tokens~ revealed. — Jotaknight · 1
Quick Learner

I was chatting with someone online who mentioned that they took two copies of this card. That seems wild to me. If you want testless clues as Stella, there's the raven. A copy of charisma is all you need there. You can even recur it with resourceful. But two?

Because a lot of the time, your first action is going to involve you and the enemy you got during the mythos phase. You’re going to want to punch this person, hit them with a fire ax, or a chainsaw, or dodge them so you can go on with whatever else you were doing. Especially if they're alert.

If you want to modulate difficulty with Stella, and that’s perfectly reasonable, drawing thin costs an action but one less XP, and you can use it whenever you want. Flub a track shoes test. Mess up an attack so you can play oops (Which is particularly funny with the chainsaw). Get paid or draw!

One copy is amazing though, because suddenly you are using your old ring of keys to get free clues at three shrouds, automatically hitting rats... getting one failure that leads to two successes. Definitely an early pick with Miss Clark that helps every other card she might want to play.

MrGoldbee · 1521
I get the concern, however I lean the other way and say that you should use this first action to trigger QL x2 and both copies of Drawing Thin that you obviously included in your deck and mulliganed hard for, plus whatever Take Heart or Lucky Rabbit's foot you have in play. The first turn is your insane resource gen turn, then you get 3 more. If you can throw in a Grit you Teeth, Oops, Look what I found, or even Eucatastrophe (not the best option), you are even better set up. Yes you need to watch out for Haunted, Retaliate, Alert, etc. Having a treachery card in your threat area to test away may be a good target. — Taevus · 784
Agreed w/ Taevus, running two of these in Stella and it's quite strong. — KillerShrike · 1
This + Drawing Thin + Against All Odds could be a janky way to draw your elder sign without using Eucatastrophe — Zinjanthropus · 233