Funky.

Guidance isn't a card that generates anything, it just moves one action from you, to another player, and it costs a card. This is basically a card that lets you give the monster killer an extra attack action in place of your investigative actions. It's quite useful actually, when the going gets tough and your friend is just drowning in monster guts you can give them the leeway that can be the difference between dealing 6 damage in a round and dealing 8, or just more securely landing those first 6.

Guidance is a fight card, it's pretty cool because instead of having to equip a system of combat tools yourself, the booster talent and ally boosts and weapon and so on and on, you just tap into all the pent up power that someone else is working hard to foster.

So why don't people like it that much? Its a -low priority- use for a card slot, seriously between the "upgrade quests" which pretty much all the seekers take all the time and the clue tools, clue cheats and card draw and the few real good support cards, yeah you get it. SPACE, it's not infinite at all!

Let me tell you this: Guidance is not a bad card, in higher player counts actually I've got to say, it can be terrific! It can mean that a gets to move before emptying a whole clip of Lightning Gun at something! In 2 player its quite helpful when the team organisation is: Fighter & Cluever. It's definitely best in team comps where your friends can muster high-value actions, that mention of Lightning Gun is by no means an accident.

Awful, awful card. Out of all the TCU skill cards, this one ranks dead last. (EDIT: See below)

The problem is that 3 icon trigger. To get 3 icons off this card and therefore make it trump Unexpected Courage, you need to both have 8 cards in hand and then only commit Curiosity. This demotivates you from playing skill effects like Deduction or Eureka! as you drop an icon as soon as you commit any card alongside this one. If you only commit this card, it becomes 3 for 1 card, but if you want to commit anything else with 1 , you drop to 3 for 2 cards, which is abysmal for a skill card that only gives icons and has no other effects. To add insult to injury, with 8 cards in hand you probably do have something like Deduction or Eureka!, in which case had you run Perception instead, you'd still effectively get 3 for 1 card, but you'd also get the trigger of the other card you committed. Situational cards that you run for icons most of the time like Ghastly Revelation or Connect the Dots become worse as well, as again you're demotivated from using them when they're useless.

All of that was just analyzing this card for when you get the most value out of it- at 8 cards. This effect get so much worse once we take ourselves out of being at 8 cards. At 5 and 6, you really don't want to use this card with anything else, and if you have a particularly hard test to pass and need to commit your whole hand, be ready for this to drop to 1 icon. To add insult to injury, the icons it gives are the most common across Seeker cards: and . It's incredibly rare you'll ever need the flexibility of Curiosity being able to commit to either test when your hand is already that full.

That said, I can think of exactly one investigator who could use it. Minh Thi Phan needs skill cards, and she could run a heavy card draw strategy with Grisly Totem, Laboratory Assistant, Cryptic Research, Glimpse the Unthinkable, etc. all of which help Curiosity's stock go up. She can even run Able Bodied alongside it, which covers all 4 icons, and Minh isn't particularly item hungry either. Outside of that specific build though, you as someone with access to Seeker cards are spoiled for choice: Inquiring Mind might as well be 3 (and occasionally even better than that), Eureka! is crazy good card filtering, and Deduction is almost an autorun skill card in multiplayer for the tests it saves you. I would take all of those, Perception, Guts, and Unexpected Courage before I took this card.

Avoid. If it helps, you probably are not the cat.

EDIT: Well fast forward six months and already we have a way of making this card work. Dream Diary has an upgrade that depends on you having 8 cards in hand (it also gives you Essence of the Dream automatically every turn to facilitate this); Dream-Enhancing Serum helps you maintain duplicates, which is particularly great for Myriad cards; and A Glimmer of Hope can, on demand, help fulfill the condition as well. Again, this suite seems to point to Minh Thi Phan as the best candidate for such a build. I'd still say outside of such a build you should avoid Curiosity, but in this build it could be an absolute cornerstone, much like Cunning in a big money build. I'm happy the card might have found a place.

This is a very strong signature card. It provides the equivalent of Emergency Cache L2 and it's Fast, and it has two wild icons. That's the equivalent of a figurative 4-5XP card, and Lola gets two of them!

This is monstrously strong for Daisy. I had really hoped that the last couple tomes would offer significant build flexibility to my old favorite — that wasn't the case. It's just very hard to be better than Book of Old Lore. Here, I'm hoping we see the first inkling of a card that at least defines a solid shift in the viable archetypes.

tl;dr Crunched some numbers and got some estimated probabilities for getting Anna and Tarots in your opening hand in different situations.

I wrote something similar in a comment on this deck but I thought I'd post some more stats here for anyone who's interested in taking this card, but is unsure of the chances of her being in your opening hand.

Most people probably pair this with Sefina Rousseau, so we'll start by looking at her. Initially we'll consider the situation when we've purchased 2 copies of Anna Kaslow and 3 tarots, probably made up of The Moon • XVIII or Four of Cups. The table below shows the different events that can occur in an opening hand with this set up and their corresponding probabilities:

We'll look at the same situation as above but with an extra tarot i.e. Sefina Rousseau with 4 tarots and two Anna Kaslow cards:

With 4 tarots we might be worried about dead cards in hand. Here we have almost exactly 1/5 chance of having more than one tarot and no Anna, compared to a little less than 1/7 chance with only three tarots. On the flip side you have have a higher chance of getting a stat boost at the start, just under 19/20 times compared to jut over 10/11 times.

Now we'll look at more standard investigators. Our mulligan rules will be: keep 1 tarot and 1 Anna, replace anything else (unless you have Anna initially then keep 2 tarots). One assumption I've made is that you have 2 weaknesses and 1 signature card (so we're essentially sampling from a pool of 31 cards). Note that if you're looking to keep another card or have story assets that'll stunt your chances of an Anna + tarot start.

Like before we'll look at 2 Anna Kaslow + 3 tarots first:

And with four tarots:

Looks like it could be viable, although even when taking a mulligan for Anna and only keeping a tarot if it comes up, we're still left without her nearly half of the time, but 9/10 times we're getting a starting stat boost with 4 tarots, which is always nice.

Some things to look out for when interpreting/looking at these results:

• This is only focusing on getting Anna Kaslow and tarots into our opening hand, this is all well and good but if she's discarded in the first Mythos phase she's pretty useless.
• It could make for a cool themed deck, and in those cases you don't really care as much about your deck being top tier and could maybe deal with the unlikely chance you get no tarots or Annas.
• The second Anna Kaslow isn't a terrible draw, like the extra tarots, as she has a wild icon.

If anyone has any questions or disagrees with anything I've said, I'm happy to discuss.

Thanks for reading!

To get these probabilities I simulated drawing opening hands 10,000,000 times and just looked at the proportion of each event.