Wow! Daisy Walker is living for the back-to-back releases with the new-Old Book of Lore and now this. Honestly, this card is basically a 4 XP Daisy signature card, better than her current one I might add, since it opens up one of her Daisy's hand slots as well, and won't let The Necronomicon push it out of your hands as easily. Let's take a look at her favorite reads:

• Encyclopedia now you can +4 any stat for the whole round. I feel like Daisy can perform some evades or fights actions on herself with more reliability, pump up her , or even dip her toe into her side. Will improve Daisy's support and clue gathering, but not buff her enemy management all that much since it still provokes an attack of opportunity.
• Old Book of Lore / Old Book of Lore I can see the lvl-0 making Daisy a pseudo-Mandy Thompson. I'm not entirely sure how useful this will be on the lvl-2, since you still use up the secrets. Nevertheless, you are a discount machine for you and all your fellow investigators. With a deck dedicated to replenishing secrets via Astounding Revelation, Truth from Fiction, and Enraptured, I can see this adding lots of tempo to investigators who don't have access to cards like Ever Vigilant or Joey "The Rat" Vigil. You can also help the or put down up to 2 key weapons or spells while they are already engaged to an enemy.
• Scroll of Secrets It lets you manipulate 6 cards in the encounter deck or investigator deck. It could potentially help an investigator with a dwindling deck who has yet to draw their weaknesses bypass them altogether, or set up a discard pile for Survivor recursion.
• The more niche Medical Texts +2 heal and Scroll of Prophecies +4 cards draw (2 discarded) are not to be scoffed at either.
• Questioning what Django is saying about Pnakotic Manuscripts. I suppose you can choose different investigators, and each of them would get a chaos bag-less test as a result. Then it would be so stupidly unbalanced.

I'm realizing this review became less about the card, and more about Daisy and all the individual tome cards, but still. STILL. I can also see Mandy Thompson playing this since it does synergize with her abilities, although she already has easy access to her ability via other options. I don't know if it is necessary to sink the 4 XP for Mandy or the other to play this.

A few more cycles have been released now, so what other Tomes should Abigail Foreman be holding for you?

• Book of Psalms: Maybe! This is only Joe Diamond at this point, but doubling the effect is strong. You can switch it back with something else if need be.
• Cryptic Grimoire: Only with the Untranslated version. It'll help get more curses in the bag, I guess.
• Abyssal Tome: Yes! Daisy can be a very strong fighter with Abigail holding this. Part of a Doom package, but this combo is fun.
• Medical Texts (2): You'll have to take the test again, but if you're really hurting on damage you can clear it out on one action and then get rid of the book for something else.
• Prophesiae Profana: If you're hurting on actions at the end of the scenario and you're trying to get everyone out on time, this will work. Again, another case where the fact that you can switch out whatever Tome on Abigail for something else is excellent.
• Encyclopedia (0): The same as said in other reviews for Encyclopedia (2). You don't spend another secret. Very strong.
• Forbidden Tome (0): Not useful because you want to spend the secrets.
• Forbidden Tome (3) & Forbidden Tome (3): Yes.
• Esoteric Atlas (2): For really big maps, I guess?

That's it so far with the Player Cards as of Edge of the Earth. Let's see what we get next!

At a glance, you'd think Abigail is Daisy Walker's new best friend. Well, you're probably right - she fits in most Daisy decks with little effort, though you may want a Charisma first. However, there should also be some attention on whether or not she can fit into non-Daisy decks, and that's a lot fuzzier.

Abigail has the ability to repeat any Tome for free. This effect will determine whether or not you include Abigail. You can still get an extra hand slot by attaching Tomes without on them, but there's little reason to do so. Ally slots are valuable, and trading an ally slot for a hand slot is likely not worth it. That being said, most characters who aren't Daisy will have a hard time running numerous books and then constantly burning actions to use them. If someone is only running a single book, Research Librarian's consistency and relative cheapness is going to compete for the same slot, and likely be the cheaper and more reliable choice.

One important note is that the Abigail resolves the effect of the , not the full . This means that costs are not part of the effect, so 'free' doesn't only apply to the action, but to any other costs as well. This allows you to squeeze extra uses out of anything that has limited uses. As a result, you will want to keep a careful eye on Tomes with uses, since they become more tempting than before.

For easy reference, as of March 2020, here are the list of Tomes that have corresponding effects:

• Unlimited Uses
  • Old Book of Lore (0) and Old Book of Lore (3)
  • Medical Texts
  • Encyclopedia
  • Book of Shadows (1) and Book of Shadows (3)
  • De Vermis Mysteriis (Requires appropriate event in discard)
  • Dream Diary (0) (Limited use, since you can only have one Essence of the Dream at a time)
• Number of Uses
  • The Necronomicon
  • Archaic Glyphs (Untranslated)
  • Pnakotic Manuscripts (But the reaction is very similar)
  • Scroll of Secrets(0), Scroll of Secrets (3, Seeker), and Scroll of Secrets (3, Mystic)
  • Esoteric Atlas
  • Scroll of Prophecies
  • Otherworld Codex

There are some definite hits in here - an Old Book of Lore drawing two cards every turn or an Encyclopedia giving +4 would be two very common and powerful examples. Scroll of Prophecies can also let you tear through absurd amounts of your deck, and Otherworld Codex can clear an absurd amount of problems or give you two shots at clearing one. If you're using a couple of these effects of these very often, Abigail can give you a lot. However, those are very action and resource intensive combos to pull out for anybody who isn't Daisy.

If you're using at least four copies of Tomes with ... Well, I hope you're playing Daisy. But it's only in those circumstances that I would say the reliability of Abigail is high enough to justify the cost, given many Tomes cost XP to get in the first place. If your build otherwise functions with all of those Tomes, Abigail is worth looking into. Otherwise, it's best not to put too many actions into a combo that might show off a neat trick or two, but won't reliably help you do things that need to be done.

For Daisy Walker, Abigail Foreman is also a powerful combo with Book of Shadows 1. Put 2 charges on a spell (or 2 different ones) for no action and 1 ressource? Even rivals Twila Katherine Price who puts only 1 charge an a spell.

• Arcane Insight Reduces shroud by 2 during 2 different turns
• Archaic Glyphs Guiding Stones is already a ridiculous card cause it can suck all clues from a location in a single action combined with Higher Education and some ressources (maybe use Alchemical Transmutation). Now you can do this all day.
• Archaic Glyphs Prophecy Foretold evades an engaged enemy while doing your job: gathering clues. Includes elite, so it's very potent. Is better in recent campaigns where evading Pit Spoilers or The Spectral Spoiler can save another player's ass.
• Archaic Glyphs Markings of Isis allows you to put assets into play as you investigate. If it's in your starting hand this can be a big tempo boost, as it'll be the only asset you'll ever play and save you lots of ressources as well. But save 2 charges for Abigail Foreman and Book of Shadows.
• Rite of Seeking 2 may seem like a bad idea with daisys 5 , but getting 2 clues for 1 action is very strong.

You could Teamwork Abigail Foreman from the team's seeker to the mystic and give her Book of Shadows 3, gaining a 3rd or 5th arcane slot (add 2 Sign Magick). Spend an action each turn to add 1-2 charges to the following spells:

• Rite of Seeking 4 gains 3 clues for 1 action, making more than up for the action spend on the Book of Shadows
• Scrying 3 to control the encounter deck and locate targets for Ward of Protection or Alyssa Graham
• Seal of the Seventh Sign to seal infinitely
• Shrivelling 5 deals 3 damage all day, but causes lots of horror. Consult closest psychiatrist.

If the team has no access to guardian, Versatile is an option to get Teamwork.

EDIT: Nevermind. The Necronomicon goes in your threat are, not your play area.

In addition to the other good reasons to run her in Daisy Walker, I believe she enables you to get rid of your weakness "for free." You can't choose to discard a weakness from play, but you can choose to attack your Necronomicon to Abigail. And if Abigail were to leave play, then all her attachments would be discarded. So, try running her with Calling In Favors and Art Student, or another cheap Seeker ally. If you don't draw Abigail, you can use Calling In Favors the normal way: Play an art student, return them to your hand, and try to find Abigail. But, if you do draw Abigail, you can hang on to your Favors until you draw the Necronomicon. Attach it to her, bounce her to your hand, try to hit an Art Student for a free clue, then reply her at leisure.