This may not be obvious at first, but for George Barnaby this card is insanely good. You can use the fast action on Artistic Inspiration during the enemy phase to trigger his ability.

As there are not many cards that can trigger a discard during the enemy phase, this essentially nets you +1 card per turn.

The Luger has very interesting potential for initiating a test and dealing damage during any phase.

Parralel Zoey Samaras can use this to net more bless tokens, and George Barnaby can use it in tandem with Gift of Nodens or Cornered to draw more cards.

Especially nice for Zoey, whose access to enchant weapon can turn this into a 1/turn 2 damage attack at base 9. Or 3 with her bless token manipulation.

Mark Harrigan may also be interested in the option to use it, but doesn't have access to the card and already has a fair few alternatives that work better for him.

Two completely unrelated quotes from the rules:

• "If an investigator with an empty investigator deck needs to draw a card, that investigator shuffles his or her discard pile back into his or her deck, then draws the card, and upon completion of the entire draw takes one horror."

• "A single card cannot be shuffled into an empty player deck or encounter deck via card effect. If this shuffling would occur during the playing or revelation of a card that is typically discarded after it is resolved, such as an event or treachery card, it is discarded. Otherwise, the card remains in its current game area."

Two copies of Quick-Witted are not a single card.

Neither are three Segments of Onyx.

So, I'm thinking: if you draw your deck (at some point, if you're a it shouldn't be a problem), have 2 Quick-Witted in the discard and the last one in your hand, you can cycle them infinitely (provided you have enough resources)

1. play all Segments of Onyx, immediately using one charge from the Pendant of the Queen
2. investigate committing the last Quick-Witted, shuffling the other two into the deck
3. draw for turn (1 card left in the deck afterwards)
4. get rid of the Quick-Witted you just drew (commit it, discard it, whatever)
5. use second charge from Pendant of the Queen
6. draw for turn (no cards left in the deck afterwards)
7. use the last charge from Pendant of the Queen, shuffling the Segments of Onyx into the deck
8. draw them at your convenience
9. repeat from step 1.

Infinite panic button.

I admit I take my time with cards from the new expansions (I also admit everything after the Edge of the Earth counts a "new expansion" for me), so again, a disclaimer: I have not played that card yet, so take what I say with a grain of salt. On that note:

This *clap* card *clap* is *clap* bonkers.

Let's analyse it together, maybe I'm missing something, maybe it's 6:30 or maybe, just maybe, I am simply that dumb. Comparing it to our good friend Grotesque Statue:

• resource cost: identical
• one is an item, one is a spell, both have synergies, neither is strictly better (although in there's more of the latter)
• one takes a hand slot, one takes an arcane slot. One could argue arcane slots are more contested in , but nowadays we have multiple ways to handle that.

And this is where I begin my rant. So far, three of my points make those cards pretty much equal, so where exactly is the problem?

Grotesque Statue lets you "roll with advantage" on ANY test. Eyes of the Dreamer only does that for investigating. That is a substantial difference, making the statue usable with the cards that care about bless/curse/symbol tokens. The problem is that Eyes of the Dreamer is BOTH OF THEM. It both provides the "advantage" and has a payoff for using it (getting an additional clue). It has a whopping NINE charges compared to Grotesque Statue's measly three, it lets you use up to three of them in a single action and is a perfectly fine Sixth Sense once you're out of charges.

Let's not forget that if you're not interested in gambling, you can just take those 9 charges and use them as 100% guaranteed successful investigations (since you're pulling 2 tokens, only one of them can be an auto-fail, so just get your high enough to beat the greatest modifier in the bag).

AND IT IS THE STATUE THAT COSTS 2 EXP.

It's been a while since this card as released. After more varied play, how does this stack up?

On the whole, very well. It's not only the oversuccess portion of rogue that likes this, though it certainly doesn't hurt. The fact is, this is a single skill that can add +3 to any test - and sometimes there are some tests that rogues really need to succeed on that aren't in their strengths. In low player count rogues or when only dealing with the single character, there are things like Frozen in Fear which require you to succeed on a check that you wouldn't ever succeed on. There are also scenarios that often require you to make a specific type of check. At that point, you can usually set up the timing as you'd like and use this to finish off that check - and if you happen to be using any source of bonus actions, such as Leo De Luca or Quick Thinking along the way, all the better.

I've found this to be an excellent skill to throw in most decks which have a single low stat that can come up - and it turns out, rogues, and their generally low , can usually benefit from such an effect. This won't protect you when an effect immediately pops up, but it's a good emergency measure to have - and even if you don't need it, most games, there are times where I'm happy to arrange for a +3 on my last action.

Just don't use this in the same deck as Daredevil unless you're willing to tempt catastrophe.