I really love this card for Carson, but also generally for any Guardian who may have some downtime and and spare resources. Carson's ability has generally shown that giving actions to someone else is pretty powerful when yours are less useful. This gives 3 actions to someone else for 2 resources 2 actions and a card. Its perfectly fine for a level 0 card. The true value here is in getting extra value out of Safeguard 0, because it turns giving a move to someone else, moving both of you. But beware that Safeguard 2 has different text and won't work here. I've personally always held that I just don't think the Safeguard upgrade is rarely useful. Safeguard 0 lets you manipulate movement outside of the allied player's turn. So if you're abusing Shortcut 0 or this, or Carson's extra action, or a few other things, disincentivises upgrading Safeguard.

I can see upgrading out of this of course. Its probably not lasting until the end of the campaign. But if you were taking Scene of the Crime, or Evidence, you may want to consider this. This is a sneaky +2 action total card, and worth consideration if you have the money.

The card seems incredibly powerful.

First advantage which can be easily overlooked: it can be triggered for any skill test performed by any investigator no matter which location you are in. It gives the card an extreme usability.

Second: it can negate autofail. Not completely, because if you've committed Deduction or if you're trying to discard Mihn's weakness the effect of the committed skills is worn off, but if it is, for instance, a Pilfer attempt or something like Deciphered Reality... I also tend to be a magnet for autofails when I'm using Act of Desperation... It can save the day and a great chunk of tempo for the team.

Where the card seems the best for me, is when one of the team is playing from cursed tokens while all other teammates are not really ready for it. If that's the case, this card looks like a good option in the list of the top priority upgrades.

This is a great card for Ursula and Moonstone. Especially if you have Elli Horowitz holding a Crystalizer of Dreams. words words words words words words words words SWEET JESUS MORE WORDS arkham horror scary words

I've been testing this in Daisy Walker with good results. It acts as a second copy of her Tote Bag for consistency, with a few advantages:

• If I see this before the Tote Bag (I won't play both) then Tote Bag becomes basically a Guts or Perception without the card draw.
• It costs 1 more than Tote Bag, but it improves your action economy. It allows you to play something into a hand slot as an additional action, and then if it's a Tome Daisy can use her own ability to use its as an additional action.
• These extra hand slots don't have to hold Tomes, so you could play a Fingerprint Kit, Pocket Telescope, Scrying Mirror, The Chthonian Stone etc. (as examples) without spending a "real" action.

This one looked weak to me (away from Nathan* obviously) but slowly grows on me the more I look at it.

It's effect is essentially to turn 1 resource into one extra card but first you have to trigger it and it's clogging up your hand in the meantime.

Card draw is very scarce for Guardians and you might have plenty of resources later so that's a decent trade.

If you think of it as a 'cantrip' card that essentially thins your deck it's more appealing again.

What makes it really interesting through is the two books in the corner. Guardians don't get a lot of those and they add a lot of flexibility.

I'd really like to see this card get an xp version.

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