Recently finished a play through of RttDL, and I really like some of the "upgraded" cards. This card gives you the choice of playing an Ancient Evils or Overzealous, which is quite the decision, and, being a Peril, you don't even get to try and talk your fellow player out of their rash decision. My regular AHTCG partner has a deep hatred for Ancient Evils, so the other option is always chosen. In one of the scenarios, Resurgent Evils was drawn, followed by two encounter cards. One of which was another Resurgent Evils, the second had surge. We had to stop for a second and diagram out how many cards had to be drawn. Including the original draw, seven encounter cards hit the table before it was my turn to draw one. I feel like one doom would have been less punishing, although fewer than six actions were taken up, so manybe not?

IGNORE:

Stella is an amazing support survivor. Her unique card's ability to prevent failure penalties means that you could run low willpower investigators through tougher scenarios. With this, you get the chance to throw those No Fail cards at an ally once a turn. Especially in scenarios that add doom on failure, this combo prevents it. Worst comes to worst, you lose your Neither Rain temporarily until you play resourceful or True Survivor, and a teammate makes a vital but unlikely skill check.

What's missing from consideration in this card is the number of persistent treacheries that could be cleared from another investigator or a location with this card. Consider Voice of the Jungle from TFA or really any of about a dozen from TCU where they sit in an investigator's threat area until an action will test is succeeded. This card gives you an incentive for clearing someone else's will test beyond just freeing them up, in that you get a card draw so the action isn't totally wasted for you. In a 4p run of TCU you could be using this almost every turn even without drawing the tests yourself or having Let Me Handle This.

Probably not the best use of actions for your primary seeker, but this card can be very handy in TCU for anyone who can take level 0 Seeker and has a high natural will as the designated treachery handler, and has a surprisingly long list of persistent treacheries it can be used on (some examples but I found at least 15 in core, TFA and TCU):

Locked Door

Curse of Yig

Voice of the Jungle

Bedeviled

Punishment

Wracked

This card gives you an extremely solid reason to include lockpicks in your rogue deck. You can investigate any location, even if you wouldn’t get clues. If you’re another class, hopefully you have a stat that you can super succeed at, like willpower plus another stat in mystic. It’s a good reminder not to draw cards as your last action, because it’s a weakness that punishes that pretty intensely.

I’m playing through TFA as Winnifred... and even with moderate success in all scenarios, she wants to spend XP. Every card can get better, every gun, and then there’s bonus stuff, like sharpshooter or hard knocks(4). Obviously.

With a bless happy Mateo and Stella, this card --comes alive--.

On the right checks (momentum+lockpicks), with the right bonuses, you can guarantee to succeed massively. Even on the -6, Mateo turns the auto fail into “get all your cards back again.” Search your entire deck for the card you need exactly right now. Or plan ahead, and assemble all three easy marks. And the fewer copies of a card you need, the more XP you save. Which means more upgrades, which means bigger numbers.