This is an auto-include for Trish Scarborough. Use the enemy at your location to gain a 2nd clue, with this card picking up the AOO cost. This is particularly good for high evade enemies, where you will use Trish’s ability to evade/exhaust your enemy, then investigate to pick up remaining clue/s. The cost is low, has no action cost, and the asset slot is wide open for Rogue/Seekers. Yeah, it has Dexter on it, but Dexter can already play assets without action costs, and he wants more offensive/clue-getting spells in his slots.

She costs 4! 4!!! :D Pretty expensive , obviously. Ok lets be honest she is a great tank and great stat booster especially if you are Silas who likes to control board and kill stuff when he find his weapons. In fact he is great with this card's campaign since you dont want to kill enemies with vengence if possible. He can use her to greatest extend outside of her campaign she will allways give you +1 agilty since vengence is a unique mechanic but you will get +2 str anytime

Now you may be thinking "what if there isnt a victory point card in scernio" It is rare but that happens but good thing is when that happens most of the time enemies are easy, mostly cultists or some lowly ghouls. So she is helping you most at times that you need most But her abilty is not just her horror soak its just minor boost. Her stat boost is amazing as long as you use both agilty and str but If you dont... I guess it depends then. She becomes very "meh" if you dont use agilty too and you should never pick this if you dont use STR because you will miss most of her boost then(she cant heal horror without killing and vengence is only exists at 1 campaign) I think any rogues that can use weapons is very good with her still. She is still very expensive so watch your economy.

In short:She is an ally that says "I will help you to control board , either to kill or exhaust

Edit:After thinking for a while she is also an interesting choice for characters that cant access to str boost like seekers with strange solution. 1 of biggest problem with strange solution is 6 str without any skill boost tend to miss a lot so it might be a problem but Ichtaca is a good solution to that . Someting you might consider.

Skeleton Key might be a strong "maybe" purchase for Rogues and off-Rogues in multiplayer, but I'm a little surprised no one has mentioned how excellent it is for Ursula Downs.

• Seekers love this card to begin with, as it makes their job easier, so being able to include it in a deck is fantastic.
• Dr. Elli Horowitz and the rest of the deck searching powers of the card pool mitigate the Exceptional restriction.
• Ursula's action compression allows her to budget the needed for moving the key.
• Her upgrade pool is pretty limited, so not too much competition beyond the big-ticket upgrades.

This card is extremely strong. It's not quite drawing thin bananas, but it is very powerful econ. You don't have to try very hard to get 3-4 cards and resources from this. I almost always buy one of these within the first two scenarios, it just makes the rest of my deck run so much more smoothly.

I didn’t see much potential in Tommy Muldoon, playing him in duo. He wasn’t that great at crime solving and he wasn’t that great at fighting. Three player changed my mind. With some copies of Solemn Vow, Tommy has the capacity to shield teammates from ridiculous amounts of damage. Especially in the Innsmouth Conspiracy, where enemies do damage just by engaging you, he can protect in ways that Roland, Zoey or Nathaniel simply can’t.

When he absorbs hits, he gets cash, or bullets, which let him absorb even more damage. The other players furiously focus on clues. As they ignore problems, he triggers Tetsuo to restore items from the trash or let people search their decks and hit those effects. (A cop who causes a lot of destruction? Clearly the 1920s were different time.)

The thing that Tommy doesn’t do well, which is draw, is much easier to deal with now that scroll of secrets is a fast action. Teammates should also find ways to help Tommy get initial cash, so he doesn’t have to choose later on between soak and damage. With a pair of Reliable’s on Becky, he can let his gun do all the talking his badge won’t.