This is a failure card that the queen of failure, Stella, only wants in certain circumstances.

Here’s when it’s most useful:

-You’re playing with characters who put a lot of curse tokens in the bag,

-You’re in a big group and other people will be using the bag enough to drain the blesses;

-It’s your third action and your fourth action won’t involve a skill test. (Maybe you’re doing a track shoes test with drawing thin.)

Probably not the best pick, but Silas can make good use of this card. Throw it in with another card at a skill check. If you succeed, take back the predestined. If you fail, take back that useful skill card. With ancient covenant, each of those tokens might be a future success. Predestiny indeed.

Since the reviews of this character were close to the game's release, they don’t mention the absolute perfect partner for Agnes: Carolyn Fern. In a duo that’s closer to a psych study than an adventuring party, the waitress can take horror four times a turn and the therapist can keep up and grow rich. (Every phase? Yes, because of the quick trigger of forbidden knowledge, and the fact you can have two. As well as pain pills. Of course, you won’t have to do this every turn unless you have a truly wretched encounter deck, bonded enemies, and weaknesses that spawn foes.)

If you’re going this route, ancient stones and solemn vows, as well as the big man on campus, allow a tremendous amount of healing. The new book of psalms means you can even fill the bag with beneficial tokens while getting paid.

It’s a breath of fresh air if you’ve ever played Agnes before, being torn between the horror you get from the encounter deck, shriveling, and enemies, and your natural urge to use your power. Send your foes packing as you spin into your delusions of being an ancient witch from an era undreamed of.

(For a really nifty combo, you can use dark horse and the resources Carolyn gives you to play costly cards on your turn, and get plus one versus anything in the encounter deck. It also gives you an outside chance of passing agility checks, which most campaigns have a few of.)

The duo can easily become a trio or quartet, but fill your ranks with saner investigators. You’re going to need a lot of personalized attention, and remember a therapist’s hour only lasts 50 minutes.

Clarification from FFG regarding the definition of "threat area":

Question: Are encounter cards which are attached to one of your player cards (like for example Threads) of Reality) also considered to be in your Threat Area?

Answer: Encounter cards attached to cards in your play area (or locations, or to your investigator itself) are not considered to be in your threat area. Generally speaking, the only cards that are in your threat area are enemies engaged with you and cards that are explicitly added to your threat area by a card effect.

I've got a rule question about this guy :

If you choose to place one of your clues on its location when he is revealed and that he spaws in a location that is not revealed, what happens when you first enter (reveal) that location ? Does that clue is added to the number of clues that are added to the location as usual ? For exemple, in solo, if he spaws on a 1clue/per investigator location, does that location will get 2 clues once your reveal it ?

EDIT: with more experience, I see the value of the card. But if you've got a lot of 0-cost cards (Shortcut, Leather Jacket), abilities that draw resources (Zoey's special ability, Dr Milan Christopher), and not a lot of skill cards that increase your card draw, then you may not see any value in it.

In the beginning of the opening round and at the end of each round, you gain cards and resources at a 1:1 ratio.

With all skill cards as well as many events and assets costing 0, not to forget that you'll commit cards and especially asset cards when slots are full... a resources needed per card ratio of 1:1 seems common in my decks and many of those I see about on this website.

With my limited experience and player card pool, depending on the investigator/s chosen, I've found I'm more likely to end a game with up to 10 unneeded resources than lack the resources needed to play a card.