"Any skill tests you perform nested within a parley action have their difficulty reduced by 2, too." (from the FAQ)

Banger.

Of course, cards with an inherent Parley. (Stall for Time, Hold Up, False Surrender, etc.) are already fine with the clothes, but can we take it one step further? If we really wanted to get the most out of this card, what could it look like?

Let's see: In my opinion there is a general way to approach this, with the possibility to specialize towards a few directions, with the general way being:

1) Perform a Parley. skill test.

2) Use a player window during the skill test to play a fast event or trigger a free triggered ability.

3) Profit.

Ad 1): There are quite a lot of them scattered across scenarios, but to consistently trigger this step, I would recommend something like Bianca "Die Katz" or Beguile. Alternatively (or if you are Alessandra Zorzi anyway), a vast array of Parley. events will cover you aswell.

Ad 2): I'll start with this: Using this combo saves you 3 XP per copy of Chuck Fergus. And this is already how we relentlessly squeeze our Tactic./Trick. events into these fine player windows, getting a sweet -2 difficulty for each of them. This is already great, since it can get the difficulty down to 0 and almost guarantee we did not waste our precious event, but also additionally play into an oversucceed type of deck.

Just looking at Tactic. events, I claim they offer a lot:

• Play cards of the Winging It suite to further benefit from the difficulty reduction, zeroeing a shroud 5 location with Flashlight (or a 7 with two of them) -> best suited for Preston, I suppose.

• Open up endless possibilities with Pushed to the Limit or Task Force.

• Perform even more skill tests with reduced difficulty on cards like Flurry of Blows, One-Two Punch, or Butterfly Swords (if combined with the previous bullet point).

I would love to think Fence works similar here, but there is only one useful event I found: Dirty Deeds.

If you want to play this a bit more simple (i.e. without extra combo pieces like Chuck Fergus), just trigger free abilities on cards like Eon Chart, Garrote Wire, Close the Circle, etc. to make them easier.

To delve deeper into the difficulty-zero playstyle Stealth is a great enabler for nun-Hunter enemies or a follow-up with Exploit Weakness.

Let me know what I missed ;)

This card is an absolute beast. Especially on Zoey because that's suddenly a guarantee (like if you are making Fighter guardian, you WILL kill enemy) 4 resources thanks to her ability. No resources spent, no actions spent, and you avoid some mean treachery. It only costs a card slot.

My Zoey first goes 2x On The Hunt + 2x Emergency Cache and once I upgrade On The Hunt to (3), both Emergency Chance can be swapped for some other good cards since you are covered when it comes to resources.

It's also Tactic so if you are playing Stick to The Plan build it can be attached at start. Hell, if you are making some really resource heavy Guardian deck, 2x On The Hunt (3), 2x Emergency Cache and you can start with OTH(3) and EC in your STTP, having easy 6-7 (if Zoey) resource access.

10/10 card. Guardians don't have that many amazing 10/10 cards but this one takes my personal vote as one of them.

This weapon is really efficent in the most of the investigators that can run it. It's so easy to compensate the extra damage and the possibility to pass the weapon to other players is very fun. But i have a stupid question about this weapon : If the attack miss, i lose the control of the Hatchet or not?

Being able to switch in and out of 2 level 0 cards in between scenarios was incredibly to slot in specific situational tools like Fine Clothes to deal with Parley (lots of that in Carcosa!). It also allowed me to trial in and out a few other cards. For 1 XP it gave me a lot of value.

Absolute beast of a card. I played her on my Charlie Kane true solo deck. She could do everything. Need to investigate? Sure, here's Augur. Want to evade or fight at base 5 instead of 1 to start with? Hope and Zeal are there for you.

What's that? You want to switch them? Sure thing, all of the kitties are Fast! Oh but what if I need to investigate later and I've gotten rid of Augur? Well just discard a cat during your test and you can bring any of them from the discard pile, right into play, FOR FREE.

Honestly, these guys are insane. Also they are cats. Oh and did I mention that Miss Doyle has a icon too? Which means you can use Charlie's ability to go +2 on your test as well? This has been my favorite ally to play in all of Arkham Horror. Cannot recommend her enough.