★ Exclusive Cards
Cards played most by this investigator compared to all others.
Daisy Walker deck only. You have 2 additional hand slots, which can only be used to hold Tome assets.
Choose an investigator at your location and test (2). If you succeed, heal 1 damage from that investigator. If you fail, deal 1 damage to that investigator.
While you are not at the locus, you get +1 , +1 , and you may ignore attacks of opportunity. After Prophesiae Profana enters play: Choose a revealed location. That location is "the locus" until Prophesiae Profana leaves play. : Move any investigator to the locus.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose a revealed location up to 3 connections away from your location. Move to that location.
: Attach a Tome asset in your play area to Abigail Foreman, or switch a Tome asset in your play area with an attached asset. The asset attached to her takes up no hand slots. (Limit 1 attached asset.) After you resolve an ability on the attached Tome asset, exhaust Abigail Foreman: Resolve its effects again.
Daisy Walker deck only. You have 2 additional hand slots, which can only be used to hold Tome assets.
Fast. Play when you draw a non-weakness treachery card. Cancel that card's revelation effect. Then, take 1 horror.
If this skill test is successful while investigating a location, discover 1 additional clue at that location.
Exhaust Old Book of Lore: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator searches the top 3 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles the remaining cards into his or her deck.
You get +1 . After you successfully investigate: Gain 1 resource.
Gain 3 resources.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Until the end of the round, you may use your in place of your and .
After Research Librarian enters play: Search your deck for a Tome asset and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Choose an investigator at your location and test (2). If you succeed, heal 1 damage from that investigator. If you fail, deal 1 damage to that investigator.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Discover 1 clue at your location.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.
Max 1 committed per skill test.
You get +1 .
Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose an investigator at your location. Move that investigator to a connecting location.
Fast. You get +1 while investigating.
Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.
Uses (3 charges). Exhaust Scrying and spend 1 charge: Look at the top 3 cards of any investigator's deck or the encounter deck. Return them to the top of that deck in any order.
Fast. Play after an investigator discovers the last remaining clue at your location. Investigators at that location gain a total of X resources, distributed as you wish. X is that location's shroud value.
Your maximum hand size is increased by 2. After Laboratory Assistant enters play: Draw 2 cards.
Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this attack, take 1 horror.
Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Investigate. Your location gets -2 shroud for this investigation.
Fast. Play when an encounter card or an enemy attack would cause you to do one of the following (choose one): Discard cards from hand, lose resources, lose actions, take damage, or take horror. You ignore that aspect of the effect. (Each other aspect resolves normally.)
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.
Exhaust Encyclopedia: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator gets +2 to a skill of your choice until the end of the phase.
Gain 3 resources (4 resources instead if you have 10 or more other cards in hand). After you draw Cryptic Writings during your turn: Play it.
Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, deal 1 damage to the enemy just evaded. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this evasion attempt, lose 1 action this turn.
Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.
Fast. Play during a skill test at your location. Search the top 9 cards of your deck for a Practiced skill and commit it to this skill test, if able. Shuffle the remaining cards back into your deck. After this test ends, if it was successful, add that skill to your hand instead of discarding it.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator draws 3 cards, then discards 1 card from their hand.
Only the first copy of each card in your hand counts toward your maximum hand size. After you draw a copy of a card that is already in your hand, reveal both copies and exhaust Dream-Enhancing Serum: Draw 1 card.
If this skill test is successful, heal 1 horror.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.
: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. Discard Knife: Fight. You get +2 for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose a Tome or Spell asset you control, or reveal a Tome or Spell asset from your hand. Resolve an or ability on that asset, ignoring all costs (including its cost, if any). Then, if that asset was in your hand, you may discard it to draw 1 card.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Investigate. You get +2 for this investigation. If you succeed by 2 or more, you may draw 1 card.
Uses (4 secrets). If Forbidden Knowledge has no secrets, discard it. Exhaust Forbidden Knowledge and take 1 horror: Move 1 secret from Forbidden Knowledge to your resource pool, as a resource.
Draw the top card of the encounter deck. Then, discover 2 clues at your location.
Discard a card with at least 1 skill icon from your hand: Place 1 resource on Archaic Glyphs from the token pool, as a secret. Forced - After the third secret is placed on Archaic Glyphs: Discard Archaic Glyphs and gain 5 resources. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the glyphs."
Fight. This attack uses . You deal +1 damage for this attack for each clue you have (max +3 damage).
In player order, each investigator draws 1 card from the top of the encounter deck. Then, add Delve Too Deep to the victory display.
Forced - After Arcane Initiate enters play: Place 1 doom on it. Exhaust Arcane Initiate: Search the top 3 cards of your deck for a Spell card and draw it. Shuffle your deck.
While you have 5 or more cards in your hand, Higher Education gains: " Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test."
Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator draws 3 cards.
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Scroll of Secrets and spend 1 secret: Look at the bottom card of any investigator's deck or the encounter deck. Then, either discard that card, add it to its owner's hand, place it on the bottom of its deck, or place it on the top of its deck.
Limit 1 per deck. When you play a copy of Blood-Rite: Either change each "2" on it to a "3," or shuffle it into your deck instead of discarding it. Forced - After Occult Lexicon enters play: Search your bonded cards for 3 copies of Blood-Rite. Add 1 to your hand and shuffle the other 2 into your deck.
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. When you purchase In the Thick of It, suffer 2 total physical and/or mental trauma. Then, earn 3 experience.
Attach to your location. Non-Elite enemies cannot move into attached location. Forced - When an investigator leaves attached location: Discard Barricade.
During your turn, if you are not engaged with any enemies, exhaust Pathfinder: Move to a connecting location.
For each clue you have (to a maximum of 3), either heal 2 horror from an investigator at your location or discard a Terror card at your location.
Commit to a skill test only if there is a clue at your location.
You get +1 , +1 , and -2 sanity. When you would be defeated by horror, discard St. Hubert's Key: Immediately heal 2 horror.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.
If this skill test is successful, the investigator performing this test searches the top 3 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles his or her deck.
You get +1 . When the game begins, if Death • XIII is in your opening hand: Put it into play.
Permanent. You have 1 additional ally slot.
While you control a Tome or Relic asset, you get +1 . After you reveal a location or put a new location into play, exhaust Whitton Greene: Search the top 6 cards of your deck for a Tome or Relic asset and draw it. Shuffle your deck.
Play only if there is a clue on your location. Draw 3 cards.
Investigate. When this action begins, gain 2 resources.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this skill test is successful during an investigation, place up to 3 charges and/or secrets on assets controlled by investigators at your location.
As an additional cost to play Deep Knowledge, add 2 tokens to the chaos bag. Investigators at your location draw a combined total of 3 cards (you decide how many cards each investigator draws).
Myriad. Astounding Revelation cannot be played. When you search your deck and Astounding Revelation is among the searched cards, discard it: Either gain 2 resources or place 1 secret on an asset you control. (Max one Research ability per search.)
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. You have 2 additional ally slots, which can only be used to hold Miskatonic assets. Forced - When you take damage or horror: No more than 1 of that damage/horror can be assigned to a Miskatonic asset.
While you are not at the locus, you get +1 , +1 , and you may ignore attacks of opportunity. After Prophesiae Profana enters play: Choose a revealed location. That location is "the locus" until Prophesiae Profana leaves play. : Move any investigator to the locus.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose a revealed location up to 3 connections away from your location. Move to that location.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card (2 cards instead if it succeeds by 2 or more).
When a non-Elite enemy spawns at your location, discard Disc of Itzamna: Discard that enemy.
: Attach a Tome asset in your play area to Abigail Foreman, or switch a Tome asset in your play area with an attached asset. The asset attached to her takes up no hand slots. (Limit 1 attached asset.) After you resolve an ability on the attached Tome asset, exhaust Abigail Foreman: Resolve its effects again.
Uses (3 secrets). During your turn, exhaust Eon Chart and spend 1 secret: Choose and take two different actions of the following, in any order (move, evade, or investigate).
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase only at deck creation. You earn 1 additional experience after each scenario of this campaign. If you are defeated, you are usurped by the homunculus (replace each signature card in your deck with a random basic weakness, flip this card, and swap it with your investigator for the remainder of the campaign).
As an additional cost to play Occult Invocation, discard up to 2 cards from your hand. Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +1 and deal +1 damage for this attack for each card discarded as part of this card's cost.
After you commit Promise of Power to a skill test, add 1 token to the chaos bag. If you cannot, take 2 horror instead.
Uses (3 supplies). Exhaust Fingerprint Kit and spend 1 supply: Investigate. You get +1 for this investigation. If you succeed, you discover 1 additional clue at your location.
Choose an Ally asset you control and return it to your hand. Then, search the top 9 cards of your deck for an Ally asset and play it, reducing its cost by X. X is the cost of the Ally asset returned to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Test (4). If you succeed, discard Strange Solution and draw 2 cards. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the solution."
Uses (6 secrets). Limit 1 per deck. Spend 1 secret: You get +2 skill value for this skill test. Spend 2 secrets: Draw 2 cards. Spend 3 secrets: Discover 1 clue at any location. Spend 4 secrets: Deal 3 damage to an enemy engaged with you.
Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator searches the top 6 cards of his or her deck for a card, draws it, and shuffles his or her deck.
Limit 1 Mask per investigator. Uses (2 offerings). Replenish 1 of these offerings after you reveal a location or put a new location into play. Spend 1 offering: You get +2 or +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)
Limit 1 per deck. : Search your bonded cards for Uncanny Growth and add it to your hand. If Ravenous Myconid has 3 or more growth on it: Move each growth to your resource pool, as resources. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have classified a new species."
Investigate. If you succeed, instead of discovering a clue at your location, discover a clue at a connecting location.
Limit 1 Footwear per investigator. You get +1 . After the last clue is discovered from your location, exhaust Hiking Boots: Move to a connecting location with at least 1 clue, or to a connecting unrevealed location.
Fast. Play when an investigator at your location would draw a card from their deck or from the encounter deck. Name a card. If the drawn card is the named card, that investigator may either (choose one): - Cancel that card's effects and discard it. - Immediately play that card at -2 cost.
Fast. Play during any investigator's turn. Play only if you have 5 or more remaining sanity. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location. Until the end of the active investigator's turn, that enemy gets -2 fight and -2 evade.
Investigate. Add your value to your skill value for this investigation. You may ignore any effect or keyword on your location which would trigger during this investigation. If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a symbol was revealed during this investigation, return Read the Signs to your hand at the end of your turn.
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Anytime you upgrade a card with the (Unidentified) or (Untranslated) subtitle, you may upgrade a second copy of that card at no experience cost. If you do, the two upgraded versions are chosen at random from among the eligible options. (You must still meet all deckbuilding restrictions.)
Customizable. Limit 1 per investigator. Forced - At the start of the round: Choose one of the following criteria for this round - You fail a test by 2 or more. - You succeed at a test by 3 or more. When the chosen criteria is met, you may exhaust Empirical Hypothesis to add 1 evidence to it. Spend 1 evidence: Draw 1 card.
Your maximum hand size is increased by 1. You have 1 additional hand slot, which can only be used to hold a Tome asset.
Myriad. Fast. If you have 3 copies of Segment of Onyx in play: Set them aside, out of play. Search your bonded cards for Pendant of the Queen and put it into play.
Exhaust Chemistry Set: Investigate. If you... - ...fail by exactly 2, discard Chemistry Set. - ...succeed by exactly 0, gain 2 resources. - ...succeed by exactly 2, draw 1 card. - ...succeed by exactly 4, discover 1 additional clue at your location.
As an additional cost to play Stirring Up Trouble, add tokens to the chaos bag equal to your location's shroud value. Discover 2 clues at your location.
After you commit a card to a skill test, exhaust Grisly Totem: That card gains another instance of one of its skill icons of your choice. If that skill test is successful, the performing investigator draws 1 card.
While David Renfield has at least 1 doom on him, you get +1 . Exhaust David Renfield: You may place 1 doom on David Renfield. Gain 1 resource for each doom on David Renfield.
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Feed the Mind and spend 1 secret: Test (1). For each point you succeed by (to a maximum of 3), draw 1 card.
Fast. Limit 1 Composure in play. You get +1 and +1 . Non-direct damage/horror must be assigned to Scientific Theory before it can be assigned to your investigator card. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 or +1 for this skill test.
Fight. Choose a Tome asset you control. You get +X for this attack, where X is that asset's printed cost. If you succeed, you may either automatically evade the attacked enemy, or after the attack ends, you may resolve an or ability on the chosen asset (ignoring its cost, if any).
Miskatonic, Scholar deck only. Limit 1 per deck. During your turn, if there is no asset attached to Library Pass, spend 1 resource: Attach a Tome asset from your hand to this card. Attached asset takes up no slots. Limit 1 attached asset. Forced - When your turn ends: Place attached asset on the bottom of your deck.
: Search your bonded cards for Essence of the Dream and add it to your hand. After you succeed by 3 or more during a skill test to which Essence of the Dream is committed: Record in your Campaign Log that "you have interpreted the dreams."
Reduce the cost to play Extensive Research by 1 for each other card in your hand. Discover 2 clues at your location.
Limit 1 per deck. As an additional cost to play this asset, place 1 resource on 4 different locations, as leylines. After you successfully investigate a location with a leyline, exhaust this asset: Move that leyline onto this asset. Then, if there are 4 leylines on it, discard it, take its leylines as resources, and record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the gateway."
Customizable. When you purchase The Raven Quill, name a Tome or Spell asset and record that name on its upgrade sheet. Attach to a named asset you control. When you resign or the game ends: Either mark a checkbox on The Raven Quill's upgrade sheet, or reduce the experience cost to upgrade the attached asset before the next scenario by 1.
Exhaust Pocket Telescope: Look at the revealed side of a connecting unrevealed location. : Investigate. Investigate a revealed connecting location as if you were there.
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. After each scenario of a campaign, reduce the experience cost of the first 2 cards you upgrade before the next scenario by 1. Increase the experience cost for you to purchase new cards by 1.
After the last clue is discovered from your location: Place 1 resource (from the token pool) on this card, as evidence. (Limit once per game at each location.) While Hawk-Eye Folding Camera has ... - ... 1 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 2 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 3 or more evidence, you get +1 sanity.
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Mr. "Rook" and spend 1 secret: Search the top 3, 6, or 9 cards of your deck for any card and draw it. If at least 1 weakness is among the searched cards, draw 1 of them, as well. Shuffle your deck.
Gain 1 resource. Reveal 3 random tokens from the chaos bag. For each , , , , or symbol revealed, gain an additional 2 resources.
After Art Student enters play: Discover 1 clue at your location.
Investigate. Choose a [seeker] asset in your hand. The difficulty of this skill test is equal to the chosen asset's printed cost. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues, put the chosen asset into play. If that asset has the Relic trait, draw 1 card.
While you have... - ...5 or more cards in hand, you get +1 . - ...10 or more cards in hand, you get +1 . - ...15 or more cards in hand, you get +1 .
Permanent. You have 1 additional accessory slot.
Limit 1 per investigator. When you would succeed at a skill test, exhaust Steady-Handed: You either succeed by 1 more or 1 less. If you succeeded by exactly 2, heal 1 horror.
Customizable. Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Choose an investigator at your location and test (1). If you succeed, that investigator performs one of the following options - - Draw 2 cards. - Gain 2 resources.
After you move to a location, if that location has at least 1 clue on it, exhaust Fieldwork: You get +2 skill value for the next skill test you perform this phase.
You get +1 and +1 while resolving an ability on a treachery card. After you succeed at a skill test while resolving an ability on a treachery card, exhaust Tooth of Eztli: Draw 1 card.
Reduce the difficulty of skill tests you perform during 'parley' actions by 2.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Play Talisman of Protection under the control of any investigator at your location. When you assign damage and/or horror that would defeat you, discard Talisman of Protection: Cancel up to 2 of that damage and/or horror.
After Medical Student enters play: Heal 1 damage and 1 horror from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.
Permanent. Limit 1 per investigator. Before setting up each game, draw 3 random cards from the tarot deck and choose 1. Place the chosen card in front of you, in the upright position. Each other investigator ignores its effects. Shuffle the rest back into the tarot deck.
: Investigate. Your location gets +3 shroud for this investigation. If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at your location, discard Ancient Stone, and record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the stone." Next to this, in parentheses, record the difficulty of this skill test.
Uses (5 secrets). Exhaust Forbidden Tome and spend 1 secret: Draw 1 card. Then, if you have 10 or more cards in your hand and there are no secrets on Forbidden Tome, you may discard it to record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the tome."
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. Increase your deck size by 15. During each upkeep phase, instead of drawing 1 card, draw 2 cards and discard 1 of them.
After Dr. Elli Horowitz enters play: Search the top 9 cards of your deck for a Relic asset and attach it to her. Shuffle your deck. Each Relic asset attached to Dr. Elli Horowitz does not take up any slots (it is still considered to be in play and under your control).
Permanent. Limit 1 Covenant per deck. When an investigator at your location reveals a token during a skill test, exhaust Blasphemous Covenant: Treat that token's modifier as +1 instead of its normal modifier. After this test ends, return that token to the chaos bag.
While you have 4 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains (while you have 7 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains , instead).
Fight. Add your value to your skill value for this attack. Immediately before this attack, you may engage the attacked enemy. This attack deals +1 damage (+2 damage instead if the enemy is non-Elite). If a symbol was revealed during this attack, return Spectral Razor to your hand at the end of your turn.
Fast. Play when an enemy attacks an investigator at your location. Cancel that attack. Then, reveal a random token from the chaos bag. If it has a , , , , or symbol, deal the attacking enemy's damage to itself.
Fast. Play after you discover the last clue at your location. Discover 2 clues at a location with a lower printed shroud value than your location.
Evade. You may use instead of for this evasion attempt. If you succeed and the enemy is non-Elite, attach Transmogrify to it. Attached enemy gains: "Massive. Cannot move. After you evade this enemy: Discover 1 clue at its location. (Limit once per round.)"
Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Painkillers, and take 1 horror: Heal 1 damage.
Investigate. The difficulty of this skill test is equal to the highest shroud value among revealed locations in play. If you succeed, discover 1 clue from each revealed location in play.
When any investigator draws an encounter card from the encounter deck, exhaust Dr. William T. Maleson and place 1 of your clues on your location: That investigator draws another card from the top of the encounter deck, chooses one of those 2 cards to resolve, and cancels and discards the other.
After a , , , or symbol is revealed during a test you are performing: You get +1 skill value for this test.
Place 1 of your clues on your location. Then, heal 3 damage from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.
Customizable. When you purchase Living Ink, choose a skill and circle it on its upgrade sheet. Uses (3 charges). Remove 1 charge from Living Ink at the start of each of your turns. If Living Ink has no charges, discard it. You get +1 to the chosen skill(s).
Exhaust Abyssal Tome: Fight. You may use either or for this attack, instead of . When you initiate this attack, you may place 1 doom on Abyssal Tome (to a maximum of 3). You get +1 skill value and deal +1 damage for this attack for each doom on Abyssal Tome.
Shuffle your discard pile into your deck and draw 1 card. Remove Quantum Flux from the game.
Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, after evading the chosen enemy, you may move to a connecting location. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this evasion attempt, choose and discard a card from your hand.
Draw 1 card. Shuffle any number of non-weakness cards from your hand into your deck. Then, draw that many cards.
You get +1 . After Jeremiah Kirby enters play, choose "even" or "odd:" Reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. Draw each card with a cost that matches the chosen option. Shuffle the remaining cards into your deck.
Uses (3 secrets). When you successfully investigate, exhaust Professor William Webb and spend 1 secret: Choose an Item card in your discard pile and add it to your hand. Instead of discovering a clue at your location, you may discover a clue at a connecting location.
After Backpack enters play: Search the top 6 cards of your deck for up to 3 non-weakness Item or Supply cards, and attach them facedown to Backpack. Shuffle your deck. Cards attached to Backpack may be played as if they were in your hand. If there are no cards attached to Backpack, discard it.
Exceptional. You get +1 . Play with the top card of the encounter deck revealed.
When you play a Spell card, exhaust Robes of Endless Night: Reduce the cost of that card by 1. Playing that card does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
After revealing a chaos token for this skill test, you may place 1 of your clues on your location to cancel that chaos token, return it to the chaos bag, and reveal a new one. (You may do this any number of times.)
After you succeed at a skill test, exhaust Antikythera: If you succeeded by... -...exactly 1 or 3, discover 1 clue at your location. -...exactly 2 or 4, draw 1 card and gain 1 resource. -...exactly 5, you may take an additional action during your next turn.
As an additional cost to play Testing Sprint, spend an action. Investigate. One at a time, investigate your location and each connecting location once each in ascending order of shroud, until you either fail to investigate or successfully investigate each eligible location.
You may spend resources to pay for Item assets played by other investigators at your location. Exhaust Charles Ross, Esq.: Reduce the cost of the next Item asset played by an investigator at your location by 1.
Fast. Play during any window. Add 3 tokens to the chaos bag. Then, add 3 tokens to the chaos bag and draw 1 card.
Before revealing chaos tokens for this test, choose one of the following symbols: (, , , or ). Ignore the effects of the chosen symbol during this test (including its modifier).
Evade. Add your value to your skill value for this evasion attempt. If you succeed, disengage from each other enemy engaged with you, and for the remainder of the round, you are ethereal (enemies cannot engage or be engaged with you, and you cannot attack or deal damage to enemies). If a symbol was revealed during this evasion attempt, return Ethereal Form to your hand at the end of your turn.
Limit 1 Mask per investigator. Uses (2 offerings). Replenish 2 of these offerings after doom is placed on a card with no doom. Spend 1 offering: You get +2 or +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)
Permanent. You get +5 Deck Size. Your investigator's Deckbuilding Options gain: "one other level 0 card from any class ([guardian], [seeker], [rogue], [mystic], or [survivor])."
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Heal 1 horror from an investigator at your location.
After you reveal a non- symbol on a chaos token during a skill test you are perfoming, deal 1 damage to Heavy Furs: Cancel that chaos token and return it to the bag. Reveal a new chaos token.
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. You have 1 additional hand, accessory, or arcane slot, which can only be used to hold a Blessed or Cursed asset.
Parley. Choose a non-weakness Humanoid enemy at your location and test (3). This test gets +X difficulty, where X is that enemy's horror value. If you succeed, shuffle the chosen enemy into the encounter deck. If the chosen enemy is Elite, automatically evade it instead.
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Eldritch Sophist: Move 1 secret or charge from an asset you control to another asset controlled by an investigator at your location.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Discard the top card of your deck. If that card is a weakness, shuffle it back into your deck. Otherwise, for the remainder of your turn, while that card is in your discard pile, commit it to each eligible skill test you perform.
Look at the top 6 cards of an investigator's deck or the encounter deck. You may either return them to the top of that deck in any order, or shuffle them into that deck. If you looked at an investigator's deck, that investigator may draw 1 card.
Anytime you reveal a , , or symbol during a skill test, you may choose to use the following effects instead of that symbol's normal effects: : -1. The Black Cat takes 1 direct damage. : -1. The Black Cat takes 1 direct horror. : +5. Heal all damage and horror from The Black Cat.
If this skill test is on a treachery and the test is successful, add that treachery to the victory display and attach The Eye of Truth to it. While attached, The Eye of Truth contributes its skill icons to all tests on copies of the attached treachery.
After Library Docent enters play, return a Tome asset you control to its owner's hand: Play a different Tome asset (by title) from your hand, reducing its cost by 2.
You get +1 during evasion attempts.
If a token is revealed during this skill test, you may return Fey to your hand when this test ends.
Permanent. When you purchase Arcane Research, suffer 1 mental trauma. After each scenario of a campaign, reduce the experience cost of the first Spell card you upgrade before the next scenario by 1.
Commit only to a skill test from an ability printed on a scenario card.
If this skill test is successful, discover 1 clue at your location.
Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this attack, take 1 damage.
Fast. Seal (up to 3 ). If there are no tokens sealed on Favor of the Moon, discard it. When you would reveal a chaos token from the chaos bag, exhaust Favor of the Moon: Resolve a token sealed here instead, as if it were just revealed from the chaos bag. Then, gain 1 resource.
As an additional cost to play Refine, spend an action. Immediately mark a checkbox on an upgrade sheet for a customizable card you own, even if it is not in play. Max once per game for each investigator.
Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card (2 cards instead if it succeeds by 2 or more).
Uses (3 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Investigate. Investigate any revealed location in play as if you were at that location.
Uses (1 charge for each class among cards you control, including this one). Spend 1 charge and exhaust Close the Circle: Take a basic action. For each skill test performed during that action, you may use your instead of the skill indicated for that action.
After a player card ability places 1 or more of your clues on your location: Place that many resources on Research Notes, as evidence. : Test (0). For each point you succeed by, you may spend 1 evidence to discover 1 clue at your location.
Permanent. You begin each game with 1 additional card in your opening hand.
You have 1 additional arcane slot. Exhaust Book of Shadows: Add 1 charge to a Spell asset you control.
Play Eidetic Memory as an exact copy of an Insight event in any investigator's discard pile (including its resource cost). Remove that event from the game. Remove Eidetic Memory from the game instead of discarding it.
Uses (5 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +1 for this attack. If a symbol is revealed during this attack, this attack deals +2 damage.
Discover 3 clues at your location. Give any number of your clues to another investigator, or place any number of your clues on any location. You are defeated and suffer 1 mental trauma. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
While your current location is connected to at least 2 other locations, you get +1 and +1 . While your current location is connected to at least 4 other locations, you get an additional +1 and +1 .
Uses (0 evidence). After you seal, cancel, or ignore a chaos token, exhaust Oculus Mortuum: Place 1 evidence on it. When an enemy attacks an investigator at your location, spend 1 evidence and exhaust Oculus Mortuum: Discover 1 clue at your location. If that enemy has the Geist trait, deal 1 damage to it.
Fast. Play after a location enters play or is revealed during an investigator's turn. Until the end of the active investigator's turn, that location gets -1 shroud. You may move 1 clue to that location from any other location.
Campaign mode only. Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase only at deck creation. When you purchase this card, gain 10 experience. For the remainder of the campaign, you cannot earn experience.
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed and the evaded enemy is non-Elite, you may move that enemy to a connecting location. If a token is revealed during this evasion attempt, you may move to a connecting location or place 1 charge on Shroud of Shadows.
Uses (0 resources). Resources on Mortar and Pestle may be spent to pay for Spell cards. After you discover 1 or more clues, exhaust Mortar and Pestle: Place 1 resource on it (from the token pool).
Choose another investigator at your location who has yet to take their turn this round. During their turn this round, the chosen investigator gets +1 to each of their skills, and may take an additional action. Playing Guidance does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
You get +1 . After a skill test at your location begins, exhaust Crystal Pendulum: Name a number. If this test succeeds by that number or fails by that number, draw 1 card.
Uses (3 charges). Exhaust Alchemical Transmutation, spend 1 charge: Test (1). For each point you succeed by, gain 1 resource (to a maximum of 3). If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, take 1 damage.
Play only if there is a clue on your location.
Place 2 secrets on an asset you control.
Investigate. Add your or to your skill value for this investigation. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues at this location, attach Map the Area to it. Limit 1 per location. Reduce the difficulty of all skill tests at attached location by 1.
Playing Sword Cane does not provoke attacks of opportunity. After Sword Cane enters play: Immediately trigger its "" ability without paying its cost. Exhaust Sword Cane: Fight/Evade. You may use your in place of your or for this attack or evasion attempt.
Search the top 6 cards of your deck. You may place up to 3 of your clues on your location. For each clue placed in this way, choose and add 2 of the searched cards to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Limit 1 per deck. Limit 1 Mask per investigator. After a skill test at your location ends in which both a and token were revealed: Place 1 resource on this card, as an offering. Then, if there are 3 offerings on this card, search your bonded cards for Twilight Diadem and swap it with this card, moving all offerings from this card to Twilight Diadem.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to a player card with health and/or sanity at your location. Forced - When attached card takes 1 or more damage/horror: Cancel 1 of that damage/horror. The owner of Spectral Shield must remove 1 charge from an asset they control. If they cannot, discard Spectral Shield.
Fast. During a skill test while fighting or investigating, exhaust Ice Pick: You get +1 skill value for this test.
For each arcane slot you have, draw 1 card (max 5). For each filled arcane slot you have, choose and discard 1 card from your hand.
Fight. This attack uses instead of . If you succeed, instead of its standard damage, this attack deals 2 damage to each enemy at the attacked enemy's location (any additional damage is dealt to the attacked enemy). If a , , , , or token is revealed during this attack, deal 1 damage to each investigator at the attacked enemy's location.
Attach to a Tool or Science asset you control. Limit 1 per asset. After attached asset exhausts, exhaust Fine Tuning: Ready attached asset.
Fast. Play immediately after an investigator at your location finishes resolving an action during his or her turn. Undo that action (return the game state to exactly the way it was before that action was performed, except for the playing of Time Warp and its costs).
Myriad. Quick-Witted gains for each other copy of Quick-Witted in your discard pile. After this skill test ends, you may shuffle each other copy of Quick-Witted in your discard pile into your deck.
Myriad. Fast. Up to 3 Uncanny Specimen cards take up 1 arcane slot. When a , , , or symbol is revealed during a skill test at your location, discard Uncanny Specimen: Cancel that chaos token, return it to the chaos bag, and reveal a new one. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.
Seal (, , , or ). Forced - After you reveal an symbol during a skill test: Return The Chthonian Stone to your hand.
Uses (3 charges). : Fight (). If you succeed, you may spend 1 charge to deal +1 damage for this attack. If you reveal a token during this test, remove 1 charge from Cosmic Flame (if you cannot, take 1 damage and discard this card).
You get +1 . After you take damage and/or horror, exhaust Jim Culver: Draw 1 card.
As an additional cost to commit Soul Link, take 1 horror.
Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test (+2 instead if this test is on a Spell or Ritual card). Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test (+2 instead if this test is on a Spell or Ritual card).
Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Thermos: Heal 1 damage from an investigator at your location (2 damage instead if he or she has 2 or more physical trauma). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Thermos: Heal 1 horror from an investigator at your location (2 horror instead if he or she has 2 or more mental trauma).
Place 1 doom on a player card you control. Then, discover 1 clue at your location and 1 clue at another revealed location.
If this skill test is during or before the first action of this turn, Plan of Action gains . If this skill test is between the first and third actions of this turn, draw 1 card if it succeeds. If this skill test is during or after the third action of this turn, Plan of Action gains .
As an additional cost to play Thorough Inquiry, spend an action. Investigators at your location draw a combined total of 5 cards (you decide how many cards each investigator draws).
Fast. Play when a , , , or chaos token is revealed during a skill test at your location. Cancel that chaos token. (Do not reveal a new chaos token to replace it.)
After an enemy at your location is successfully evaded or defeated, exhaust Microscope: Place 1 resource on Microscope, as evidence. : Investigate. You get +1 for this investigation for each evidence on Microscope (max +3 ). If you succeed, you may spend up to 2 evidence to discover that many additional clues at your location.
After an enemy at your location is defeated: Place 1 resource (from the token pool) on this card, as evidence. While Dissection Tools has... - ... 1 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 2 or more evidence, you get +1 . - ... 3 or more evidence, you get +1 sanity.
Uses (3 charges). : Fight. You get +1 for this attack. As an additional cost to initiate this ability, you may spend 1 charge to empower the blade. If you do, you get +1 and deal +1 damage for this attack.
Fast. Play during any player window. Choose an enemy at your location. Test (X), where X is that enemy's fight value. If you succeed, treat that enemy's fight value as if it were 0 for the next attack performed against it this phase. Draw 1 card.
During your turn, remove Ace of Rods from the game: You may take an additional action this turn, during which you get +2 to each of your skills. When the game begins, if Ace of Rods is in your opening hand: Put it into play.
Uses (0 secrets). Secrets on Ariadne's Twine can be spent as if they were on any asset controlled by an investigator at your location. Exhaust Ariadne's Twine: Move 1 secret from an asset you control to your resource pool, as a resource, or vice versa.
You have 1 additional hand slot, which can only be used to hold a Tome asset. After University Archivist enters play: Search the top 6 cards of your deck for a Tome asset and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.
Move. Move to any revealed location and reveal a random token from the chaos bag. If you reveal a , , , , or symbol, you must discard an Item or Ally asset you control (if you cannot, take 1 damage).
Parley. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location and either (choose one): - Automatically evade that enemy and place 1 doom on it. It cannot take damage for the remainder of the round. Discover 1 clue at your location. - If that enemy has 1 or more doom on it, defeat it. Gain 1 resource for each doom that was on it.
Investigate. You may cancel the first chaos token revealed for this skill test, return it to the bag, and reveal a new one. If you succeed at this skill test, place 1 charge or secret on an asset controlled by an investigator at your location (if you succeed by exactly 1 or 3, place 2 charges or secrets on that asset instead).
Exhaust De Vermis Mysteriis and place 1 doom on it: Play a Spell or Insight event from your discard pile, reducing its resource cost by 1. After that event resolves, remove it from the game.
While Occult Theory is in your hand or committed to a skill test, it gains icons equal to your , and icons equal to your .
Place 1 of your clues on your location and exhaust Quick Study: You get +3 skill value for this skill test.
Uses (5 secrets). If Schoffner's Catalogue has no secrets, discard it. You may spend secrets on Schoffner's Catalogue as resources to pay for Item assets played by any investigator at your location.
If you have 8 or more cards in your hand, exhaust The World • XXI: Draw 1 card. When the game begins, if The World • XXI is in your opening hand: Put it into play.
For each of your arcane slots that are empty, you have one additional hand slot. You may take an additional action during your turn, which can only be used to play an asset into one of your hand slots.
For each of your arcane slots that is filled, either heal 1 damage or 1 horror.
When you would fail a skill test on a [seeker] card by 1 or less, exhaust Lab Coat: You succeed by 0, instead.
Play a Spell or Ritual card from your hand, reducing its resource cost by 3.
Fast. Play when you would reveal a chaos token. Reveal 5 chaos tokens instead of 1. Choose one of those tokens with a , , , , or symbol to resolve, and ignore the rest. (If no such token is revealed, choose any one of those tokens to resolve, and ignore the rest.)
Myriad. Uses (3 secrets). When you would test your , , or , spend 1 secret: Test your instead. Discard a copy of Mind's Eye from your hand: Place 2 secrets on this copy of Mind's Eye.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Remove all doom from a non-Elite card at your location.
Myriad. Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to your location. Group limit 3 in play. Investigators may move between any two locations with an attached Open Gate as if the locations were connected.
Uses (3 secrets). When an investigator at your location would perform a skill test during a revelation effect, spend 1 secret: Do not reveal chaos tokens for that test. Spend 1 secret: Choose an investigator at your location. Do not reveal chaos tokens for the next skill test that investigator performs this round.
: Add 1 token to the chaos bag. If there are 10 tokens in the chaos bag, discard Cryptic Grimoire: Record in your Campaign Log that "you have translated the grimoire." Replace 5 tokens in the chaos bag with 5 tokens.
Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. Forced - When your first turn of the game begins: One at a time, play any number of Item assets from your hand, reducing the cost of each by 1. During this turn, you have 3 fewer actions to take.
After you commit a card to a skill test, exhaust Grisly Totem: That card gains another instance of one of its skill icons of your choice.
Myriad. When you search your deck and Surprising Find is among the searched cards: Put it into play in your play area. You must commit it to the next eligible skill test you perform. If that test is successful, draw 1 card. (Max one Research ability per search.)
While Survey the Area is in your hand or committed to a skill test, it gains icons equal to your , and icons equal to your .
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Fight. This attack uses instead of and deals +1 damage. If a token is revealed during this attack, you may deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location or place 1 charge on Armageddon.
When you commit Accursed to a skill test, add up to 3 tokens to the chaos bag. During this skill test, treat the modifier of each token revealed as 0.
After you spend 1 or more clues or place 1 or more clues on your location, exhaust Press Pass: You may take an additional action during this turn (or your next turn if it is not currently your turn).
You get +1 . Exhaust Alyssa Graham: Look at the top card of either the encounter deck or any player deck. You may then add 1 doom to Alyssa Graham to place the looked-at card on the bottom of its deck.
Permanent. Exceptional. Your deck must include at least 10 skills. Your deck size is increased by 5. Before drawing your opening hand: Attach 5 random non-weakness skills from your deck facedown to this card. Exhaust Ancestral Knowledge: Draw 1 attached skill.
As an additional cost to play Call the Beyond, add 3 tokens to the chaos bag. Choose an asset you control with "uses (charges)" or "uses (secrets)". Replenish all of that asset's charges or secrets. Then, you may resolve an or ability on that asset without paying its cost, if any.
Parley. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location and test or (8). This test gets -1 difficulty for each other card in your hand. If you succeed, automatically evade the chosen enemy and attach Existential Riddle to it. Attached enemy gains aloof.
Before you play Explosive Ward, you may discard any number of cards from your arcane slots. Deal X damage to a non-Elite enemy engaged with you. X cannot be greater than the number of empty arcane slots you have. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
Fast. Play during any investigator's turn, except during an action. Immediately take an action as if it were your turn. This action does not count toward the number of actions you can take each turn.
Place 2 charges on an asset you control. After you draw Winds of Power during your turn: Play it.
Uses (3 charges). While an investigator is taking his or her turn, spend 1 charge: Your location gets -2 shroud until the end of this turn. (Limit once per turn.)
Choose a non-Elite enemy at a revealed location up to 2 connections away. Swap places with that enemy.
Uses (9 charges). : Investigate. Use your instead of your for this test. Before revealing chaos tokens for this test, you may spend up to 3 charges to reveal that many additional chaos tokens. Choose 1 of the revealed tokens to resolve and ignore the rest. If you succeed and the chosen token matches an ignored token, discover 1 additional clue at your location.
Fast. Play when you draw a non-weakness treachery card. Place 1 of your clues on your location. Then, cancel that card's revelation effect.
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . You get +2 for this evasion attempt. If you succeed, deal 1 damage to the evaded enemy. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this evasion attempt, lose 1 resource.
Exhaust Otherworldly Compass: Investigate. Your location gets -X shroud for this investigation. X is the number of revealed locations connected to your location.
While there are 3 or more doom in play, Prophesy gains (while there are 6 or more doom in play, Prophesy gains , instead).
Uses (4 secrets). After a skill test at your location begins, exhaust Scrying Mirror and spend 1 secret: Perform the "reveal chaos token" step of the test now (before committing cards), instead of after committing cards.
Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location: Parley. Test (X), where X is that enemy's printed health value. If you succeed, that enemy disengages from each investigator and gains aloof until the end of the round.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Heal 1 horror from an investigator at your location. Add 2 tokens to the chaos bag.
Fast. Play after an investigator reveals a token during a skill test at your location. Discover 1 clue at your location.
Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Crafty may be spent to pay for Insight, Tool, or Trick cards. During a skill test on a Insight, Tool, or Trick card, spend 1 resource from Crafty: You get +1 skill value for this test.
Fast. Play after revealing chaos tokens during a skill test at your location. Ignore the modifiers of each token revealed during this test. For each token ignored, deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location.
Uses (4 charges). : Investigate. For this investigation, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed, spend 1 or 2 charges. Instead of discovering a clue at your location, discover 1 clue at your location for each charge spent. If you succeed by 0, choose and discard a card from your hand.
After this skill test ends, add 1 token to the chaos bag for each point the performing investigator either succeeded or failed by.
During your turn, if you have 8 or more cards in your hand, exhaust Farsight: Play an event from your hand (paying its cost).
: Choose an investigator at your location and either (choose one) - - Exhaust Hallowed Chalice and place 1 doom on it to heal 2 damage or 2 horror from that investigator. - Heal 1 damage or 1 horror from that investigator. If you heal the last damage or horror from that investigator, remove 1 doom from Hallowed Chalice.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Reduce the cost of this card by 1 for each different class among cards you control. Move to any revealed location.
When you would reveal a chaos token, exhaust Olive McBride: Reveal 4 chaos tokens instead of 1. Choose 2 of those tokens to resolve, and ignore the rest.
: Evade. Either use your or get +1 for this evasion attempt. When you initiate this ability, choose one - - Exhaust Onyx Pentacle and place 1 doom on it to target any enemy at your location or a connecting location, and get +1 skill value for this evasion attempt. - If you succeed by 2 or more, remove 1 doom from Onyx Pentacle.
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a , , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, after this test resolves lose all remaining actions and immediately end your turn.
Uses (1 charge). Replenish this charge at the start of each round. You may resolve abilities on Spell assets in your hand by revealing them from your hand. Treat True Magick as if it were the revealed asset (to pay its costs, spend charges, perfom its effect, etc).
Fast. Play when an investigator at your location draws a non-weakness treachery card. Reveal 5 random chaos tokens from the chaos bag. If a or token is revealed, cancel that treachery card's revelation effect.
While you control a Science or Tool asset, Well-Funded gains (while you control 3 or more Science and/or Tool assets, Well-Funded gains , instead).
One at a time, reveal random tokens from the chaos bag until you choose to stop. Treat each , , , or as a 5; the as a 10; and the as either a 1 or an 11. If the combined value of those tokens (ignoring +/-) is... - ...18 or less, gain 4 resources. - ...19, gain 5 resources. - ...20, gain 6 resources. - ...21, gain 9 resources.
As an additional cost to play Antediluvian Hymn, spend an action. Reveal the top 5 cards of the encounter deck. For each card revealed, you may add 1 token to the chaos bag to place that card on the bottom of the encounter deck. Return the rest to the top of the encounter deck in any order.
Exhaust Astronomical Atlas: Look at the top card of your deck. If it is not a weakness, attach it facedown to Astronomical Atlas (max 5 cards attached). : Commit a card attached to Astronomical Atlas to an eligible skill test. If that test succeeds, add that card to your hand instead of discarding it. (Limit once per test.)
You get +1 arcane slot for each enemy beneath Binder's Jar. After a non-Elite enemy is defeated at your location: Place that enemy facedown beneath Binder's Jar (limit 2 enemies beneath it). When an enemy attacks you, discard an enemy beneath Binder's Jar that shares a Trait with the attacking enemy: Cancel that attack.
Parley. Choose an enemy at your location. Test (X), where X is the chosen enemy's evade value. If you succeed, discover 2 clues at your location. Then, if the chosen enemy is non-Elite, automatically evade it. It does not ready during the next upkeep phase.
You have 1 additional arcane slot, which can only be used to hold a Spell asset.
You get +1 . At the start of your turn, add 1 token to the chaos bag: Draw 1 card.
Reveal 7 random chaos tokens from the chaos bag. Deal a total of 1 damage plus 1 additional damage for each or token revealed, divided as you choose among enemies at your location. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
Uses (4 charges). Spend 1 charge: Heal 2 damage from among investigators at your location.
You may commit Helping Hand to any type of test. Max 1 committed per test. While Helping Hand is committed to a skill test, double the skill icons of each other card committed to that test.
You may take an additional action during your turn.
Permanent. Limit 1 Covenant per deck. After an investigator at your location performs the "reveal the chaos token" step of a skill test, if both a token and a token were revealed during that test, exhaust Paradoxical Covenant: This test automatically succeeds. (Remove each and token revealed from the chaos bag after this test ends.)
Add 1 token to the chaos bag: Investigate. You get +2 skill value for this investigation. If a token is revealed during this investigation, you may exhaust Prismatic Spectacles to discover 1 additional clue at your location.
Group limit 2 copies of Protective Incantation in play. Seal (any except ). Forced - At the end of your turn: You must either spend 1 resource or discard Protective Incantation.
Limit 1 per deck. Choose a non-Elite enemy at any location and exhaust Rod of Carnamagos: Reveal 5 random chaos tokens from the chaos bag. If a token is revealed, search your bonded cards for a random Rot event and attach it to that enemy.
Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Sleuth may be spent to pay for Charm, Tactic, or Tome cards. During a skill test on a Charm, Tactic, or Tome card, spend 1 resource from Sleuth: You get +1 skill value for this test.
Uses (6 offerings). Spend any number of offerings: Parley. Choose a Spell or Ritual event in your discard pile and reveal tokens from the chaos bag equal to the number of offerings spent. If at least 1 or token was revealed, return the chosen event to your hand.
Uses (6 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You deal +1 damage for this attack.
Uses (3 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You get +2 for this attack. If you succeed by 2 or more, this attack deals +1 damage.
Uses (4 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage.
Fast. Play after another investigator draws a non-peril encounter card, but before resolving that card's effects. You are considered to have drawn that encounter card, instead. You get +2 to each of your skills while resolving that card's revelation effect.
While you control 2 or fewer Item assets, Able Bodied gains (while you control 1 or fewer Item assets, Able Bodied gains , instead).
As an additional cost to play Act of Desperation, choose and discard an Item asset that takes up at least 1 hand slot from your hand or play area. Fight. You get +X and deal +1 damage for this attack, where X is the chosen asset's printed resource cost. If you succeed and that asset was in your play area, gain X resources.
You get +1 . The first investigate action you perform each turn does not provoke attacks of opportunity. After you discover a clue, exhaust Alice Luxley: Deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location. Card design inspired by the Council in Exile 2022.
You have 2 additional tarot slots. When the game begins, if Anna Kaslow is in your opening hand: Put her into play. After Anna Kaslow enters play: Search your deck for a Tarot asset and put it into play.
Uses (2 resources). Replenish these resources at the start of each round. Resources on Antiquary may be spent to pay for Favor, Relic or Ritual cards. During a skill test on a Favor, Relic or Ritual card, spend 1 resource from Antiquary: You get +1 skill value for this test.
Fight. This attack uses instead of . This attack deals +2 damage.
You have two additional hand slots, which can only be used to hold Weapon assets. While you have Weapon assets held in 2 or more hand slots, you get +1 .
Evade. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed and the enemy is non‑Elite, evade it and attach Bind Monster to it. When attached enemy would ready: Test (3). If you succeed, attached enemy does not ready. If you fail, discard Bind Monster.
Add 1 doom to Blood Pact: You get +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.) Add 1 doom to Blood Pact: You get +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)
Uses (3 charges). If Blur has charges remaining: Evade. For this evasion attempt, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed, spend 1 charge and you may take an additional action this turn. If you succeed by 0, take 1 damage.
Exhaust Burglary: Investigate. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues, gain 3 resources.
: Fight. Either use your or get +1 for this attack. When you initiate this ability, choose one - - Exhaust Ceremonial Sickle and place 1 doom on it to get +1 skill value and deal +1 damage for this attack. - If this attack defeats an enemy, remove 1 doom from Ceremonial Sickle.
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If an , "+1," or "0" token is revealed during this investigation, take 1 horror.
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Cryptographic Cipher and spend 1 secret: Investigate. Your location gets +1 shroud for this investigation. Exhaust Cryptographic Cipher and spend 1 secret: Investigate. Your location gets -2 shroud for this investigation.
While you have 5 or more resources, Cunning gains (while you have 10 or more resources, Cunning gains , instead).
Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to an investigator at your location, under his or her control. When you are dealt damage and/or horror: Discard Delay the Inevitable and cancel all damage and/or horror just dealt. Forced - When the mythos phase ends: You must either spend 2 resources or discard Delay the Inevitable.
Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.
Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.
Fast. Play when an enemy attacks an investigator at your location. Cancel that attack.
Max 1 committed per skill test. Double the difficulty of this skill test. If this skill test is successful, resolve the effects of the successful test twice.
You have 1 additional arcane slot. : Fight. You get +1 for this attack for each of your arcane slots that is filled. If at least 2 of your arcane slots are filled, this attack deals +1 damage.
When you initiate a skill test, exhaust Drawing Thin: Increase the difficulty of this skill test by 2. Gain 2 resources or draw 1 card.
Choose either your location or a connecting location. Deal 3 damage to each enemy and to each investigator at the chosen location.
Uses (4 charges). : Test (1). For each point you succeed by, you may spend 1 charge to heal 1 damage or 1 horror from an investigator at your location. If you succeed by 0, lose 1 resource.
Fast. Play when you would resolve an effect on a [mystic] card that triggers "when," "if," or "after" a , , , , or symbol is revealed. Either cancel that effect, or resolve it an additional time.
You get +1 skill value while resolving a skill test on an attached asset. 1 doom on each attached asset does not count towards the agenda's doom threshold. Exhaust Elle Rubash: Choose an asset in your play area with 1 or more doom on it. Attach it to Elle Rubash, or switch it with an attached asset. (Limit 2 attached assets).
Fast. Play only during your turn. Disengage from each enemy engaged with you and move to a revealed location with no enemies.
Myriad. Limit 1 Empower Self (Stamina) per deck. Up to 3 Empower Self cards take up a single arcane slot. Anytime a card effect requires you to use instead of , you may ignore that aspect of the effect. Exhaust Empower Self: You get +2 for this test.
Fast. Play after you defeat an enemy. Discover 1 clue at your location.
Place 3 ammo tokens on a Firearm asset controlled by an investigator at your location.
Uses (3 charges). Spend 1 charge: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. If a token is revealed during this investigation, you may discover 1 clue at a connecting location or place 1 charge on Eye of Chaos.
As an additional cost to play Faustian Bargain, add 2 tokens to the chaos bag. Investigators at your location gain a total of 5 resources, distributed as you wish.
Uses (3 supplies). If First Aid has no supplies, discard it. Spend 1 supply: Heal 1 damage or horror from an investigator at your location.
Fast. Play when the "draw encounter cards" step of the mythos phase would begin. Instead of resolving that step, look at the top X cards of the encounter deck, where X is the number of investigators. Deal those cards among the investigators as you wish, dealing no more than 1 card to each investigator other than yourself. Then, one at a time, each investigator draws the card(s) dealt to them.
Uses (4 charges). When you are dealt damage and/or horror from an enemy attack, exhaust Flesh Ward and spend 1 charge: Cancel 1 damage or horror just dealt from that attack.
You get +1 . When the game begins, if Four of Cups is in your opening hand: Put it into play.
You get +1 and +1 . During your turn, after you move to a location, exhaust Gené Beauregard: Move a clue or a non-Elite enemy from a connecting location to your location, or vice versa.
After you commit Ghastly Possession to a skill test on an asset, choose one: - Place 1 doom on that asset. Ghastly Possession gains . - If this test is successful, either remove 1 doom from this asset, or replenish half of its uses (rounded down).
: Choose a card at your location and test (1). For each point you succeed by, choose one - - The next time that card would be healed this round, heal +1 damage/horror (to a maximum of +3). - The next time that card would be dealt damage this round, deal +1 damage (to a maximum of +3).
When an enemy attack deals damage to Guard Dog: Deal 1 damage to the attacking enemy.
Limit 1 per deck. When you play a copy of Soothing Melody: Either change each "2" on it to a "3," or shuffle it into your deck instead of discarding it. Forced - After Hallowed Mirror enters play: Search your bonded cards for 3 copies of Soothing Melody. Add 1 to your hand and shuffle the other 2 into your deck.
Fast. If Handcuffs is not attached to an enemy: Evade. Use only on a Humanoid enemy. This evasion attempt uses instead of . If you succeed, remove all doom from the just-evaded enemy and attach Handcuffs to it. If the attached enemy is non-Elite, it cannot ready and doom cannot be placed on it.
Customizable. Uses (4 aether). If Hyperphysical Shotcaster has no aether, discard it. Spend 1 aether: Resolve the Manifest ability of the Hyperphysical Shotcaster's current form. Exhaust Hyperphysical Shotcaster: Change its form (to one you have unlocked on its upgrade sheet).
If this skill test is successful, ready an Ally asset at your location and heal 1 damage and 1 horror from it.
You get +1 to each of your skills for each horror on Key of Ys. Forced - When any amount of horror would be placed on you: Place 1 of that horror on Key of Ys. Forced - When Key of Ys leaves play: Discard the top 10 cards of your deck.
: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. If you succeed, you may spend 1 additional action to deal +1 damage for this attack.
While Leadership is committed to a skill test being performed by another investigator, Leadership gains . If this test is successful, gain 2 resources. If Leadership is committed to a skill test being performed by another investigator, that investigator also gains 2 resources.
Choose a card in your play area or reveal a card in your hand. Search your deck for another copy of that card and draw it. Shuffle your deck.
After you succeed at a skill test by 2 or more, exhaust Lucky Cigarette Case: Draw 1 card.
Fast. Play when you would fail a skill test. Get +2 to your skill value for that test.
: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. If the attacked enemy is the only enemy engaged with you, this attack deals +1 damage.
Reveal tokens from the chaos bag until you reveal a , , , or token. If you revealed... - ...a or token, deal 2 damage to an enemy at your location. - ...a or token, heal 2 damage from an investigator or Ally asset at your location. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.
You get +1 and +1 . After you successfully investigate: Place 1 resource (from the token pool) on Michael Leigh, as evidence (to a maximum of 3 evidence). When you initiate an attack, exhaust Michael Leigh and spend 1 evidence: You deal +1 damage for this attack.
Fast. Play after a phase begins. Choose a non-Elite enemy at your location. Treat the chosen enemy's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits) until the end of the phase.
Play only if there are no enemies at your location. Heal 3 horror and draw 1 card.
If this skill test is successful, reduce the difficulty of the next skill test you perform this phase by X, where X is the amount this skill test succeeded by (to a maximum of 3).
Fast. Play when you initiate a skill test. Instead of the skill type indicated for this test (, , , or ), this is a resource skill test. Your base skill value for this test is equal to half the number of resources in your resource pool (rounded down).
Parley. Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator may play an Ally asset from their hand, reducing its cost by 3.
For each point this skill test succeeds by, after it resolves, you may immediately move to a connecting location (to a maximum of 3 times).
Obsidian Bracelet may only be assigned damage and/or horror dealt by treachery effects. Obsidian Bracelet may be assigned damage and/or horror dealt to other investigators at your location.
Choose an enemy at any location other than yours. Move twice toward that enemy. Discover 1 clue at each location you entered by this effect.
Commit only to a skill test you are performing. If you succeed by 3 or more, return Opportunist to your hand after this test instead of discarding it.
Uses (1 ammo). Limit 1 ammo on Ornate Bow. Spend 1 ammo: Fight. This attack uses instead of . You get +2 and deal +2 damage for this attack. : You nock another arrow. Place 1 ammo on Ornate Bow.
Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose any non-weakness treachery not attached to an Elite enemy. Until the end of the round, treat that card's printed text box as if it were blank (except for Traits).
Uses (3 secrets). Exhaust Otherworld Codex and spend 1 secret: Search the top 9 cards of the encounter deck and choose a non-Elite card among them. Discard a copy of the chosen card from play. Shuffle all of the searched cards back into the encounter deck.
Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.
Customizable. Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to a non-Elite enemy at your location. If attached enemy is at your location: Parley. Give it a command (limit once per round per command) - - "Go." This enemy moves once in a direction of your choice. - "Cower." This enemy exhausts.
Fast. Play during any player window. Put Premonition into play, reveal a random chaos token from the chaos bag, and seal it on Premonition. Forced - When a chaos token would be revealed from the chaos bag: Resolve the token sealed here as if it were just revealed from the chaos bag, instead. Then, discard Premonition.
Max 1 committed per skill test. After you commit Prescient to a skill test, name "even," "odd," or "symbol." After this test ends, if a chaos token of the named type was revealed during this test, you may return a Spell card from your discard pile to your hand.
Fast. Play after an Ally asset at your location is discarded by a card effect or is defeated. Either return that asset to its owner's hand, or its owner draws 3 cards.
When a skill test you are performing begins, if Recall the Future is ready, name a chaos token: If the named chaos token is revealed during this skill test, exhaust Recall the Future. Then, you get +2 skill value for this skill test.
Choose a Spell or Relic asset controlled by an investigator at your location and reveal a random chaos token from the chaos bag. If you reveal a , , , , or symbol, discard the chosen asset. Otherwise, add 3 charges to the chosen asset.
Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.
Seal (up to 5 ). If Rite of Sanctification has no tokens sealed on it, discard it. When an investigator at your location plays a card, exhaust Rite of Sanctification and release a chaos token sealed on it: Reduce the cost of that card by 2.
You have 2 additional ally slots, which can only be used to hold Creature assets. When you play a Creature asset during your turn: Reduce that asset's cost by 1.
Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.
Discard a [mystic] asset you control. Then, draw 3 cards or gain 3 resources, or any combination thereof.
After another investigator moves from your location to a connecting location, exhaust Safeguard: Move to that location.
Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.
After you successfully investigate by 2 or more, exhaust Scavenging: Choose an Item card in your discard pile and add it to your hand.
Play only as your first action. Heal 2 damage (3 damage instead if you drew a treachery this round). Draw 1 card.
Commit only to a skill test (of any type) being performed by another investigator at your location. If this test fails, you must resolve all effects from the failed test, instead of the performing investigator. Then, either you draw 2 cards, or the performing investigator draws 2 cards.
Fast. You have 1 additional arcane slot, which can only be used to hold a Spell or Ritual asset.
: Investigate. Investigate using instead of . If a , , , or symbol is revealed during this test, you may choose a revealed location connected to your location; you are now investigating as if you were at the chosen location instead of your location (you may use either shroud value).
Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Smoking Pipe, and take 1 damage: Heal 1 horror.
During a skill test on a Spell card, exhaust Spirit Athame: You get +2 skill value for this test. Exhaust Spirit Athame: Fight. You get +2 for this attack.
Choose another investigator at your location. Both you and that investigator gain 2 resources.
Max twice per game. Play only if there are 10 or more cards in the encounter deck. Search your bonded cards for 1 copy of The Stars Are Right and shuffle it into the top 10 cards of the encounter deck.
Discard Stray Cat: Automatically evade a non-Elite enemy at your location.
As an additional cost to play Summoned Hound, you must search your bonded cards for 1 copy of Unbound Beast and shuffle it into your deck. During your turn, except during an action, exhaust Summoned Hound: Fight/Investigate. Either attack with a base skill of 5, or investigate with a base skill of 5.
Fast. Play after you reveal a chaos token with a negative modifier. Switch that token's "-" to a "+".
Tetsuo Mori may be assigned damage and/or horror dealt to other investigators at your location. When Tetsuo Mori is defeated: Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator searches either their discard pile or the top 9 cards of their deck for an Item asset and adds it to their hand. Shuffle their deck if it is searched.
Uses (1 locks). If there are no locks on The Council's Coffer, each investigator searches his or her deck or discard pile for any card and immediately plays it at no cost. Exile The Council's Coffer. (Max once per campaign.) : Test any skill (5). If you succeed, remove 1 lock. Any investigator at your location may activate this ability. Card design by The Council at Arkham Nights 2017.
Fast. After The Red-Gloved Man enters play: Choose two of your skills. While The Red-Gloved Man is in play, raise the base value of each of those skills to 6. Forced - At the end of the mythos phase: Discard The Red-Gloved Man.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Reduce the cost to play The Stygian Eye by 1 for each token in the chaos bag. Until the end of the round, you get +3 to each of your skills.
Play only if you are not engaged with an enemy. Move. Choose an unrevealed location. Move (one location at a time) along the shortest path toward that location, until you enter that location. End this effect if you reveal a location, if an enemy engages you, or if your movement is blocked.
Fast. Play during any window, or at the start of the round. Replace all tokens in the chaos bag with an equal number of tokens. At the end of the round, replace all tokens in the chaos bag with an equal number of tokens.
If Timeworn Brand is ready: Fight. You get +2 and deal +1 damage for this attack. Exhaust Timeworn Brand: Fight. Add your to your skill value for this attack. This attack deals +3 damage. If this attack defeats an Elite enemy, draw 3 cards. (Max once per game.)
Fight. This attack deals +1 damage and is automatically successful. As an additional cost to perform this attack, the chosen enemy makes an attack against you.
As an additional cost to commit Torrent of Power to a skill test, spend up to 3 charges from among assets you control. For each charge spent in this way, Torrent of Power gains .
True Grit may be assigned damage dealt to other investigators at your location.
Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to an Ally asset you control. Attached asset gets +1 health and +1 sanity.
If this skill test is successful during an attack, that attack deals +1 damage.
Limit 1 per investigator. Exhaust Well Connected: You get +1 skill value for this skill test for every 5 resources you have.
: Fight. This attack uses instead of . If a , , , or symbol is revealed during this attack, the attacked enemy gets -1 fight and -1 evade for the remainder of the turn (to a minimum of 1).