Monterey Jack
The Archaeologist
★ Exclusive Cards
Cards played most by this investigator compared to all others.

Fast. Monterey Jack deck only. : Fight. This attack uses instead of . If this attack succeeds, you may exhaust Trusty Bullwhip to either automatically evade the attacked enemy or deal +1 damage for this attack.

Move. Move up to 3 times. Enemies do not engage you during this movement.

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.

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.

During your turn, if you are not engaged with any enemies, exhaust Pathfinder: Move to a connecting location.

Fast. Monterey Jack deck only. : Fight. This attack uses instead of . If this attack succeeds, you may exhaust Trusty Bullwhip to either automatically evade the attacked enemy or deal +1 damage for this attack.

Fight. This attack uses instead of . This attack deals +2 damage.

Move. Move up to 3 times. Enemies do not engage you during this movement.

You get +1 . After you successfully investigate: Gain 1 resource.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

You may take an additional action during your turn.

Limit 1 per investigator. When your turn begins, if there are no other investigators at your location: Gain 1 resource.

If this skill test is successful by 2 or more, after it resolves, you may 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).

Investigate. Add your value to your skill value for this investigation. If you succeed by 1 or more, you may automatically evade an enemy at this location. If you succeed by 3 or more, return Breaking and Entering to your hand at the end of your turn. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

After you succeed at a skill test by 2 or more, exhaust Lucky Cigarette Case: Draw 1 card.

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.

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.

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.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

During your turn, if you are not engaged with any enemies, exhaust Pathfinder: Move to a connecting location.

Max 1 committed per skill test.

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).

Uses (3 supplies). If Lockpicks has no supplies, discard it. Exhaust Lockpicks: Investigate. Add your value to your skill value for this investigation. If you do not succeed by at least 2, remove 1 supply from Lockpicks.

If this skill test is successful while investigating a location, discover 1 additional clue at that location.

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). Spend 1 supply: Investigate. Your location gets -2 shroud for this investigation.

Fast. Play after you draw a non-peril encounter card, but before resolving that card's effects. Choose another investigator. That investigator is considered to have drawn that encounter card instead. Gain 1 resource.

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. You have 1 additional ally slot.

You get +1 . When the game begins, if Death • XIII is in your opening hand: Put it into play.

Limit 1 per investigator. Exhaust Well Connected: You get +1 skill value for this skill test for every 5 resources you have.

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).

Limit 1 Mask per investigator. Uses (2 offerings). Replenish 1 of these offerings after you move out of a location with an enemy. Spend 1 offering: You get +2 or +2 for this skill test. (Limit once per test.)

Fast. You get +1 while investigating.

Uses (3 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You may use instead of for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage. After you fail a skill test while parleying with an enemy: Put British Bull Dog into play from your hand.

: 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."

Evade. Automatically evade a non-Elite enemy at your location. When you play Decoy, increase its cost by 2: Change "a non-Elite enemy" to "up to 2 non-Elite enemies." When you play Decoy, increase its cost by 2: Change "at your location" to "at a location up to 2 connections away."

Fast. Play only during your turn. Disengage from each enemy engaged with you and move to a revealed location with no enemies.

Deal 2 damage to an exhausted enemy at your location.

Discover 1 clue at your location. When you play Intel Report, increase its cost by 2: Change "Discover 1 clue" to "Discover 2 clues." When you play Intel Report, increase its cost by 2: Change "at your location" to "at a location up to 2 connections away."

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.

After you evade an enemy, exhaust Pickpocketing: Draw 1 card.

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.

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."

Investigate. This investigation uses instead of . If you succeed, discover 2 additional clues at your 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.

Gain 3 resources.

Commit only to a skill test you are performing. As an additional cost to commit "Watch this!" to a skill test, spend up to 3 resources. If you succeed by 1 or more, gain twice that many resources.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

Exhaust Pocket Telescope: Look at the revealed side of a connecting unrevealed location. : Investigate. Investigate a revealed connecting location as if you were there.

Uses (6 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Investigate. You may use instead of for this investigation. If you succeed, gain 1 resource.

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.

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.

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.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

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.

Permanent. You have 1 additional accessory slot.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose an investigator at your location. That investigator draws 3 cards.

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.

Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.

As an additional cost to play Bank Job, spend an action. Investigators at your location gain a total of 8 resources, distributed as you wish.

Choose a non-Elite enemy at a revealed location up to 2 connections away. Swap places with that enemy.

Spend 2 resources: You get +2 for this skill test. Spend 2 resources: You get +2 for this skill test.

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.)

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.

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.

Parley. Choose an enemy at your location and test (X), where X is the chosen enemy's combined damage/horror values. If you succeed, deal X damage to each enemy at your location. After this effect resolves, you may disengage from each enemy and move to a connecting location.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card.

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.

You get +1 . After you succeed at a skill test by exactly 3: Place 1 resource on Alton O'Connell, as evidence. Exhaust Alton O'Connell and spend X evidence: Discover 1 clue at your location. X is the shroud value of your location.

Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.

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 .

Fast. Play when an investigator at your location or a connecting location is dealt damage and/or horror. That investigator may spend up to 3 resources. For each resource spent, that investigator cancels 1 damage or 1 horror just dealt.

Reduce the difficulty of skill tests you perform during 'parley' actions by 2.

Fast. Play after you reveal a chaos token during a skill test. Reveal an additional chaos token, switching its "-" to a "+". If that chaos token is a token, you automatically fail.

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.

Fast. Play when you would succeed at a skill test. You get +2 skill value for this test.

Permanent. Limit 1 per deck. Purchase at deck creation. Your deck cannot include more than 1 copy of each non-weakness, non-signature card (by title). Reduce your deck size by 5.

Play only if there is a scenario card with a 'resign' ability in play. Resign. You get the hell out of here.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Discover 1 clue at your location.

You may include up to 4 copies of Sled Dog in your deck. Up to 2 Sled Dog cards take up a single ally slot. Exhaust X Sled Dogs: Move. Move X times. Exhaust X Sled Dogs: Fight. You get +X for this attack. Instead of its standard damage, this attack deals X damage.

Fast. Play when an enemy makes an attack of opportunity against you. Cancel that attack. You get +2 skill value for the next skill test you perform this turn.

Uses (4 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Evade. You get +2 for this evasion attempt. If you succeed and the evaded enemy is non-Elite, it does not ready during the next upkeep phase.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose an investigator at your location. Move that investigator to a connecting location.

Exhaust Burglary: Investigate. If you succeed, instead of discovering clues, gain 3 resources.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

: 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.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Put an Item asset into play from your hand. At the end of your turn, if that asset is still in play, return it to your hand.

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).

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."

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.

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.

When a non-Elite enemy spawns at your location, discard Disc of Itzamna: Discard that enemy.

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.

If this skill test is successful during an evasion attempt, the next time the evaded enemy takes damage this turn, deal it 1 additional damage.

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.

Fight. Add your value to your skill value for this attack. If you succeed by 1 or more, automatically evade the attacked enemy. If you succeed by 3 or more, return Cheap Shot to your hand at the end of your turn.

Investigate. Choose an enemy at your location. You get +1 for this investigation for each damage on the chosen enemy (to a maximum of +5 ). If you succeed, discover 1 additional clue at this location. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity from the chosen enemy.

Exhaust Stealth: Evade. The chosen enemy gets -2 evade for this evasion attempt. If you successfully evade the enemy, disengage with it but do not exhaust it. Until the end of your turn, that enemy cannot engage you.

Fast. Play when an enemy would spawn at your location. Immediately move to a connecting location. (The enemy still spawns at your previous location.)

Choose an unengaged enemy at your location. Test (X), where X is the evade value of the chosen enemy. If you succeed, discover 2 clues at your location.

Parley. Choose an enemy at your location and test any skill (3). If you succeed and you tested... - ..., remove 1 doom from that enemy. - ..., discover 1 clue at your location. - ..., automatically evade that enemy. If it is non-Elite, move it to a connecting location. - ..., deal 2 damage to that enemy.

Evade. Add your to your skill value for this evasion attempt. If you succeed by 1 or more and the evaded enemy is non-Elite, it does not ready during the next upkeep phase. If you succeed by 3 or more, return Slip Away to your hand at the end of your turn.

Evade. When this action begins, gain 2 resources.

Fast. During a skill test while fighting or investigating, exhaust Ice Pick: You get +1 skill value for this test.

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.

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.

You get +1 during evasion attempts.

While you have 5 or more resources, Cunning gains (while you have 10 or more resources, Cunning gains , instead).

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.

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."

Your maximum hand size is increased by 1. You have 1 additional hand slot, which can only be used to hold a Tome asset.

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.

Customizable. When you purchase Friends in Low Places, choose and record a Trait on its upgrade sheet. Look at the top 6 cards of your deck. For each looked-at card with the chosen Trait(s), you may spend 1 resource to add that card to your hand. Shuffle the remaining cards into your deck.

As an additional cost to play this card, you must search your bonded cards for 1 copy of Guardian of the Crystallizer and shuffle it into your deck. After you play an event: Attach it facedown to Crystallizer of Dreams instead of discarding it (to a maximum of 5 attached events). Attached events may be committed to skill tests as if they were in your hand.

Uses (4 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Investigate. For this investigation, you may use instead of , and you get +1 skill value. If you succeed and there is an exhausted enemy at your location, heal 1 horror.

Myriad. Gain 2 resources and draw 1 card. After you play Easy Mark: Play another Easy Mark from your hand, at no cost.

Your maximum hand size is increased by 2. After Laboratory Assistant enters play: Draw 2 cards.

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.

Permanent. Exceptional. When earning experience during the resolution of a scenario, if you were not defeated during that scenario, you earn 2 additional experience. If you were defeated during that scenario, you are killed.

Limit 1 per investigator. Uses (1 inspiration). Exhaust Artistic Inspiration and discard 1 card from your hand: Replenish 1 inspiration on this card. After revealing chaos tokens for a skill test you are performing, spend 1 inspiration: You get +1 or -1 skill value for this skill test.

Attach to a Tool or Science asset you control. Limit 1 per asset. After attached asset exhausts, exhaust Fine Tuning: Ready attached asset.

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."

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.

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.

Investigate. If you succeed, instead of discovering a clue at your location, discover a clue at a connecting location.

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).

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.)"

Fast. Play when you successfully evade a Humanoid enemy or successfully investigate. Play an Item asset from your hand, reducing its cost by X, where X is the amount you succeeded by. Attach "I'll take that!" to that asset. Attached asset gains Illicit.

Max 1 committed per skill test. If this test is successful, draw 1 card (2 cards instead if it succeeds by 2 or more).

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.

Draw 1 card. Shuffle any number of non-weakness cards from your hand into your deck. Then, draw that many cards.

Fight. This attack uses . You deal +1 damage for this attack for each clue you have (max +3 damage).

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.

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.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Choose another investigator at your location. Move all resources from that investigator's resource pool to your resource pool. At the end of the round, move all resources from your resource pool to that investigator's resource pool.

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.

Limit 1 per investigator. You have 2 additional hand slots, which may only be used to hold Science and/or Tool assets.

Fast. : Fight. If you succeed by 2 or more, this attack deals +1 damage.

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.

Fast.

Myriad. If you commit 3 copies of Three Aces to a skill test, that test automatically succeeds (do not reveal chaos tokens from the chaos bag). Then draw 3 cards and gain 3 resources (max 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.

Limit 1 per investigator. After you perform the same type of action twice in a row, exhaust Haste: Take another action of that type again (types include activate, engage, evade, fight, investigate, move, play, resource, and draw).

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.

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.

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.

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 (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Smoking Pipe, and take 1 damage: Heal 1 horror.

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.

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.

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 reveal a token during a skill test you are performing, you may commit Diabolical Luck to that skill test from your hand. If you do, Diabolical Luck gains .

After Medical Student enters play: Heal 1 damage and 1 horror from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.

Fast. Uses (3 charges). When an enemy makes an attack of opportunity against you, spend 1 charge: Cancel that attack.

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.

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.

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.

You get +1 . Exhaust Cat Burglar: Disengage from each enemy engaged with you and move to a connecting location. This action does not provoke attacks of opportunity.

Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 for this skill test.

If this skill test is successful during an evasion attempt, you may automatically evade another enemy at your location.

You get +1 and +1 . Exhaust Lola Santiago and spend X resources: Discover 1 clue at your location. X is the shroud value of your location.

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.

Test (4). If you succeed, discard Strange Solution and draw 2 cards. Record in your Campaign Log that "you have identified the solution."

Fast. Play only during your turn. Attach to a Clothing or Armor asset you control. Attached asset gains: "You have 1 additional hand or accessory slot (your choice), which can only be used to hold an Illicit asset."

Spend 1 resource: Choose an Item asset from your hand and play it (paying its cost).

Customizable. Fast. Play this card only after one of the following conditions is met: - The agenda or act advances. - You succeed at a skill test by 3 or more. Immediately take an action as if it were your turn. (Max once per round.)

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.

Investigate. When this action begins, gain 2 resources.

You get +1 . At the start of your turn, add 1 token to the chaos bag: Draw 1 card.

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.

Uses (2 supplies). Exhaust Tennessee Sour Mash and spend 1 supply: You get +2 for a skill test on a treachery card. Discard Tennessee Sour Mash: Fight. You get +3 for this attack.

While you have 4 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains (while you have 7 or more cards in hand, Curiosity gains , instead).

During your turn, if you have 8 or more cards in your hand, exhaust Farsight: Play an event from your hand (paying its cost).

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.

Fast. Play when an enemy attacks you. Evade. Attempt to evade the attacking enemy. If you succeed, cancel that enemy's attack.

Limit 1 per deck. Uses (0 charges). After an enemy at your location is evaded: Place 1 charge on Dial of Ancients. Then, if there are 4 or more charges on Dial of Ancients, record in your campaign log that "you have calculated the day of reckoning."

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.

Fast. Play during any window. Add 3 tokens to the chaos bag. Then, add 3 tokens to the chaos bag and draw 1 card.

: 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.

Seal (up to 5 ). Forced - At the end of the mythos phase: You must either spend 1 resource or discard Dark Ritual.

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.

Look at another investigator's hand. You may play a non-weakness card in that investigator's hand, under your control. If you do, you and that investigator each 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.

You get +1 . Exhaust Lonnie Ritter and spend 1 resource: Choose an Item asset controlled by an investigator at your location. Heal 1 damage from that asset and 1 horror from Lonnie Ritter.

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.

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. 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.

Place 1 of your clues on your location. Then, heal 3 damage from an investigator or Ally asset at your location.

Parley. Choose an enemy at your location and test (0). For each point you succeed by, gain 1 resource (to a maximum of 6). If you fail, that enemy attacks you.

Each attached asset takes up no slots and its text box is treated as if it were blank (except for Traits). Exhaust Tool Belt: Choose one - attach a Tool asset in your play area to Tool Belt, switch a Tool asset in your play area with an attached asset, or detach an attached asset.

Play only during one of your turns in which you defeated enemies with a total of 6 or more health. Add "Let God sort them out..." to the victory display and immediately end your turn. When earning experience during the resolution of this scenario, you earn 1 additional experience.

Exhaust Embezzled Treasure: Move up to 2 resources from your resource pool to Embezzled Treasure (to a maximum of 10 resources on it). Forced - When you resign or the game ends: For every 2 resources on Embezzled Treasure, an investigator of your choice begins the next scenario of the campaign with 1 additional resource in their resource pool.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Until the end of the round, you may use your in place of your and .

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.

After Research Librarian enters play: Search your deck for a Tome asset and add it to your hand. Shuffle your deck.

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).

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.


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.

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.

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.

You get +1 . During your turn, exhaust Olivier Bishop: Move to a connecting location.

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.

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.)

Evade. Add your value to your skill value for this evasion attempt. If you succeed by 2 or more, deal that enemy 1 damage. If that enemy is non-Elite, you may move it to a connecting location.

Uses (4 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Choose a revealed location up to 3 connections away from your location. Move to that location.

When you attempt to evade an enemy, exhaust String Along: For this evasion attempt, you get +1 skill value and that enemy gains alert. If you succeed, draw 1 card and do not disengage from that enemy.

Uses (5 ammo). Exhaust Mauser C96 and spend 1 ammo: Fight. You get +1 and deal +1 damage for this attack. If you succeed by 2 or more, either ready Mauser C96 or gain 1 resource.

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.

Fast. Play only during your turn. Put an Ally asset from your hand into play. At the end of your turn, if that asset is still in play, return it to your hand.

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 supplies). Spend 1 supply: Choose an investigator at your location to heal 1 horror. Then, that investigator tests (2). If the test succeeds, he or she heals 1 additional horror. If the test fails, he or she discards 1 card at random from his or her hand.

Uses (3 supplies). Spend 1 supply, exhaust Painkillers, and take 1 horror: Heal 1 damage.

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.

Uses (3 secrets). Spend 1 secret: Investigate. Investigate any revealed location in play as if you were at that location.

: Fight. You get +1 for this attack. Discard Knife: Fight. You get +2 for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage.

: 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.

Exceptional. Uses (0 charges). Forced - After your turn begins: Either place 1 charge here, or take all charges here, as resources. Then, if it has exactly... - 1 charge, you get +3 skill value for your next skill test. - 2 charges, you may move up to 2 times. - 3 charges, you may take an additional action this turn.

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.

Customizable. Uses (3 evidence). Exhaust Damning Testimony and choose an enemy at any location: Investigate (your location). If you succeed, you may spend 1 evidence to discover 1 additional clue at the chosen enemy's location.

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.

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.

Seal (, , , or ). Forced - After you reveal an symbol during a skill test: Return The Chthonian Stone to your hand.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit only to a test you are performing of any type, and only if it is your turn. Calculated Risk gains for each action you performed this turn (including this one). After this test ends, end your turn.

: 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).

You get +1 .

Search the top 9 cards of the encounter deck for a non-Elite enemy and spawn it engaged with you (instead of its normal spawn location). Then, discover 1 clue at your location and gain X resources, where X is that enemy's health value. Shuffle the encounter deck.

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.

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.

You get +1 , +1 , and -2 sanity. When you would be defeated by horror, discard St. Hubert's Key: Immediately heal 2 horror.

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.

While Well-Dressed is committed to a skill test during a parley action, it gains .

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.

Seal (+1 or ). You get +1 , +1 , +1 , and +1 .

: Investigate. Either use your or get +1 for this investigation. When you initiate this ability, choose one - - Exhaust Dowsing Rod and place 1 doom on it to move to a connecting location. - If this investigation discovers the last clue at a location, remove 1 doom from Dowsing Rod.

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.

Permanent. Limit 1 Covenant per deck. When an investigator at your location reveals a token during a skill test, exhaust False Covenant: Cancel that chaos token, return it to the token pool, and reveal another token.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

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.

Deal 1 damage to a non-Elite enemy at your location. When you play Small Favor, increase its cost by 2: Change "Deal 1 damage" to "Deal 2 damage." When you play Small Favor, increase its cost by 2: Change "at your location" to "at a location up to 2 connections away."

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. Uses (4 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. If the attacked enemy is exhausted, you get +2 and deal +1 damage for this attack.

Uses (5 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You get +2 and deal +1 damage for this attack.

Permanent. In between each game of a campaign, you may swap up to two level 0 cards out of your deck in exchange for an equal number of level 0 cards. (You must still follow all deckbuilding rules for your investigator).

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 an asset controlled by an investigator at your location. Double the number of ammo or supply tokens on that asset.

Fast. Play when you draw a non-weakness treachery. Cancel that card's revelation effect and draw the top card of the encounter deck. When you play Counterespionage, increase its cost by 2: Change "the encounter deck" to "your deck". When you play Counterespionage, increase its cost by 2: Change "you" to "any investigator".

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.

Parley. Choose an enemy at your location and play a Weapon asset from your hand, reducing its cost by 1. You may then take a fight action with that weapon against the chosen enemy, using instead of the skill indicated.

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.

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.

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 supplies). Limit 10 supplies on Investments. Exhaust Investments: Place 1 supply on it. Exhaust and discard Investments: Move all supplies from it to your resource pool, as resources.

Play only if there are no enemies at your location. Heal 3 horror and draw 1 card.

Fast. Limit 1 Composure in play. You get +1 and +1 . Non-direct damage/horror must be assigned to Moxie before it can be assigned to your investigator card. Spend 1 resource: You get +1 or +1 for this skill test.

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.

Exhaust Otherworldly Compass: Investigate. Your location gets -X shroud for this investigation. X is the number of revealed locations connected to your location.

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.

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.

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 (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.

After Art Student enters play: Discover 1 clue at your location.

Attach to your location. Non-Elite enemies cannot move into attached location. Forced - When an investigator leaves attached location: Discard Barricade.

One at a time, in any order, if you control a... - [rogue] card, you may move to a connecting location. - [guardian] card, deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location. - [seeker] card, discover 1 clue at your location. - [mystic] card, heal 1 horror from any card. - [survivor] card, heal 1 damage from any card.

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.

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.

Uses (5 ammo). Spend 1 ammo: Fight. You get +2 for this attack. This attack deals +1 damage. Forced - At the end of the round, if you triggered Colt Vest Pocket's "" ability: Discard it.

While you have 10 or more resources, you get +1 and +1 . If there are no enemies at your location, exhaust Dario El-Amin: Gain 2 resources.

Uses (0 charges). After an investigator, Ally asset, or enemy at your location is defeated: Place 1 resource (from the token bank) on Decorated Skull, as a charge. Spend 1 charge: Draw 1 card and gain 1 resource.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

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.

If a token is revealed during this skill test, you may return Fey to your hand when this test ends.

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.

Uses (9 resources). When you initiate a skill test, spend up to 3 resources from Gregory Gry: If this test succeeds by at least that amount, gain that many resources.

Exhaust Henry Wan: One at a time, reveal random tokens from the chaos bag until you choose to stop, or until you reveal a , , , , or symbol. - If you chose to stop, for each token revealed via this effect, you may either draw 1 card or gain 1 resource. - If you revealed a , , , , or symbol, do nothing.

Commit to a skill test only if there is a clue at your location.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

Play only if there is a clue on your location. Draw 3 cards.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

Max 1 committed per skill test. Commit to a skill test only if you have 3 or fewer remaining sanity.

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.

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.)

Permanent. Exceptional. For every point of damage and/or horror you heal in excess of an investigator's current damage/horror, place 1 resource on Soul Sanctification, as an offering. This still counts as healing. Spend 1 offering: You get +2 skill value for this test. (Limit twice per test.)

Permanent. You begin each game with 1 additional card in your opening hand.

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.

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.

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).

Play only if there is a clue on your location.
Place 2 secrets on an asset you control.

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])."