This card does not say that the performing investigator needs to have few items, but the investigator that commits it. Great card for Carson Sinclair to commit to skill tests of other investigators, while he does not really need items in his play area.

"You want a review? You can't handle a review!!!" How hard would it have been to insert a simple part-sentence "While this agenda is in play, each criminal enemy gains aloof". Feels like our group wasted an afternoon waiting for a condition that would 'remove' 'aloof' to happen, AS WRITTEN IN SCENARIO SETUP. Wish we could have been signposted here earlier. Edit: some formatting.

Paying 4xp to make a card MORE expensive feels like a really tough sell. The extra Int boost is nice, but often in low player count games there won’t necessarily be 3 clues available on the location to grab. I wish this had just decreased the resource cost and/or added a supply token, so it felt properly like an upgrade, rather than just a bigger, clunkier item

Too pricey for most decks but decent in big money decks. At 2 exp, it compares pretty unfavorably to something like Savant which only costs 1 exp, usually gives 2-4 wild but for no resource cost and both cover similar classes. But if you start spending 2 or 3 resources you basically get an auto success which compares similarly to Justify the Means which is 3 exp and also had a downside but is an auto success.

Since (almost) anyone who can take this card can also take Act of Desperation, this seems like a natural companion card for looping ammo-based weapons. With the newly added "Catch!" and Unconventional Method, you have a bit more versatility, although the economy of Act of Desperation is what makes that particular combo so appealing. Resourceful and Scrounge for Supplies can help you to keep the loop going.