I have played this card to a 7 damage action and a few 5 damage actions. It took some set up though. First I played with Jim Culver and took Katarina Sojka as one of my spirit cards. Then with Nkosi Mabati and a sigil of I could reliably fish for the skull once per round by looking for any symbol and given an didn’t show up via Katarina Sojka I could succeed with my as a 0 and then deal 3 damage. This is scalable by using Eldritch Inspiration up to 5 and 7 depending on how many you have in hand. It’s worth noting that this is possible with standard Jim but I played with parallel back and standard front. All in all it’s a good card (especially with 5 charges) but only if you’re planning on having it do most of your fighting and you’re willing to spend some time getting it ready. At 2 resource cost it may not be the worst idea to brand it with Eldritch Brand to make this combo a bit more reliable to play. That being said I would only take this card as a support fighter and not as a main method of dealing damage.

Is this a joke? Nerfing good ol hardboiled Joe down to the ground with similar Milan Christopher's effect but a card draw instead?

Loren ipsum del toro yada yada in order to make this review 200 words long because I am speechless that Fantasy Flight Game not only massacred Joe, but they cut off his manhood and made wimp out of the corpse

After a decade of Dr M, his student is annoying to play (maybe just for me). It used to be, for most checks the margin of success is binary. You can pass by one or a million, in most classes it doesn't matter. Dorothy means that every time you investigate, you have to do the math again, running a checksum of (total-penalties = 1 or 3).

Not that you won't appreciate the money, but without some of the combo pieces released with Drowned City, it's going to be tough for seekers to adjust their results, and you'll need to get the test four times over four turns to make her revenue neutral. Still, even mutated Dr. M was one of the best Seeker allies ever, so maybe this is what it looks like when you get a stat bonus, random $ and soak.

People responsible for chapter II have said that machete (core) was a card it was nearly impossible to balance around, because in many circumstances, it was infinite 2 damage. Now, for better or worse, there with the broken bottle (which costs less, but gives the same bonus and discards, and lets you hit an enemy engaged with the teammate).

If you have a signature weapon, it's better than machete now. Guns, with limited ammo, are better than taking a jungle cleaver to the streets of Arkham. It's still a must pick due to the incredibly narrow cardpool, but I don't see it surviving through the next two expansions in anything but a niche role. Which might be a reasonable thing for a level zero card.

This might seem like a one-to-one parallel Dr Milan Christopher, but it's harder to get. Chapter 2 doesn't have as severe an imbalance in economy as before (crack the case has become bounty, and there's no Midnight Oil), but $4 and a slot is still a lot. Seekers can get clues every turn in almost every scenario of the game. Some scenarios have only one enemy, or don't spawn them for a few turns... Or even punish you for killing them with Vengeance. It's still good and a reason to get charisma, but this guy might sit in your hand longer than you'd like.