This card seems to be much stronger than the two other "do powerful effect, then you are defeated" cards in the game. The way I see it, if you play this card and then you resign before (!) the repetition of the investigation phase ends, you avoid being defeated and suffering trauma, since you're no longer in the game when the "you are defeated" part of the effect resolves. If I'm correct about this, then this is a very strong card!

Do-or-Die is just Resourceful, but slightly more restrictive and with different icon. Instead of being able to return any Survivor card that is not named Resourceful, Do-or-Die can only be used to recur Asset and Event Survivor cards. That might sound like a major issue, but you barely notice it with cards like Gift of Nodens and the new Hunter's Instinct.

I felt it was important to point out that this card specifically says "deal 1 damage to a card with health at your location" which includes enemies since they are a card with health who are often at your location. I'm not sure if its intentional as it feels like it was meant to say "deal 1 damage to a player card with health at your location". But if that does get errata/taboo would make the card practically unplayable as 3 EXP for an extra ? and choice of player damage isn't the best.

Regardless of intention it's a great card as it lets you pass a test and deal 1 damage to an enemy at your location, as committing +5 to test will easily push you over the standard bag for most tests. Furthermore, since it's a Spell card it can be fetched with Arcane Initiate and others.

Got a Whippoorwill/Zealot annoying you, but don't want to spend the actions to engage/fight it? Well just investigate your location using its blood.

Want to help the Guardian burn down that Elite? Commit this to a standard Cosmic Flame attack to deal 3 damage. It's also super safe if that Elite is engaged to the Guardian since both Cosmic Flame's bonus damage and this are predicated on you succeeding.

All this to say have fun blood bending enemies into passed skill tests.

Just commit Manual Dexterity pal, it is so much better than this trash event could ever hope to be in a million of years.

Wow, needing to reach the 200 words limit is a lot harder than I thought? Hopefully this will be enough to get over the amount now...

Cards like this one make me sad.

Part of the promise for Chapter 2 was to remove staple cards like Dr. Milan Christopher to make room for other designs. While they were successful at nerfing that specific card, they introduced cards like this one, which is basically a powercrept version of "Watch this!", better in every regard.

• For zero actions, you get 4 resources with no downsides, which is absurd.
• You can give these to other investigators who would traditionally struggle with economy, which is absurd.
• With the icon, you can commit this to anything, which is absurd.

This is an auto-include for every investigator who can take it, no decision making needed.

PS: In the FAQ, the devs talked about having no problems playing with the new rogue cards, even though Fame and Marcus Sengstacke exist, both absolutely unplayable. Well, I am not surprised when they make up for it by printing THIS MONSTROSITY, which will end up poisoning all of chapter 2 with its power and reduce deck building complexity.

Cards like this one make me sad.