The weird wording rose an eyebrow immediately after the card was spoiled. RAW, this can make you succeed on the , if another token was drawn before. Travis from PBG argued, this is not terrible relevant, because the cards are designed for current, and there are no , or tokens (yet). I would have said, that there is always the , which frequently draws additional tokens, and does so in the new core, too. But well, the chaining of into is rather nieche. It will happen occasionally, but not that often.

Now we have the spoiler announcement for "Children of Blood", and guess what: they come with their own set of 12 (!) blood tokens, that draw extra tokens. Have fun with that interaction, until CoB falls out of current. (Or FFG is going into errata this card.) It was just a matter of time, unless this was really intentional, which I would not totally rule out. (Who was playtesting this card otherwise?) I guess, we will get again token manipulation in sooner or later, and probably a return of and later in Chapter 2. But I was not expecting to happen it so soon.

With Oops!/Oops! this card finds a place in a fail deck. Compared to other weapons Old Shotgun's damage scales with the amount you fail by, which makes it easy to get the 3 damage when built around it. Drawing Thin, being Preston Fairmont or Charlie Kane helps immensely with this (especially when cursing a lot), as well as packing some recursion via Salvage, Scavenging/Scavenging, Pushed to the Limit, Professor William Webb/Professor William Webb (and Sleight of Hand, which is a staple synergy with this card anyway). Sadly, both Resourceful and Scrounge for Supplies don't work on this one.

Remember when, as Nathaniel Cho you had to run one copy of Handcuffs to just disable Tommy Malloy for good?

Well, now for the cost of only 2 damage, a resource and this card, you can basically take Nathaniel's personal weakness out of rotation for good

This is a fantastic event: against humanoids they are good as basically dead if locked down with Restrained, if not even deader as much as someone hit with Bury Them Deep because they cannot respawn. As long as they don't get or produce Doom, you don't need to put them down.

Even against non-humanoids this is great, because the card only gets discarded after cards ready in the upkeep phase, which means it works as a longer stun like Slip Away and Disguise without a test. This is incredible tech and insurance against retaliate enemies just like Adapt and Overcome: if you trigger the counter-attack, you can ensure the enemy won't get a chance to strike you again if you fail your follow up attacks.

Very good card: so happy Guardians got great tools in Chapter 2.

The Tankgewehr certainly isn't for everyone. As others have noted, on its own it's a slightly underwhelming 5XP weapon. However, when you look at who can take it and what else they can take, it starts to get very appealing as a synergy weapon.

This is Dexter Drake's favorite gun on the Citadel. Molly can pull it out of his hat with flawless accuracy. He can do Great Work In the Thick of It with Charon's Obol to Delve Too Deep and have his guns on the line by the second scenario. The tank gun is competing for the affection of Dexter's hands with things like a cane, some candles, or maybe an atlas or flute; even the good books, scrolls, and gang signs don't tie into his love 'em and leave 'em relationship with spell assets. Against those, it looks respectable on its own. Then his mafioso man Friday shows some Quick Thinking to help him defray that extra action cost. Because "Activate" is a type of action, he can even shoot off one of his spell assets, then shoot off his gun, and reload with a quickness—his face is even on the card. And when worse comes to worst, he can burn one of the baddies under his Binder's Jar to cancel the hit from a badly timed reload.

Speaking of Leos, Leo Anderson is right up there with Dexter on the list of guys who love this gun. He has all the same rogue tech and economy as Dexter to support it. He may not have Molly, but he has the classic line of Guardian gun tech: Prepared for the Worst, Marksmanship/Telescopic Scope, Custom Ammunition/Custom Modifications. And he can go On the Hunt or take First Watch to make sure there are plenty of things for him to shoot (in addition to the rogue moves for that). He can let his dogs tank the hits from inopportune reloads or call on cats to get him out of the situation. The apex of this gun is when Leo quicksilver snipes a big wiggly squid face or a sticky bubble bath in the next county, then reloads right in front of a doom-spewing science project (behind his Bulwark), letting him follow up with a hasty no-scope.

Really sad that FFG did'nt add the Spell trait on this one. It makes the card unable to be used by the investigator specialized in spells, Marie Lambeau.

After gating the doom assets to 4xp so she is also unable to take them. Same with Rita/Finn and cards like Clean sneak.

Those cards aren't even OP, why forbid the only investigators who want to take them from their pool ? :(