Discipline

Discipline

Something that I haven't seen mentioned yet in any discussions about this card is its cheeky interaction with her signature Weakness (which she may have up to four copies of). Drawing cards and flipping the asset are two discreet sentences and in that order. Thus, if you draw Burden of Destiny, this Discipline will still be Unbroken and a legal target for the weakness. Since it was about to flip anyways - you lose nothing further by choosing it!

The 'cannot flip back this round' clause on Burden of Destiny does mean that the second step doesn't immediately reset the asset to Unbroken, which prevents this from reaching cheese levels, but it otherwise isn't a concern as the discipline wasn't going to flip back at the end of the round anyways (on account of drawing up to 5 cards).

Death by Chocolate · 1489
It is an Action to draw cards. There is no window to draw the cards after drawing the weakness, — fiatluxia · 68
What DbC says: if you draw your weakness among the up to 5 cards from activating this action. If you draw multiple cards from a single ability, they are always considered been drawn simultaneously. — Susumu · 382
Yeah, the interaction isn't somehow activating Discipline (Quiescence of Thought) between drawing Burden of Destiny and resolving its revelation effect, it's drawing Burden of Destiny as one of the up to five cards activating this Discipline makes you draw, then resolving its revelation effect before finishing resolving the activated ability. — Thatwasademo · 58
That's by no means guaranteed to happen, but it's worth keeping in mind that if it does happen you get to deal with one copy of Burden of Destiny for free (if you draw more than one, they can't all flip this discipline) — Thatwasademo · 58

A Chance Encounter

A Chance Encounter

Nobody mentioned the level 0 combo A Chance Encounter + Calling in Favors.

2 Actions:

  1. Take an ally from any player's discard pile (optionally use it)
  2. Take the chosen ally to your hand and search your deck for another ally (if you find one, put the ally into play)

Later play the ally on your hand again.

Works great e.g. to replay a defeated Duke or use your/another players expensive defeated ally to get it back and put a cheaper / equally costed ally into play.

GrueneLupenAufheben · 142
reminder: if you took the ally from another player's discard pile, when you return it "to your hand" it'll end up in it's owner's hand (this doesn't make the combo significantly worse, though) — Thatwasademo · 58
I'm aware of the combo but it's rather bad. It costs 3 actions, a lot of resources and the right combination of cards (2 in hand and a relevant ally in discard pile). Chance encounter and Favors are also rather bad on their own, so i wouldnt even include them without the combo. Chance Encounter: Barring some combos, you want an ally back permanently, not for 2 actions (it costs one to play). Calling Favors: I had this in a few ally based decks, but it failed every time. Either i already had the allies i needed or the search missed. — Django · 5163
I also have noticed calling in favors to just never be worth the time even to 'refresh' an ally in Leo. Perhaps it needs a second opinion review... — dezzmont · 222
Callin in favour in Cho was just complete immortality used on his signature, basically 3 health 2 sanity +an ally for 1 resource kept me alive with a 0xp cho deck in late game carcosa. — Zerogrim · 295

Déjà Vu

Déjà Vu

From a math standpoint you're going to need to have exiled 5 level 1 cards to break even with this card. Your gains lessen the higher the exile level is too. Basically then, this helps keep Flare and the upgraded coat/keepsake from leaving play. But again, you're going to have to get 5 total uses of those cards to even break even, and I'm just not sure thats a scenario you are realistically going to see often.

drjones87 · 203
It really rewards you for going 'all in' on an exile strategy where you fully intend to exile 2-3 cards a scenario. Assuming you got this after scenario 3 (Giving you time to get some key upgrades and some exile cards) you would make about 10 XP back. This is a LOT of XP if you are actually exiling a lot of cards per-scenario, which is not hard to do. The idea that it is 'worse' if the exiled cards are higher XP is also incorrect, you benefit from this just as much from a 1 XP card as a 5 XP card, it is just harder to 'keep up' the usage of high XP exiles, but survivors don't tend to care about that anyway. The main thing holding this card back is mainly the exile pool doesn't benefit a ton of survivors right now to spam (mostly just Patrice). — dezzmont · 222
Also, note that you can recover an exiled 2 xp card for free if you bought two of these, which is very expensive upfront but gives you some very nice options to play every scenario — Thatwasademo · 58
bu " — Thatwasademo · 58
by "an" I mean up to 3, of course — Thatwasademo · 58
I still have hopes for this card. At the moment I don't see a deck where this could be powerful enough to justify paying 5 XP for it. However, there is still a huge design space for exile cards and we might even see an investigator based around exiling cards at some point. Also it needs a certain campaign meta, preferably as many scenarios as possible where you can reliably get at least 6 XP in the first scenario. I think the ones where it might work are Carcosa, Forgotten Age and TCU. — PowLee · 15
Agreed, this card will get better the more Exile effects are printed. I'd not thought of doubling up, that's an interesting take, though very xp heavy. — fiatluxia · 68
2x burn after reading each with a 2xp card is 6 exile xp in total — Django · 5163
I probably wouldn't buy this unless I have already exiled at least 2 cards in the previous scenario, which means you should never really be spending more than 3 effective xp for it. — OrionJA · 1

Sledgehammer

Sledgehammer

I have played this card in Zoey Samaras decks lately has a "placeholder" for Cyclopean Hammer: at the start of the campaign I take In the Thick of It and with the 3 XP I purchase Enchant weapon and with the combination of the 2 cards I can once per round pay 1 action to attack at +3 for 3 damages or pay 2 actions to attack at +6 for 4 damages!

AlexP · 287
huh.... noting that one down, I like both those cards but never thought to use them together. — Zerogrim · 295
Zoey can live and learn in case the big attack autofails. — Django · 5163

Dexter Drake

Dexter Drake

Dexter is a great candidate for curse builds due to his access to Faustian Bargain. Not only does the bargain itself generate a ton of resources, but also curses which the bread and butter Mystic is lacking in options. His investigator specific ability isn't that great, but his weakness also isn't really an issue so that balances.

Overall a B tier Mystic.

drjones87 · 203
I would go the complete opposite direction: curse synergy isn't great, but his investigator specific ability is what makes him neat and good! — DjMiniboss · 44