Read the Signs

Read the Signs

What exactly does it mean "which would trigger during the investigation"? Things like Haunted are included? Location effects like "When you discover the last clues at this location: ..." ? Does this card automatically make blank the text on a location?

Goro87 · 1
Yes, exactly that. Although you can choose whether or not that happens. — Sassenach · 180
Hola, se pueden asignar iconos de Voluntad a la prueba? O únicamente se tiene en cuenta el valor básico de Voluntad Oda sumar al valor de intelecto? Gracias — PepeGepé · 9

Preposterous Sketches

Preposterous Sketches

I'm surprised this hasn't come up yet on this page, but put 2x of this in your Joe Diamond Hunch deck, and you basically added 4xp to your deck, as you will get the effect of playing Preposterous Sketches2 because of Joe's Hunch discount!

Soloclue · 2622
Way better actually because you effectivelly increase your hand by 3 cards while Preposterous (2) only increases 2. — Dimerson · 12

Summoned Hound

Summoned Hound

This cards makes me instantly think of Inspiring Presence. Inspiring Presence allows you to reset the dog immediately after using it. Inspiring Presence conveniently has both and icons so it can be used for either test.

There's currently 4 investigators that can take advantage of this combo:

flamebreak · 27
Can another player use "You Owe Me One!" to play the Hound from my hand under their control, without the beast getting added to their deck? I assume that works since they don't have the beast in *their* bonded cards. It's a bit silly. — iguanaDitty · 5
Good idea, but no. You are still playing the card so you must search your bonded cards for the beast. If you don't have it there (likely, as this was the idea) then you can't pay the costs so you can't play the card. — vidinufi · 69
Ah gotcha. Thanks! — iguanaDitty · 5
Theoretically Lola can do it, but technically not really. - You use the beast - switch role to guardian - use inspiring presence - and you have to switch back to mystic to use it again. As this means 2 role switch you can only do it with improvisation, and unless you want to play a mystic card it would a waste. So if the stars align you can do it. — vidinufi · 69

Extensive Research

Extensive Research

Let's imagine you are Joe Diamond, and this is the first card that shows up on your hunch deck during the first turn of the game. You have 5 cards in hand. This card can already be played for a discount of 7, for 2 clues at 3 resources. That's really good.

Card effects often value buying a clue for 1-2 resources - see Scene of the Crime, Intel Report, Connect the Dots, Working a Hunch, etc. Drawn to the Flame is a notable exception but handling the ensuing encounter card is a cost that is often equivalent to 1-2 resources or even more. So, if you can get this down to at minimum 4r, which outside of Joe, is 6 other cards + Extensive Research in hand, then you can feel comfortable playing this knowing that you are paying the average rate for what a clue is worth in money. If you can get it even lower than 4, than you can feel great about playing this.

Notably, Joe can play this for 0r if it is on top of his Hunch Deck and his hand is full with no hand size bonuses.

Soloclue · 2622
Played this with a slight variation of your Joe deck and it was great. Consistently played it for less than 2 resources. — StyxTBeuford · 13052

Three Aces

Three Aces

Mandy + Lucid Dreaming can get the two other copies of Three Aces into your hand so long as you have 1 copy in your hand to start with and the other 2 copies are not discarded. This makes Three Aces very reliable and easy to pull off in Mandy. If you have some way to cycle through your deck really fast (not impossible for Mandy with her card draw and Research cards removing themselves), then you might be able to do a Three Aces test more than once.

Soloclue · 2622
Except you will find shocking discovery using lucid dreaming, so you need to get that out of the way first... — aurchen · 274
I find while Lucid Dreaming is a strong combo with all Myriad cards, the more immediately impactful combo is Mandy + Three Aces + Practice Makes Perfect. There's something to be said about doing a test, using Practice Makes Perfect, getting a +2 on it, and then grabbing the copies for a full use later. — Ruduen · 1025