Not sure Bianca is very good unless you have a limited card pool.

Probably the best comparison will be to Gregory Gry. Each are lvl 0 economy allies that give you resources over time. Bianca is less expensive, but higher risk. Her best case scenario is to be +8 resources after 2 activations. Wheras Gregory can be +6 resources without any activations. (assuming you just do other skill tests). In this case, Gregory feels like the winner as the 2 actions you save could just be to gain resources if needed.

If you choose to play her safe, wearing fine clothes and testing X=2, then a second comparison can be to Dario El-Amin. In this case, Bianca will be +8 resources after 5 activations and Dario will also be +8 resources after 5 activations, but without any risk, more soak and a potential for a stat boost. In this case, Dario feels like the winner.

Stupidly powerful, low XP, and Neutral. This one here is an instant Curse staple.

The key here that puts Dawn Star and Diabolical Luck above its ilk such as Skeptic or Fey is that you play it after the tokens have been revealed, meaning you can go into a test with this sitting in your hand, knowing you've got the Star to bail you out... or not if you don't need it! Never fear spending your big Skill card to accidentally beat a check by 7 when you pull the . Dawn Star only needs to be used when it will change the outcome.

Of course, Dawn Star also pays you off for hitting curses with inconsistent but testless damage, so there may be situations where you want to stack the odds to make sure you have as cursed a draw as possible. Beyond filling up the bag with , we have some extra tools for this:

Cards that get you a lot of curses at once:

Favor of the Moon is fantastic as always. I like to wait to draw one curse naturally, then use Favor to follow it up so I get at least 2 hits guaranteed.★★★★
Premonition depends on what you seal but a bag-shenanigans deck can always make this one work.★
Olive McBride and her glow-up get you more choice AND an extra token, repeatably.★★★★★
Nkosi Mabati can mill ,, symbols into a for increased density.★★
Unrelenting can also artificially deflate the bag of non- tokens (and draw you some cards!)★★★

While we're here, it's worth mentioning that there are other complementary cards that pay you for revealing a lot of tokens at once.

Other cards that want to reveal as many curses as possible in one go:

Voice of Ra
Armageddon (4)
Eye of Chaos (4)
Rod of Carnamagos (2)
Shroud of Shadows (4)
Gaze of Ouraxsh
Tristan Botley
Henry Wan... but you ain't crazy enough for that... or are you?

The best part, of course, is that there's really no way to lose! As long as there are Curses going around, Dawn Star is going to save your ass, on the cheap, in rich style, with a little cherry on top. Enjoy!

Edit: Note that the lower list of cards cannot all make use of Dawn Star directly since the card specifies it is played after revealing tokens during a skill test (thanks to Valentin1331). They do all play well with a Curse-heavy deck and so likely slot in with the Star.

Given it costs 1, you'd have to succeed by 4 in order to save 3 resources and break even w/ E-cache. You'd also need to have an item that costs at least 4. You'd probably also want to have the resources to pay for it even if you only succeed by 0 or 1.

You do save 1 action and avoid attacks of opportunity so there is value in that, but it may not be enough to make it worth it when looking at it purely in regards to economy. Where it could be good is using it in combination with events/skills that have additional non-damage effects.

"Throw the Book at Them!", Act of Desperation, Cheap Shot, Grievous Wound. All of these could be good events with this.

Stunning Blow can still evade. Long Shot says "does 1 damage" not, "deals +1 damage" so you can still get some.

Zeal being used for the automatically success means that you can ensure your item is heavily discounted.

They may just forgot to add a force ability to make it set aside out of play when its discarded. Now it will go to your discard pile and deck and , eventually, you hand to be a dead card. Hope to see a FAQ to fix that. 200200200200200200200

I slotted this in thieves kit Wendy and it paid off immediately. Even in two player, Elaborate Distraction can do wonderful things. Not only did it kill the rat I was engaged with without a skill check, it damaged a nearby foe, the enemy engaged with my guardian, his weakness The Thing That Follows (which was catching up), and tapped an annoying aloof enemy. Preston, who also has a lot of money to throw around, should consider slotting two of these, especially if you can afford Leo Deluca and is working with four actions per turn.

Obviously Rita loves things that evade, and automatic evasion at adjacent locations puts this above some of the two XP events that came out early for her. The best-case scenario is you get your elder sign during the mythos phase and can damage and tap many many enemies.

Three cost is going to be iffy for most survivors. For survivor dippers, it could be extremely fun for Minh or an excellent guardian control for Tommy. Any of the Dunwich set can use it as discount dynamite.