No reviews yet? It's bad. If you're afraid of drawing curses then don't put them in the bag in the first place. Most curse cards require you to put in curses as a cost so this card can actually prevent you from playing your cards.

It's always a shame to see obvious pack filler and that's exactly what Dark Ritual is.

You know what I was really really expecting to see come out of Innsmouth, a higher level dark ritual with one change.

"...Spend 1 resource or release 1 curse sealed here. If there are no tokens sealed on dark ritual discard it."

The main issue with curses is having a lot of them around all at once, if you only have 2 curses about they are nowhere near as deadly and a single false covenant can easily just siphon them out of the bag, having a card that turns a large dumping of them into a slow drip feed would have been really useful, but I guess favor of the moon does that a lot better.

Given how much curse erasing exists just in survivor I don't see why you would run Dark Ritual for that, the biggest and best rogue curse card is Faustian bargain, it seems a little silly to use that and then follow it up with a resource sink.

Using dark ritual for short bursts seems to be the only use case it has, when you have a turn or two where failure can't be tolerated you can throw it down and spend the 2/3 resource cost to keep curses at bay, but even then at level 0 this card still looks poor compared to what tides of fate can do.

I'm trying my hardest to think if there's a reason you'd want curses sealed for the sake of it, like with guardian cards that can grab sealed blesses but I can't think of anything, I like to think every card has some amazing power if used well but for now I concede to Dark ritual.

Its coffin was carved by False covenant and buried with Favor of the moon. I hope like with all cards one day I will see where its power lies, every card is amazing in the right place, this one is probably going to need to see return to Innsmouth before that place arrives.