Agnes?

When I first saw this card the thought of being able to put Agnes Baker in my deck sounded great.

When I got to play it, it did not disappoint. The cost of 3 feels quite expensive for most mystics, but the payoff feels great.

• being able to deal 3 damage with a lvl 0 shrivelling
• being able to nuke some 1HP enemy on a failed treachery
• killing annoying aloof enemies with 1HP (looking at you Whippoorwill)

The list could probably go on.

Now, this does seem harder to trigger than Agnes Baker for the sole reason that you most likely wouldn't run horror self inflicting cards like Painkillers or Forbidden Knowledge just to fuel this, like you would do with our dear waitress. Still, even without the ability to trigger this on command, it feels amazing and horror is usually dealt out quite freely anyway, so you will almost always find a way to use this, if you need to.

The new version of Dexter Drake will particularly like this, which makes sense seeing as both cards were released in Core2026.

• A cost of 3? No problem for Daddy Dexter as you want to have a solid money engine anyway to fuel your ability
• Only 3 uses? No problem for Daddy Dexter as you can simply bounce this before it dies if you feel the need to keep it running, more than likely no caring about the associated resource cost to re-play this.
• Body slot? Can't think of anything else that you would badly want as a mystic. Sure there are alternatives, but nothing comes to mind that is a staple and something you absolutely can no afford not to take. More often than not mystics simply don't use this slot at all (until now that is, all hail the cloak).

Plus, flavor wise, who doesn't love the thought of having a super cool aetheric energy cloak/shield type of thing in their arsenal, being able to absorb part of the mythos' powers and throwing them right back in its face!