Really strong Investigator as it has a built in Favor of the Sun and Premonition for blesses. This makes Mateo really consistent at know exactly what symbol he will pull and what he will succeed by.

This allows him to run cards like Prescient, tabboed Jewel of Aureolus, Crystal Pendulum together with Ancient Covenant to get tons of cards. Or Recall the Future and tabooed Ritual Candles to get skill bonuses.

You can also run Ward of Radiance for encounter protection as you can guarantee the bless.

You can also guarantee success via combos suchs as

• Favor of the Sun + Mateo's ability and Blessing of Isis. Which allows you to put a bless back onto Mateo since the effect bypass the limit.
• The Codex of Ages + Mateo's ability and Blessing of Isis for the same thing.
• Mateo's ability + Ancient Covenant

So if you somehow have 2 Blessing of Isis in play, Favor of the Sun, and The Codex of Ages. You can guarantee 3 tests in a round.

It's also worth noting that Mateo's ability, The Codex of Ages and Blessing of Isis don't return blesses to the supply, so you can keep them running without a lot of bless generation.

Since Mateo is really good at pulling blesses, you can also run Eyes of the Dreamer and Breath of the Sleeper to get 2 blesses to trigger the additional effect. You can also run Spectral Razor, Read the Signs, and Ethereal Form as you can guarantee a symbol to pull them back to your hand.

If you need money, Voice of Ra is solid since you can guarantee at least 1 symbol, so the minimal you get is 3, with potential for more. Since I like to run Eyes of the Dreamer and Breath of the Sleeper, I naturally also run Olive McBride, which usually means Voice of Ra hits 5-7 money per cast. It can also be recurred via Prescient if you need more money. Rite of Sanctification is also okay as you don't actually need to fish for the blesses from the chaos bag, so you can have them sealed while still guarantee your bless pulls.

In terms of weakness management, Since Serpents of Yig will temporarily eat up all your blesses, unfortunately Radiant Smite wouldn't work. Spectral Razor and using Breath of the Sleeper without charge works, but takes two action. I'm not sure if there's a better way to deal with it.

As a bonus, if you want to do meme plays, you can try to fish out 1-2 bless symbol from the chaos bag with Breath of the Sleeper or Eyes of the Dreamer and Olive McBride, then reveal another 3 more blesses with Favor of the Sun, The Codex of Ages and mateo's ability to play Miracle Wish for 4-5 blesses.

If you want even more blesses for some reason, Nkosi Mabati and name bless as your sigil + Katarina Sojka is also an option (Though I think it's overkill and you don't have that much ally slots)

This card does not say that the performing investigator needs to have few items, but the investigator that commits it. Great card for Carson Sinclair to commit to skill tests of other investigators, while he does not really need items in his play area.

"You want a review? You can't handle a review!!!" How hard would it have been to insert a simple part-sentence "While this agenda is in play, each criminal enemy gains aloof". Feels like our group wasted an afternoon waiting for a condition that would 'remove' 'aloof' to happen, AS WRITTEN IN SCENARIO SETUP. Wish we could have been signposted here earlier. Edit: some formatting.

Paying 4xp to make a card MORE expensive feels like a really tough sell. The extra Int boost is nice, but often in low player count games there won’t necessarily be 3 clues available on the location to grab. I wish this had just decreased the resource cost and/or added a supply token, so it felt properly like an upgrade, rather than just a bigger, clunkier item

Too pricey for most decks but decent in big money decks. At 2 exp, it compares pretty unfavorably to something like Savant which only costs 1 exp, usually gives 2-4 wild but for no resource cost and both cover similar classes. But if you start spending 2 or 3 resources you basically get an auto success which compares similarly to Justify the Means which is 3 exp and also had a downside but is an auto success.