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Jacqueline Fine

Tremendously annoying that Jacqueline breaks the convention of 'Ignoring' tokens being when you draw in a batch, and 'Cancelling' being when you return them to the bag and draw a new one, which I'm pretty sure is universal except for Jacqueline herself. Mostly because that makes Breath of the Sleeper and Eyes of the Dreamer not work with her ability. Seems unlikely that it's intentional, considering the gap between them, and it's something I'll probably houserule just to work, but it's something to consider.

4/10/25

SSW · 216

I don't think it actually matters in the case of those two cards, because you can just choose to cancel tokens that don't match the one you're resolving and ignore the one that does. — Thatwasademo · 58 4/10/25

oh I guess that does stop you from possibly getting the bonus after spending 0 charges — Thatwasademo · 58 4/10/25

Gift of Nodens

Note: Stella Clark's Neither Rain nor Snow is a survivor skill card! Arcane is a noncompetitive slot for her, so any Stella deck with even halfway good XP can absolutely justify a copy of Gift of Nodens.

Stella also likes to run Take Heart, which is another fantastic combo here.

4/9/25

Paxie · 3

Burden of Destiny

Fun fact: Burden of Destiny combos with Hunter's Armor's Hexdrinker customization: "After 1 or more damage or horror is assigned to Hunter's Armor from a treachery effect, you may exhaust it to draw 1 card." The Armor is conveniently missing the typical "non-weakness" language, and Burden of Destiny also doesn't require you to take direct damage or horror; you can soak it elsewhere. Turning those 3-4 Burden of Destiny in my deck into card draw? Don't mind if I do. :) I might actually be happy to see them now! Between drawing the BoD's and taking damage/horror from mythos, I feel like I can get my money's worth out of the Hunter's Armor, especially with those Durable and Hallowed upgrades making 7 draws theoretically possible...

4/9/25

dewytheduelist · 8

Nice - good find! — HungryColquhoun · 9197 4/11/25

Alton O'Connell

This should go crazy with Ashcan Pete. Use Matchbox to reduce shroud to 0 and double dip on free clues by readying Alton.

This comment is at least 200 characters long. No really, it is. I promise. For real.

4/9/25

mooseghost · 1

How do you get the pass by 3? — MrGoldbee · 1480 4/9/25

you don't. you just use 0 evidence on shroud 0 — Adny · 1 4/9/25

Not particularly hard to get the occasional pass by three in any character, even lacking exact modulation. That said, Pete can pretty easily run Artistic Inspiration, too. — SSW · 216 4/10/25

Memories of Another Life

The real question here is if Sled Dogs are viable if you have not 4 but 6! Not only does this combo increase the maximum potential of the good boys and girls, but also helps you find them earlier, as a quasi-tutor.

On that note, this card allows playing cards that you already have the maximum number of copies in your deck, because they are not added to it. Looking at Open Gate or Fortuitous Discovery, for example.

Enjoy and go crazy ;)

EDIT: Having a third copy of Ritual Candles almost makes curses into blessings.

4/8/25

AlderSign · 373

You can play more than 3 "Open Gates", because the card says "Group limit 3 in play". I guess, for Sled Dogs and Fortuitous Discovery, you should be fine. As long, as you borrow the copies in your deck from a friend. The ones you fetch in game must come from your collection. Otherwise the search would fail. — Susumu · 374 4/8/25

*can't play more than 3 "Open Gates"... — Susumu · 374 4/8/25

Of course, if you have a promo set from Arkham Nights 2022, you should have a fith copy of Sled Dogs in your collection. :) — Susumu · 374 4/8/25

i have a feeling there was a ruling, that your collection only counts one copy of each product, so no game — Adny · 1 4/9/25

Ad Open Gate: True, but more is still more; I rarely saw all 3 ever in play. Sometimes you commit one, sometimes it gets discarded, sometimes it's at the bottom of your deck. And year, other possibilities feel strong (there are more cards like this). — AlderSign · 373 4/9/25

@Adny: I'd like the source for that please :) It makes a too big difference to just speculate about. And apart from that you can always proxy, so no real need to "borrow from a friend". — AlderSign · 373 4/9/25

I think, Adny mixed it up with the collection of basic weaknesses. For them it was clarified, that you should not take cards from multiple copies of the same product. (Most likely duplicates from two old core sets.) My comment of "search your collection" was more tongue in cheek, but if you take it really serious, RAW you should not take proxies or borrowed copies on the "search". — Susumu · 374 4/9/25

Mhm, I am still wondering if there is an official ruling on the question about the collection. But maybe you mean that if I buy the expansion the card if from I can search that card 10 times and that's different from proxying then I understand you. — AlderSign · 373 4/9/25

it had to do with bonded cards and hallowed mirror not being able to bring in more than what was in one product i think. — Adny · 1 4/11/25

"Hallowed Mirror" is a bad example, because it says to search for only 3 copies, so you wouldn't get 6, ieven if you have them. But I think, you are right. "Dream Diary" is an example, where it was clarified that, even if you have two copies in your hand slots, you don't get two copies of "Essence of the Dream". But that is a special rule for bonded cards, not your collection in general: "The number of copies of each different bonded card that are set aside in this way is equal to the number of copies of that were included in the product in which that bonded card was introduced. The number of cards in your deck that summon the bonded card in question does not factor into this limit." There is only one Essence in the product it came in, so you can't "bond" more. — Susumu · 374 4/11/25

This is stupid, because it means if I buy another copy of the same product and take my second Dream Diary from there it would suddenly be legal?. — AlderSign · 373 4/11/25

Sled dogs were already viable, and 6 dogs is only slightly better than 4. Drowned City has plenty of other dog support, though. Marion Tavares is a fantastic dog wrangler, and I'd bet George Barnaby does well with them too. — OrionAnderson · 111 4/12/25