Quick question for any rules knowledgeable people out there. Do cards committed to tests get discarded from your hand after the tests end? As in, can I commit a deduction, discard it, put it in George Barnaby's Barnabasement, then commit it again from there to pick up another extra clue?

This is an infinite charge generator. It doesn't even exhaust. What the hell?

Step 1: Be good at evading - or know someone who is - and stay close by.

Step 2: Include Eldritch Sophist in your deck.

Step 3: Profit.

(With e.g. String Along you don't even need to re-engage.)

A bit more detail - what are good targets?

• sigh Gate Box sigh
• Lost Arcana (also good in Luke Robinson)
• Knock, knock - it's the Red Clock!
• Wish Eater
• Seal of the Seventh Sign
• Grotesque Statue
• True Magick

Thought Experiment + Soft Rant:

Yeah, we hate that card (see other reviews).

Sadly, Wicked Athame cannot replenish the offerings (since there is nothing to replenish without the "uses" keyword).

But, "Ashcan" Pete can ready it, circumventing a major criticism of this card. The challenge for him is to control cards with doom, which is hard to achieve with access to just 5 mystic cards (1 or 2 being this one). Not even Fickle Fortune works. If somebody wants to pull this off with Pete, I think the charms form The Scarlet Keys are the only viable option: Ceremonial Sickle, Dowsing Rod, Onyx Pentacle, Hallowed Chalice all offer ways to place doom AND get rid of it again. Although... Pete would not really need to play them in the first place (good boy!) and they are not very action efficient. Which brings us back to square minus one: Why use action-inefficient cards to power a card that generates action (inefficiently)?

The only viable way I see to execute this is to start as Amina Zidane and Transfigure into "Ashcan" Pete.

But honestly, I think this card only exists to sorta kinda get the actions lost to Sin-Eater back. But for that purpose, I agree with the other haters: It is too expensive and/or should not occupy a slot (or at least an arcane slot, instead) and/or should omit the "you control" restriction.

This comboes extremely well with Blood Pact and Sin-Eater. It is 9 xp, but for that you get pretty much inexhaustible Guts/Overpower on demand:

• 2 charges to start with
• recharge the mask with one use of Blood Pact (and gain +3 from there)
• after the mask is again empty, move the doom to Sin-Eater, the mask refills again. You do have to occasionally use an action to empty the doom (and while there is doom in there, moving another doom doesn't fill the mask), but it's extremely action and resource efficient.

Unless I'm missing something, even George would prefer Nothing Left to Lose most of the time.

This requires waiting to accumulate supplies (starts with 2, but the other can give up to 5). That's not great if you need the money now.

Nothing Left to Lose also gives card draw, which George usually can take advantage of.

This costs one resource, for a card that you use when you're short on resources.

Nothing Left to Lose has a ? symbol in case you don't need it when you get it. (Marginal benefit, but it's there).

Pro: this can be re-used, when you re-shuffle your deck, I guess.

1 less xp here, even though survivors usually have extra xp laying around.