It is first player card which allows you to banish clues in game. Simply place your clues at this location, and wait until this location is set aside; then, clues on this location are banished. Note that all player cards (except this) don't spend any clues and only place clues on your locations to keep the total number of clues in game. You can do by using Vantage Point, Dr. William T. Maleson, Forewarned, Quick Study. or by eliminating in this location with Ghastly Revelation or "I'm outta here!".

You don't need to do in most cases, and have to avoid this situration in order not to break the game. When this is useful? 1) for a dunwich scenario, 2) if you're a cultist, and ...

I was just building a deck for Dexter and realized this card is PERFECT for him. Firstly, Dexter blows through his assets very quickly and is constantly looking for his "next trick" to pop into play. The Arcane Initiate is the perfect assistant to ready the next spell in your never-ending magic show. And when the agenda is about to flip and the initiate's time is up, Dexter can instantly discard her as a free action in order to put yet another asset in play. This way, you don't have to frantically find a way to murder your initiate in fear of the doom counter; when the time has come, you have a surefire ability to discard her on the investigator card itself.

I haven't extensively looked through the Mystic allies before posting this, but as of right now, I would instapick this card for Dexter.

By itself, this is a TERRIBLE waste of 3 XP. no discount or bonus damage and on any average result you wont be picking the card back up at all.

Enter:

• Hard Knocks and it's bigger brother Hard Knocks.
• Well Connected.
• Streetwise and it's little sister, Streetwise.
• High Roller.
• Manual Dexterity and every card with icons on it.
• The Moon • XVIII and every other static boost in the cardpool

And last. but probably most importantly:

Chuck Fergus.

And there it is, I daresay I dont need to talk much more about why this might be a cool upgrade. Play it in a deck with other stuff that rewards you for overcommitting (Lucky Cigarette Case) and to generate Chuck value grab a heap of other Trick or tactic cards, Cheap Shot and Slip Away are obvious complements.

Nearly every can build a deck where this thing shines, only Finn Edwards (who cannot take Chuck Fergus) and Tony Morgan (with his low agility) aren't interested.

My biggest counterpoint to use Backstab is the existence of Ornate Bow, which itself is basically a Backstab on tap, but I guess you might come to the conclusion that they complement one another or that, once fully set up, a Chuck engine is WAY faster then the action intense bow.

This is a terrible card. Despite it's name and assumed intended effect, it cannot copy any actual cat cards.

Such a weird design decision. There is definitely design space for some kind of cat-copy mechanic in arkham, surely they put something of the sort in Barkham horror.

POW. Sniped!

Beretta is a GUN, with a massive hit bonus and conditional post-shot effects. The former means it's great for the many 3 characters in the game, the latter still means that without some additional help then you wont be fighting like a or anytime soon.

• So, the big downside to Beretta, on one hand you need to beat a fight by 2 to even get a second shot, or you can have the hit deal 3 damage, or you can beat by 4 to get both effects. On Standard this means you need to aim for a big number like +9 or +10 if you want to guarantee bonus damage and/or bonus shots, and you need to push all the way to +11 or +12 to be high enough over 3 and 4 fight foes to get guaranteed benefits.

Knowing the above, a +4 to the fight test, to net most characters who like guns in the first place, a +7 base. Shooting at +7 is quite alright, if you want to land a single 2 damage hit. You can do that with a lot of security against regular ol' 2 or 3 fight enemies like Acolyte, but the fact that you have such a weapon in your hands at all -probably- means that you're hunting bigger game, it's probably your job to put down the 3 health chaff and the 4-5 health minibosses, and to chunk down the 10+ health big bads. For this job the impressive +7 fight actually becomes annoyingly flaky, bad hits that leave you with a living enemy and/or an exhausted gun, all of a suddent your only venue to killing the target is gone and the team is in trouble!

So, obviously, Beretta M1918 synergizes with statistical boosters like Well Connected, Hard Knocks, High Roller in particular is a natural combination since both cards really reward you for gross overkills, along with Lucky Cigarette Case to cash in on all the overcommits and similar effects. Perhaps less obviously, This gun synergizes with , as a means of reorienting yourself when a bad token pull would leave you stranded, someone like Winifred Habbamock or Finn Edwards is almost certainly going to get better results with a Beretta than a Tony Morgan.

If you compare Beretta M1918 to the Chicago Typewriter its's an excercise in splitting efficiency hairs, but once it's all boiled down, a Beretta far outpaces the Chicago Typewriter as a means of fighting when your starting is 3 or less and you're not using many boosts or depending on something incidental, but the flankyness of the Beretta makes the Chicago Typewriter straight up better when you have a higher starting point and/or building easy access to static boosts.