This is a card (and its upgrade Pilfer) that truly make sense in a high agility Rogue deck that also uses Chuck Fergus. Being able to make it fast + 2 makes this event pretty phenomenal to clean locations in a 3 person team.
The upgrade in a Winifred Habbamock deck will also often come back to your hand making you clean locations one after the other until you hit an auto-fail.
There is no card page for Parallel Agnes, so let me leave this here for you all instead. For anyone wondering what that even is, its some fantastic free content from a recent FFG article (Link here)
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Hello Agnes, my old friend
I've come to play with you again
A cool new version of you just crept in
Left its cards while I was sleeping
While the version of you smiting with your pain
Still remains
It feels most sound with violence
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In early days you walked alone
Signature cards that made us groan
That weakness gave your brain some cramp
Your Heirloom collar needed a revamp
That elder-sign never did much to excite
None of them quite
Work when you’re bound to violence.
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And in your new Agnes I saw
Grabbing clues without Rite of Seeking
Dealing damage without a Shrivelling
Spell events, replayed with their expenses spared
As few had dared
When you were bound to violence
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Tools that I feel I barely know
Hypno Gaze now feels pro!
Hear my words that I might teach you
With a recurring HP soak or two
You can do this for almost all the game
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Soaking all the pain... in silence
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And then the people proudly played
The event spell machine they made
Your elder-sign gave out its healing
Your Heirloom makes sense when it keeps drawing
Dark Memory burns only horror that standing in full bloom
Making the doom
Safer, to delay, in silence
Without Chuck Fergus, this card is pretty expensive (except to Preston, Tony or parallel Skids.) With him, it gains fast and costs a buck, which is pretty good: it makes a hunter enemy lose its ability to damage your team for that turn, plus a clue!
But where this card gets very clever is in forced movement: Warning shot, or spells that move enemies mean that the foe skips two enemy phases instead of one. That means a lot of fun in TFA.
Other interesting combos is putting this with On the Hunt: your chosen foe spawns on you, is immediately evaded, and you get a clue. Leo can use this with evidence, as can Tony... or anyone who wants to give Roland Banks a fun turn.
With Dark Prophecy or Premonition or Scrying Mirror, this card is decently reliable even for non-token manipulation mystics.
The real problem is that there's a lack of really good recur targets. Your spells with charges don't self-discard. Seal of the Elder Sign, Seal of the Seventh Sign, The Eye of Truth all can't be recurred. Deny Existence (5) can be, but it's a defensive card, not a combo piece. If there were a really strong repeated mystic event, Dayana Esperence would be much stronger than she already is. The best target is probably just a Ward of Protection or a Recharge (4).
Also worth mentioning that Eldritch Inspiration (1) allows you to recur two cards.
sorry not a review, but a question concerning the term: "damage on you". does it only refer to the damage on Mark´s investigator card or to damage on all cards you control? I´ve searched a bit around, but didn´t find a definitive answer. maybe didn´t look in the right places. Is there an official ruling? Thank´s for helping!