Can we talk about how insane this is?

If ol' Chuck here had been spoiled before the rest of Wini's deck, I probably would have said, "only Tactics and Tricks? Good, but not crazy." However, Wini's deck contains several extremely powerful trick events that you can play repeatedly if you succeed well enough.

Think playing events every turn would get expensive? Think you might not succeed by enough often enough? Chuck literally solves both those problems! And if you're swimming in cash, you can just make an event fast instead! Sure it's once per turn, but that's ridiculous!

How much would you pay for this? Well admittedly much of the price tag is in the xp cost, but the actual price tag is cheaper than Leo de Luca, and if you're playing a fast, free event every turn it's just as much action economy. Unlike Leo, Chuck is much easier to play late in the game, and the both have the same soak.

Event-heavy Rogues coughPrestoncoughSefina will get a ton of use out of Chuck, and could reasonably target him as a priority upgrade. Guardian Tony has access to many interesting tactics, including Clean Them Out and Counterpunch, which would greatly benefit from becoming fast and more accurate. Additionally, Chuck provides a Swift Reload for a mere 1 resource.

Even though he only works once per turn, I'm pretty sure this card is awesome. Can't wait to try it out.

Compare to Art Student: the Raven costs 1 less, but also costs a Horror to use, and the Student can soak a Damage and 2 Horror after finding a clue instead of 1 Horror instead of a clue.

Compare to Stray Cat: same cost, soaks 1 Damage instead of its Evade, but the Raven costs a Horror, too.

I'm not sure who likes this card. Agnes Baker can maximize it, but she has way better Allies to play....

When I first looked at Stella, I worried about being able to trigger her ability reliably with lower difficulty Chaos Bags. Then I fooled myself briefly thinking that her ability wasn't much help except as a bonus to the Survivor "win by losing" strategy (it feels really good to attack an enemy with .18 Derringer, miss, Use Oops! to hit another target reloading the pistol in the process, then shoot the original target with Stella's special action).

Now, while both of those are at least partly true, I'm beginning to see Stella's ability as "tempo protection." While a on a critical test will still ruin her day, Stella gets 3 successful actions in a turn far more often than other investigators. The versatility of that "failure insurance action" allows her to do anything, where most of the investigators with bonus actions (e.g. Ursula Downs, Finn Edwards) are constrained to one sort of action, and Stella is a lot more versatile.

Finally, a body asset, and a quite strong one at that!

First off, damage soak can always be appreciated by a faction that tends to be low on the health side, but for that alone it's fairly expensive. On that merit, it's hard not to compare to Trench Coat, which costs the same, but provides a bonus that most Mystics will find useless. There's also Leather Coat, which provides the same protection for free, and synergizes with recursion (if that's even something to consider in a deck).

But the true strength of this card is in its economy. After three rounds of playing spells--which is just what Mystics do--you break even, and from then on you're in the black. As long as you play this early and you're on a good curve, that's better than a 0 cost card.

How does this compare to the mainstay economy card Uncage the Soul? Well, the discount here is plainly inferior (on a per-card basis at least), but Uncage has a major downside: it's bad for playing events. Most Spell events are either fast (meaning they either can't be uncaged because they have a prereq, or you're trading an action), or are used to Fight/Evade which is bad to "play a card" over. The Robes, on the other hand, are a nice clean . Even the lesser discount can be good, as there are a handful of spells that are too cheap to waste an Uncage on. And, so long as they don't get discarded, the Robes can be used way more than twice!

I think Uncage is still better for most assets (and it's got that nice ), but running the Robes with it sounds like a great way to almost guarantee a strong economy for a faction that typically likes expensive decks.

A bit of an odd card for Rogues. Fast is really nice, but most Rogues don’t struggle with health much due to having high health values and high agility. You might consider this for Sef if it weren’t for Robes of Endless Night, which gives her a really nice discount on spells. For off class Rogues, this doesn’t do much for anyone except Dexter. Leo is built to be tanky with lots of allies, and Wendy can take Leather Coat if she really needs the soak. Dex can at least use this to effectively make something else fast with his ability, and the soak is very nice for him. He might want Robes instead, or he might want both.

You could also play this alongside Lonnie for a decent horror and damage healing engine, though 6 resources and 2 cards for that seems like too much.