I really believe Lola will become a contender for one of the strongest cards in the game. A guaranteed clue each turn is nuts. On top of that, it was confirmed that Flashlight can be used to lower shroud, and then in that window Lola can be triggered to make her ability 2 resources cheaper. Not that the cost is a huge challenge for someone like Jenny or Sefina, or even rogue in general now that we have 2xp versions of Hot Streak.

The +1 intellect and +1 agility are just gravy, and make you better at the things you want to be doing anyway, with the 2 intellect pips being the cherry on top. Fantastic.

I really, really, really love this card. I was amazed by it from the first moment I saw it. But it's really sad that very few investigators can actually use it. The problem is its high cost and the fact that the only reliable Survivor weapon is Fire Axe. Most Survivors who can mainly use only Survivor cards will almost always use Fire Axe as their main weapon and that leaves no allowance for them to use this card, as a Fire Axe deck usually stays slim in recources. The only Survivors who can play efficiently without Fire Axe, thus be able to use Will to Survive, are Wendy Adams and William Yorick (there's Lola Hayes too, not a Survivor but she has access to it). I wish there was a more expensive version of this card XP-wise that cost less (5 XP for a 2-resource discount, let's say). If such a card existed, it would open up a lot of options for many Survivors and it would be a solid upgrade for any of them, as well as a great way to spend left-over XP. "Ashcan" Pete would go for Key of Ys less often and William Yorick would have more (in number) solid options to spend his XP on other than getting The Red-Gloved Man. But anyway, that is a different matter.

While Will to Survive is a great card by itself, where it really shines is when you combine it with cards that give you extra actions, and, thankfully, both Wendy Adams and William Yorick have access to cards that give them extra actions (via Leo De Luca and Quick Thinking for Wendy and Police Badge for Yorick). Now, there's Lola Hayes too, who also has access to all of these action-generating cards, along with Ace in the Hole, but apart from Leo De Luca it's kinda hard to use them in conjunction with Will to Survive because of her role mechanism. Combined with these cards, Will to Survive can be a beast, allowing you to deliver heavy loads of damage or pick up a significant amount of clues from a location in a single turn, as long as you have set it up. Guidance and Shortcut deserve a mention here, as both of these cards, each in its own way, can help set-up those big turns when played by your teammates. Guidance will directly extend the turn of the investigator intending to go for that big boom, while Shortcut can save you from the trouble of having to move into the location of interest.

Another thing to note is that Lola Hayes will be able to use Will to Survive in conjunction with the upcoming Borrowed Time in order to save up to 3 actions for next turn to have up to 6 actions with Will to Survive!! Theoritically, she can already achieve a 6-action turn with Will to Survive using Ace in the Hole, but that card is generally harder for her to use due to her role mechanism, while Borrowed Time's effect will be generally easier for her to use, as its forced effect will take place regardless of her current role.

Anyway, Will to Survive is an awsome card, somewhat expensive even for a Wendy rolling in cash from Rogue resource-generating cards sometimes and it's always worth the slot if you can support it. Also great card for recursion via Resourceful and Wendy's Amulet.

Finally, another blessed card for Father Mateo. Unfortunately he’ll never use it because he doesn’t have access to firearms, so it seems the only reason they have the “blessed” tag on this is for flavor. Just upsets me that all blessed cards are either worthless to father Mateo or already in his class. Just my thoughts on the card though.

Dissenting Opinion: I don't like On the Hunt that much and have had mixed success with it. I've got two central issues with the card: the first is that it misses pretty frequently, the second is that I don't like it's cost ratio.

Let's take the second problem. The question posed below from another reviewer is "would you rather draw Rotting Remains or Swarm of Rats?". But that's not quite right. Instead it's would you rather draw Rotting Remains or Swarm of Rats, where the rats has "revelation: lose one resource and one card"?. Faced with these two, I'm not sure I prefer the rats. And that's when the card actually hits!

Sometimes it misses and draws no enemies at all (a terrible feeling, as you've just taken a nice and easy shuffle and thrown it away). Sometimes it hits but you were going to draw an enemy anyway. Sometimes it fishes a hard monster you weren't going to see for a few turns. Sometimes it finds you an enemy that was going to spawn somewhere unimportant and you could have just ignored. Sometimes it even drops an enemy on you that you dislike (like Poltergeist), which might be OK if you are Leo or Skids and are Adaptable (and can leave it out for such scenarios), but most Guardians don't have that luxury (and anyway, there are usually better things to do with Adaptable).

And yes, it helps protect your friends by thinning the deck, but it doesn't lower the chance of them also drawing a enemy by a huge amount, and does increases the overall amount of enemies the group has to face (on average). Enemies are generally the worst treacheries. You're here to make sure they die, but you'd still rather the team as a whole faced as little enemies as possible.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad card. More often than not it does what it's supposed to - find a monster, thin the encounter deck, protect your teammates (sortof), and give you something to shoot at. As another reviewer points out, it also finds XP enemies when you want them, which is kinda nice. But I find than when I weigh all this against its downsides and my experiences from playing it, I hesitate at giving it a deckslot.

A good comparison for me is "You handle this one!", which by contrast I think is fantastic. YHTO always hits, always does something of value, directly protects the team's weak points, and gives the Rogue a resource for his trouble. I'd much rather the Rogue passed me his monsters with YHTO and I just take my own treacheries in the face (especially if he's drawing after me). I'm a hero, I can take it. Just so long as he finds all the clues and gets us both the hell out of here.

Laboratory Assistant + Calling in Favors is so strong to get allies into play. Work even better with Art Student and Charisma

In Roland Banks deck Laboratory Assistant and Calling in Favors are used to jumpstart the deck get cards into your hand and allies into play Beat Cop or Guard Dog