Ocula Obscura
Ezoteryczny okular

Atut. Drobiazg

Przedmiot. Narzędzie. Nauka.

Cost: 3.

Neutralne

Tylko talia Agathy Crane.

Po tym, jak z sukcesem zakończysz test umiejętności, jeśli na tej karcie nie ma żadnych zapieczętowanych żetonów chaosu: zapieczętuj na Ocula Obscura żeton chaosu, który nie jest symbolem, odkryty podczas tego testu umiejętności. (Limit raz na fazę).

Wymuszony - Kiedy miałbyś odkryć żeton chaosu z worka chaosu: zamiast tego rozpatrz zapieczętowany tu żeton, a następnie go uwolnij.

Rob Laskey
Zatopione miasto - Rozszerzenie badaczy #9.
Ocula Obscura

FAQs

(from the official FAQ or responses to the official rules question form)
  • NB: ArkhamDB now incorporates errata from the Arkham Horror FAQ in its card text, so the ArkhamDB text and the card image above differ, as the ArkhamDB text has been edited to contain this erratum: Erratum: This card’s ability should read: " After you succeed at a skill test, if no tokens are sealed here and you did not release a token from Ocula Obscura during this skill test…” (Official FAQ v2.5, February 2026)
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Reviews

This card is absolutely ridiculous. It's not just a permanent Premonition, it's more like a permanent Will to Survive. Why it's only limited to "once per phase" I have no clue (pun not intended).

Here's why this thing is more than just Premonition. While Premonition can grab anything ─ Auto-fail, nasty symbols, "draw another token"-tokens like blurses ─ this thing will grab only good tokens. Not only that, once it has a good token, it's really not that hard to keep that good token... FOREVER.

Here's what a typical game looked like when I was playing Agatha Crane for the first time:

  1. Draw Ocula Obscura, make happy noises because you'll no longer have to deal with the chaos bag soon.
  2. Play Ocula Obscura, and use Eyes of the Dreamer to fish out a good token, let's say 0.
  3. Next mythos phase, draw any non-combat test, automatically succeed and immediately seal your 0 again.
  4. Investigate any 4 or lower shroud location, automatically succeed and immediately seal 0 once again.
  5. Keep yourself busy with any of the many (testless) events you're playing anyway because your name is Agatha like Preposterous Sketches, Deep Knowledge, Guidance, Cosmic Revelation, Extensive Research, Blood-Rite, Drawn to the Flame (probably do this one before no. 4 in case of a test)...
  6. Repeat from no. 3 next turn.

Heck, you don't even need to play any stat boosters or skills anymore (I sure didn't), because you can literally succeed at anything that's not combat! This leaves so much room to add many events to your deck which leads to incredibly flexiblity on top of your ability.

My team was astounded by how ridiculously easy the game suddenly became for me. "Oh no! We have to do this difficult Will test of 5, what do we do!" Oh, let me just hop over there and commit a single willpower icon from one of the many events, which I can immediately play anyway later with my ability, and re-seal that 0 for good measure.

Even if you lose that 0 because you just HAD to do 2 tests this phase (PHASE) or drew one of the extremely rare combat test encounters, it's laughably easy to get it back and repeat the cycle all over again next turn.

Nenananas · 277
Kohaku is back. — MrGoldbee · 1524
Oh my god, you are right. I didn't realize you can use the reaction ability for the token released by the forced effect. What were they thinking? — AlderSign · 455
Shards of the Void says hi, by the way. — AlderSign · 455
Admittedly, I can see two ways we might've misinterpreted this card (they better clear that up in the next FAQ): you can't reseal the token on this card because 1. resolve ≠ reveal, or 2. the token has not yet been released from this card in time to trigger the reaction ability — Nenananas · 277
If you go through the steps of the skill test timing from the framework it is really clear that you can. — AlderSign · 455
Here's one reason why it might not work - Ocula Obscura directs you to resolve the sealed token and then release it, which could mean it goes back into the bag right then, not at the end of the test. And then it's no longer around to be re-sealed after the test succeeds. — TheNameWasTaken · 3
You mean because of that ruling that says you can't access/find a card that goes into the deck (FAQ here: https://arkhamdb.com/card/60324)? — AlderSign · 455
(If so, then I don't see how that FAQ would be applicable here, because the released chaos token is certainly not "in a place where its position is impossible to determine". "Impossible" is a questionable formulation to begin with, but in opposition to a card deck, tokens in the chaos bag don't even have a sense of order or positioning. — AlderSign · 455
Scratch all of that, I see my error now: The "reveal" step is replaced, but no token is actually revealed. — AlderSign · 455
Seems this could also be valuable on Hard/Expert, combined with Olive McBride or Rod Of Carnemagos, to fish out and lock up the -6/-8 token forever. — HanoverFist · 780
"After you succeed at a skill test, _if no tokens are sealed here_" and "[r]esolve the token sealed here instead, _then_ release that token". I don't think you can reseal the token. — heikkip · 5
ugh you're right how did I miss that — HanoverFist · 780
If no token is revealed. Then there is no modification to skill value from the token sealed. — Andree · 1
ST.5 Determine investigator's modified skill value only counts revealed tokens. Reoslve token only refers to effects from sybol tokens. So as written the card is nonsensical with the replacing reveal interpretation. — Andree · 1
This is, frankly, ridiculous, obviously not the intended mechanic, and is a massive buff to what's an already one of the best signatures in the game. — submig1rl · 8
Official FAQ states: — Portinou · 1970
(2.5) Resolving Multiple Revealed Chaos Tokens If an investigator is instructed to “resolve” multiple revealed chaos tokens, any game or card e ects which refer to “the revealed chaos token” in the singular should be construed to apply to each of the revealed chaos tokens. For example, when applying chaos symbol e ects during Step 4 of a skill test or applying modi ers to an investigator’s skill value during Step 5 of a skill test, the e ects and modi ers of all of the resolved chaos tokens should be applied, even though the rules state “the revealed chaos token.” Similarly, any card e ects that refer to “the revealed chaos token” refer to all of the resolved tokens. — Portinou · 1970

Rules states "A sealed chaos token is not considered to be in the chaos bag, and therefore cannot be revealed from the chaos bag as part of a skill test or ability."

That's pretty straight forward. If you have a chaos token sealed on this card you just resolve it. Not reveal.

Sadly no endless loop

Masnonet · 6
Except if that were true, Book of Living Myths wouldn't synergize with any of the reveal curse/bless effects. Not to mention that very card has a FAQ that states that "this counts either as “revealing” or “resolving” the token" — Nenananas · 277
That's a specific FAQ for Book of Living Myths. Ocula Obscura is a different card with a different effect. If they wanted to extend that interpretation on other cards they would have updated the comprehensive rules — Masnonet · 6