You can loan to just "show" how rich you are walking around with the money, not having to worry about Exile consequence. For example, allowing investigators that can't pump money to hold The Black Fan or use Money Talks (2). (All provided in the same EotE pack.) Also kind of funny when they go brag around with money they just loaned and it works..
For beginners wanted to try this card without mathing out probabilities, see if your deck's starting cards are :
If so, this card can be thought as early campaign upgrade booster just like Down the Rabbit Hole. That key card maybe so expensive (exceptional or not), probably right after the first scenario you can only purchase that one, it may not be enough to feel like you have changed the fate of your deck. It is until the 2nd or 3rd scenario that things started to finally click.
But with this card, you can really feel an impact of your big purchase early even if it is a single card added.
My solo Monterey Jack deck really needs Michael Leigh (high 5 XP cost) to make his whip deal a potent 3 damages, and there are other whip supporting tools available already. I am just waiting for this Michael Leigh guy.
After the 1st scenario I got 5 XP minimum and purchase Michael Leigh. I have been managed to consistently see this 1x copy of Michael Leigh before trouble comes and in turn it helps me get much more XP in the 2nd scenario onwards.
It may lose out an advantage compared to decks without it later on, like Down the Rabbit Hole. (Other decks gets better than you when they started purchasing 2x of leveled cards), but since you get good faster than others, you are already useful to the team to help them through early scenarios.
I've been playing through Edge as Mark with this on my Stick to the Plan while having Flamethrower as my big weapon. In that context I think the card is fairly good, being able to get a free engage so you can hit all your targets with Flamethrower is pretty nice, the card draw is cool too, and the extra damage gives absurd burst damage especially when combined with stuff like Beat Cop and either Vicious Blow. This is in a 4 player group with me being the main player tasked with creature control, so this is definitely a situation where that level of firepower can be sometimes needed. In this specific scenario it's fairly good, and since I got Stick to the Plan it both doesn't eat up a draw and delay my core assets like weapons and allies, while also being easily accessible whenever the situation where it's needed comes up.
If you aren't running Stick to the Plan and Flamethrower in a 4 player game where you're the big person expected to deal with all the enemies though, I'm not sure if this really cuts it outside of maybe a Nathaniel deck because he gets extra value out of the damage it deals. Most weapons work just fine if enemies are engaged with allies and if you're good at your job the risk of misfiring and harming an ally is fairly minimal to the point where I don't think it's worth spending a card on it, the xp extras are kinda nice but realistically I feel like you need to hit at least 2 enemies with it while also really needing the engage part of it to be useful too. That sort of situation won't be coming up regularly, and until then you spent 3 xp on a card that is just sitting in your hand not doing much. I feel like a lot of the time you'd just cash this card in quickly just to get something you need more immediately instead of waiting for the potential big value play which might never end up presenting itself. With this card on Stick to the Plan, you can wait for when you really need it because it's not taking up hand space or eating up a draw, and Flamethrower obviously cares a lot about being engaged with enemies rather than being able to hit them off your allies.
This is probably the strongest triple-class booster card of them all, maybe with some competition from Crafty. The combination of Fortune, Spell, and Spirit covers a pretty impressive array of cards. While this includes some Spell assets, most of the power here comes from events - so it's particularly good with event-based investigators like Patrice or Parallel Agnes. But I think it's a real workhorse for any Survivor that might splash into the Guardian or Mystic side of of the trifecta (or maybe vice versa).
Some of the best survivor cards like True Survivor, Will to Survive are ordinarily held back by their cost, but receive a strong discount through Prophetic. There are less dramatic staples that no survivor would mind discounting: nobody will say no to a free Eucatastrophe, "Look what I found!", or Lucky!. If you're running a bless build and draw into Keep Faith, you can just throw it out as soon as you want without caring. It plays nicely with Dark Horse since it's a pool of replenishing credits outside of your own bank.
Honestly, it's so good with Survivor toys I'm not sure I'll ever run On Your Own over it again. OYO has consistency, resource cost, and deck space considerations going for it ... but Prophetic is so strong and flexible I'm fully willing to draw & pay for it if it means I can play with allies too.
A stupid fun combo build (not taboo appropriate) with basically only ~ 9 exp.
-Versatile with Olive McBride. -Backstab -Streetwise overcommit -Gregory Guy bet -Double or nothing, quick thinking, all in, watch this. -Manual Dexterity 2.
Grats you just dealt six damage in one attack, gained 18 resources (12 from watch this, six from guy), either broke even on actions or netted two (one action to play olive and one to take this test, then depending on if you had one or two copies of quick thinking up) and drew 14 cards in one action that was a guaranteed success, for roughly Nine experience.
It only gets more stupid from there. With two copies of this card and double or nothing you can basically draw your deck naked in a single turn, and multiple times per turn if you have assets out.