"Fool me once..." offers a similar promise to Mystic staple Ward of Protection of protecting you and your party from dangerous treachery effects. I say "staple", but actually I've recently gone a little cold for Ward because it turns out taking a horror along with spending a card and a resource is a fairly steep price against most treacheries, although it sometimes is worth it to protect vulnerable teammates or to just cancel the harsher treacheries, such as Ancient Evils. How does "Fool me once..." compare?

"Fool me once..." still costs a card and a resource, and while it doesn't deal you horror out of hand like Ward does, it does demand you actually resolve and discard a treachery in order to prevent a future copy of it. Now, you'll still count as having resolved the Revelation ability on a treachery that you passed a skill test for; the good news is in theory "Fool me once..." sometimes costs you merely a card and a resource, but this means you'll have to suffer at least one Ancient Evils in order to cancel the next one. Additionally, this card demands that you resolve the treachery to be cancelled, and not a teammate - so you have to draw it before they do if your intentions are selfless.

On top of that, not all treacheries with dangerous Revelation effects actually discard themselves until they're already done hurting you pretty bad, such as Dunwich encounter spoiler and Circle Undone encounter spoiler. Ward of Protection does better against those, and is generally much more flexible in what it can cancel. It has been pointed out that you can "trap" a treachery attached to "Fool me once..." by keeping it in play so that it doesn't shuffle back into the encounter deck, but unless you were highly likely to draw that treachery twice again during the scenario, you were just as good if not better cancelling a second copy with "Fool me once..."'s reaction.

So, when is "Fool me once..." good? I think much like Ward of Protection, this card isn't going to be something you spend experience on for all investigators for whom it is available. You ought to have a good idea of why you're buying "Fool me once..." and the kinds of treacheries you intend to use it to fight. You might for instance take this if you or a teammate is particularly weak to willpower treacheries. Notably, "Fool me once..." is likely to overperform in The Forgotten Age (perhaps this is being alluded to in the art?) due to the Explore mechanic allowing you to dig for treacheries early in the scenario.

Additionally, the more teammates you have, the greater the likelihood that the same treachery is drawn repeatedly before the scenario ends. In a 3 or 4 player group, "Fool me once..." goes especially well with First Watch and "Let me handle this!" to really control the Mythos phase and improve the odds of you drawing the treachery you want to cancel before someone else does. Obviously this synergy is going to be most effective in investigators equipped to take on multiple encounter cards, which typically means those with high willpower - so Zoey Samaras, Leo Anderson, and particularly Diana Stanley who loves that magic word "cancel".

Even if this card is as situational as I believe it is, it's still nice to see the Guardian archetype of protectively tackling encounter cards continue to be fleshed out, and I'm definitely a fan of the concept and theming.

I haven't seen this mentioned much, but Occult Lexicon/Blood-Rite can also discard the Moonstone from your hand, meaning Seekers with Moonstone access, Ursula, Minh, and Rex, have an additional option to get Moonstone out, the main way for Seeker still being Elli. I'd say Ursula benefits the most from this combo. Also, don't underestimate a Seeker's ability to play Moonstone by exceeding max hand size. Card draw is all over the place in the Seeker faction.

This card looks to be the absolute king of damage and horror soak provided you can reliably find at least the second copy. It compares favourably to Elder Sign Amulet with regards to horror soak, although it'll set you back a bit more experience, and it makes Armor of Ardennes look like a complete joke. What's more is that Spiritual Resolve doesn't hog the ally slot, unlike Survivor soak champions Peter Sylvestre and Jessica Hyde, and a single Arcane slot is unlikely to dissaude Guardians who so far only really want the second slot for Enchanted Blade and its upgrade.

One very nice thing about spending a 5xp chunk on a Myriad card is that you get three copies of it so you will rarely ever completely miss drawing what you spent your precious experience on. This saves the frustrating experiencing of kitting your investigator out with a big new toy only to feel like that was completely wasted experience when your power weapon doesn't show up for most of the scenario.

So, who wants to live forever? How many Guardians actually want to sink 5xp and three deck slots into nothing but soak? Roland Banks appreciates some sanity padding to mitigate trauma caused by Cover Up, but he rarely wants for damage soak, so he's probably better off looking elsewhere. Tommy Muldoon prefers to defeat his soak cards in order to trigger his reaction, and his card pool affords him many less experience-intensive choices. As for Carolyn Fern, while she can take Spiritual Resolve due to it healing its own horror, her reaction ability only pays for healing investigators and Ally assets, so she really has better things to be doing.

Really, Spiritual Resolve is so far solidly a Mark Harrigan card. Mark needs both damage and horror soak/healing to make up for the direct damage from Sophie and his pitiful sanity, and furthermore the extra cards drawn by his reaction make it likely you'll find multiple copies of Spiritual Resolve to take advantage of its free triggered ability to efficiently heal it. Some Mark lists already play Smoking Pipe to draw cards while keeping the soldier sane; with Spiritual Resolve, both the pipe and Painkillers become more attractive in allowing you to move damage and horror onto this easily healed ritual. Alternatively, Solemn Vow lets Spiritual Resolve protect other investigators too.

Hopefully in the future there will be a couple more investigators for whom Spiritual resolve is a desirable card worthy of its experience cost. With all the Guardian cards that encourage you to tank attacks and generally suffer on behalf of your team its also possible that this card is intended to fit into that archetype as well, but I think we're yet to see an investigator who fully rewards that playstyle - or at least yet to see one with access to this card. I omitted Zoey Samaras earlier, but I guess she'd be the current natural fit for such an archetype given her high willpower, her deep health and sanity pools, and her reaction paying dividends for enaging everything.

I am a little late to the party, so I will repeat a lot that has already been said. But this card really intrigued me.

For me it is really hard to quantify an effect like her's or Grotesque Statue's. When it comes to probabilities I have learned that my guts are usually wrong. So I like to confirm or refute my instincts by using my mediocre programming skills.

Those statistics assume Father Mateo ( = auto pass), but should be able to be adjusted to fit any chaos bag and investigator.

My findings are the same as already posted by others:

• Olive increases your chances for very hard skill checks
• Olive increases the chances for very easy skill checks
• Olive decreases your chances for medium skill checks
• Olive "adds new chaos tokens" to the bag. What I mean by this is if you only have -1, -2, -3, -4 and -6, when using Olive you have a chance of "drawing" -5, -7, -8, -9, -10.

What the graph is bad at showing is that with Olive you always have a ~21% chance of drawing the . Which in the case of Father Mateo means free actions/resources and cards.

One thing I was really surprised by was the significant difference (~10% points) there is in the order of usage between:

• Olive and on her last token Grotesque Statue
• Grotesque Statue and on its last token Olive

After playing around with this a bit more, it seems like Ritual Candles have quite a big effect on Olive. If my understanding that Ritual Candles can be triggered twice if both chosen tokens are , , or is correct, this pushes Olive above just regular token draws in every situation with the added benefit of increased chances to find that one token you want (aka ) or avoiding the one you don't want (aka ).

Major enabler for a specific build:

Double or Nothing and All In both have (limit one per test) text. That means once either card has been committed its corresponding copy becomes an invalid target for Daredevil.

As a result once you have Daredevil plus any one copy of Double or Nothing, All In, or a second Daredevil (and no other rogue skill cards in deck) you're guaranteed to get both DoN and All In onto the same test, allowing you to pull up to 10 cards with zero weaknesses. With any luck this can pull you into a second copy of both All In and DoN, allowing for extremely quick deck-cycling.

There's a major catch to this build: for one you cannot include any other rogue skills except an additional copy of Daredevil without risking interrupting the combo. You can include non-rogue skill options however, and for a deck which has the potential to pull twenty cards in a turn its probably not a bad idea to lean into the actionless, costless economy options available to you. Still Rogue has essentially the best collection of skill cards in the game, and missing out on them to enable this combo isn't nothing. This is also an 18-20xp combo with taboo. not cheap

That being said if you can build a deck that otherwise moves quickly you can set up an amazingly potent self-sustaining combo. Toss in some Easy Marks and run this out of Skids as a way to dump all that extra money into actions and you can blitz through scenarios with card draw that will embarrass anything but the most draw-heavy seekers.

beware tho