I may be wrong about this assessment, but I believe this card is essentially a more punishing version of the Haunted basic weakness. They do almost the same thing, but The 13th Vision affects all investigators whereas Haunted only affects the bearer.

For example, if you need to pass a 3 test with an investigator who has a base of 3 and you draw a "0" token, both Haunted and The 13th Vision will cause you to fail the test - Haunted would do it because it lowered your stat by 1 (causing a failure) and The 13th Vision would do it because you needed your stat to be one higher than the test to succeed.

The times where Haunted will be more punishing than The 13th Vision are tests like Rotting Remains where failing a test by 0 doesn't really mean anything.

Having 2 weaknesses that do very similar things does add a sliver of consistenty to an otherwise difficult-to-predict basic weakness pool, so overall I am glad to see a card like this one show up. It might be tough to deal with both weaknesses in play at the same time, though!

I think that Return To The Dunwich Legacy is unique in that having it in your collection might make your deckbuilding more difficult as opposed to easier.

The reason I say this is because of Shrewd Analysis. If you're looking to upgrade into 2 copies of Strange Solution: Acidic Ichor, using Shrewd Analysis, then the presence of Strange Solution: Empowering Elixir is going to make the odds of that happening a fair bit worse. So, if you're looking to use Shrewd Analysis, you're better off using it if you don't own Return To The Dunwich Legacy.

Additionally, Return To The Dunwich Legacy also adds a new basic weakness, Through the Gates. Normally new weaknesses are included in deluxe expansions, and in the deluxe expansions the inclusion of new weaknesses is offset by new investigator options and more level 0 cards. No such luck here, though.

As for Strange Solution: Empowering Elixir on its own merits - I don't think it's the most useful version of Strange Solution out there. It's one action to draw a card and get 2 resources. You can do the action 3 times. It costs you one action, one card, and one resource to get it out into play. Of course, that's also not taking into account the other, less obvious costs: having to "identify the solution" on the level 0 Strange Solution (which costs one card, one resource, and at least 2 actions earlier in the campaign) and then 4 experience to upgrade into it. That sort of cost is fine with something like Strange Solution: Acidic Ichor because you're getting a really powerful weapon in a class that doesn't normally have access to firepower like that. By comparison, Strange Solution: Empowering Elixir is underwhelming.

An interesting card to compare Strange Solution: Empowering Elixir to is Stand Together. For one action, Stand Together nets your team +4 cards and +4 resources. It costs 0 resources to play and 3 experience to include in a deck. Strange Solution: Empowering Elixir gets you 6 resources and 3 cards, but it costs you 4 actions (the 3 to trigger the ability plus the one action to play it) and one resource to play the card. It costs one experience more than Stand Together to add to the deck, and you need to spend all the extra energy to to "identify the solution" to even use it in the first place! Maybe it's better to leave this kind of card/resource support to Stand Together Guardian investigators.

Unless support cards come along to make this card better, I think its primary purpose will be to make Shrewd Analysis a little more difficult to use than normal.

Not my comments, but you can see some discussion of this card here: [www.reddit.com](https://www.reddit.com/r/arkhamhorrorlcg/comments/av7igu/cotd_hot_streak_2262019/.)

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This card single handedly destroyed my blind playthrough of twh with Joe diamond. Make sure you pack lots of head icons because it really sucks when you can't use your weapons or flashlights/fingerprint kits, and just hope you don't draw wracked along with this :p

I like this card quite a bit. It makes me feel like a hero every time I play it well.

This card is a good counter to other investigators' encounter cards. Guardian investigators are good at fighting enemies, and this card gives them a fast and reliable way to pull enemies away from vulnerable teammates. However, this even works well on treacheries, thanks to the +2 bonus to every skill that it gives. Roland Banks taking a Rotting Remains for someone else gives him a of 5 (putting him on par with Agnes Baker) - if he takes Grasping Hands, he gets a of 4 (the same as "Skids" O'Toole and Wendy Adams). It really gives Guardian investigators an excuse to step out of their usual comfort zone.

There won't always be a super opportune moment to play this card - most investigator groups should have ways to succeed at scenarios without relying on events like this one, after all. However, occasionally there's a time when another investigator can do something really incredible, but they need all their actions or all of their resources/assets to do it and so they can't afford to be distracted by an encounter card - and those are the moments where it's great to step in and say "Let me handle this!" Sometimes allowing one player to go uninterrupted by an encounter card can be the tempo boost they need to carry you through a tough spot!

The skill icons aren't super remarkable. One and one is ok, but normally I find it's better to hold onto this card for its effect unless things are getting really desperate and there's a critical test that needs passing.

Of course, it goes without saying you shouldn't run this card when you're solo. You're already handling it all!