Vorteil

Gegenstand. Glücksbringer. Gesegnet.

Cost: 2.

Wächter

Anwendungen (1 Ladung). Fülle diese Ladung auf, wenn zum ersten Mal in jeder Runde ein -Marker an deinem Ort enthüllt wird.

Wähle einen Nicht-Elite-Gegner an deinem Ort und gib 1 Ladung aus: Jener Gegner verliert bis zum Ende der Runde die Schlüsselwörter Alamiert, Schwer zu fassen, Zurückhaltend und Zurückschlagen.

Kate Swazee
Das Fest von Hemlock Vale (Ermittler-Erweiterung) #22.
Ofuda

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Reviews

The intended effect is generally good if you're already running a bless deck and/or an Item for Geared Up/Backpack. However, generally good cards often get cut now a days due to not being good enough for the deck slot. Which I think intended Ofuda sadly gets edged out due to limited deck space. As most Guardians prefer "ignoring" keywords by sending non-elite enemies into the discard pile with big expensive weapons which cost too much to play many other support cards.

Yet what's potentially very broken about this card is its likely unintended effect, as its the only lvl 0 slot-less asset that regains charges which taboo Pendant of the Queen loves.

As with Ofuda + Eldritch Sophist + Queen you get "infinite" charges for only 1 exp, 2 actions, and 9 resources. But what's really nice about it is that it leaves room to fill your hand/arcane slots with helpful non-combo assets and/or skip spending precious EXP to get the combo in play such as Relic Hunter. Furthermore, Ofuda is not useless while you're still working on getting the other combo pieces as you can trigger it's effect on annoying Aloof/Elusive enemies for your Guardian. And if you so happen to be a psychologist who has a great horror healing + bless generating card that uses secrets, then your Eldritch Sophist also has a side-job while waiting for the Queen too.

TLDR: Look out for Ofuda and the Queen.

McJames · 358
Scrapper is Red/Streetwise is Green/When will taboo/At last strike the Queen? — NightgauntTaxiService · 483
Adding that Ofuda can be fuel for Spectral Shield in a few investigators. — Wildcarde · 5

I want to like it, but it's just not good enough. The resource, deck slot and action cost is not trivial. Getting it out early enough for strong value will likely delay playing other more critical assets like weapons or allies.

The Good:

  • The effect lasts the whole round, so you can support your allies with it.
  • It's a free, fast engage on aloof enemies, which are often non-Elite and fragile.
  • You can wail on troublesome elusive enemies like Zamacona.

The Bad:

  • Alert and retaliate are most worth cancelling on big scary bosses, but this has the all-too-common non-Elite clause.
  • The bless has to be revealed at your location, so your bless engine better be really humming.
  • Playing it in the heat of battle is almost never worthwhile unless you're absolutely drowning in aloof/elusive enemies.

Like Grievous Wound, this is a very narrow tool that tries to help with elusive enemies, but is still weaker than brainlessly hitting hard. Like Absolution, it's not a strong enough payoff to motivate a bless build unless you were already doing it.

If it were free, fast, or effective on elites it might edge into being usable.