Cards like this one make me sad.
Part of the promise for Chapter 2 was to remove staple cards like Dr. Milan Christopher to make room for other designs. While they were successful at nerfing that specific card, they introduced cards like this one, which is basically a powercrept version of "Watch this!", better in every regard.
- For zero actions, you get 4 resources with no downsides, which is absurd.
- You can give these to other investigators who would traditionally struggle with economy, which is absurd.
- With the icon, you can commit this to anything, which is absurd.
This is an auto-include for every investigator who can take it, no decision making needed.
PS: In the FAQ, the devs talked about having no problems playing with the new rogue cards, even though Fame and Marcus Sengstacke exist, both absolutely unplayable. Well, I am not surprised when they make up for it by printing THIS MONSTROSITY, which will end up poisoning all of chapter 2 with its power and reduce deck building complexity.
Cards like this one make me sad.
No, this is totally balanced dude. You see, every new printed card (that is a not a reprint of chapter 1) in Andre's pack is useless trash, so this card exists to balance out how worthless the rest of the pack is. This is such incredible good design bro :)
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HeroesOfTomorrow
· 107
Fame is usable...for one specific CH1 Rogue. In her it's good!
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MrGoldbee
· 1585
@MrGoldbee Even then, I think Zorzi has better things to do with her extra action
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HeroesOfTomorrow
· 107
I decree that if you include this card you must include Marcus. He's the bonded weakness card to Out the Door.
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McJames
· 357
I mean Faustian Bargain was never tabooed, and that's arguably a little better or equivalently good (a play action, but no risk of failure, and committable if you don't need the resources). It's definitely powerful, but you're never going to build a complimentary non-Rogue deck where it's resource economy is based on someone committing this to your tests. And Rogues do have plenty of other ways to make money. I don't think it's in quite the same camp as OG non-taboo Milan, but it is a powerful card. I also think the community elects not to play cards like Fame or Marcus (as they get dunked on quickly) - this is different to these cards being utterly useless, not all cards need to be equivalently powerful.
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HungryColquhoun
· 18733
I think the effect is quite fine, but I would have went the same route like the watch this upgrade and made it a lvl 3 rouge card. That would prevent most off class shenanigans with cards like gift of nodens etc.
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Tharzax
· 2
@Tharax FFG have said though that they're not balancing vs. Ch1, so I think combos with that are largely irrelevant TBH (there's plenty of wonky combos between Ch1 and Ch2 cards). Agree it could have higher XP though, I suppose they want Rogues as the big money class and so cards which enable that aren't going to have high XP costs tacked onto them.
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HungryColquhoun
· 18733
The problem isn’t that they’re not balancing vs. Chapter 1 though. They’re obviously also not balancing vs. Chapter 2. If Rogues are now the “big money” class to whom resources come extremely easy, what is the explanation for Marcus Sengstaxke? And why, unlike its (pointlessly reprinted and instantly obsolescence by this card) predecessor, “Watch This!”, does this card let the Rogue throw large numbers of resources to all of his teammates, functionally making all classes “big money”? Let’s stipulate that there is probably some rationale behind these designs, but what they’re doing cannot fairly be called “balancing.”
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Eudaimonea
· 9
@Eudaimonea I wouldn't say “Watch This!” is quite obsolete: if you need to choose between this and “Watch This!” I think "Out the Door" obviously wins, but the thing about is that having more cards that do the same thing help you ramping up faster. I can see people taking both “Watch This!” and "Out the Door" to shit out more money. Hell, if you are at zero resources, you can "Out the Door" to get resources to gamble with“Watch This!”
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HeroesOfTomorrow
· 107