I've recently been running a big hand Daisy deck and holy moly this card is freaking amazing; it's an absolute crime that it doesn't have an upgrade. Even on Hard difficulty, I gain pretty reliable card draw with my clue discovery, accelerating set up while also filling my hand. The cherry on top is it being a Tome, of course, being one of the few tomes that allow for clue-gathering of ANY kind with your tome action (and being the ONLY one that affords an investigate action proper tmk).

Outside of Daisy, I'll caution that you shouldn't JUMP on this card as its biggest standout is accelerated drawing power while investigating. That's always nice for the average investigator in general, sure, but if you don't really need the draw, Flashlight is frequently the better option since it's cheaper and reduces difficulty as opposed to buffing your stat. In addition, there are cards like Magnifying Glass, Fingerprint Kit, Deduction (minus the hand slot difference), etc. that are better suited for bolstering your investigative ability proper than the memoir.

But yes, that's if you don't need the draw, and many Seekers love drawing cards not just because some of their class set affords it, but because in many cases it DEMANDS it. Minh Thi Phan is often busy committing cards so much that her draw needs to keep up the pace (which is half of why Analytical Mind is one of the most critical gator signatures in the game imho), and of course Harvey needs in-turn draw in order to make ANY use of his ability. Grim Memoir pairs needed draw with EXACTLY what a Seeker wants to be doing without forcing them stop the clue-gathering in its tracks, drop their pants, and spend an action or two cranking out cards. Try pairing this with the Ancient Stone suite for pretty consistent procs, all the while gathering clues like you want to be doing.

Maaaaan, I really hope this gets an upgrade of some kind. I feel like it comfortably fits its lvl 0 spot, but it can be quite the impactful lvl 0, especially smack dab in the middle of the class it's a part of, and I'd love to see what kind of different ways they could take this card. Or even just double-down on its base function, that'd be fine, too.

After playing with this card for a while, there were some investigators that definitely had better uses with this card. Usually used in:

• Characters who can easily find Hyperphysical Shotcaster or recur it (= almost every ).
• Characters who would like some consistant fight/investigate option that their deckbuilding options doesn't support (= no , )
• Characters who can boost their primary stats through multiple ways

Notable examples that I found:

• "Ashcan" Pete: boost with St. Hubert's Key, Plucky. can use Duke to trigger Scavenging to recur Hyperphysical Shotcaster.
• William Yorick: boost with Beat Cop, Ace of Swords. Has innate recursion ability, can easily set up Scavenging with Short Supply + Yorick's ability
• Harvey Walters: boost with Dr. Milan Christopher or Whitton Greene, Death • XIII, Celaeno Fragments, Practice Makes Perfect. His innate draw engine allows him to find pieces more reliably.
• Rita Young: boost with Track Shoes, Peter Sylvestre, Fight or Flight. Has no access to rogue assets. Can recur Hyperphysical Shotcaster through Scavenging, and can get good burst damage with Dirty Fighting+Hyperphysical Shotcaster.

This is a very good card in multiplayer, 3 times. Or 2 if you pull the tentacle.

What characters can use this well (can buff intellect) and also can recharge this card?

Ursula can regain one charge with eldrich sophist and red clock, but that's expensive in xp and you can only have one clock in your entire deck (also hope you have both other cards available). She can also take Skeleton Key if you've got high shroud locations.

Akachi struggles to get enough intellect to use it well, but can easily recharge it with mystic cards, and starts with one extra charge.

Daisy has a tome that can add one charge per turn (one action for one charge isn't usually good, but she can ignore the action cost once per turn), but is usually too busy using tomes to investigate, and has already spent her resources.

When going for R3 Heretics doesn't end in the victory pile, meaning are still 0 but you won't earn any xp from them.

A quick houserule would be considering Heretics under the act as if they were in the victory display.One could also count those under Erynn for the in order to spice things a little.

This card may interact very interestingly with the sorta newly added card Burn After Reading with the latest taboo. Since the cost to re-aquire the card now is 0 but the card still is considered level two for any other purpose this card can now make the doom removal of Burn After Reading possible without spending other xp than the one on Burn After Reading.

It probably wont create huge ripples in and of itself, but it may lead to exile decks using Burn After Reading coming online a bit earlier or making the cost of the combo a lot cheaper xp-wise.