You might not guess it, but the card with the people bareknuckle boxing is super good with the boxer. The joy of this card is that it’s a natural upgrade from Mano(1), and you can earn it by killing victory point monsters that other classes simply can’t do enough damage to.

Three damage guaranteed is enough to build a deck around. Have your allies take Stargazing, take First Watch or On the Hunt...Use "Get over here!" during enemy, upkeep, or mythos. You’re already playing Nathan to punch the crap out of horrid monsters. Make it easier, and recur it with your elder sign. You’ll appreciate cheap damage in guardian.

This card is commonly compaired with Drawn to the Flame. Both cards can discover 2 clues with 1 action. Here is pros & cons.

Pros

• Read the Signs has spell traits. This cards can work with Arcane Initiate, Dayana Esperence, Agnes Baker.
• Read the Signs initiates investigate test. Enraptured can be committed to get 1 charge/secret.
• Read the Signs can ignore some effects by investigation or discovering clues.
• Read the Signs don't cause to draw any encounter cards. Sometimes, a encounter card break your plan.

Cons

• Read the Signs has 2 costs. Many suffers leaks of the resources, and 2 costs may be critical.
• Read the Sings cannot detour some penalty of investigation, such as Obscuring Fog, Locked Door, Orne Library.
• Read the Signs requires the test, and may be drawn. For hard/expert, the effects of some tokens (, -8...) may cause bad effect.

I firstly under-estimated Blessing of Isis, but this has good potential. If you have Favor of the Sun, you may utilize this as Ancient Covenant. Non-permanent 3xp is expensive, but you could gain effects and save your . Also, I found that you could find 2 easily by Olive McBride. In many case, + + any token will be succeed.

(Additional rule note: if you're autometically succeed, you do not reveal additional token as part of the effect of the token. It means that Mateo do not need to reveal one additional token when you reveal two token with Olive's ability and trigger Bless of Isis).

One problem is that you need to keep your bag with lots of . This means that if you plan to seal tokens, such as Rite of Sanctification, Shield of Faith, and Holy Spear, it's hard to trigger Isis.

I add probability table for bless of isis. Row is the number of tokens in bag except tokens with "revealing another token" effect including /, and Column is the number of tokens in bag. I assume that we always choose tokens with "revealing another token", so that the probability is slightly less if we focus on "succeed" instead of "triggering isis".

Normal case (%)

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(review updated May 30, 2021)

I'm currently evaluating the usefulness of the ignore effect of Read the Signs throughout the different campaigns (for an upcoming review).

Unfortunately for this card, like it's brother, that checks for cards in hand, this effect whiffs. Because it prevents initiating the sequence, you can not play the card otherwise and therefore cannot ignore the condition.

This is an interesting location, if you are using Read the Signs. Of course, you could simply ignore the effect, which might make sense, if for instance Marie wants to commit Enraptured or Luke (in a 3 or 4 game) Deduction. But if you don't ignore the effect, you can investigate with twice your . While it doesn't hurt, it's probably overkill for most , even on expert, on a 2 shroud location. Unless the bag is full of -tokens, or Agnes wants to Draw Thin.

As pointed out below, Read the Signs won't be able to ignore that one.