In the board game Seven Wonders, Nefertiti gives you four victory points for four bucks. Other leaders have more variable powers, but she is a good measuring point for whether or not something is worth four bucks.

It’s been three years since the last review of emergency cache. There are a lot of ways to get money in your deck now, so the question is… Is it still worth taking this thing?

The individually sold investigators added new ways to get money for blue yellow green and purple. For the first three, it’s relatively simple: take an action you would normally take (fight, investigate, or evade) and do that as well as getting two bucks. For mystics, they have to draw tokens and hope for symbols, rewarding having Olive out and playing Jacqueline.

So why do we still need emergency cache? It’s more niche, but for decks outside of green that need a lot of money, or blue characters that support more than they fight, or expensive purple decks that don’t do token manipulation...This card is efficient. And it can grow with your team: its (2) upgrade lets you draw a card, giving you four actions for the cost of one. And for 3XP, you can power chainsaws or alchemical concoctions.

So this card is still a Nefertiti. It’s a sometimes food, which makes sense because it’s not called “everyday cache.”

Trish Scarborough is a green/yellow investigator and is equally good at both. Her ability is the best evasion ability in the game. No other character can exhaust an elder God with two bucks and zero actions by working a hunch. (She also gets a clue.)

And when she gets a few XP, money and clues pour from the sky. Lockpicks and Gregory means you’re starting at a +8 to get clues. If you have Lola Santiago too, you start at a +10. Plus, Lola’s fast ability means that if you have resources equal to the shroud location of where you are, You don’t have to worry about enemies spawning on you during the encounter phase. Your guardians will love you.

Her signature weakness is something your allies can deal with, or you can just see it as a two health speedbump. If you have Obfuscation, for two bucks and zero actions you can avoid even that consequence.

And if you want to play guardian angel, you can use “In the know” to leave enemies tapped all across the map.

Two willpower won’t get you far. Hopefully other people are there to deal with such petty trivialities as the encounter deck. If not, do yourself a favor and grab Quick Study. It’s always nice to have a few clues scattered around, anyway.

I really like this card. I've tried it in Wini through TCU this week -- it's been great.

2 -2 tokens are not really very much to someone who plans to overcommit anyway, and sating her thirst for resources is really nice. It's an extra Cache (but better!) and given her signature weakness you could even try and sag a test tactically if the opportunity comes along on a WP treachery etc.

The fact it comes with WP and Int icons is even better, though at 0 cost I can't imagine not playing this except in a pinch.

I'm thinking this has to be one of the easiest investigator weaknesses to deal with in the entire game, short of the ones you can afford to outright ignore sometimes. Most of the cards that help Trish deal with this weakness are cards she would have strongly considered running anyway.

Narrow Escape is already fantastic for Trish, this weakness practically makes it a cornerstone.

Obfuscation also helps with this and slides right into a completely uncontested slot (arcane). Since it's Fast, she can hold onto it until she needs it.

Cryptographic Cipher helps as well. Despite making the resulting investigate slightly tougher, at any 1 or 2 shroud location it's hardly noticeable and it lets her grab a clue AND discard her weakness without spending a single action. If it's sitting in her hand she could always Sleight of Hand it out as well...

Shortcut helps her position herself on top of a clue if she draws into this weakness at a location with 0 clues.

...and if there are no clues around you could always stoop to the level of more mortal investigators and simply spend an action to evade it and poof, it's gone.

Pretty cool. Trish seems extremely hard to slow down.

In Arkham, we know that faith can keep us sane. The Holy rosary is one of the few zero xp sanity adding assets. But you can throw that on for one action before leaving the house. The book of Psalms is going to take us more effort. This is a support card. Generally, it’s not useful to take two actions to heal one damage or horror. (Every healing asset requires us to put it in play after all.) Every three actions you take, generally, the encounter deck is going to drop more problems, which means we need other reasons to play this.

First, we could be a therapist. Carolyn, being at the top of medical science in the 1920s, is willing to use Hypnotic Therapy and prayer. She gets a buck and can heal one or two san while adding bless tokens to the bag. Super effective: 8 bless tokens and a net profit for the team.

Second and more obviously, this is useful for a support Mary or Mateo. Most of the Conspiracy investigators have good sanity, but Silas has five. Keeping him alive while you feed the bag plays into the support archetype.

Least obviously but most thematically interesting is taking this card with Joe or Roland. As blue/yellow investigators, they find Astounding Revelations...and discover secrets in the writings of King David! The idea of secrets in the Psalms may make money indirectly, because people are still publishing books to that effect more than 100 years later.

Which is enough to cause you sanity damage.