Lily Chen can utilize this weapon greatly. It combos very well with her staples by adding charges to them:

• Enchanted Blade
• Brand of Cthugha

This alone makes this card great in her deck. Just because how powerful Brand of Cthugha is. Having more uses of Enchanted Blade, especially when your deck is not developed yet, makes starter deck more powerful and reliable.

It works well with both Masks she can take. You could also consider including:

• Living Ink
• Flesh Ward
• Runic Axe
• Empty Vessel now it reloads after 2 kills only

Wicked Athame takes a hand slot, yes, but Lily can afford that, or mitigate that with either version of Bandolier Bandolier or Tinker. Curse tokens added by cursed blade can be automatically mitigated when combined with Ancestral Token, and for most part it should be enough to add single token.

Cyclopean Hammer + Eldritch Inspiration. I came across this combo earlier in the week when I was making a hammer build for Akachi. To my knowledge, I haven't read or heard anywhere about anyone using this combo.

So best case scenario: you swing with the hammer, play Eldritch Inspiration and hit the enemy for 5 damage and move them away 4 spaces lol (Assuming they're alive to be punted across the map)

This is a 1 xp Vicious Blow that deals +2 Damage and moves an enemy 4 spaces. Now admittedly, this is one combo among many. But still, can't wait to give it a try.

Cyclopean Hammer + Eldritch Inspiration. This card is Vicious Blow for 1xp. I came across this combo earlier in the week when I was making a hammer build for Akachi. To my knowledge, I haven't read or heard anywhere about anyone using this combo.

Best case scenario: you swing with the hammer, play Eldritch Inspiration and hit the enemy for 5 damage and move them away 4 spaces lol (Assuming they're alive to be punted across the map)

So again I ask, would you pay 1 xp for a Vicious Blow that deals +2 Damage and moves an enemy 4 spaces? Yes please. Now admittedly, this is one combo among many. But still, can't wait to give it a try.

If you are playing Vincent Lee, this should be one of your very first upgrades, I would argue even before other known strong cards with him like Healing Words. The sheer amount of support that this card can provide is unparalleled by any other healing card in the game so far.

For the cost of 1 action, you can allow any investigator to heal 1 damage, draw a card, AND gain an unexpected courage (On the Mend) FROM ANYWHERE ON THE MAP, and thats without removing a leyline to double the healing and card draw.

In bigger map campaigns this effect stacks to insane power but even in my Scarlet Keys playthrough (often very small, connected maps) this card was by far the highlight of my Vincent Lee deck.

And even better, this card doesn't take up a slot that Vincent Lee would need otherwise. By taking an arcane slot, Archive of Conduits leaves open hand slots for other investigation tools like Magnifying Glass or Flashlight for when healing isn't necessary.

While obviously you still need other healing cards to make a Vincent Lee deck work, this never-ending powerhouse of a healing card shines in any Vincent Lee deck.

(Non-mechanical review) Evidence-based cards offers connection from one thing to the next different thing. Because of this 'gluing' effect, they are great to make emergent stories come alive. Each evidence has a source : You can sort of remember where / how you got each evidence from, then that drives the story why you are better at stuff now. (In other words, evidences are fungible in mechanics just like ammo, but not necessarily in the player's head.)

Hawk-Eye Folding Camera / Dissection Tools connects location / enemy with anything your investigators do. Michael Leigh connects location to enemies. Research Notes connects player card effects with locations.

This Microscope connects enemies with locations, like inverse of Michael Leigh. You collect the samples then to sit down and making connection of enemy pieces to understand more about your current location. What I like about this card is that it works effortlessly consistent in theme, because both enemies and locations came from scenario design. The story often make sense and doesn't miss.

Michael Leigh which is the other way around is not only XP expensive that you'll get to play with him less (or never see him because you get 1 copy), but it's sometimes weird that everything I found out from any location benefits destroying the enemies. (e.g. I just investigated drawers in secretary office and now I'm good at killing all sort of abominations.)