Guardian of the Crystallizer

Note that although Guardian of the Crystallizer enters play exhausted, it still enters play engaged with the investigator who drew it.

When an enemy card is drawn by an investigator, that investigator must spawn it following any spawn direction the card bears (see "Spawn" on page 19). If the encountered enemy has no spawn direction, the enemy spawns engaged with the investigator encountering the card and is placed in that investigator's threat area.

Superstar · 13
May be so, but it doesn't make thematic sense — Lobstrocity · 2
"Oh no! Anyway" - Kymani Jones — AlderSign · 327
Sleuth

This is probably the hardest of the cycle to make work. However, there's one new tome in TSK, grim memoir, that works pretty well with this as it's both expensive and requires multiple skill tests. Using in a Daisy deck that also managed to find another good tome as a story asset.

dubcity566 · 111

Yig

Yig

Forgotten Age isn't everyone's favorite campaign, but it's worth noting the original Curse of Yig story was based in Oklahoma. So the next time you're wishing you weren't lost in the jungle while Poisoned and covered in vines, just remember: you could have been stuck in Tulsa.

This optional boss rewards 5 XP for killing him, which nice if you can juggle the vengeance needed to get here. That said, Yig has a decent bit of health. I recommend making use of the discard ability on Knife to get an additional damage in while fighting him.

SorryLaurie · 607
I'm sorru, is this a joke? Honest question. A knife is absolutely not enouth to kill this guy — Lodge_Infiltrator · 1
Rift Seeker

Interesting note: Rift Seeker has Cultist, so once it's shuffled in you can use it as a target for Mysterious Chanting that doesn't speed up the doom clock the turn it enters play.

Aside from that neat little interaction, Rift Seeker is honestly pretty basic; no Hunter if you decide to evade it and leave it behind, no "Spawn:" instructions spawning it at a different location preventing you from dealing with it, not even Retaliate in case you fail the 3 (or 4 once The Entity Above, The Entity Above, or Swallowed Sky enters play) test to hit it. Yes, it does have the Parley option, but that's a trap, paying a high cost (2 horror and 2 doom) for something that's honestly not that difficult (defeating a slightly tougher Ravenous Ghoul). Assuming you don't draw the against it, you can fairly safely treat Rift Seeker's text box as blank, except for Traits: those actually make it interesting, allowing you to fish out a (moderately) tougher Cultist with Mysterious Chanting in exchange for no doom entering play.

There are two copies of Mysterious Chanting in the deck. And they might also get reshuffled. So if you evade and ignore this card, it might bite you back. On the other hand, there are certainly occasions, when the parley action is good. 3 testless damage is great for an action, and if horror doesn't matter for you, you already know, which agenda is the actual act, and the other one would advance anyway in the next mythos phase, there is certainly no trap in this ability. I like the lore of this card. The tiny rider makes it traited a cultist, while his "horse" is a byakhee and monster. This gets even better in Barkham, where you spawn a stray cat, once defeated. — Susumu · 372
We used the Parley just the other day ago. It can be cool because other player at the same location not engaging with this can go first and help spending an action to get rid of it safe from any friendly fire, and we need to get the agenda advancing to reduce the effect of skull at that time. We got quite a lot of actions saved. — 5argon · 11020
Curtain Call

Dumb question: Where does The Man in the Pallid Mask go after he's defeated? He's only earned as a weakness during scenario resolution, but he has a player card back; does he just get added to the defeating investigator's discard pile?

He's removed from the game. — SSW · 214
I would say on the discard pile for encounter card like every defeated monster (this is an out of play area) — Tharzax · 1