This used to be an auto-include for me, even would use it as 1/3 of my ITTOI experience if I wanted to have something with more ceiling potential than E Cache. The problem I've been finding is that it can be dead weight late in a campaign because it's so many card slots. This makes me think that there are some cases where you wouldn't want this card, weighed against the times you definitely will.

Surprised no one has talked about how good it is with Bewitching, but here you go, now someone has.

I suppose my last warning is that if your play style involves your ending deck bearing little resemblance to your starting deck because of all the new cards you put in as you rack up the xp, be careful about putting 3x of a Level 1 card in. It can feel great overperforming E Cache in the first half, but then you have to face the decision of whether to cut cards that you paid for to make room for new ones. For example, Easy Mark might look a little silly in a deck that will eventually leverage Pickpocketing (2) or some other type of card that provides both cards and resources in a more efficient fashion.

This card is yet to see play, but so far I like it.. and also find it really weird.

So this is basically a deadlier and costlier Ornate Bow, which uses Strength, almost guarantees hit and one-shots most of the enemies in the game. And, for 5 XP, it should serve as your main big weapon.

Yet it has this weird "Hunter, Veteran, Warden only" restriction. Most of this guys are guardians or guardian-ish, and... they honestly don't need this gun.

Full guardians already have decent Strength so big boost don't really matter to them. And they have strong in-class competitors, which lack "endless" ammunition, but at least they can reload it with guardians cards, as with Bow.

Guardian-ish greens who can take it (Tony Morgan and upcoming Michael McGlen) also have 5 Strength. I guess they can fit in more actions to reload this thing with their tech, and use 10 to-hit on Expert Bag? But they also lack tutoring for weapons Guardians have.

So. Investigators that want this card the most are: ones with no comparable in-class weapons, low-to-mediocre Strength so they'll appreciate boost and with readiness to dedicate hands to holding an anti-tank rifle. Which, among all investigators with Hunter, Veteran or Warden traits leave us with exactly one option! Sole hero, for whom this card is intended to be given. Some might even say it was godsend.

Enter Father Mateo, The Priest, Believer, Warden. Who needs holy books that take away your Elder Sign when you can have Tankgewehr? Mateo even got XP to spare at start of the campaign!

Yeah, it's a weird card.

If a game card has no text describing a test and is just an ability, does that mean the Flux Stabilizer has no effect in the game? If that's how it works, it makes me a little sad about this investigator.

This card is ok if you are not prepared to make it broken. Lucius Galloway, Ursula Downs, and Monterey Jack can break this card wide open and make the game a cakewalk. How you might ask? They ask their Local Eldritch know it all to take time and put it to delaying the signs of Cataclysm and the moment someone pulls an auto fail at their location they seal it. So now, for every round, they get one or two actions, and don't worry about the auto fail, because it can't hurt them if it isn't real. This is a much better way than the another way to eat the auto fail because it doesn't require rng or a massive setup. With paying the ferry man and having someone else get xp you can get this at scenario 2 as long as you get 6 xp from the scenario (or 4 if you manage a big kills). Sledgehammer your friends all you want, you know you won't fail because they ate the auto fail.

Maybe it's a little too early to say, but I don't feel good about this one.

It has to exhaust each time an offering is placed on it, and it needs to exhaust again to give an investigator an extra action. That's a minimum of 4 turns before it's given you back the action you spent playing it. And another 4 before it's provided actual benefit. You need to be consistently placing doom on cards for the first 3 of those 4 turns for it to be even that quick.

There is something to be said about holding onto the offerings for later, as a sort of budget borrowed time. But considering how contested the accessory slot is for mystics, it's a hard bargain. Scratch that, activating the fast action removes all offerings, meaning you can't really save them up.

Maybe this will be the cycle that adds support for uses (offerings). Considering the term, it would be interesting to see something that requires a sacrifice of some sort to get you some extra offerings on your cards.