Evening all!

Just upgraded my solo Skids deck with a couple of 'Sure Gamble's. I immediately came up with a rules question that I wanted to check with people.

The card states;

{Fast. Play after you reveal a chaos token with a negative modifier. Switch that token's "-" with a "+".}

Okay, so, question, does a special token that has a minus modifier assigned by the difficulty setting card for that scenario, can I use it? To illustrate, in The Gathering Easy/Standard setting, the CULTIST token is -1, plus if you fail you take 1 horror. Clearly you would still take a horror if you fail, but would you count that as +1 with Sure Gamble? Do does it require the token to have a printed "-" on it?

Even if that works, does it work on variable negative modifiers like, in the same scenario, the SKULL token, worth -X, where X is the number of Ghouls at your location.

I *think* it works for both situations as the token has a negative modifier for that scenario. I think they would have said "printed value" or some such if it is otherwise, but I may be biased... Grateful for your thoughts!

I can think of nothing in the Rules Ref which might have you not considering symbol tokens' negative values as 'negative modifiers', whether fixed or in "..where X is equal to..." instructions. Take that '-' symbol and replace it with a '+'.

What Noaloha said.

Excellent, as I said, wanted to make sure I wasn't succumbing to wishful thinking! Thanks!

Yup, Sure Gamble works fine on the symbol tokens.

Had that question myself. The way I thought of it, revealing a special token might be considered as triggering an effect on the scenario reference card, and not as the token having a negative modifier itself.

So I asked Matt, and he said it's fine, Sure Gamble works with special tokens.

Check the FAQ section here: http://arkhamdb.com/card/01056

By strict reading of the card, I would have actually thought it had no effect on the special tokens because the token itself does not have a negative modifier, the scenario is assigning a negative modifier to it. But it's cool that someone "official" has deemed that it does work. The investigators need all the help they can get!

By strict reading of the card, I would have actually thought it had no effect on the special tokens because the token itself does not have a negative modifier, the scenario is assigning a negative modifier to it. But it's cool that someone "official" has deemed that it does work. The investigators need all the help they can get!

I would have said "No" as well. In fact it would not surprise me to see them change their minds on this. (It has happened before with LOTR.)