So.

Yoricks star ability.

After or before Eucatastrophy enters his discard pile? Im guessing i'm not the only person to spot this combo?

Pretty sure it's valid, but I don't know how great it would be to be honest. Note that you still have to pay 2 resources every time you use the event, you can only use the event when a token would cause your skill value to be 0, and the elder sign is a +2 on Yorrick. So, it would be useful on tests where you are less than 2 under the difficulty and when you pull a token that will otherwise make your skill value 0.

You're probably going to want to do this when you do a test at -1 or -2 and when you are not using anything for bonuses or to commit. But if you do this regularly, you're going to resource starve yourself.

Now combine it with Drawing Thin, and you could maybe get more use?

It will certainly be valid - Eucatastrophe is a response to st. 3 of a skill test but the elder sign isn't resolved until st. 4, by which time it will be in the discard pile.

For my money, it's essentially an absurd combination, easily one of the most powerful in the game. Eucatastrophe is Lucky! but for big fails. Lucky! lets you keep taking tests at skill levels 2 lower than you usually would, because you can always be Lucky to counteract the tokens that would cause you to fail but you don't have to use it until you get such a token (in contrast to something like Unexpected Courage which needs to be used proactively and can be wasted). In the same way, Eucatastrophe lets you take real hail mary skill tests. In fact, any skill test of difficulty 3 or less is guaranteed to pass if you have both Lucky! and Eucatastrophe in hand, assuming that you can afford to play them and you would pass on an Elder Sign. The resource cost is a concern, especially for those of us who refuse to use Drawing Thin, but survivors currently have the best level 0 economy card in the game so you could easily afford it.

I just did this to smash through undimensioned, I ran out of clues for the last monsters so I had to slowly strongarm them with this trick and cornered. Finn did all the evades, turns out Track shoes + Lola + 2x Pickpocketing(2) is pretty good on that guy.

My team of Finn, Ashcan and Yorick is somehow just bulldozing the Return campaign.

Also I wonder how long my running theme of not even seeing my Luparas, obtained for mission 2, will hold up? I just finished Undimensioned, right after beating Guardians of the abyss, so that's 6 scenarios with 0 Lupara sightings xD

Also, the official name is "Yorkatastrophe."

Unless you have a ton of extra resources, I think you're going to want to save the actual playing of the card for tokens with bad effects that drop your skill value to 0. I mean, it's certainly a great and powerful combo, but in one turn alone, it could theoretically cost you 6 resources to pass all of your tests. Definitely one of the better cards for Yorrick to upgrade into, and if you find yourself needing to do something OTHER than passing tests, you can choose to recur something else with the elder sign effect instead of Eucatastrophe (like an alter fate or something).

Silas can do this infinitely, too, with Resourceful.

Use Eucatastrophe to get elder sign, grab Resourceful from discard and add to the skill test. Return both cards to hand.

20 minutes ago, Iuchi Toshimo said:

Silas can do this infinitely, too, with Resourceful.

Use Eucatastrophe to get elder sign, grab Resourceful from discard and add to the skill test. Return both cards to hand.

By the Silver Order that is nice, can't believe I didn't twig that. Particularly nice for Silas because he's so vulnerable to Willpower tests.

It's nowhere near as reliable for Silas, as you both need Resourceful in your discard and unlike Yorick he still needs to pass the test for Resourceful to trigger. Which is likely to happen, but still not guaranteed.

That decides it, my next run is gonna be Silas Marsh.

(Or Meat Cleaver Carolyn, or Marie, or Mateo, or...)

On 8/12/2019 at 7:10 AM, Allonym said:

It's nowhere near as reliable for Silas, as you both need Resourceful in your discard and unlike Yorick he still needs to pass the test for Resourceful to trigger. Which is likely to happen, but still not guaranteed.

I did some testing and posted a deck and explanation on arkhamdb. It's all very silly. My playgroup tells me it's the most broken thing they've seen in this game (and I've demonstrated some ridiculous decks.) It's tough to pilot at first, but once I got the hang of it, it's very fun and has few weaknesses. I soloed The Night's Usurper on hard with 19 exp. Very silly.

https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/14853/silas-marsh-can-only-fail-upward-hard-mode-1.0