Usually the story cards are a two edged sword. Obsessive Research is all good.

I have a feeling Scientific Text is gonna be one of those sleeper cards that kinda cruises under the radar and is annoying enough, but not enough to waste a card destroying it. Combined with other Misk cards that draw a card, or even adding several to play could really make the draw phase snowball.

Necronomicon...thats just sick.

Looks like Misk is putting away the kid gloves and picking up a book. A big, heavy book.

Thx for the spoilers johnny!

Hooray for Marius and Shoes !

Scientific Text is just awesome ! Big boost for Miskatonic, and another reason to include the professors as a 2nd faction in your build.

Love the new card, and the "old/new" card.

MU actually has some card draw now. Scientific Text is a powerful draw engine. It just seems a little cumbersome to use. Again, when the character is exhausted, the Text's action can still be taken?

The story card could be the tipping point for a discard deck.

The necronomicon got no face lift. We thought it might. Too bad. It was good back in AE days. Then last week we were told we'd this week be told of a card that didn't make the cut for the expansion, an h.p. invention. I must have been all confused. Because PJ and others guessed it.

johnny shoes said:

Yes, you can exhaust Scientific Text independantly from the character.

Had that always been the case, and was just highlighted recently. Or is that new?

johnny shoes said:

It has always been like that. Some attachments ask to exhaust the character it's attached to. Some have other costs. They're still seperate cards, and nothing says they share exhaustion state.

It's for that you have a terrific combo Scientific text + Obsessive Insomniac (In Memory of Day F24) > you can draw 4 cards each turn : 2 for the normal draw + 1 for the insomniac (you exhaust it but not the attachment) + 1 for the Scientific text (you exhaust now the attachment) ... So look at the size of your deck !

Obsessive Research will give you opponent the first opportunity to

put those drawn cards to use meanwhile you'll have a hand full but

likely few if any resources to respond with.

Scientific Text might make the cut in a fun but non-competetive deck

but it's not strong enough to take the risk of putting more eggs in the basket

in a competitive environment.

The Necronomicon is too resource intensive to see competitive play.

Great flavor!

Hybrid said:

Dont forget, you could exhaust someone during your opponent's turn, so you dont have to face them during your turn...or grab an opponent's Heroic/villainous character when you have the opposite type in play, because it says "take control" not "play".

Can't have both villain and hero in play, book of the mad arab or no. Good assessment, Hybrid. Obsessive Research, with your opponent flush for his turn, is after all, not all good. Necronomicon does not compare to Infernal Obsession which costs less, doesn't cost 3! to trigger, and lasts beyond the phase. Unless it's an Ancient One, but whatever.

•The Necronomicon, The Book of the Mad Arab
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Type : Support
Cost : 4
Subtype : Tome.
Game Text : Action: exhaust and pay 3 to choose a character. Take control of that character until the end of the phase.
Flavor text :
Illustrator : John Goodenough
Collector's Info : AE R55

•Infernal Obsession
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Type : Support
Cost : 3
Subtype : Madness. Attachment.
Game Text : Attach to a non-Ancient One character. While attached, you gain control of attached character. (If control changes again, discard Infernal Obsession from play.)
Flavor text :
Illustrator : Linda Tso
Collector's Info : AAD F51

johnny shoes said:

The devil is, as they say, in the details.

Necronomicon can be faster, stealing a character as they play it. This can make a difference, for instance against Lunatics.

Also, Necronomicon is reusable,

...which can be important in certain situations.

So, yeah, Infernal Obsession has a lot of upsides to Necronomicon, but it's not all upsides. And they are different factions, meaning they could end up in different decks.

infernal is unique which limits you to permanent control of only one character. the necronomicon can be used over and over again. it is possible to get that character wounded or driven insane, or even sac it, so then they dont get it back but you still made use of it. small price to pay and that book would be a nice combo too, before end of phase. with shub, ancient guardian could really wreck their day, but two domains with 3 resources is alot and all 3 drained is alot to invest.

+ we haven't seen the characters yet, which might propose another boost to the faction if they are related to this strategy.

I read that some of you consider now Miska to be a nice sidefaction, but the belgian players already shown us that this is a faction which give you the card advantage you need during the 3 first turns.

I use to play miska in LCG in combinaison of Shubb and Agency, and they sometimes needs only one character+1 support to fit the cut !

They give a nice drawing engine already with the obsessive inmate ...

If you consider what Marius said abotu the contract, I think that there is a nice engine right now !!