Call of Cthulhu LCG

Not very good. This card make each player still having two characters in play.

Maybe you're right...It's a massive pity.

Check out the comments for Nigel St. James.  I thought the same as you when it came to Nigel's interaction with Khopesh of the Abyss.  RichardPlunkett corrected me on that one, and the interaction between PT & Infirmary is pretty much the same.  Like I said, I wish it worked, but it doesn't.

I always think Infirmary can pay PT's cost. Infirmary's replacement effect does not prevent the wound, but just the result of the destruction. The wound was successfully done (If not why destruction?).PT says : "...instead of destroying it." not instead of wound.

I know Pervasive Toxemia has been discussed to death, but somehow it feels wrong that PT and Infirmary don't work together.  Thematically and mechanically, they seem like they'd be best buds.  Technically, PT can feed Infirmary, but then the Infirmary's ability would prevent you from paying PT's cost.  Bummer.

Yep. The operations phase constraint is an inconvenience at times, but being 1-cost makes it so much more playable early game, and the card draw means you get card advantage every time you play this. Very nearly an auto-include for pure Shub decks, and a serious contender for many two-faction decks.

I love Pawn Broker in my Shub/Yog Dark Young deck.  He can discard Dark Young to hopefully draw more Dark Young, which are then discarded to hopefully draw more Dark Young.  Once Shub-Niggurath (The Cacophony) hits the table (via Under the Porch perhaps), all the Dark Young that the Pawn Broker discarded and drew are born.  Yeah, it's a lot of pieces that have to come together, but Pawn Broker is pretty good at bringing combo pieces together.  And Shub is traditionally one of the factions that needs lots of time, so nothing new there.

Pawn Broker and Shub-Niggurath 2.0 were made for each other.

One of the first lessons learned by newcomers to card games is the value of card draw.  In Magic the Gathering, cards that replace themselves are called "cantrips," and they're worth their weight in gold.  Aggressively costed cantrips are even better.

Focused Art Student is an aggressively costed cantrip that works for both rush and control strategies.  She also carries the Student subtype, which enables lots of synergy with the rest of the MU faction.  Combined with bouncing such as Night Class, Infirmary, etc., and you've laid the foundation for a very fun, very effective deck.  Focused Art Student definitely earns 5/5 stars for me.

I stumbled upon a great use for Lucas Tetlow in my MU/Yog deck.  I play Constricting Elder Thing to bounce an opponent's support card back to his hand, then I dare him to play it again while Tetlow is on the table.  If he decides to hold the support card in his hand, my Eltdown Shards is always happy to make him discard it.  Basically, all my opponent can do is resource the bounced support card unless he can play around Tetlow.  The combo would also work with Lodge Housekeeper in a MU/ST build. 

Need some advice.

I have a Shub/MU deck, and the deck loves itself some Pervasive Toxemia.  The faction split is roughly 75% Shub, 25% MU.  I'd like to include either Academic Obfuscation or The Grim Monolith to hopefully keep Pervasive Toxemia on the board for an extra turn.  I'm a little uncertain which one to pick.

Should I go with Obfuscation in order to help my MU resourcing curve?  Or, should I go with The Grim Monolith, which at a cost of 1 will be much more certain to see play?

I'm leaning toward the Monolith because this also happens to be a Mi-Go deck, so I really just need time, in general, to build up my forces.  Thanks in advance for the help!

Cool thing about Ipiutak is it isn't limited to opponents' effects.  Play a Strategic Planning on one of your own guys, then exhaust Ipiutak to copy the benefits onto a second character.  Ipiutak isn't just for payback anymore.