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.45 Pistols

.45 Pistols

Type: Support Faction: Neutral
Cost: 0
Attachment. Item. Weapon
Attach to a character.
Attached character gains a (C) icon.
Illustrator: Andrew Johansen
Set: Core
**--- 3 Comments
A Single Glimpse

A Single Glimpse

Type: Event Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Spell
Play during your operations phase.
Action: Choose an opponent. That opponent must sacrifice a character, if able.
She saw it for only the blink of an eye. The four corners of the earth, and its fifth, secret point, became as it were a pentagram of fire, and all was consumed.
Illustrator: Jeremy McHugh
Set: Core
***-- 3 Comments
Adult Deep One

Adult Deep One

Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(C)(A) Skill: 1
Deep One
Disrupt: Pay 2 to cancel a card effect that chooses Adult Deep One as a target.
Illustrator: Rob Thomas
Set: Core
**--- 1 Comments
Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia

Type: Event Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Madness
Action: Choose a character without any T icons. Return that character to its owner's hand.
Illustrator: Jarno Kantelinen
Set: Core
  Bounce
****- 1 Comments
Alhazred Lamp

Alhazred Lamp

Type: Support Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 2
Attachment. Item
Attach to a character. Attached character gains TCAI.
Illustrator: Mike May
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Altar of the Blessed

Altar of the Blessed

Type: Support Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 1
Location
Characters you control get +1 skill.
The moon shone on the path, and lo, the side of the hill did open, and behold, the Mother emerged to love us, her children.
Illustrator: Charles Morrow
Set: Core
**--- 1 Comments
Ancient Apocrypha

Ancient Apocrypha

Type: Story Faction: Neutral
Symbols: (T)(C)(A)(I)
Each player gains a new domain, and attaches all character cards in his discard pile to that domain as resources.
Illustrator: McLean Kendree
Set: Core
----- No Comments have been made.
Ancient Guardian

Ancient Guardian

Type: Character Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 4
Icon: (T)(T)(C)(C) Skill: 3
Servitor. Dark Young
Action: Pay 1 to choose and ready an exhausted character or support card you control.
How long had it waited there, that watchman eternal? Longer, certainly, than its children's lifetimes.
Illustrator: John Gravato
Set: Core
****- 4 Comments
Anthropology Advisor

Anthropology Advisor

Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(A)(I) Skill: 3
Investigator
Lower the cost for you to play Investigator characters by 1.
Investigator characters you control gain (I).
Illustrator: Jonathan Kirtz
Set: Core
***** 2 Comments
Arcane Initiate

Arcane Initiate

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 1
Icon: (A) Skill: 1
Cultist
Villainous. Willpower.
The next morning she felt weak and hollowed-out, as if she had attended a debauch. Nothing she did that day could she afterward remember. When the call came in that evening, she rushed out, never pausing even to don her coat.
Illustrator: Szymon Kudranski
Set: Core
**--- 2 Comments
Arkham Asylum

Arkham Asylum

Type: Support Faction: Neutral
Cost: 2
Location
Action: Pay 1 to choose an insane character. Restore and ready that character.
Illustrator: Roberto Marchesi
Set: Core
***-- 7 Comments
Atwood Science Hall

Atwood Science Hall

Type: Support Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 1
Location
Characters you control get +1 skill for each I icon they have.
"Fine mid-century design, wouldn't you say? You'd have to go to Kingsport to find another one as grand."
Illustrator: Terry Wolfinger
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Bag Man

Bag Man

Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 3
Icon: (C)(C)(I) Skill: 2
Criminal
Fast.
O'Bannion sent Charlie around to collect what was owed him. Charlie was good at his job. He was never late and never short. So when the strangers moved in on High Street, it was up to Charlie to check them out.
Illustrator: Bob Stevlic
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Bearer of the Yellow Sign

Bearer of the Yellow Sign

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(A) Skill: 3
Cultist
Response: After Bearer of the Yellow Sign enters play from your hand, if you overpaid for Bearer of the Yellow Sign, choose a character. That character goes insane.
Illustrator: Torstein Norstrand
Set: Core
**--- 2 Comments
Binding

Binding

Type: Event Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 1
Spell
Action: Choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character loses all of its printed icons.
Illustrator: Thomas Denmark
Set: Core
****- 2 Comments
Blackmoor Estate

Blackmoor Estate

Type: Support Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 3
Location
Action: Exhaust and pay X to discard the top X cards of a player's deck.
Illustrator: Mike Yamada
Set: Core
*---- 1 Comments
Blackwood File Clerk

Blackwood File Clerk

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Icon: (I) Skill: 3
Investigator

"Didn't you used to work at city hall?" asked Norman. "Used to," she said, and gave him a look that told him she didn't want to talk about it.
Illustrator: Katherine Dinger
Set: Core
**--- 1 Comments
Blind Submission

Blind Submission

Type: Event Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Madness
Action: Choose a character with skill 2 or lower. Until the end of the phase, take control of that character.
She learned too late that the imagination has a terrible force, one not always benign.
Illustrator: Chris Seaman
Set: Core
****- 4 Comments
Bred to Survive

Bred to Survive

Type: Event Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 2
Action: Until the end of the phase, your characters gain Invulnerability.
Bullets don´t stop them! Nothing stops them!
Illustrator: John Gravato
Set: Core
*---- No Comments have been made.
Burrowing Beneath

Burrowing Beneath

Type: Event Faction: Shub-Niggurath
Cost: 2
Action: Choose and destroy a support card.
For days he would not leave his house. We thought it just another sign of his eccentricity. But all the while he could feel it approaching through the earth, and though he was overwhelmed with terror, he found himself unable to step outside his door.
Illustrator: Thomas Denmark
Set: Core
****- 1 Comments
Byakhee Attack

Byakhee Attack

Type: Event Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Play during your operations phase. Action: Each opponent chooses and discards 2 cards from his hand, if able.
Illustrator: Steve Ellis
Set: Core
***-- 1 Comments
Byakhee Servant

Byakhee Servant

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 3
Icon: (T)(C)(C) Skill: 3
Servitor
Fast.
On the roof they discovered a puddle of a bilious liquid, as if something had perched there, dripping its putrescence, all through the night.
Illustrator: Tyler Walpole
Set: Core
***-- No Comments have been made.
Cannibal Ghast

Cannibal Ghast

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 1
Icon: (T)(T) Skill: 4
Monster
Cannibal Ghast cannot commit to stories on your turn.
Vaughn kept them caged during the day, but allowed them to run free on the grounds after dark.
Illustrator: Zotho Lhun
Set: Core
****- No Comments have been made.
Cathouse

Cathouse

Type: Support Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 2
Location
Response: After you overpay for a triggered ability, choose and ready a character.
A lot of the girls used to bunk at Mrs. Watkins' old place.
Illustrator: Thomas Denmark
Set: Core
**--- 11 Comments
Celano Fragments

Celano Fragments

The Life's Work of Dr. Shrewsbury
Type: Support Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 3
Tome
Action: Exhaust and pay X to choose a committed character with cost X or lower. Remove that character from the story.
Illustrator: John Goodenough
Set: Core
**--- 4 Comments
Clover Club Bouncer

Clover Club Bouncer

Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 1
Icon: Skill: 1
Criminal
Action: Exhaust to choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gets -1 skill.
Illustrator: Patrick McEvoy
Set: Core
**--- 1 Comments
Clover Club Torch Singer

Clover Club Torch Singer

Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 2
Icon: (C) Skill: 2
Criminal
Action: Pay 1 to choose a character. Until the end of the phase, that character gets -2 skill.
Illustrator: Bob Stevlic
Set: Core
****- 7 Comments
Cthulhu

Cthulhu

The Great Old One
Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 6
Icon: (T)(T)(C)(C)(A) Skill: 8
Ancient One
Villainous. Invulnerability.
Forced Response: After a player draws cards during his draw phase, he must sacrifice a character, if able.
Illustrator: James Ryman
Set: Core
***-- 2 Comments
Dabbler in the Unknown

Dabbler in the Unknown

Type: Character Faction: Neutral
Cost: 1
Icon: Skill: 1
Cultist
Action: Sacrifice Dabbler in the Unknown to put a success token on a story card with no success tokens.
Illustrator: Roberto Campus
Set: Core
**--- 1 Comments
Dagon

Dagon

Father of the Deep
Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 5
Icon: (T)(T)(A)(A) Skill: 5
Ancient One
Villainous. Invulnerability.
Disrupt: Pay 1 and sacrifice a Deep One character to cancel the effects of an event card that would destroy Dagon.
Illustrator: John Gravato
Set: Core
**--- 2 Comments


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