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For the Greater Good


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August Lindquist

August Lindquist

Elegant and Elusive
Type: Character Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 3
Icon: (C) (A) (I) Skill: 3
Government. Lodge.
Willpower. Fated 3.
August Lindquist cannot have Relic cards attached to him.
Disrupt: If August Lindquist would be wounded, instead choose another character to be wounded. Then, place a success token on August Lindquist.
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
***** 17 Comments
Caleb Orison

Caleb Orison

Type: Character Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 2
Icon: (C) Skill: 1
Cultist.
Forced Response: After all stories are resolved, each player that did not commit at least one character to a story must sacrifice a support card he controls, if able.
“Ph’nglui Mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!”
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Sgt. Logan Terry

Sgt. Logan Terry

Type: Character Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) (I) Skill: 1
Lodge.
Response: After you play a support card, choose a character card in your discard pile and put it in your hand.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Obsessive Elder Thing

Obsessive Elder Thing

Type: Character Faction: Yog-Sothoth
Cost: 2
Icon: (T) (C) (A) (I) Skill: 1
Monster. Scientist.
Forced Response: After stories resolve, if Obsessive Elder Thing did not commit to a story this phase, return it to your hand.
Its tendrils wove in complicated and precise patterns... dancing with the instruments that flayed, sliced, and dismembered.
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
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The Foundation

The Foundation

Shield of Humanity
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 8
Icon: (C) (C) (I) (I) (I) Skill: 5
Government.
You may drain multiple domains to pay for The Foundation. For each domain beyond the first you drained when you play The Foundation, your opponent chooses a non-Ancient One character he controls and removes it from the game.
Disrupt: Pay 1 to cancel an effect that would target 1 or more [Agency] characters you control.
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
***** 17 Comments
Jeremiah Kirby

Jeremiah Kirby

Type: Character Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) (I) Skill: 0
Investigator. Explorer.
Response: After Jeremiah Kirby enters play, reveal the top 5 cards of your deck. An opponent chooses and puts one of those cards on the bottom of your deck, then you choose
and add one of those cards to your hand. Repeat this process with the remaining 3 cards.
Card Designed by 2013 World Champion Jeremy Zwirn
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
***** 6 Comments
Non-Euclidean Geometry

Non-Euclidean Geometry

Type: Support Faction: Cthulhu
Cost: 0
Attachment. Environment.
Attach to a story card.
(I) struggles are instead (T) struggles at attached story.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Sir Jon Scott

Sir Jon Scott

Noble Philospher
Type: Character Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 3
Icon: (C) (A) (I) Skill: 2
Lodge. Undead.
Response: After a card is discarded from your hand, you may attach it to John Scott face-down.
Response: After John Scott is readied, return a face-down card attached to him to your hand.
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Bedlam Boys

Bedlam Boys

Type: Character Faction: Hastur
Cost: 2
Icon: (T) Skill: 1
Cultist.
Response: After a character you control goes insane, draw 1 card. Limit once per phase.
So drink to Tom of Bedlam, he’ll fill the seas in barrels. I’ll drink it all, all brewed with gall, with Mad Maudlin I will travel.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Bending the Rules

Bending the Rules

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 0
Tactic.
Action: Choose a drained domain with 2 or more [Agency] resources and refresh it.
Rules are not made to be broken. Twisted, bent, or distorted, but not broken.
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Interrogator

Interrogator

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 0
Icon: (C) Skill: 0
Investigator.
Action: Choose a character committed to the same story as Interrogator. Until the end of the phase, that character does not count its skill at this story. Limit once per phase.
He loved the satisfaction of a job well done.
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Grete Wagner

Grete Wagner

The Purifier
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 4
Icon: (C) (A) (I) Skill: 4
Hunter.
Loyal. Heroic.
Non-
Loyal characters do not count their struggle icons or skill at the same story Grete Wagner is committed to.
“With Iron and Salt. With Water and Fire.”
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
***** 6 Comments
Armored Car

Armored Car

Type: Support Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Vehicle. Attachment.
Attach to an [Agency] character.
Characters you control at the same story as the attached character gain
Invulnerability.
Action: Pay 1 to move Armored card to another [Agency] character.
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Attaché

Attaché

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 4
Icon: (C) (I) (I) Skill: 3
Government.
Attache gains +1 skill for each Government character you control.
Your
Government characters gain (A).
She was the general’s voice and ears.
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Lieutenant Wilson Stewart

Lieutenant Wilson Stewart

Logistical Genius
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Icon: (C) (C) (I) Skill: 4
Government.
Loyal. Toughness +2.
Action: Exhaust Lieutenant Wilson Stewart to reduce the cost of the next [Agency] character you play this phase by X. X is the number of Government characters you control.
Leading from the rear has it’s advantages.
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
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Ice Storm

Ice Storm

Type: Event Faction: Neutral
Cost: 0
Disaster. Polar.
Action: Until the end of the phase, your opponent must discard a success token from his side of a story to commit characters to that story, if able.
“Only a fool would go out on a night like this.”
Illustrator:
Set: For the Greater Good
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Excavation Site

Excavation Site

Type: Support Faction: Miskatonic University
Cost: 1
Attachment. Environment.
Attach to a story card.
Forced Response: After a player wins an (A) or (I) icon struggle at this story, he draws 1 card.
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Crooked Cop

Crooked Cop

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 3
Icon: (C) (C) Skill: 2
Criminal. Investigator.
While Crooked Cop is committed to a story he gains “Disrupt: When one or more characters at this story are targeted by a card effect, draw 1 card. Limit thrice per phase.”
“Why should they be the only ones to profit?”
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Veteran Monster Hunter

Veteran Monster Hunter

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 4
Icon: (C) (C) (A) Skill: 3
Sorcerer. Hunter.
Willpower.
Response: After you play a Hunter character, your opponent must choose and wound a character with a (T) icon, if able.
For generations his family hunted those that would hunt his tribe. He was what the monsters feared.
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All-Points-Bulletin

All-Points-Bulletin

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Tactic.
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“Be on the look out for...”
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Hunters of Ardenne

Hunters of Ardenne

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 7
Icon: (C) (C) (C) (A) (I) Skill: 5
Hunter.
You may drain multiple domains to pay for Hunters of Ardenne.
Your Hunter characters gain “Immune to opponent’s triggered card effects” while committed to a story.
Science is our sword and faith our shield.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Mano-a-Mano

Mano-a-Mano

Type: Event Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Action: Choose a character you control and a card an opponent controls with equal or lower cost. Until the end of the phase, treat the chosen cards’ printed text boxes as though they were blank (except for Subtypes).
No quarter asked or offered.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Escaped Convict

Escaped Convict

Type: Character Faction: Syndicate
Cost: 2
Icon: (C) Skill: 1
Criminal.
Toughness +1.
Forced Response: After you lose the skill check at a story that Escaped Convict is committed to, uncommit it and commit it to an unresolved story, if able.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Supernatural Investigator

Supernatural Investigator

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 1
Icon: (I) Skill: 1
Investigator. Hunter.
Disrupt: When an opponent triggers a card effect that targets a character you control, choose a card in a discard pile and put it on the top or bottom of its owner’s deck.
Knowledge was power, and knowledge of things that saner minds shunned from was a power to be wielded carefully.
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Dr. Christine Marie

Dr. Christine Marie

Forensic Psychologist
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Icon: (A) (I) Skill: 2
Investigator. Scientist.
Willpower.
While you control Dr. Christine Marie each opponent plays with their hand revealed.

“Now tell me, how did this make you feel?”
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Set: For the Greater Good
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St. Hubert’s Key

St. Hubert’s Key

Type: Support Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Item.
Disrupt: Exhaust St. Hubert’s Key to cancel an effect that would either drive a character you control insane or wound a character you control.
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Iod

Iod

The Hunter of Souls
Type: Character Faction: Neutral
Cost: 3
Icon: (T) (C) Skill: 3
Ancient One
Toughness +1.
Characters with printed skill 2 or less cost an additional 1 to play.

It is said that The Shining Pursuer could hunt you in your dreams, and what it did if it caught you there was best left unsaid.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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Deciphered Reality

Deciphered Reality

Type: Support Faction: Silver Twilight
Cost: 1
Attachment. Environment.
Attach to a story card.
Action: Discard a card from your hand to choose a struggle at the attached story.
That struggle resolves an additional time this phase. Limit once per turn.

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King John

King John

Overburdened Detective
Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 2
Icon: (C) (A) (I) (I) Skill: 4
Independent. Investigator.
Willpower.
Forced Response: After you commit King John to a story, you must drain 1 of your domains. If you do not, uncommit King John.
“Send King John!”
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General Edward Irving

General Edward Irving

Type: Character Faction: The Agency
Cost: 6
Icon: (C) (C) (C) (C) (I) Skill: 4
Government.
Heroic. Toughness +2. Willpower.
You may drain multiple domains to pay for General Edward Irving.
Response: After you lose a (T) struggle at a story where General Edward Irving is committed, ready him.
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Set: For the Greater Good
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