Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Circle Undone: Investigator Expansion
Arkham Horror: The Card Game – The Circle Undone: Investigator Expansion Rulebook
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The cards in The Circle Undone Investigator Expansion can be identified by the Circle Undone expansion icon (an infinity-style symbol) before each card's collector number.
Additional Rules and Clarifications
Tarot Slot
Tarot slots are a type of asset slot featured in this expansion. The following symbol indicates that an asset fills a tarot slot: the tarot slot icon, which reads "1 tarot slot."
As with other slots, tarot slots limit the number of asset cards of that slot type an investigator is permitted to have in play simultaneously.
By default, an investigator has only one tarot slot available.
All other rules governing slots apply to tarot slots, as usual.
Bonded Keyword
Some player cards in this expansion have the "bonded" keyword. Cards with the bonded keyword are linked to another player card. They have no level and therefore are not available as options when building your deck. Instead, the card to which they are bonded (which is listed in parentheses next to this keyword) summons the bonded card into the game.
If your deck contains a card that summons one or more bonded cards, those bonded cards should be set aside at the start of each game.
For example: Soothing Melody reads: "Bonded (Hallowed Mirror)." This means it is bonded to the card Hallowed Mirror. Soothing Melody has no level and is therefore not available as an option to include when building your deck. However, Hallowed Mirror summons 3 copies of Soothing Melody. Therefore, a player with Hallowed Mirror in their deck should set aside 3 copies of Soothing Melody at the start of each game. These cards are not part of that investigator's deck, and do not count toward their deck size.
Multi-Class Cards
Some of the player cards in this expansion belong to more than one class—Guardian, Seeker, Rogue, Mystic, or Survivor.
These cards can be identified by their gold color and by the presence of multiple class icons instead of one. A multi-class card is a card of each of those classes, and is not a neutral card. A multi-class card can be included in an investigator's deck if that investigator has access to either of that card's classes.
For example: Scroll of Secrets is a level 0 multi-class card that bears both a Seeker and a Mystic class icon. It is therefore a level 0 Seeker card and a level 0 Mystic card. It is not a neutral card. Any investigator who has access to either level 0 Seeker cards or level 0 Mystic cards can include Scroll of Secrets in their deck. For example, Diana Stanley could include Scroll of Secrets in her deck, even though she does not have access to Seeker cards.
If an investigator has unlimited access to one of the classes on a multi-class card and limited access to one of the other classes on that card, it does not occupy one of the investigator's limited slots, because it falls into the unlimited category.
Joe's "Hunch Deck"
As a private eye, Joe Diamond has learned to follow his instincts, and therefore he has a separate hunch deck, which is constructed during step 4 of the setup of each scenario. The cards in this hunch deck are chosen from Joe's 40-card deck and therefore count toward his total deck size. With the exception of these setup instructions, all references to Joe's "deck" refer to Joe's standard investigator deck and not his hunch deck. Joe's hunch deck has no discard pile; cards from your hunch deck are discarded to your standard discard pile when played.
Exile
Some player cards must be exiled when they are used. When a card is exiled, it is removed from the game and returned to the collection. During campaign play, a card that has been exiled must be purchased again with experience points (between scenarios) before an investigator can re-include it in their deck. If exiling one or more cards would reduce an investigator's deck below their deck size, when purchasing cards between scenarios, they must purchase cards so that a legal deck size is maintained (when purchasing cards in this manner, they may purchase level-0 cards for 0 experience cost until a legal deck size is reached).