X-Files
by Ron Kent

Card Spotlight: The Cigarette-
Smoking Man Strikes

The most powerful Conspiracy
cards in the game usually have a lot
of Activators listed and that means
that they are difficult to get into play.
The Cigarette-Smoking Man Strikes
card removes that problem by allow-
ing the Conspiracy player to change
the Keywords of cards in play. For
instance, most Adversaries are keyed
to Sites with a certain question type
included in their Keywords. The
Activators for the Deadly Blur card
are Conspiracy, Motive and Site.

The Conspiracy condition is in
effect whenever you are the
Conspiracy player. In this
instance, only the question
type might stop you from
playing the Deadly Blur on a
Site. That's where The
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Strikes card comes into play.
If the Site card in play has
the word "Result" in the
Keywords, by playing The
Cigarette-Smoking Man
Strikes you could change
the word "Result" to the
word "Motive", thus allow-
ing the Deadly Blur to be played.

A more direct use of the card
would be to change the Keyword
Site to Evidence Collection and then
play The Conundrum to negate the
Site completely! As you can see,
including The Cigarette-Smoking Man
Strikes card in your deck will make
your Conspiracy cards much more
effective.

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