Collect

Collect is a Watcher uncommon X-cost skill that retrieves X+1 cards from your discard pile back into your hand, then Exhausts. Spending X energy returns X+1 cards, making it increasingly efficient at higher X values. For 1 energy you get 2 cards, for 2 energy you get 3, for 3 energy you get 4. This mass retrieval of specific cards from discard lets you replay key cards that were already used — getting back stacked Pressure Points, powerful attacks, or stance-transition cards you needed earlier.

Collect is most valuable in builds that have used up key combo pieces and need them back. In Mark builds, retrieving multiple Pressure Points from discard to stack more Mark is extremely powerful. In Calm-cycling builds, getting back Empty Body or Tranquility mid-fight can restart a stalled energy engine. The X-cost means you invest what you can afford, and the return scales proportionally. Since Collect Exhausts, it only fires once per combat. Upgraded, Collect retrieves X+2 cards instead of X+1, meaningfully improving the return on each energy spent.