Inspired by: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/44017/jenny-gets-a-magic-compass-1.0

Intro

Hey folks, and welcome to my first-ever fan deck! No article this time, I was just really excited about Fitzz's deck above. If you haven't already, go take a look, and give it a like and a favorite (and a comment if you can think of one)!

Anyway I absolutely loved the High Roller/Mariner's Compass combo they came up with, and immediately started wondering if I could expand it into a full Dark Horse flex. I've been playing this game for years, and pretty much that whole time I've wanted to do a Dark Horse deck–it's one of the single most classic builds in all of Arkham, dating right back to Dunwich and having been a dominant strategy for quite a while.

But I could never figure out a strategy that really satisfied me or felt unique enough, until bam, I saw Fitzz's deck. I almost never netdeck, preferring to develop until I find something I haven't seen done before, but in this case I couldn't help myself! I finally had my Dark Horse deck.

Deck

So the main strategy is the same as in the original deck; use High Roller to reduce your resource pool to 0 and pretend to be poor long enough for your Compass (or Fire Axe) to give you pity compression.

Tool Belt holds one of your Compasses while the other is in your hand, and switches between them when your current one is exhausted, so despite still only having two hand slots, you can always trigger Compass twice in a turn if axing isn't needed.

I dropped Dr. Milan Christopher, because as good as he is I needed my off-class slots. In his place, keeping Cheat the System at the magic number 3, is the stupidly expensive Gené Beauregard. But the payoff for that investment is an ability to skate elegantly past enemies (or snatch them off your friends to do some axe murder), and pull clues off high-shroud locations onto ones that your not-always-amazing stats can still handle.

I'm also a sucker for skills, so I dropped the forced-reshuffle package and instead added "Watch this!" (a backup High Roller), the appropriate cantrips, and a Savant that will, once we're set up, typically commit 5 icons.

Last but certainly not least, despite my playgroup's extremely convincing argument against it, I included Scavenging so I can pretend Jenny's Twin .45s are worth anything at all and use them as a repeatable agility commit.

Variants

First of all, you should probably cut the Scavenging for either a second copy of Axe or Dark Horse (or a Bandolier over the Tool Belts). Unless you're a dreamer like me :)

I could also see a case for dropping the standard signatures in favor of Green Man Medallion/Sacrificial Beast...but having done a campaign with that set, I feel Sacrificial Beast is one of the most crippling weaknesses ever, so just be prepared to kill it RIGHT QUICK (or rather, have your party prepared to kill it, since without resource gain you're nearly useless).

The biggest variant build I could think of was leaning into Chuck Fergus to make the dual-stat Tricks free to play every turn, letting Dark Horse buff them to a base value of 8 (!!). I've already done a whole campaign with Chuck Jenny, so I left it out this time, but that seems like a super sweet direction to take the deck in.

Conclusion

Hope you all enjoyed! I've never really done a deck inspired by someone else's before, and I don't want to take away from Fitzz's well-deserved time on the Popular page, so once again if you liked this make sure you also go over and put your engagement numbers on that one.

This Jenny deck makes me really happy–it gives me classic Arkham vibes, with Rogue gambling fused with Survivor poverty, but a few small details also remind me of Jenny's Eldritch Horror days, like using your Helpful Friends in Low Places to buy items for the rest of your party. So it's a nostalgic and fun modernization of classic Arkham, and for that, once final time, thank you Fitzz!