Key Master Yorick

A very little key will open a very heavy door

Credit: Nathan Marques

Description:

The first goal is to start a scenario heavily equiped with Geared Up. Hopefully you can draw Schoffner's Catalogue and Backpack in your opening hands (the Backpack can also find you Schoffner's Catalogue). However, there are so many items, you will mostlikely get value from Geared Up nonetheless.

Ancient Covenant will synergize with Ancestral Token, Keep Faith and Favor of the Sun. You can even take Favor of the Sun from your discard pile with Yorick's ability when you'll dry out of blesses. For example, you can use your finall bless in Favor of the Sun to kill a monster, discard that asset, as it has no blesses left, get blesses from Ancestral Token and play that Favor of the Sun you just discarded to fill it with blesses again.

To investigate with success, you have Old Keyring / Flashlight used together with Matchbox. If a location shroud is still higher then 0, you can use "Look what I found!" to get clues. While doing that, you get 2 clues and you don't even lose a key from Old Keyring, because the investigation test failed.

The Short Supply is too good to pass for Yorick. Maybe it's not the greatest for Dunwich, but generally you want some assets in the dumbster at the start of each scenario. The drawback is that sometimes you will lose Bury Them Deep, but you can retrieve it via Scrounge for Supplies and Resourceful can maybe retrieve Scrounge for Supplies. I would say that you will get yor juicy xp most of the times.

Another interesting synergy you will find here is Grete Wagner with Bandages to get you even more clues. But in my opinion you should get rid of those cards sooner rather than later, because they cost too much resources. Jessica Hyde is way cheaper and upgraded Old Keyring with Matchboxes will do the job of getting clues just fine.

If you don't play by Taboo List rules, get 2x Drawing Thin instead of something. With Ancient Covenant + Favor of the Sun you can easily get those 2 resources while still passing the test.

Update path:

2x Backpack → 2x Backpack ••

2x Grete Wagner → 2x Jessica Hyde •

1x Bandages → 1x Favor of the Sun •

1x Pelt Shipment / Wolf Mask / Flashlight → 1x Favor of the Sun •

2x Old Keyring → 2x Old Keyring ••••

2x Keep Faith → 2x Keep Faith ••

Feel free to experiment with the upgrade order.

Other cards to add:
Timeworn Brand,
Hunting Jacket,
Drawing Thin

Cards to remove along the way:
Pelt Shipment,
Scrounge for Supplies,
some weapons for Timeworn Brand