Mark Harrigan, Stabs All Your Kin (C, DL, PC, EoE, Natcho)

0XP Mark Harrigan deck

Deck Design

Think "Normal police investigator loses sanity, goes postal".

The deck is mostly designed to bring out lots of allies to take advantage of Mark's ability, which is to trade damage to his assets for card drawing, allowing even more allies to come out. The deck is therefore made up of three primary categories of cards:

1. weapons & allies,
2. resource multipliers &healing to afford and persist these assets, and
3. success buffs, by way of events and skills.

Some cards span two of these categories;

• Medical Student - heal and then soak, two jobs in one card
• Calling in Favors - erases damage by pulling an ally back to hand while drawing another
• "I've had worse…" - soak damage and also give resources
• Sweeping Kick - attack, then evade for safety

There's not much to setting up the deck: just get a weapon out and start fighting. I've opted not to use Prepared for the Worst since, as soon as Mark and his assets start getting damaged, the weapons ought to fall out of the deck quickly enough.

Multiplayer-friendly cards

• Blackjack
• Medical Student
• First Aid / 3XP First Aid
• "If it bleeds..." (!!)
• "Let me handle this!"

Multiplayer-only cards

• Safeguard

Upgrade Plan

Phase 1 (15 XP):

• Permanent → 3XP Charisma
• Sledgehammer → 4XP Sledgehammer (upgrade)
• Sledgehammer → 4XP Sledgehammer (upgrade)
   ↳ Clean Them Out → Relentless
   ↳ Clean Them Out → Relentless
• Beat Cop → 2XP Beat Cop
• Beat Cop → 2XP Beat Cop

Phase 2 (+15XP):

• Permanent → 3XP Keen Eye
• "If it bleeds..." → 4XP "I've had worse…"
• "If it bleeds..." → 4XP "I've had worse…"
• Medical Student → 1XP Sweeping Kick
• Medical Student → 1XP Sweeping Kick
• Overpower → 1XP Defensive Stance
• Overpower → 1XP Defensive Stance

Deck changes from previous version

None - The deck hasn't even been used yet, you silly goose!

Sets

• Core/Revised
• Dunwich Legacy
• Path to Carcosa
• Edge of the Earth
• Starter deck Nathaniel Cho