Test-Less

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Django · 5070

The idea of this deck is to never make any tests on your turn. Instead the deck is filled with assets and events that give you clues and deal damage. I've included XP cards to showcase all options. See Variants section for 0 XP version.

Strategy

When it's your turn, kill stuff and collect clues with available events or assets.
The Deck includes many expendable allies, only Peter Sylvestre should remain in play to heal sanity and give you money.
- Play Art Student only when your location has clues.
- Try to kill Guard Dog and Beat Cop quickly, to free your ally slot. You don't need the cops bonus.
- Use Calling in Favors to heal your allies or trigger Art Student again
Friendly ask other players to provoke an OA and take it with Heroic Rescue. Put the OAs damage on Guard Dog and horror on Peter Sylvestre.
- If target survived, this allows you to use Mano a Mano or Scene of the Crime for 2 clues.
- If the target died, use Evidence!.
Ambush can be triggered with "Let me handle this!" or On the Hunt.
- Both allow you to follow up with Evidence!, Mano a Mano or Scene of the Crime for 2 clues (depending if target died or not).
Use Dynamite Blast on many enemies.
- Use On the Hunt, "Let me handle this!" and/or Heroic Rescue to gather many enemies on you.
- Use Shortcut to move to more enemies or away from allies without provoking an OA.

Starting hand

Peter Sylvestre for money
Art Student to take clues
Calling in Favors to reuse Art Student or get combat allies out

Upgrades

Variants

To start with 0 XP:
- Remove Charisma
- Beat Cop -> Machete
- Ambush -> Emergency Cache
- Mano a Mano -> Prepared for the Worst
- Downgrade Dynamite Blast
When starting with 0 XP, upgrade deck in above order
If you play as Roland Banks instead, you can replace Peter Sylvestre with Disc of Itzamna.
- Roland's ability triggers when killing stuff with auto damage.
- He may run into ressource problems, however.

3 comments
Aug 11, 2018 Evilamarant7x · 38 Have you tried this out? I'm curious how effective it could be. It certainly sounds fun. There's good clue pickup (no Drawn to the Flame?) and damage but it's entirely dependent on lots of card draw and there's no draw acceleration here. Do you actually make skill tests when you have no cards in hand or do you just spend time drawing?
Aug 11, 2018 Django · 5070 `@Evilamarant7x` I'm playing a similar deck with a custom character, it's not 100% this one, but i can share some experiences. Drawn to the Flame: Not enough deck slots. All guardian "gain x clues" cards require enemies to work. But the encounter card could be a problem if it's an enemy and you're not prepared. However you could replace Scene of the Crime. Getting clues with this deck works pretty well. They stay in one place and never respawn. However enemies are very dynamic and other players had to save me. Usually enemies spawn while you have no damage cards or you have too many damage cards but no enemies. To deal with this, i removed all direct damage cards except Dynamite Blast but added 2x Machete, 1x Prepared for the Worst and Keen Eye with XP. "Let me handle this!" and On the Hunt allow you to choose which enemy to take, so avoid ones whose is too high. Beat Cop 2 works very well as damage source for 1 or 2 HP enemies, he should be Trusted. You could even use First Aid 2 on him, but i didn't try yet. Or Call him, for a reload. Running out of cards also happens frequently or drawing the wrong ones (Evidence! is useless without an enemy). So I replaced Guard Dog with Laboratory Assistant and Heroic Rescue with Preposterous Sketches. Drawing cards VS tests: Hard to answers, it depends on many factors. Examples: Events should be prefered if chaos tokens add doom or could kill you by damage/horror. So draw cards or play draw events. If you're at shroud 1 you can easily investigate with her 4. But on shround 4 you're better of drawing cards. Never draw a card as last action. It could be a Silver Twilight Acolyte or Internal Injury that does something bad immediately.
Aug 11, 2018 Evilamarant7x · 38 I've played with a similar Roland deck. I almost never had problems dealing with enemies but resources were a bit tight.