Agnes (orig front, alt back), Versatile, 50+XP

This is the Agnes deck that i put through Return to TCU (feat. Carnivale) as part of a two-handed campaign with Rex. It's alternate back, original front which i consider to be the most fun way to play Agnes right now. At least if you want a pure combat mage.

Rex deck: https://arkhamdb.com/decklist/view/33012/dark-horse-rex-powered-by-the-fool-42xp-1.0

Speaking of fun stuff, Versatile for Dream-Enhancing Serum has been very good. I only got the idea for it late in the campaign, wish i had done that earlier. Just exceptional, basically a second draw engine for when you don't immediately draw the Heirloom.

Once the Heirloom is there, you just cast spells all day and draw oodles of cards. Even with DES on the board you have to discard stuff at the end of round sometimes. It's nuts. :D

Since i am running original front, i am actually cycling through the deck a few times instead of reshuffling my spells. That means Dark Memory is an actual thing to care about. Usually i play it once early on and once i am set up i just tank it for the rest of the game. This deck has ridiculous amounts of healing to facilitate that. Dark Memory just becomes another trigger for Agnes damage ability that way...

The upgraded Hallowed Mirror and Occult Lexicon are absolutely insane in Agnes. Especially Blood Rites for 3 cards feels dirty. I often ended up not playing my Razors because Rites was better and at the same time kept the cards flowing. That's how good it is.

Dayana has been casting Alter Fate most of the time, but i used her for Razors or Voice of Ra as well.

The one weakness this deck has is resources. I had major issues early on when i was only running Voice of Ra for economy. Emergency Cache(2), a card i never used before, saved this issue perfectly by giving me resources while keeping the cards flowing.

With all those one-off items, Backpack(2) has been spectacular as well, of course.

ArkhamDB has this deck at 65XP, but consider Arcane Research paying for a bunch of it and that the two Deny Existences absolutely do not need to be upgraded. I was only able to afford it because i did a side scenario and because i got 4 bonus XP from that also added Dark Pact to the deck when it no longer mattered. So it's not as outrageous as it looks. The core upgrades are Relic Hunter, Lexicon, Mirror, Backpack, Versatile, Backpack, Robes in that order. While doing those, Arcane Research takes care of Ward(2), Ward(2), Shrivel(3), Azure(3), Shrivel(5), Azure(5). Any other XP you got lying around should go into Emergency Cache(2), then into the skills. Dayana and Deny are luxury stuff for the final stretch. Alter Fate i only run because TCU. In other campaigns you might not need it.

Note: Seems like ArkhamDB has some issues with the validity of the list, but considering what an edge case this is (half-parallel investigator with Versatile) i think we can forgive that.