Artifacts of the Dream (Solo Completed Core)

A Luke Robinson archetype that I used to solo the Core set adventure path (standard difficulty).

The deck hinges around the combo Luke creates with Whitton Greene, such that each time the gate box is used, the location re-enters play, and thus can trigger her search ability. In order to capitalize on this, the deck includes many cards that care about either relics/tomes and being searched to capitalize on the amount you can search your deck consistently each turn.

There are what I consider to be 3 packages in this deck:

I. The Relic Package. This includes 2x Whitton Greene, 3x Segment of Onyx , 2x Eon Chart, and 1x Occult Lexicon. Combined, these make up 25% of your deck after drawing your starting hand- meaning that the likelihood of hitting is pretty significant! Additionally, the cards that we've selected add a serious amount of action economy to the deck (something Luke can seriously capitalize on).

Occult Lexicon does a lot for us, actually. For starters, the initial card can be tutored by Whitton Greene, which is excellent for our strategy. And while the card takes up a hand slot (which we end up not needing), it gives access to Blood-Rite : this card is incredible, and we get three of them! This card gives us card draw AND guaranteed damage, which is incredibly important as Luke- the damage does come up, and the card draw is always welcome.

Segment of Onyx, and by extension, Pendant of the Queen. The onyx is a mini game that we have to play in order to get the pendant, which adds to our action economy astronomically. Being able to evade an enemy with no skill test speaks for itself, and teleportation + free clue getting is also essential tech for Luke. And the best part is, once we use the pendant, the segments go back in the deck; which Whitton can then pick up (even easier now, assuming our deck has been thinned out by this point).

Eon Chart is a great pick for us, because (a) it has a small resource cost of 2, and can immediately be used, negating the action cost of playing the card. And the actions that you can take with the chart are all relevant to Luke's game plan, which is high mobility, and discovering clues (see package II).

II. The Clue Package. This includes Hawk-Eye Folding Camera, Crack the Case, Deduction and [Read the Signs].(/card/06117). This is our main bulk, right here. All our other packages ultimately feed into this strategy, but these are the main tools.

Read the Signs. Because Luke has pretty low stats, being able to use Mind and Willpower to investigate is really powerful. And both Whitton Greeneand Hawk-Eye Folding Camera add to both of these values, so A+ for us.