Spell Storm || Agnes

I love this deck. I’ve played across from it and it is a blast. 10/10, would play footsies with the player playing this deck again.

What would this look like at 19 XP?

@An_Undecayed_Whately that depends on a few things: campaign vs standalone, player count, role, etc., but I'd say relic hunter(3), backpacks(4), mirror(3), Dayana(6), and a ward (2) gets you to 18 xp pretty comfortably without any other xp boosts.

Good deck. For utility, I think those spells are also good candidates: Alter Fate(3), Mind Wipe, Counterspell. However, for those cards, we may give up Down the Rabbit Hole. With Scalet Key cards, 2 copies of String of Curses and Moonlight Ritual (2) are another good candidates.

In addition, for || agnes, instead of two copies of Sixth Sense (4), Sixth Sense (4) + Word of Command may be good. It's 2xp cheaper (or only 1xp with Rabbit Hole), and she could search Sixth Sense (4) using Word of Command with 1 damage.

How is the Damage mitigation? Is it ok having only Hallowed Mirror to heal?

acotgreave: struggles in Innsmouth, Vincent helps a bit

@Innsmouth

I played parallel Agnes for the first time in Innsmouth (just before infinite Hallow was taboo'd) and camping in a "drowning"-location with Deny Existence(5)-cycling is pretty hilarious.

@Pianeko Deny Existence (5) works against encounter cards, but does it work against scenario cards?

"Encounter Cards" vs "Scenario Cards" (added in FAQ, section 'Card Ability Interpretation', point 2.15)

"These two terms are used interchangeably to mean any non-player card used in a scenario, such as the contents of the encounter deck, locations, acts, agendas, the scenario reference card, etc."

Indeed they can, as clarified above :)

oh wow, then def including

Also, on the decklist:

I like the idea, I play my Agnes similarly, but haven't yet have the chance to try with Scarlet Keys-cards, Customizable with Down the Rabbit Hole seems really nice.
I personally don't like Renfield that much and even in Agnes would still incorporate one or two Arcane Initiates to really always get the spells needed for anything that comes our way. And depending on the Chaos Bag I prefer Voice of Ra over Emergency Cache, due to the spell tag, but I see the argument for both.
I'm looking forward to try her with the upgraded Moonlight Ritual some good doom-card and Power Word myself :)

@elkeinkrad - I agree, what's really fun about going hard on spell events is playing with the mix. I personally would probably only bother with Word of Command in true solo; if you focus on getting the heirloom and mirror out early, this deck draws soooo many cards, I've never really had an issue.

@acotgreave - Between looping Soothing Melody and Deny Existence, I've never had an issue with damage mitigation (@sergeyvpopov, who doesn't struggle in Innsmouth? ;P)

@Pianeko - Agreed, Deny Existence (5) is indeed hilarious, especially if you get it looping late game with a lean deck, you're just unkillable. I would argue for David Renfield over Arcane Initiate for a few reasons; as I mention above; when you prioritize getting out the Heirloom of Hyperborea and the Hallowed Mirror, this deck draws stupid amounts of cards, and with the redundancy of spells, I very rarely find myself digging for spells like in Mystic days of yore. David gives you a will boost to help you push tests, and 2 health to help feed Agnes' ability (which is a great way to pop David to avoid the doom tax). That said, initiate wouldn't be bad, just a bit redundant for what this build is specifically doing. As for Emergency Cache, the main reason this is the choice for this deck is that, since we're prioritizing an early Backpack, it's another target to grab when those go off. Normally I too would prefer a Voice of Ra or Uncage the Soul, but cache works pretty well when you don't have to draw it.

I have a similar ||Agnes deck that I use for standalones, and it is a blast. This looks like a ton of fun and I'd be interested in trying it for a Campaign.

how to have Hallowed Mirror in deck with out versatile ?

@NemuriHime this is Parallel Agnes Baker, whose deckbuilding allows you to take occult cards 0-3. The mirror was basically made for her!

If you decide to go In the Thick of It, which trauma would you take?

@Chillstad I tend not to take ItToi for this build, but I'd probably keep it even and take one of each. Unless you expect to be looping your wards, then go full physical