Broke-ass Pete's Spooky Adventure (w/ Dark Horse)

Variant on the broke-ass Pete decks.

Hard mulligan for both Peter Sylvestre and Dark Horse. Duke does everything else in the early game and we want to spend our starting resources to get these 2 cards down. None of the other cards are essential, you should be able to work with whatever else you get.

The basic strategy is to constantly use Duke to move, investigate, and then (hopefully) Scavenging. Ideally you fight easy enemies yourself with Fire Axe otherwise run away. Try and avoid fighting with Duke since his move+investigate action is much better. If playing solo I would probably need to add some more combat oriented cards to the deck (Shrivelling, etc) to be able to deal with high Enemies.

Forbidden Knowledge combines well with Peter Sylvestre and Dark Horse, to help you run with 0 resources all the time and generate 1 resource mid-turn exactly when needed (to pay for a card, or use Fire Axe). This gives you a base and of 5 during the Mythos phase (assuming Peter Sylvestre is in play) which should be enough to avoid most of the nasty Mythos cards.

It’s important to have enough items in the deck to be able to use Scavenging whenever you investigate, but it doesn’t really matter which items you put in the deck. I would try and keep Magnifying Glass if at all possible (it’s Fast and helps trigger Scavenging) but everything else can be swapped out if other investigators need them.