Parleying your way through anything - Flex deck - 0 to 34xp

A flex build played in a 2-players campaign, combined with another flex. It is balanced between defense and investigation, and can be played solo.

Key Points:

• Many Parley cards to guarantee using Alessandra Zorzi's bonus action.
• Safety ensured by evasion, with Stall for Time, Beguile, Vamp.
• Removal of enemies with Dexterity or Intelligence tests, through British Bull Dog (which plays itself for free), Backstab, and Stir the Pot (AoE).
• Bianca "Die Katz" and Grift to generate ressources.
• Pickpocketing and Lucky Cigarette Case to draw cards
• Every parley action's (which are most of our actions) difficulty reduced by 2 by Fine Clothes, which is a key card here. It may be appropriate to include two copies, or a Backpack for more regularity, depending on how greedy or risk-averse you feel.
• Eldritch Tongue allows to play Parley events a second time so we never run out
• This decks benefits from having enemies around, to activate Grift and Eavesdrop. Enemies' locations can be managed with Beguile or Kicking the Hornet's Nest.
• Fox Mask is a nice +2 bonus that can be used almost every turn.

Mulligan

Hard Mulligan for Fine Clothes.

Priority upgrades:

This decks starts a bit slow, but scales very nicely with the powerful cards indicated below.

• Streetwise (3) - insurance for important tests, ressource sink
• Snitch (2) x2 - 2 free clues for 1 ressource, no action needed
• Lola Santiago (3) / Gené Beauregard (3) - Gené's ability removes the need for Kicking the Hornet's Nest, to guarantee we have enemies around, in order to activate Eavesdrop and Grift. Very good bonus stats.
• Vamp (2) x2 - guaranteed evade, 2 damages, one clue
• Fake Credentials (4) x2 / Lockpicks (1) x2 - useful +4 bonus to investigate high shroud zones, or ignore the shroud value once per turn
• Confound (3) x2 - 2 clues and one guaranteed evasion for 2 ressources
• Charisma (3) - Having Lola and Gené nets you a +2 increase in both Dexterity and Intelligence.

Total xp: 28/34

Cards to remove:

• Kicking the Hornet's Nest x2
• Stall for Time x2
• Pickpocketing
• Bianca "Die Katz"
• Stir the Pot

As a flex deck, you can prioritize more fighting or more investigating depending on the otherplayer's deck, and remove whichever unneeded cards.

Luxury:

• Lucky Cigarette Case (3)
• Manual Dexterity (2) x2
• Moment of Respite (3)
• Ornate Bow (3)
• Pickpocketing (2)

Total combined xp: 43/49