Unstoppable Survivor (True Solo, Normal/Hard) Updated 2024

Great deck. With her help, I went through the return to the Dunwich Legacy and am now going through the return to the path to Carcosa. Thank you very much for updating the deck!

@Vanesko thank you! Would love to hear how your Return to the Path to Carcosa goes

It's a cool deck, but what do you think about more card draw provided by At a Crossroads? I think with such an amount of actions (Leo De Luca) it would work great!

@Drostt Great suggestion, drawing 3 cards at the cost of 1 action -- kindly offered by Leo -- can help find more quickly the items and skills that make the deck shine. What card would you suggest replacing with At a Crossroads?

I think I would start with replacing two Unexpected Courage as this is skill with medium power and not drawing you new cards. Skils are cool, but having a lot of them force you to have a solid drawing options. But not sure now what to give up later on... Maybe one Run For Your Life (it doesn't draw you cards) and maybe, just maybe one Long Shot when you get better Ice Pick.

@walla Well, that was harsh. In the first scenario, I got a mental trauma due to the treachery "Visions in Your Mind (Hatred)" that forces me to draw action every turn. The Royal Emissary also helped this trauma happen. In the fourth scenario, I was very unlucky with chaos tokens and my Pete did not manage to escape from the clinic in time. The poor guy went crazy inside the walls of the Arkham Asylum.

Now I want to go into the blind run of the "Scarlet Keys" with this deck. I hope luck will be on my side this time.

@Drostt Long Shot is fantastic from the first to the last scenario when playing true solo, in addition to Ice Pick (1). I like your reco and will swap Unexpected Courage with At a Crossroads, and drop Run For Your Life when upgrading the deck. Thanks!

@Vanesko Hard luck, thanks for sharing! Just to confirm 1) the weakness "Visions in Your Mind (Hatred)" gives you 1 direct horror, not 1 trauma. At the end of the scenario you remove the direct horror 2) "Royal Emissary" gives you 1 horror, which you can put on Duke and Leo De Luca. Since it has 4 health, you can try to kill it in one round.

Does this deck often have problems with being defeated? I don’t see much in the way of healing or soak, and in true solo that’s a very real threat.

@An_Undecayed_Whately surprisingly, not really! The high stats above protect well from fights and treacheries. Allies (Duke, Leo, Granny) soak when needed and protect Plucky that has only 1 health. Would love to hear about your experience with this deck!

I’m doing true solo lately, with either Roland or Zoey.

They have different card mixes, but in various runs through Dunwich and Carcosa I have seen treacheries (moreso than enemies) deliver fatal levels of horror on the regular. In every true solo deck I’ve had to make room for a little more horror soak than I expect/plan/see online in decklists.

I’m of two minds when it comes to Pete in true solo regarding soak. The simple path is just run Peter Sylvestre in place of more obscure allies. The other is to run a few allies for soak, then use Calling In Favors to efficiently pull back a damaged old ally, replace with a new ally, and possibly re-play the old one later.

@An_Undecayed_Whately Do you have a link to the Roland and Zoey true solo decks? I have optimized Pete's deck for the past 6 years to make him as adaptable as possible to every campaign. I'd like to play with other investigators that are very optimized for true solo.

I’m in the middle of revising the Roland one at the moment, it’s had the most actual scenarios tested on it but remains unsatisfactory.

Here’s the latest version of Zoey, only tested on Carcosa (killed in Scenario 7) and partway through Return to Dunwich. It’s nowhere near as good as Pete but it’s surprisingly capable, Sixth Sense and Reliable are standouts: arkhamdb.com

@An_Undecayed_Whately thank you!

Hi, why the deck it’s build with 1 XP left? You can’t get “at a crossroads” at deck creation?

@lucasandradefisico You can include At A Crossroads (1) in your deck when creating it! Thanks to @Drostt for the suggestion. Since the current deck is already published, I can't edit it. However, I'll release an updated 2025 version with a few improvements after Drowned City launches.

Hello again! I played through The Scarlet Keys, Return to the Night of the Zealot, and The Circle Undone on standard difficulty with this deck. It's an amazing deck. I replaced one Overpower with Track Shoes and one Desperate Search with Granny Orne (3) during campaign, since the upgrade path says to change Unexpected courage three times:

1x Unexpected Courage --> 1x At a Crossroads (1)

1x Unexpected Courage --> 1x At a Crossroads (1)

1x Unexpected Courage --> 1x Granny Orne (3)

I also took the permanent Scrapper (3) as an additional card before Observed. It allows you to spend the Lone Wolf resource pool on agility and strength tests in case of emergency.

I'm really looking forward to your deck update, taking into account the release of the Drowned City.

@Vanesko Glad to hear the deck has been working well for you across multiple campaigns! Your tweaks make a lot of sense, I will combine them with the new cards in The Drowned City to refine the upgrade path. Stay tuned!

@Vanesko @lucasandradefisico @An_Undecayed_Whately @Drostt I just published the new Unstoppable Survivor (True Solo, Normal/Hard) Updated 2025 after playing TSK, TFHV and The Drowned City. I would love to hear your thoughts!