Field Agents on a Boat! | HC 7.5k Guide

What Trait did you choose at deck creation?

@Haddock It's Fortune. I'll edit the deck so this is explicit (I'll put it in the Campaign Starter section in a moment...).

When I'll finally get a chance to try new expansion I will definitely try to combine yours idea with @startwiththename to create Ultimate 100% Marion's Agents.

@Drostt Sounds like it would be cool! I really love a lot of stuff in StartWithTheName's recent deck (e.g. the Mk 1 Grenades are a nice touch) and it is similarly flexy like this one, but I thought the Field Agent and Hallowed Mirror combo here was an interesting point of difference and honestly both bring something interesting to the table. I think people have been spoilt for choice with decks for Marion, as Valentin's and Providence's decks are equally great and they're also doing quite separate things to one another!

Very nice deck, as allways!

No trusted? It's an event and it goes so well with the field agent hallowed mirror combination

@Julio_R Thank you, very kind of you to say!

@dubcity566 The same question was asked over on Reddit, and while it's nice there's just no space for it. At least on the level 0 deck, Short Rest occupies a similar niche (but retains the ability to heal you as well). You could also swap out Perception or Overpower in the level 0 deck to have Trusted present for a time, but again I feel like these skills are needed to allow you to flex easily early on - especially before True Awakening for easy clues and Good Weather.

A key for success in a lot of decks is keeping inter-dependencies to a minimum, and Trusted does introduce another dependency where you must have an ally out in order for it to be useful. The same doesn't apply to Hallowed Mirror ••• by contrast, which still allows you to cleric before you have your Agents out (and likewise your Agents can pick up a clue before the Mirror, while boosting ). I guess arguably cards like Inspiring Presence have a dependency, but the range of icons means that you can just commit it without making use of its secondary benefit, plus the value of the dependent element - readying an Agent to get a second clue with them - is well worth it.

I guess deck balance is very much a tightrope walk, and for this deck in particular finding space for new cards - even when they would be nice - is very tricky. I only added Good Weather in one of the later versions of this deck, and finding space for that felt painful - especially with it being Myriad!

I dig it, HC! I love pure combat Guardians, but it's always refreshing to see them step outside that typecast.

@gByakko Thank you, glad you like it! Yeah Marion can do combat well, but as she can't use two-handed weapons this needs to be via events to really hit the same heights as most Guardians - given this a bit of flex feels natural (though maybe not to the same extent you see here!).

I have played this deck in the first 2 scenarios of the Drowned City. Really fun deck. Handles clues no problem and fighting is decent. The one place I have struggled is the Willpower checks. there is very few cards in the deck with willpower and I usually don't want to use them for that. Is this just a weakness of the deck? Or am I missing something? Thanks for any suggestions or advice.

@BennyLuv glad you liked it! Re. willpower, there's 9 in the deck plus 7 - plus there's Soothing Melody which also has a to commit if you need it (you could get by with two active copies in your deck), and finally there's Good Weather for persistent willpower test treacheries you want to get rid of. So I think there's enough counter measures, equally though a 2 investigator is unlikely to ever be stomping on willpower treacheries. At least if you do get Rotting Remains and similar there's healing to get you back to normal.

Thanks for the response. I guess I was kind of overlooking some of the cards with willpower wanting to use them for there text abilities. I will have to be more conservative using those cards to possibly save them for encounter willpower checks. At least the ones that become semi permanent. I had one in first scenario that made movement cost 2 actions and couldn't get rid of it. The ones that deal damage I see you don't have to worry about passing as the deck heals very well.

@BennyLuv No problem! Yeah I think Good Weather and a few commits when you're stuck with something like Frozen in Fear is usually the best solution in these situations.

@HungryColquhoun Am I correct in understanding that Good Weather doesn't synergize with Marion Tavares ability and is mostly in the deck cause it's just an absurdly good card?

@athenian858 Yes exactly that, Good Weather isn't technically played in Marion's turn and so can't trigger her ability - but it is very, very good and allows her to adequately investigate. This Reddit thread has some discussion around it.

How would you say this deck works in true solo Drowned city (I know it's impossible to win but want to try it). Thanks

@Morssa Hard to say and to be honest I didn't give TDC too many run throughs when it came out. I could definitely see Persistent Construct being a big pain (evading really is the main way to deal with them, but I suppose Good Weather may help you with that. Good Weather would also support moving around in the Obsidian Canyons scenario. So yeah I could see it doing alright, but I didn't test true solo so YMMV.