Single Core Xp Guide - Agnes

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arcv2 · 2050

My favorite part of the single core experience is spending my hard earned victory points. Each investigator has quite a few interesting choices for XP cards and the choice of what to take out to make room is even more agonizing. Below I have a list what card swaps from the Agnes starter deck I would make in a Night of Zealot campaign in roughly the order I would make them in and why.

Advancements

  • Knife --> Blinding Light (2): When you use a knife for the discard effect and the upgraded Blinding life fills that roll better saving you an action, being an easier test, and exhausting the enemy.

  • Cunning Distraction --> Lucky! (2): Cunning Distraction has good effect but is bit over-costed. The upgraded Lucky! is favorite card in game and quite possibly under-costed for how much it does for you.

  • Leather Coat --> Aquinnah (1): Aquinnah can either soak up horror damage with her stats when you are low from deliberately taking horror to use your ability or can protect your health with her reaction while letting you take horror on the chin to proc your ability. Leather Coat is good but Aquinnah has the potential to be a high impact way to save health or horror.

  • Survival Instinct --> Close Call (2): This is an optional upgrade but I find Close Call to improve your evades into a better solution. If you find you want to keep both I would cut a Knife instead.

  • Scavenging --> Grotesque Statue (2): Grotesque statue is cheap to play and useful in many situation. Best used to towards the end of scenario when your have must succeed checks. Scavenging is a bit hard to get it to fire with only 2 and other than the statue, your best cards to get back are Spell or Fortunes.

Cards Left Out

  • Mind Wipe (1): The best thing going for this card is that is a spell. If you do get it, maybe the best use for the card is at the start of the mythos phase to to stop an an attack? Not even sure if that works.

  • Book of Shadows (3): If you run through all the card in the list you grab this as it will improve Shrivelling and Scrying but you only get use half of the card because you wont run out of arcane slots.

Other Guides

This guide is part of series of Xp guides for single core-set decks, you can find the others in the list below:

9 comments

Mar 11, 2017 theatlas · 217

Great idea for a set of guides. Thanks for posting these!

I don't think I would drop Cunning Distraction if I was playing through the Night of the Zealot campaign. Although it's expensive, it solves a problem posed by a specific part of the final scenario (assuming you're lucky enough to draw it). I would probably get rid of Dig Deep instead.

I think you left Scavenging out of your write-up - I assume that's probably what you took out when you added Grotesque Statue?

Mar 11, 2017 arcv2 · 2050

@theatlas Thanks for pointing out my omission, I've edited the main post to include scavenging and grotesque statue

Mar 12, 2017 zozo · 2919

Hey really nice idea for a different way of doing decklists. Thanks for sharing.

On Aquinnah: if you place the horror on Aquinnah, as you need to do to trigger her ability, Agnes's damage ability doesn't fire. The horror needs to go on Agnes for that to work. :(

Jul 15, 2017 corbs · 10

@zozo, but you also deal a Horror to your investigator, in addition to Aquinah.

Jul 16, 2017 zozo · 2919

@corbs I'm not sure I follow you. Are you saying that because Aquinnah reads "you still take horror dealt by this attack", you take that on Agnes, so she does her damage & Aquinnah reflects more damage with her ?

Jul 16, 2017 corbs · 10

Hi @zozo, in an example where a monster attacks you for one damage and one horror, you deal a horror to Aquinnah and exhaust her. That's an extra horror. The horror that the enemy deals you as part of the attack would still go on Agnes, thus triggering her reaction. The damage that would have been dealt to you would go on another enemy instead of Agnes.

Have I got that right?

Jul 16, 2017 zozo · 2919

Hi @corbs, yep all of that is perfectly correct, and my understanding of the situation too... apart from situations where you have an enemy like Mobster or Swarm of Rats or even Servant of Many Mouths that doesn't deal horror. The reason for my original comment was in response to the write-up, where this was written: "Aquinnah plays right into Agnes's plan to deliberately take horror to use her ability". There's nothing that Aquinnah herself does that plays into that plan. If the attacking enemy deals both damage and horror, and you want to use Aquinnah to avoid the damage, great (obviously for Aquinnah I you need two enemies at your location, unlike for Aquinnah III). Basically my point is: Aquinnah isn't an additional way to fire Agnes' ability - just a way of protecting against some damage while still firing it if the enemy deals horror.

Jul 17, 2017 arcv2 · 2050

@zozo Sorry for the sloppy the writing, my intetion was just to say that being a a sanity sponge by virtue of her stat line makes her good for agnes so you can dip lower on anges herself and preventing damage (agreed she isn't optimal but this is single core) is just a bonus.

Jul 17, 2017 corbs · 10

@arcv2``@zozothanks for your input @zozo, and @zozoI think it is a great deck, and helpful for me as a new-ish player. I do have Dunwich Legacy now, but I've played the first scenario with this deck (no DL cards) and it is going fine, alongside Zoe Samaras.