This was a joy to read but 'watch this' doesn't have an intellect icon. I really wish it did too.

Thank you. Yeah it doesn't, that is why I wrote to opt for quick thinking for intellect and watch this! for everything else. It worked out fine most of the time.

Oh and I forgot to write: One can always investigate empty locations to get more actions.

Excuse me, but there are a few things I don't understand. First, you don't explain which cards the Sets consist of. Secondly, how exactly do you crack a difficulty-25 skill test? I also don't really understand how Burglary helps you. If I got that right, you said you use Burglary and commit Double or Nothing and Watch This! for a net gain of 15 resources, but Watch this! doesn't have an Intellect icon so it can't be commited on an Intellect test. Am I missing something? Did I get something wrong? Explain that to me if you please. Thanks.

@matt88 no problem. The sets are described under "card choices" -> "combo set". It consists of 5 skills plus premonition and 2 events of your choice.

Burglary is only an example on how to calculate the skill target. And you are quite correct you cannot commit watch this to it. I made a mistake in the example. It was late last night. I will change that tomorrow to quick thinking.

A 25 check would be cracked by base skill of 3 plus 7 (double or nothing, all in, unexpected courage, 2 quick thinking) plus 2 from opportunist. Thats 12. You then play sure gamble changing -8 token to +8. You now have 20 skill against a 17 threshold, winning by 8 (the difficulty is actually 12, 17 is with oversuccess in mind).

If you dont have sure gamble you go full cash boost. 12 from skill set another +2 or +4 from 1 or 2 daring manoveur plus 9 from cash booster (6 for streetwise, 9 for core set booster). You still gained 18 ressources on the last test you passed.

Burglary mainly helps to get the first cash inject should you not have enough ressources to fund the first round of watch this. You really want that first round to yield the full 24 ressources.

Ah, I see. That helps, but I'm still a little confused. How do you expect to get any value out of Burglary on Expert before you start using your combo?

It's only there to provide 6 ressources once and only if you have 0-5 ressources left. It' s a failsafe for then you have your combo in hand (the quick thinking set) but not enough ressources to put 3 ressources on both watch this in the next shuffle. in that case you go look for a shroud 1 or 2 location and use the combo there. 3 base skill + 9 from the set + 2 from Daring Maneuver is 14. the location will have 12 or 14 target threshold. Neting you +4 action + 10 cards and the 6 ressources you need to fund the next "Watch this!"-Set. You need it to gain the full 24 ressources to fund harder skill test and to play out any left over assets.

So does the horror from the deck cycling go on Jenny or Mr Rook?

@Yellow_Peril Always on Mr. Rook or Red-gloved man respectively. Once they die we take an action to replay them.

I added a section on how to crack 25 thresholds. Hope that helps.

On another note. The deck just cleared devourer below on expert by stopping the ritual on turn 5. 27 xp in all with two mental trauma. Dunwich is next. I will clear them all on expert with the same deck. As you can use TFA to buy off trauma it should work fine.

Amazing combo. Exposes some broken combination that I believe it shouldn't happen. But for the sake of good fun and balance how to have a house rule to stop the infinity combo without banning or changing any of the cards?

One way I was thinking is to limit the drawing empty investigator deck rule to happen only during the draw of the upkeep phase at stage 4.4. To something like this:

"4.4 Each investigator draws 1 card and gains 1 resource. In player order, each investigator draws 1 card. An investigator with an empty investigator deck shuffles his or her discard pile back into his or her deck, then draws the card, and upon completion of the entire draw takes one horror. . Once those cards have been drawn, each investigator gains 1 resource. "

Could this work without breaking the game?

I am not sure that works. It makes certain scenarios that actively mill the investigator deck incredibly harsh.

The List of Taboos from the recent FAQ addresses part of the combo in making Quick Thinking a limit 1 per skill test card. But that wouldn't really help either. One could just add the other copy to the "Watch this!" set.

Personally - if I wanted to "fix" the combo - I would probably target All In and make it draw less cards max. Drawing 3 cards max would already limit how many cards you could safely cycle with each shuffle.

Another way would be to make the horror from shuffling direct horror. But that wouldn't really be a problem for us, as you could always use Liquid Courage and Emergency Cache to remove any amount of horror from your investigator. An earlier version of this deck contained both cards. If you do not like replaying allies all the time, you could always switch some of the events for one copy of each. Liquid Courage clears 3 horror with one combo and Emergency Cache adds unlimited charges to Liquid Courage.

Cumulative horror for reshuffling your deck? 1 horror for the first reshuffle, 2 for the second, etc. You would need some way to keep track somehow but that shouldn't be too hard.

Another idea would be a total cap on # of actions on a player's turn. 6 is probably reasonable since that's kind of what Borrowed Time and Ace in the Hole are going for, although if we want to be generous (and assume someone is going for both) I doubt any non-infinite decks will go above 10. Again, keeping track would be annoying but only for very specific decks that have the potential to even hit the limit.

@SkeithI think you are right, my first draft is a failure :(

Other possible 'fixes':

• add "remove from the game" or "once per game" in case of success on some of the key cards, like Quick Thinking

Or a little extra on the drawing rules:

• If an investigator with an empty investigator deck needs to draw a card, that investigator shuffles his or her discard pile back into his or her deck, then draws the card, and upon completion of the entire draw takes one horror and lose all remaining actions and immediately end his or her turn.

I personally like this drawing change. You can even pretend that makes a bit of sense that the investigator is kind phase-out from the mental stress of running out of new ideas and tools.

The combo is real! Good and super strong, I just feel like that some fare adjustment has to be made to keep it possible for a healthy multiplayer or solo play experience without breaking it.

I think the simplest way to reign in infinite combos would be to make the horror from shuffling your discard pile into your deck direct horror.

@Djhuti I advise you to review the Liquid Courage/Emergency Cache combo. it basically nets you -2 horror per action spent and allows us to remain at 0 horror on all cards without ever running out of charges as Liquid Courage is as most early cards non-exhaustive.

It was in the first version of this deck but was cut to make room for more toolkit events as allies can tank non-direct horror just as well. If the horror were direct I would just put those two in and be all set again.

@lacavones the first option would break Quick Thinking and Ace in the Hole. Ace in the Hole especially is one of the few cards does better than other classes (compare to the similar Cryptic Research). Making them once per game would really upset the balance, again refering to who already got most of the cherries in their class anyway (Best non-combo draw. best tutor, best damage per ressource cards, best clue per ressource cards, they basically can name a best or at least second best option for every problem in the game).

Rogue has these super strong but exceptional cards and subpar combo pieces that only get good then played just right. Remember how bad Quick Thinking and Double or Nothing are if you don't use them right. Quick Thinking is just one and a bonus effect IF you are really good. Double or Nothing is actually bad to play out (netting you 0 to -5 bonus to the test) and is dead in your hand if you can not beat the odds somehow. Making them once per game would need some serious rebalance to make them worthwhile still (and Ace in the Hole is already 0 cost and fast, nothing to improve but the yield).

On ending the term immediately I again think that that would make milling scenarios particular hard, as those already punish you for and by emptying your library.

If I'm understanding correctly, the cycle could be broken by having All In be removed from the game after use.

That would probably the least disruptive solution.

You are correct. That is why I said that the card was a mistake. Making the card exceptional works too. One copy per deck isn't enough to close the loop.

Thank you everyone for the kind words. And I will probably take it as a compliment that it took the discussion only 2 days to shift towards how broken the combo is. :D

Just a question: how do you draw more than 5 cards with all in? Does double or nothing ignore the max 5 cards?

It does not. But it does resolve the result of a passed skill test twice. All In as a card adds its effect to the skill test. The skill test is then resolved twice, not the card itself and thus draws 5 cards two times. Hope that helps.

Hard Knocks and Physical Training do not allow you to boost every stat. You want Arcane Studies instead of Physical Training. Also, why the infinite combos in a cooperative card game?

Physical Training is there to complement Streetwise. They do indeed cover all the stats. Hard Knocks is there for the first scenarios to improve odds of being able to boost strength and to be able to boost agility. It becomes obsolete after your first 13 XP.

As to the why... because I can? Because there is a beauty to it, to a perfect machine? Mostly because I was looking for the best possible way to overachieve consistently and that just happened to also create an infinite loop. Premonition keeps your gambit from failing, recursion allows you to keep doing what the deck does best.

Yes I would not use it in a multiplayer game but it does work there as well. It just happens to scale perfectly with both player count and difficulty. It would not be fun for everyone else. But for solo I find it perfectly acceptable to go infinite.

okay, i have read through the description 2 times, skipped over it 5 times and for the love of god i can't figure out where and why you're getting back cards from your discard and why that causes you to take one horror

It is a basic rule from core rulebook.

You draw cards from your deck until there are non remaining. Once you would draw a card from an empty deck, your discard is shuffled into your deck, you take one horror for doing so and then draw the card.

With All In comboed like this you will draw your entire deck by turn 3-4. You will then start to shuffle your discard per basic rules.

I am working right now and don't have the rules handy so I can not give you the exact page. Sorry I didn't think it necessary to mention basic rules for the working of the deck. I will add a paragraph later.

Wow, a dozen of campaign plays and hundreds of hours sunk into this game, but i have never heard or read this rule before. Thanks for the clarification!

Just remembered that ArkhamDB has a rules section. It is under "Draw Action" the last bulletin:

• If an investigator with an empty investigator deck needs to draw a card, that investigator shuffles his or her discard pile back into his or her deck, then draws the card, and upon completion of the entire draw takes one horror.

Hope that helps.

I just hope Matt Newman doesn't ban this perversion of the game by nerfing the individual cards, but by changing the rules around deckout and reshuffle.

"Given the opportunity, players will optimize the fun out of a game."

After thinking and talking with friends about it, I really believe All In isn’t the issue but Double or Nothing is. It shouldn’t pass the draw cap and is the one that multiply ressources, cards drawn and actions all together. All in is a great card that does cost 5 xp. Drawing 5 cards (or less but then without weaknesses) at some conditions isn’t by far scandalous. Drawing ten because of a basic card that also will give you extra actions and money is something quite different.

Also, why making it personal? Any designer may make a mistake. If Matt Newman (who wasn’t the lead designer of core set so no he isn’t responsible of Milan or at least not the only one) misses one card on a full cycle, you could present it differently than pointing your finger (« despite making an amazing game, he made here a mistake: no one is perfect even Matt Newman » is far less aggressive than « MN is responsible of all mistakes in this game, he is!) »). Just saying!

Does it really come across as that aggressive? That wasn't my intention at all. I really enjoy this game quite a lot and didn't mean any offense by it. If that is the case I will change that later. I just think (and so do many others according to what I read on this page) that Milan is op because he is non-exhaustive which skews the meta in his favor indefinetely. I don't thing there was any real challenge to his position until Mr.Rook came along recently (And he is broken in a lot of other ways in my opinion). And All In is the same, not because of itself, but because of how it shifts the meta and opens plays that were previously unthinkable. Any deck can profit from it.

That is why I do disagree with your point. It is the other way around. Double or Nothing isn't the problem. The card by itself does make any test more difficult outside of 1 difficulty tests there it breaks even. Some of the reviews even declare it a plain bad card, as it does nothing and even hurts you in most situations. And the balance in a combo was just fine until All in came along. Yes +4 actions and +18 ressources seems like a lot but it was only a one time thing, if one managed to assemble everything, which by itself only happens very rarely and comes at the cost of underperforming while you sit on your cards.

All In on the other hand is a great card just by itself. It is always helpful and can only make things better regardless of the situation. I stress again that the card itself is perfectly fine for its price tag. It just upsets the balance if the game and was therefore a mistake to print in this way. I firmly believe it would have served its role just as well as 3 XP exceptional card without upsetting the existing balance.

I changed it now. And apologises for the typing errors. I cant edit posts it seems and english isnt my native tongue.

Thank you for your answers. Because Double or nothing exists, everytime a card would trigger after winning a test, you’ll have to check if DoN won’t allow to abuse it. So it really is the problematic card I still believe. But I’m quite sure you’re deck will invite a ruling about the draw cap (as an absolute for the whole sequence), which is the simplest thing to do to stop the loop without errata. Well done anyway.

I agree with @Fishiste that the problem here is Double or Nothing as it limits future card design. If anything were done to break this up it should probably target Double or Nothing with the side benefit of opening up future design space.

@Fishiste and @Arrdet you're right that Double or Nothing is the biggest target for abuse. But it's also a card that really epitomizes the flavor of the rogue class and is loved by many players (though not particularly by me). Banning this card would probably make a lot of players unhappy.

Of the solutions mentioned so far, the one I like best is making the horror penalty for shuffling your discard pile be cumulative, i.e. each time you shuffle you take 1 more horror than the previous time. This would stop infinite combos without increasing the penalty for the first time you reach the end of your deck in a scenario. Since there may be some cards which say "prevent all horror" or something, they should probably specify that this horror can't be prevented or cancelled.

This is a co-op game. No erratas are needed. If someone comes to your table with a so-called broken deck, you can always ask him/her politely to go play solo somewhere else.

@yepesnopes my point exactly. One should simply not play such a deck at a multiplayer table. One does not invite his friends over just to play quasi-solo. That would be missing the point of playing mp in the first place.

@dgn That would fix the issue only on paper. I am currently drafting a Sefina Rousseau including Fearless. Its upgrade can heal 4 horror per copy per test. Including Holy Rosary and The Red-Gloved Man one could cycle 14 times without dying to horror if the horror is not direct and 8 times even if it is. Thats 56 or 32 gained actions. That is plenty to finish a scenario, I dare say.

Neat work! If we're talking about how to prevent combos like this, I don't think the individual cards are the right thing to look at - the Ace in the Hole recursion infinite deck didn't use any of the same cards as I recall. What they did have in common though was cycling the deck over and over again.

Personally if I was going to implement a change to stop it, I'd change the rule for resetting the deck - maybe cumulative horror as suggested above, or make the cost one mental trauma instead of one horror (although that could be too punishing for characters like Minh), or maybe just say you can't reset a deck more than once per turn/round.

I'm not sure that catches excessive combo decks using Survivor direct recursion, but I think it'd deal with most Rogue ones.

On the other hand, I'm not going to play with this deck, and it's always fun to see someone come up with something like this, so the other argument is...who needs a fix?

We always assumed that once the deck is empty it stays that way. It happened a few times and i like our misinterpretation more than the official ruling

"Remove the top X cards of your deck from the game." If this were a cost of shuffling your discard pile into your deck when you've run out of cards, it would stop combo decks like this from being infinite. It's just a matter of tuning X. I'd say no less than 5, and no more than 10.

It shouldn't be too devastating to the average Joe who happens occasionally to run through his deck once a game.

It means not having to decide which card in the combo is "broken" and errata it. (And then find out you have to errata other cards at later dates when new combos becomes viable.)

The cumulative horror cost looks neat, but might be tricky to keep track of. And as pointed out, can be soaked/healed for quite some time.

The mental trauma idea would be harsh on the average Joe. It also has no effect on standalone scenarios or campaign finales.

@RaahqMcMupfel Well it is in the basic rules for the draw action and it would kill the investigators rather fast in some scenarios. Not to mention investigators like Minh Thi Phan who are all about cantriping their deck most of the time. And remember: The card draw in the upkeep phase is mandatory. And the rules for upkeep have no mention of what to do if your deck was empty and would not automatically reshuffle.

@Yellow_Peril Same point. What to do with cards specifically designed to facilitate decks like Minh Thi Phans. I usually go through the entire deck like 6-8 times in a normal length scenario (without infinite combo shenanigans).

Remember that after your first pass most of your assets stay in game. That alone lowers most decks to ~20-22 cards unless you go light on assets. With a healthy hand of 6-8 thats basically 12-15 cards to keep cycling. Thats not that hard even for the average joe. Analytical Mind, Grisly Totem and a core game skill card alone cause you to draw 4 cards per round. Not to mention cards like Cryptic Research and Preposterous Sketches which you totally should use in Minh Thi Phan. Not to mention the spoilered Blood-Rite and cards like Ancient Stone encouraging you to draw as much as you can.

And this playstyle has nothing to do with going infinite. Minh Thi Phan in fact has neither access to True Survivor or any combo cards.

"We Double or Nothing a Quick Thinking (...) for a nice chunk of cash (save for ) of 6 resources and 4 actions." How do you get 4 actions out of one Quick Thinking ? 2x1 = 2 ... I must have missed something here

Good Catch.

It isn't mentioned in that example but it assumes you play both copies of Quick Thinking to get maximum effect from Double or Nothing. You would do the same with "Watch this!".

I changed that example once and must have been thinking about using both copies as I never play them as singletons.

@SkeithYeah, Iassumed that after reading the whole text, but you should edit it since it's the first example and you math seemd off from the start ;)

While this is indeed game breaking, I see two major flaw in the whole thing. Cards like Doomed (you convieniently leaved it aside for 'roleplaying' reasons) or Beyond the Veil that would stop you immediately on your track should you draw before activating the combo (and you recommend Charon's Obol on top of that ;)

It's nice to break the game, but in some scenarios the game could break you really hard.

@NotSure Yeah I don't really enjoy Doomed on principal. I don't find the idea of being killed eventually regardless of how well I play very enjoyable. You are right of course. We have a chance of killing us with that. Keep in mind though that we only draw about ~10 cards manually in any scenario. We might still be lucky enough to draw Doomed only with our All Ins! On the other hand... Mr. "Rook" would kill us fast... oh well, it didn't factor in my building strategy anyway.

Regarding Beyond the Veil I have only one play to throw at it: Mr. "Rook" and Fine Clothes together give us exactly 11 health. Just enough to survive one copy of it. Given the fact that we will never draw more than one copy of Beyond the Veil before stopping the clock that would be enough. Should we somehow get only one point of damage before hand we would be killed, yes.

Beyond the Veil appears for first time in the third scenario of dunwich. To handle it well we would need a copy of The Red-Gloved Man to up our health total to 13. That would give us 2 damage we can take before dying to the treachery. Question would be if 15 xp in the first two scenarios of Dunwich is feasable on average. I would say yes.

But talking chances: Usually the deck is stopped by turn 5-6. Sometimes even earlier. That would mean only 4-5 treachery cards are ever drawn. It's a good chance that we never actually see Beyond the Veil at all. In fact I never saw it playing Dunwich the other day.

To summarise:

• A copy of Beyond the Veil would need to be one of the first cards the mythos deals us.
• Fine Clothes and The Red-Gloved Man must be in the last three cards of our deck. We would not be able tutor them with Mr. "Rook" without shuffle killing ourselves.
• 1 or 3 damage respectively on Jenny. We would not total 11+ health with our assets otherwise.

I find our chances not so bad after all. I know it is not perfect but the odds are heavily in our favor nonetheless.

And of the top of my head I can't remember any other game mechanic that would come this close to killing us outright.

Is this deck actually able to take infinite actions?

You say if you pull 3 tentacles in a row, the combo breaks. And if you're trying to go infinite that's guaranteed to happen eventually isn't it? Do you have a way to get around this that I'm missing?

Technically no. Practically yes.

First off I have yet to pull the third . Only managed two so far. Secondly if done right you will have accumulated a reserve of actions that you have yet to take. Those should be enough to reestablish after the third . Taking 10 draw actions should be easily possible without ending the turn.

But no there is no technical way for us to remove the from the equation.

Outside of Seal of the Seventh Sign there is no way to remove the token. Every other thing that would prevent it has been FAQed (notably Lucky Dice). And there is no class that can take Seal and All In. The other option would be to not draw tokens at all. That would mean Pnakotic Manuscripts or Will to Survive. Both of which are not really accessible to this combo. Wendy Adams could take the later but her weakness makes any attempts at infinity impossible. "Ashcan" Pete might make it but I have yet to do the math on him. Graveyard recursion is much more action intensive and he can only take one copy of "Watch this!". Not sure if 9 ressources would be enough to pay for everything...

So no, there is no way around it. But I think we are as close to true infinity as we might ever get to be.

How do you accumulate a reserve of actions though? Playing swift reflexes doesn't give you an additional action to take later this turn, letting you build a big bank, it makes you take the action right now. And it won't let you take that action while you have Quick Thinking waiting to be taken as there's not timing window that isn't 'during an action'. If you get two actions from quick thinking, and two more from swift reflexes in hand, and 2 more remaining from your turn, you can have at most 6 actions banked up most of the time right? So 8 tentacles in a row would bust you no matter what?

The only way to accumulate a reserve of actions with this deck would be to take a test with your first quick thinking action while the second one is waiting to be played, netting you a profit of only one action. This means it would have to work without using swift reflexes at all, as that can't be used until all quick thinking actions are spent, at which point we've already lost our bank. So you need access to an action that can be taken over and over without prep. An evasion check would be nice, but you have to engage the enemy again before you can take that test. Unless the scenario is handing you another action, it's gotta be investigate. But this means you can't use 'watch this' so building up a bank of actions is costing you money, and I can't see how your deck is able to gain money faster than it loses its bank of actions? Regardless, if we did have a bunch of money, it's not clear exactly what you're do when you see a tentacle, meaning it's hard to work out the expected profit letting one verify the deck is expected to gain actions faster than it loses them.

(Also, there is a way to get the tentacles out of the equation: Here-- arkhamdb.com -- is a deck that does get to true infinity without a possibility of failure, using Olive to make sure we don't ever pull a tentacle we can't ignore. It may not work in some scenarios if there are too many 'reveal another token' tokens in the bag, but it works on Depths of Yoth which that deck is able to descend into forever solo on standalone. I'm working on rewriting the description to make it more clear how the combo works outside of the very specific context of Yoth, but I think it's all correct for Yoth at least.)

I think you got some rules wrong, friend. Where does it say that you cannot accumulate actions? And there does it say that there are no player windows that are not actions? There are plenty. Take a look at the timing guide for an investigator turn.

2.2 Next investigator's turn begins. PLAYER WINDOW 2.2.1 Active investigator may take an action, if able. If an action was taken, return to previous player window. If no action was taken, proceed to 2.2.2.

You take an action. AN. As in ANY. Source of the action is irrelevant. EVERY action has a pre-action player window to house any number of fast events. The same is true for Ace in the Hole.

You Double or Nothing two Quick Thinking and gain 4 actions. You return to the pre-action player window as per rules. You play Swift Reflexes as you are not taking an action yet. You gain another action. you now have 5. You take an action using Double or Nothing and two copies of "Watch this!" redrawing both copies of Quick Thinking and Double or Nothing. You return to the pre-action player window as per rules. You play another copy of Swift Reflexes regaining your action. You still have 5 actions. You replay 2 Quick Thinking and 1 Double or Nothing and gain another 4 actions. Go on ad infinite.

Nothing says that you can't add more Quick Thinking during tests that are taken in a Quick Thinking action. The same is true for Swift Reflexes: Nothing says you can't play another copy in the pre-action window that happens after you have taken Swift Reflexes-action.

There is nowhere in the rules saying you can't replay these cards while you are still occupied taking there actions.

In my experience it is rather easy to find a test that is not Intellect.

Over 2 turns the deck generates 18 ressources. The deck needs at most 11 ressources to pass and maintain initiative. 4 Ressources for 2 Swift Reflexes, 4 Ressources for Sure Gamble and 3 to replay Mr. "Rook" every other turn. Thats still a net profit of 7 ressources other 2 actions. And you don't need Sure Gamble all the time, making the profit margin more like ~10 ressources.

I usually end up with 40+ ressources and 10+ actions before Premonition for shadows the first . I deem that enough buffer to deal with three in a row.

I recommend trying the deck at least once, to see for yourself. I assure you the profit feedback is quite good and the game provides you with enough occasions to play "Watch this!".

My version of the deck drew Stubborn Detective as a weakness, so if I needed a fix I can always draw him from my deck so that I can punch him to death netting me more money. You don't get enemy weaknesses all the time, so another option is trusty Liquid Courage for infinite willpower tests if you really need a "Watch this!" outlet so badly. I have cut it from an earlier version as I found myself quite comfortable with all the tests the deck provided me from locations and agenda enemies/tests.

Concerning Olive McBride, she lets you evade an once, yes. But I found Mr. "Rook" to be more useful by comparison. don't come up that often in triplets (again, never happened to me) and it is more meaningful to stabilise the set-up phase of the deck, by tutoring for combo pieces. He also allows you to stabilise faster should the combo get interrupted fo some reason.

I have been redoing the deck with Sefina Rousseau myself and Olive is a strong contender for that deck, but there I find David Renfield more useful due to the Willpower-Bonus and early cash he provides.

And yes, you are correct: However many tentacle pulls in a row would bust the deck as I decided not to play Olive. But then again... I haven't won the lottery as of yet and I assume the chance of pulling tentacle all the time is similarly low. I find the deck is sufficiently protected by two Premonition.

One could contemplate to switch Physical Training for one copy of Olive McBride to play her once the second premonition reveals another . Two Sure Gamble in the deck are usually enough to cover us for all tests. Yeah I think I would do that, if I wanted to be real sure.

The issue is that quick thinking says you 'immediately' take another action. I've assumed 'immediately' means your QT action begins immediately after this action ends (ie without a player window during which swift reflexes could go.) Maybe I'm wrong on that.

And yes the chances of three tentacles in a row is low on one pull. But if you're pulling infinitely many tokens, the probability of it happening eventually is 100% isn't it?

The immediately part refers not to the timing of that action but rather to the phase you are currently in. It means that you can use the cards outside of your investigator phase and that you will have to take all of them in whatever phase you are currently at without waiting for your investigator phase to come around. Example: You play quick thinking in the mythos phase in skill test. You must then take this action in the mythos phase.

Compare Quick Thinking and Swift Reflexes with Ace in the Hole. See how Ace in the Hole lacks "immediate" in its wording? That is because Ace in the Hole explicitly says that it can only be played during your turn in the investigator phase. No "immediate" needed. The other two however can be played outside of your turn.

I am obviously assuming here that actions outside of the investigator phase follow the same timing player window rules as normal actions do. At least I can not find any other ruling concerning actions outside of the investigator phase anywhere in the rules.

And you are right. Any small chance applied an infinite amount of times will happen sometime. But one should also remember that the goal here is to win the scenario and that happens usually in under 50 actions (guess work here. but 15 turns sounds about right for a normal deck, doesn't it?). Assuming 10 tokens in the bag you would have 1/1000 chance of triple tentacle in a row. (I am not a maths guy. Hope that is even close to right...)

Well, as you point out, if you succeed at a test in the mythos phase and get a quick thinking action as a result, you definitely do so without going to the player window at step 2.2.1 of the investigator phase first. My guess was just that the same thing happens if quick thinking goes off in a player's turn. This is only coming from a plain English reading of the word 'immediately' as meaning 'without the opportunity to do other stuff first'; I don't have any special rules knowledge about the question. I've submitted a rules query out of curiosity.

And of course, I'm not disputing that your deck can take quite a lot of actions. But there's a big gap between quite a lot and infinite. Out towards the infinite, all sorts of unlikely things happen. In The Gathering, if you try to use your outline to take infinite actions, you'll pull then a hundred times in a row eventually, which will give you more horror than you can soak and will kill you.

This was part of the beauty of the pre-taboo Preston loop, that with Ace in the Hole and Mr. Pawterson the deck could gain infinite actions with zero risk and zero exposure to the bag or encounter deck. (Of course in that deck, actually using those actions productively would expose you to the bag, but being able to reach the game state where you have ten thousand actions is undeniably doable with zero probability of failure.)

Anyway I like your deck very much! Thank you for answering my questions!

How I see it, it should be like this:

• Mythos phase skill test: Double or Nothing, 2 Quick Thinking
• First action --> Player window or pass
• Second action --> Player window or pass
• Third action --> Player window or pass
• Fourth action --> Only pass, no action left

Every action must have a player window/pass decision as the rules explicitely say so and there is nowhere in the rules that action don't get that decision point or that it is replaced by something else. If the aftermath of an action in the mythos phase would not force that decision, there would be no way rules wise to ever pass on taking actions - which you definitely can.

Please inform me what comes of your rules query, but I am fairly certain this is how it works.

Yeah 0% failure would be nice, but nothing comes of it if you can never reach that state or utilise it accordingly. Going up to 0,1% of all test taken seems a reasonable trade off for more utility and better early game performance overall.

If I was going to guess how this gets nuked, I'm going with all in as well. I think the least damaging way is to hit it the same way as the Halifax hammer was neutralised in a few acres of snow. "If there are insufficient cards to complete your draw action stop drawing, only reshuffle and draw if you start drawing from an empty deck". It's simple, doesn't handicap it for normal use and neutralises this combo completely.

The only argument I could see is that the quick thinking action, being a result of the successful skill test, would entirely be "during an action" (the action that created that skill test), including the inner pre-action and post-action player windows. If the player window before/after your quick thinking action is itself "during an action" (the outer action in which there was a skill test for quick thinking to be committed to) then you wouldn't be able to play Swift Reflexes.

However, this clarification on the Quick Thinking page suggests the extra action occurs after the skill test ends, which may also mean that it's after the action which created the skill test ends, in which case you're all clear. "Those effects indeed trigger during step 7 [of a skill test], and then create a delayed effect which grants the extra action(s) after the test resolves."

If the QT action was during the skill test, there'd be bigger problems, as the skill cards wouldn't be reaching the discard pile until after all QT actions, meaning you couldn't redraw the QT with the inner action.

I think the basic question is whether when you're in the state of 'after X happens' and there are abilities waiting to resolve in that 'after' window, are you allowed to do things other than resolving those 'after' abilities.

@Yenreb I think you are correct. The rules clarification on Quick Thinking pretty much says it all. The benefits apply after the skill test has resolved. End if story. One can accumulate actions.

On another note I just noticied that arkhamdb didn't apply all my changes to the notes. The version in "My Decks" has all the changes. The published version has not. How would I go about modifying the published version? Does anyone know? There are several spelling mistakes and some parts of text that I have already corrected weeks ago.

And I would like to add @juffowups Olive McBride as an upgrade option.

I have tested a Sefina Rousseau variant of this deck over the last days. It is much more focused but lacks Mr. "Rook". As it turns out he is REALLY important to the deck. In 4 games Sefina managed to attain the combo only once and only by turn 11. Jenny manages usually by turn 3-5. Sefina just needs too much time to filter all the assets out of the deck. Mr. "Rook" really helps here by tutoring whatever is missing. Seriously, I was sitting on two whole combos lacking only DoN and had to draw through the entire deck manually. By the time I had the card, the discard pile was so cluttered that the combo failed.

Long story short I advise against removing even one copy if Mr. "Rook" from the deck. That means the only card we can remove for Olive is Physical Training which can only safely be done after two copies of Sure Gamble have been added. After that Training becomes obsolete (only needed early game, unlikely to be drawn early).

There was never any question that the quick thinking action happens after the action that causes it is complete (assuming the action is a simple skill test and doesn't have other more complicated stuff). From the entry on "after" in the rules reference guide (emphasis added):

RRG: "The word 'after' refers to the moment immediately after the specified timing point or triggering condition has fully resolved."

Quick thinking creates a delayed effect, happening after the skill test finishes resolving. From the entry on "delayed effect":

RRG: "Each delayed effect initiates automatically and immediately (as a forced ability) if its future timing point or future condition occurs."

So the delayed effect from Quick Thinking is timed as a forced ability, meaning the following part of the entry on "Ability" is relevant:

RRG: "A forced ability with a timing point beginning with the word 'after...' automatically initiates immediately after that timing point’s impact upon the game state has resolved. For any given timing point, all forced abilities initiated in reference to that timing point must resolve before any abilites (see below) referencing the same timing point in the same manner may be initiated."

Anywhere we look for player window between the skill test finishing and the Quick Thinking action happening, we're told the QT action happens immediately. Not only immediately, but immediately with the priority of a forced ability, meaning the QT action happens before we could even activate abilities that would also trigger "after" the action completes.

The thing is, your deck can still bank actions. You just have to do it without Swift Reflexes. When you double a quick thinking, if on your first quick thinking action you successfully double another quick thinking, then hey, you've gone from having 2 QT actions waiting for you to having 3. It's just not so obvious that you're gaining actions faster than you're losing them that you can skip the math of it. You would need to verify that your probability of success is high enough, and that the number of banked actions you have to burn to repair the game state when you fail is low enough, that you can expect to make an action profit on average. If you can do that, then you'll have that the probability of banking more and more actions forever is positive, and that the bigger the bank of actions you build up in any particular game, the closer that probability gets to 100%.

First of all: I am quite sure that all your played cards go to discard before you take the bonus actions from QT. The FAQ on the QT-Page is quite clear on that:

"Double or Nothing works with both of those effects! Those effects indeed trigger during step 7 [of a skill test], and then create a delayed effect which grants the extra action(s) after the test resolves."

You get the action after the test is fully resolved. Commited skills go to discard as step 8 of the skill test. Hence actions are gained after step 8. That means that every "new" QT-skill test would be able to redraw our other card set from the discard.

I was quite sure that the "immediately" in the wording is only there so that you cannot transfer the action into a different phase. Hence the word missing in Ace in the Hole (can be played in investigator phase on your turn only). But you make a convincing argument. Under "Gain" in the rules it is stated that you take any additional action in the specified timing window. In this case immediately.

So DoT resolves Step 7 of a skill test twice, causing two commited copies of QT to generate 4 actions as a delayed effect resolving after Step 8 is finished. Or 4 delayed effects with 1 action each. (don't know, the later would make more sense but would make keeping track of all the extra actions very painful)

So @juffowup is correct: it comes done to whether or not the normal action sequence is nested within the "take actions immediately" part of QT. Or simply said: Does an extra action generate a player window before you take the next extra action or standard action or not?

I would argue yes, as it is the same step in which you decide NOT to take an action (2.2.2.). Yes we are not in the investigator phase here but you would still need to formally declare to not take your remaining bonus actions. The same step would cause another player window in case of taking another standard action. But I can not be sure. The rules do not explicitely tell us that bonus action are treated the same as standard actions in this regard. On the other hand the rules also only state one process for declining actions.

I remain undecided. If were is no player window here, then @juffowupis correct. Swift Reflexes could not be played here.

So following your guide to a tee has introduced me to some cleverness in a standalone mode. But i dont see how you would weather the storm in a solo campaign for the first time. Do you just try your best to clear the scenario with regular means and dont even try the combos as they get spent quickly and have no All In to cycle through your deck?

Yes you just try your hardest. You don't even need to win. Aim for as many VPs as possible. Even taking a trauma is well worth it, if it nets you another 1-2 xp.

Some thinks I have applied in my first scenarios:

• Mr. "Rook" really is your friend. If you do not have the answer yet, he will probably find it. He lets you get away with a lot.
• Conserve your strength. As you said, we only have two full combos, so if possible, save them for a crucial fight check, maybe doubling a Backstab to take out the boss or picking up two clues from a 4 shroud location. Likewise Intel Report should always be kept to clear such a location to get another VP.
• Playing Finn Edwards really helped driving the point home that not every treachery must be dealt with. Sometimes taking that treachery on the chin is much more cost effective than blowing your ressources. It's almost always better to keep your cards for gaining VPs.
• Be flexible. Yes assembling a full combo and then doubling up on an elite mob for a vp is all fine and dandy, but not if you can't get there. Sometimes the game just throws something your way that must be dealt with immediately. That might be a locked door on a critical location, or a medium sized enemy that blocks you from doing what must be done. In this case it's fine to use a partial combo to clear the way.
• Cash booster and Jenny's money will save your bacon most of the time letting you get by where others would already fail. I had no money to save up as it regurlarly spent on cash boosters to evade or kill some small fry that I did not what to spent a card on. On expert you might even need to spent money on .45 Thompson attacks as the 5 will not reliably kill even 3 fight enemies.

It basically boils down to "know when to spent and what to spent". And even then, expert remains one dicey proposition. On the whole I was fairly lucky in the first scenarios, but I can imagine that everything might go harshly down the drain if 5, 6, and 8 keep coming up all the time.

@Skeith tried this opening deck out on Night of the Zealot on Easy with one noticeable difference. I included replacement cards Green Man Medallion and Sacrificial Beast. My intention was by having Green Man and with all the money gained, i could effectively get both All Ins with an easier pad on my XP.

Oh boy was this a mess. I found out the hard way. Mr Rook gave me beginning draws that contained Beast and Izzie. Getting both in the study isolated them so once it was fully investigated, both would go away and ive effectively gotten both out of the first cycle.

Sad part is, ive depleted my deck enough that all my integral cards were missing and needed a cycle. (Needed intel report for the cellar). By the time that happened, beast was drawn along with Paranoia on a Mr Rook run and I could basically do nothing.

Beast made me realize how much dependency the numberous, gain resources card effects i needed to make this deck effective.

Im staying the course but i escaped Night of the Zealot with a resignation and 5 XP to show for my "cleverness" or lack thereof. I never got Green Medallion out and mostly i used it as an overachiever in skill tests.

The lesson here, DO NOT USE the replcements.

That sounds like it could have gone better. That being said, you did manage the goal with 5 xp. Next scenario should go much better.

I do not own the replacements and your reasoning sounds logical, but 6 resources per xp seems too much for this deck. On Expert I was able to double up on burglary with watch this! and was able to later double up the other watch this. I had to spent most of it on stat boosts and the rest went into assets and it still was a dicey proposal indeed. Easy should be a much easier time. Maybe you were just unlucky? Care to try again?

Also the deck contains three weapons and one kill event to deal with threats. That's already cutting it a little close as far as odds are concerned. Removing Jenny's guns leaves you with two and a kill event. That might leave you vunerable in an inopportune moment. Adding an enemy weakness to the deck (In addition to whatever random weakness) also seems needlessly dangerous. With Izzie you can basically guarantee that you have at least one weakness that can be dealt with later and that doesn't immediately affect your turn.

How much time did you spent in the study if you depleted most of your options there?

I don't know how to write things in Spoiler so, just stop reading here if you don't want to be spoiled for The Gathering:

I mulligan for Mr. "Rook" keeping any Double or Nothing or "Watch this!".

First turn looked like this: Playing Mr. Rook for 3, digging with Mr. Rook for combo, gaining 1 resource, investigating (with DoN, "Watch this!")

Your road map for The Gathering looks something like this:

• 2 clues in the Study --> Advance
  Study is Shroud 2. You need to spent two skill cards here to get through. +1 is enough for reasonable odds on easy. Alternatively expend your Intel Report here, but that makes getting the VP from the Cellar very difficult. However best move here is to go for an early Double or Nothing + "Watch this!". It will net you all the resources you need to continue and gives you both clues in one go. That's 5 against 4. Another +2 to this test makes it reasonably safe to pass with +1. Bonus points for adding Quick Thinking. If you have Premonition you can make this a safe bet.

• 2 clues from the Attic --> VP
  Attic has Shroud 1. You are already +2 so no boost needed. Should be easy.

• 2 clues from the Cellar --> VP
  Cellar is Shroud 4. You really should use Intel Report here. It is best efficency. Alternatively you could try with skill cards if you have them or skip the VP. No margin for half-arsery here.

• Kill Flesh-Eater (If it turns up in time) --> VP
  WIth any weapons +2 and one resource in a cash booster per action you should be able to kill it reasonably quickly. His abysmal evade makes him a good candidate to combo for some actions and money. You could also Backstab him, although that wastes some damage .

• Kill Icy Ghoul (If it turns up in time) --> VP
  With any weapons +2 this one should be easy pickings and dead in two actions.

• Pick up Lita Chantler
  Use Elusive to fetch Lita before facing off with the Ghoul Priest. You should really really keep Elusive for this purpose. In case you needed it earlier to e.g. evade two non-Hunter enemies, you can also try skipping Lita and whack the priest without her.

• Kill Ghoul Priest --> 2 VP
  This one is a tough customer. Lucky for us, with a little pest control (and luck with encounter deck) the last agenda has quite a lot of turns. So take your time to take draw actions or money actions and refill your options. With 4 and DoN is really only an option if you have lots of cards or a Premonition. Best case: You premonition +1 or 0. Feel free to DoN him with any gun (6 against his 8) and cash boost (or card boost) to 8 and kill him in one action (with Lita). Every other token just needs more resources.

• Refuse to burn home --> Extra VPs
  Lita is not really useful to us. The extra XP are.

Hope that helps. Maybe I was just lucky in my token draws but I managed max XP with 2 turns to spare on the last agenda.

@SkeithI went through all of Night of the Zealot with my gameplan above and here's the major flaw with it.

Sacrificial Beast is the jerk who ruins this entire combo. It prevents all form of resource gain and if very difficult to deal with in large maps.

When paired up with Paranoia, which is very likely to happen when tutoring with Mr. "Rook", both weaknesses can and have come up to give me the hardest time by far.

I never did commit ANYTHING to Green Man Medallion, so I ended up using it like an Unexpected Courage.

Even with 2 All In, the severe destruction that Paranoia and Sacrificial Beast do is too much for the combo and destroys the resources needed to make this deck effective.

The lesson learned is to never include them.

I see your point and why you would have a hard time. The idea would be to evade Sacrificial Beast and leave it behind. The All In would subsequently prevent you from ever actually drawing Paranoia. But that is no help in the first two scenarios of any given campaign. I would roll another weakness and try again.

I’d just like to compliment you on this deck. It’s a wonderful thought experiment and exercise in creativity. The time and work that must have been put into it is impressive. The fact that you acknowledge that it breaks the game and is not really recommended for multiplayer, but is more of an interesting solo experience shows that you really love the game. Thanks again for this neat deck, it’s Fascinating.

Thank you very much for your kind words. It really means a lot to me to here that.

In the meantime I got more experience with this deck and with the concept in general noticing multiple things.

Swift Reflexes isn't really needed in the deck. I now recommend buying Ace in the Hole as second upgrade no matter what. It provides all the action ever needed. Simply play it before taking the next test action. It goes into discard and before the next text concludes and thus can be redrawn and replayed after every test, netting 3 actions each time. Heck, if you wanted and needed the space in the sets for something else, you can even get away with cutting Quick Thinking.

The same is true for Sure Gamble. It will also resolve before the test is concluded and will also be redrawn after the test is finished. Nevertheless, here I am not yet commited to cutting the second copy. But one copy is enough to greatly improve the combo. The second copy can be bought later.

Also I really came to like the idea of holding an Olive McBride in hand, for then Premonition reveals tentacles. You play her, use her to evade the auto-fail and replay your other ally after the test.

I am currently tinkering with similar decks for Preston and Selfina and developing a proof of concept for Daisy. After that I will probably post a cleaned, more lean guide to this deck.

Wouldn't Will to Survive be a great addition to your combo ? I mean no more randomness; less ressources spent on pumpers, and its lasts until the end of the run. Never ever will you encounter a failure, combo would become truly infinte, wouldn't it ?

You are correct of course. But sadly Will to Survive is 3 xp in survivor and can't be taken by Jenny Barnes.

Only can take it. And non of the Survivors have enough draw or cash generation to maintain an infinite turn. I tried once with "Ashcan" Pete using David Renfield to generate lots of cash and then used Will to Survive, True Survivor with Resourceful and Quick Thinking. It generated enough actions to finish every scenario in Path to Carcosa but it was not infinite. It is not possible to generate enough money while comboing off as the action efficiency is really bad here.

Maybe I will post the deck later updated with newer cards.

Enjoyed reading this nice article but I got a question here that might make it a bit more troublesome for your calculation, which is about the effect of Double or Nothing

The card reads "If this skill test is successful, resolve the effects of the successful test twice", but neither the card itself or the rules gives a clear explanation about whether the effects of skill cards you put into a skill check should be considered as parts of "effects of a successful test".

Apologize for my poor English I'd better give an example to further explain my opinion...

So, assuming an investigator is going to perform an incvestigate action, he/she puts in Double or Nothing and Quick Thinking, and evantually succeeds the test by 2 or more.

I think the result of this successful skill test would be two clues (one clue is the effect of this test which got doubled by Double or Nothing) and one action (this is the effect of Quick Thinking, it should be consedered as card effect instead of test effect, and thus should not be doubled)

I'm not sure which resolvation is right but I do hope you could show me your proofs from the rulebook or, maybe ask the game designers about it?

Thank you ~

No trouble at all. Your question was already answered ind the FAQ for Double or Nothing:

Q: Does Double or Nothing work with extra action effects like Quick Thinking or the level 2 .41 Derringer? A: Double or Nothing works with both of those effects! Those effects indeed trigger during step 7 [of a skill test], and then create a delayed effect which grants the extra action(s) after the test resolves.

Basicly Double or Nothing works with any "if" trigger that is not a reaction ability. So not with Pickpocketing for example.

It is also under skill cards in the rules:

If a skill card is committed to a skill test, its ability may be used during the resolution of that skill test, as specified on the card.

And DoN basically just resolves the resolution twice, with everything that is currently in resolution. Beware that some effects are doubled but don't really do anything extra. Momentum for example is resolved twice but will always inly effect the next skill test and only up to -3. So doubling it with 3 over does nothing.

Hope that helps.

Wow,that's cool! Thanks a lot~

I still can't figure how to reach this scenario:

• Set #1 with 8 cards in our hand
• ONLY Set #2 with 8 cards in the discard pile (from previous test)
• No cards or one card (weakness) left in the deck
• Remaining Assets and Events in our hand

There are 33 cards in deck, assuming to have in play everything possible that, for me, is: 1x Jenny's Twin .45s 1x Lucky Cigarette Case 1x Fine Clothes 1x Mr. "Rook" 1x Burglary 1x Hard Knocks 1x Physical Training 1x Pickpocketing 1x Searching for Izzie

My hand would be something like this: 1x Daring Maneuver
1x Premonition
1x Swift Reflexes
1x All in
2x "Watch this!"
1x Double or Nothing
1x Unexpected Courage

And, from previous test my discard pile should be something like this: 1x Daring Maneuver 1x Premonition
1x Swift Reflexes
1x All in
1x Double or Nothing
2x Quick Thinking 1x Unexpected Courage

33-9-8-8= 8 cards left in the deck which i should have only my basic weakness so the remaining 7 cards should be in my hand? with the 8 of the combo for a total of 15 cards in hand?

How could this be possible? I'm sure i'm missing something but i can't understand what! Can you describe me a scenario in which i can trigger the combo?

Thanks in advance.

It is possible by not discarding at the end of the turn, because there is no end of the turn. This allows for 8+7 cards in hand.

Lets say you have one full set of the combo in hand and have played all assets. that leaves 16 cards in the deck. At the beginning of the next turn you attempt to go off. You combo and draw 9-11 cards (you draw first from lucky cigarette case and after that 2 times 5 from All in, you might draw the weakness in any of those, thus reducing your draw). That's 5-7 cards remaining. You now trigger Mr. Rook who will draw you either 1 or 2 cards. You either name 3 or 6 in the draw depending on how many cards are left in the deck:

1a. You have 7 left, because All in found your weakness on the first pass. You name 6. You draw two finding your weakness. You have 5 left.
1b. You have 7 left, because All in found your weakness on the first pass. You name 6. You draw 1 not finding your weakness. Your weakness is the last card, it gets reshuffled. You have 6 left.

2a. You have 6 left, because All in found your weakness on the second pass. You name 6. You draw two finding your weakness. You have 4 left.
2b. You have 6 left, because All in found your weakness on the second pass. You name 6. You draw 1 not finding your weakness. Your weakness is the last card, it gets reshuffled. You have 5 left.

3a. You have 5 left, because All in did not find your weakness. You name 3. You draw two finding your weakness. You have 3 left.
3b. You have 5 left, because All in found your weakness on the first pass. You name 3. You draw 1 not finding your weakness. Your weakness is the last card, it gets reshuffled. You have 4 left.

You now have 3 -6 cards left in the deck and gained two actions form QT and 1 from Swift Reflexes. You now have 5 actions left. You take 2-4 normal draw actions. In all cases but with 5 or 6 cards you now hold all 15 cards with either your weakness in the deck or in the discard. With 5 cards you still have 20% chance for your weakness to be the last cards in the deck. In the 5 case you miss one card, which might not even be a combo card is likely not All In or DoN (because you fished for those with Mr. Rook). In the 6 case you miss two but one might be your weakness.

Taking all the "If"s into account you have a good chance of continueing the combo with the last action, retaining alle toolkit events (thus saving actions on the next run through). Should you get really unlucky and one of the last two or the last card is either DoN or All you draw one more card with the last action and one more on the end turn, discarding all non-combo cards. You definitely have your combo now and can try again beginning your next turn.

Hope that helps.

Just starting up TCU with Joe Diamond and this deck to try it out. How should I play it in the first couple of scenarios before I get any xp? It isn’t clear to me

@Skeith How do you buy off trauma between campaigns? I've recently started playing and I've been looking through the FAQ, L2P, and reference but have not found any rules explaining it. One of your comments mentioned buying off trauma. tnx!

Through the introduction of house rules. No rules in the game as written allow it generically.

@Yenreb not really true. One particular campaign allows buy off of trauma for xp at a certain point. But in general you dont buy off trauma. You shouldn't accumulate more than one or two points of trauma and those can generally be healed easily enough in the scenario. We are juggling sanity damage anyway.

@dennisbp I already answered this at length around the 4th of July 2019. Kelvissu asked this too and I went into quite a lot of detail. Have a look. Maybe it helps you too. The gist of it is that you conserve your strength and don't try to go for the finish but rather for as many xp as you can even if it cost you a point of trauma during resolution.

@SkeithExcellent. Thank you. I missed that (lengthy) comment. I'm about to start up my third scenario with most of the suggested upgrades. Still not sure how to make it to all those actions ;) (earned 12xp so far and spent them on Obol, Streetwise and All inx2)

Hi Skeith. Interesting Deck you puzzled out. Thanks for sharing your idea. One question though. Does the treachery „beyond the veil“ break your infinite combo?

No ist does not. Last year it was mentioned it would, but it can be avoided. Mr. Rook and Fine Clothes together net exactly 11 health with our base health. If we dont take damage before triggering beyond the veil, Jenny survives with 1 Health.

But I also mentioned back then that the treachery appears first in scenario 3 of Dunwich. By that time it might be feasable to obtain 15 xp in all from the scenariod (Obol is net neutral after one scenario). In that case you can buy 2 copies of all in 1 copy of red-gloved man. That will up your health pool to make beyond the veil very survivable. And you will never trigger it more than once.

Stella Clark brought a gift, hot off the FFG presses: Swap out Premonition for Will to Survive to shred those last bits of chance and simplify the commit/boost calculations since chaos tokens no longer matter.

Time to squeeze in Three Aces into the deck I think as well, with Double or Nothing that is another 6 Cards and Resources, combined with Will to Survive you may never have to draw a Token again.

Problem is Three Aces does not work with DoN as you get the draw and the resources after the test is concluded. At least that is how I read "that test automatically succeeds (do not reveal chaos tokens from the chaos bag). Then draw 3 cards and gain 3 resources". The bonus is not part of the resolution of the test. But oh boy does the deck want two copies of the basic Will to Survive.

I am at the moment very busy with my two infant children and therefore dont find the time to rework the deck but you can do some new seriously neet things.

This deck has certainly gained a lot of toys recently. Pilfer, nimble and Gregory Gry are probably the most exciting cards to come out recently for this deck (and will to survive obvs). Gregory Gry replaces Burglary and acts as another great soak and passive money source. Pilfer is great because it let's you strap watch this to an investigate and nimble just let's you throw free moves into the mix. Daredevil and Momentum are also exciting but probably don't make the cut.

The greatest deck I've ever seen!

Why can you only deal with one weakness?

All In returns all weaknesses you draw to the draw pile. If you have two of them in your draw pile, you have a good chance of drawing less than 8 cards (because All In + DoN draws in sets of 5 you might redraw both weaknesses netting you as little as 6 actual cards). Drawing less than 8 cards contains the chance to not redraw a copy of All In or DoN. This would break the combo. Hope that helps.

Sounds like a very fun deck to play. I don't fully get the infinite stage of the game, could you maybe give a step by step example on how the round would play out? Would help a lot