Desperate Dreamer Rita

This is my initial decklist for the all Survivor Dream Eater run.

I currently have only Survivor cards for this, but that is not really on purpose. Just worked out that way. Could change with XP, especially if I can get Ace in the Hole.

My biggest goal is to handle enemy management so that my cluevers (Wendy/Lola) can do their job. However, I also have some cards to help get some clues myself if there are no enemies to deal with.

Here's the main ideas in this deck:

1) Stacking Agility. Peter Sylvestre and Track Shoes take me to 7 Agility which in most cases will be all I need to pass an Agility test.

2) Sitting at 3 remaining sanity as much as possible to turn on Desperates and Meat Cleaver. We want to pop horror on Meat Cleaver as much as possible to get the 2 damage and hopefully heal plenty of times off of Swarm enemies. Painkillers will help us heal damage, but the real reason Painkillers is in our deck is to help us sit at 3 remaining sanity in case we can't get there naturally. We have Reckless Assault to combo with our Meat Cleaver, which will put us at a fight of 9 for ideally a pay off of 2 damage and 1 horror healed. Desperate Search can help us out in getting clues if there are no enemies to deal with.

3) Not dying while at 3 sanity. To achieve this we are using Peter Sylvestre, Cherished Keepsake, Smoking Pipe, and to a lesser extent, Lucky! and Guts.

4) Exploiting Drawing Thin/Track Shoes for money or card draw. Pretty self explanatory. Doing this combo even a few times allows me to be able to play every card in my deck with ease.

Long term, we want to get Charisma and Yaotl right away so that we can exploit our Desperates. To further the Yaotl combo and buff our skills some more, we will also be going for Cornered. We will not be using Ornate Bow in this build, because we want both hand slots available (I have some ideas for my hand slots, depending on my XP) and we have a Silas to deal damage as well. Due to the abbreviated nature of this campaign, we will also be investing a lot in Exile cards. I am also considering Infighting as a Dreameaters tech card due to the Swarm mechanic along with its synergy with Yaotl due to Infighting's ample symbols. We may also go for 1 or 2 Eucatastrophes depending on how much XP we get, but it's tier 2 priority.

XP Purchases: First tier priority: 1x Charisma 2x Yaotl 1x Ace in the Hole 2x Cornered

Second tier priority: 2x Peter Sylvestre (2) 2x Infighting 2x Eucatastrophe 1x Gravedigger's Shovel (2)

Third tier priority: 2x Stroke of Luck 2x A Test of Will 2x Devil's Luck 2x Fortune or Fate 2x Flare

Fourth tier priority: 2x Tennessee Sour Mash 2x Timeworn Brand 2x Newspaper (2)