0-Difficulty, 0-Ally Darrell

This is a Darrell deck centered around his ability to reduce the difficulty of skill tests, along with the new suite of Survivor cards which capitalize on testing at 0 difficulty. It's got a lot of synergies, but almost all the cards involved are just good in a vacuum too. It's also very setup-light, with only 6 non-permanent assets in the whole deck, so you'll be able to jump in hard and fast from turn 1.

I'll be playing this in 2-player across from Tommy Muldoon, but I suspect it will be able to perform decently in solo as well (with perhaps a few slight alterations.)

Important: 2 new cards for the deck aren't on ArkhamDB yet, so I had to use substitutes:

• Grit Your Teeth = Shed a Light (2 cost event, when you investigate at difficulty 0, it automatically succeeds and you get and extra clue plus another clue at any location.)
• Last Chance = Gumption (1) (Skill, no icons, commit to any test; reduce the difficulty of the test by 2. Crucially, has the Innate trait.)

Card-by-card notes:

• Exploit Weakness/Shed a Light: Huge payoffs for reducing test difficulty to 0. Single-card, testless enemy removal and 1-for-3 clue acquisition are bonkers, and Darrell's ability gives you a built-in way to accomplish this on enemies with <=2 fight or evade (of which there are many) or <=2 shroud locations. However, things kick into overdrive when you add...
• Gumption (1): With this skill card in hand, replace the "2" above with "4", and now suddenly the payload events can hit 95% of locations and enemies. Even without those events, this is an Unexpected Courage with upside. If we could, we'd run 8 of these. Speaking of which...
• True Survivor: Since Gumption is Innate, we can use this to get more uses of it per game. Add in Resourceful, and we can run loop over and over again. The only practical limit is having the resources to play True Survivor's 3-resource cost multiple times, which brings up...
• On Your Own: Exploit Weakness and Shed a Light each cost 2, and True Survivor costs 3, and we want to play them all as often as possible, so On Your Own is a perfect fit for the deck. Sure, we can't use allies, but those are overrated anyway (don't tell Charlie I said that.)
• Scrounge for Supplies: Recurs Exploit Weakness and Shed a Light, as well as Resourceful in a pinch to get back higher-level stuff. At this point, we have enough recursion to make Short Supply a must.
• Hawk-Eye Folding Camera/Empirical Hypothesis: Evidence batteries for Darrell. We're going to want to trigger his ability often, and so the Kodak alone might not cut it. Note that the camera doesn't actually cap at 3 evidence, even though I've played it that way for years. Empirical Hypothesis is great with no upgrades, but you can throw a couple of points at it if you'd like it to trigger a bit more easily.
• Flashlight: Another way to help get investigations to 0 difficulty. Even better, we now have a level 3 version which can also be used on evading.
• Other stuff: The rest of the deck can be tweaked to your taste. I'm using Cunning Distraction and Winging It as additional targets for On Your Own, but those can be pretty much any events to suit the group. Live and Learn is protection, since a lot of our tests will be " or success"-type affairs. Finally, Deduction and Shortcut are Deduction and Shortcut, what else is there to say.

Upgrade Priority

1. Gumption (1) x2 - huuuuge enabler for the strategy.
2. On Your Own - this is how we economy. Until this is purchased, Darrell is just going ally-less to look cool.
3. True Survivor x2 - probably too resource-intensive to get before On Your Own, but just as important to the gameplan.
4. Flashlights to level 3 - being able to use these to evade will be super-clutch for enemy management. The upgrade also allows them to be used in conjunction with Winging It, which will occasionally come in handy.
5. Go crazy with events for On Your Own: Pick what you like, or what the group or campaign requires. Eucatastrophe is always a good one, as is Will to Survive. Alter Fate is awesome in certain campaigns. If you're low on enemy management, Snare Trap and Close Call are options. Towards the end of the campaign, you can dabble in exile stuff like Fortune or Fate or Burn After Reading.

Let me know what you think! Are there any obvious cards I missed?