This deck was used in a very successful and enjoyable blind playthrough of "The Path to Carcosa" on standard difficulty together with Lily Chen who was the fighter.

You find clues, heal horror and damage, provide resources and card draw to you and your fellow investigators. Try to stick together with a fighter investigator as they will protect you from enemies and you will provide them with healing (especially important in Carcosa).

This deck offers heavy healing (especially horror) and support for both you and your teammates.

Place a layline from Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise on each investigator. Use an action to activate it when needed to heal 1 damage or horror and draw a card for an investigator at any location! Don't forget to provide a resource from Carolyn Fern's ability to the investigator when healed a horror.
If needed, you can even spend the layline to double the effects of healing and card draw.

Use Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony to passively heal horror and gain resource(s) each turn on card draw.

If you have Hypnotic Therapy, you can exhaust it to heal 1 additional horror when healing horror from an investigator. You can also use the card itself to heal 1 horror from an investigator, but it needs to be at your location.

Use First Aid and its upgraded version First Aid to heal damage as well.

Once you put Hallowed Mirror into play, use the Soothing Melody to heal damage and/or horror and draw a card. Note you can distribute the healing as you like between the investigators and allies at your location. If you heal horror from more than one investigator, provide them a resource as well because of your investigator's ability. After upgrading to Hallowed Mirror, you receive even more healing or the choice to shuffle the used Soothing Melody back into the deck. This has proven to be very good approach.

Logical Reasoning and its very powerful upgraded version Logical Reasoning can be used for heavy horror healing on investigators at your location.

Later into the campaign, you can also use Kerosene to distribute horror healing at your location once an enemy is defeated this round there.

You have several ways to find clues.

First, you start with a 4 but you can easily boost it to 6 with Alice Luxley and Magnifying Glass.

When you upgrade to Field Agent you can use one (or even two) of them to discover clue(s) testless each turn. Heal the horror from the ally with the many tools at your disposal, gaining a resource in the process. Field Agent also boosts your by 1 so you can investigate at 7 !

You have two more options for testless clue finding - Scene of the Crime and Working a Hunch, both not provoking attack of opportunity.

When needed, boost your skill value with Analysis, Eureka!, Occult Theory, Perception and Unexpected Courage.

You have several tools to protect from the encounter deck.

The classic Ward of Protection saves you from a treachery card at the cost of a horror which you want anyway for the benefits of healing it.

Logical Reasoning can discard a Terror card not only from you but also from a teammate. The upgraded Logical Reasoning can do it multiple times, combined with healing a lot of horror. Just make sure you have several clues when using these.

Use Orphic Theory to blank a treachery card in play until the end of the round.

Well Prepared will help you additionally boost a skill tested for an encounter card.

Orphic Theory gives you huge amount of equal to your icons.

Best stick to your fighter utilizing Safeguard.

You can kill 1 health enemies directly with the Alice Luxley's ability after discovering a clue. You can trigger it with Field Agent which makes a good combo.

If you happen to take horror or damage is not that big of a deal as you can heal it. You have several ways to be efficient even when engaged with an enemy, through Scene of the Crime and Working a Hunch

There are two powerful cards for constantly boosting skills in this deck.

Soul Sanctification - you collect offerings of excess horror or damage healing which can be spent to provide up to +4 boost to any skill test! The Hypnotic Therapy's reaction ability can be used to trigger this extra horror healing.

Note that there is an important rule exception for Soul Sanctification that you can trigger healing even when the target is at full health/horror, providing precious offerings for this card!

Well Prepared is also very powerful utilizing your assets for skill boosting. This is especially useful for encounter deck protection in combination with Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise or Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony.

Ever Vigilant saves you actions and resources to setup.

Use Safeguard to efficiently move after your fighter. Typically, guardians upgrade it to Safeguard but this is not recommended for Carolyn since she is a cluever not a fighter.

Eureka! lets you draw an important card out of 3 options.

Naturally you gain resources when you are healed horror which can be done automatically each turn by Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony when drawing a card during the upkeep phase.

Alice Luxley damages an enemy when you discover a clue.

Use Eureka! during investigation for a chance to find one of your critical cards without a risk of drawing a weakness. It also shuffles your deck.

Use Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise to simultaneously heal and draw cards.

Use Stand Together as soon as possible and when you have another investigator at your location to get 2 resources each.

Use Ever Vigilant to efficiently play assets during your setup rounds. If drawn later, it can be used for its two book icons to support an investigation test.

Heal horror from investigators (including you) or allies on every occasion possible so you can use your investigator's ability to provide them a resource. Your team should not afraid to take horror if you have at least some of the healing cards set up.

The target is to upgrade both the Ancient Stone and the Archive of Conduits. Find them with mulligan or with Mr. "Rook".

Drop the resources from Archive of Conduits on low shroud easy to access locations and go to collect them through the scenario.

After having at least one clue, find a high shroud location (4 or more) and commit all the boosts available to research the Ancient Stone : Working a Hunch, Eureka!, Occult Theory, Perception, Unexpected Courage and especially Analysis. If you happen to draw the fail token, drop a clue and try again with Analysis.

Note that you need to research only one of the Ancient Stones and upgrade both for the cost of one with Shrewd Analysis. Since the only allowed upgrade for Carolyn is Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony, you directly upgrade to it without the randomness usually involved using in Shrewd Analysis.

In the first scenario you should mulligan for an Ancient Stone and Archive of Conduits, Analysis, Occult Theory, Eureka! and Mr. "Rook" to potentially find them.

In the other scenarios it is important to have:

• Economy (Stand Together, Ever Vigilant)
• Some healing (Hallowed Mirror and Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise are priority since they are a single copy)
• An ally (Mr. "Rook" if the other cards are yet to be found)
• Movement (Safeguard)
• Skill boosting (Magnifying Glass, Well Prepared)

1) 8xp

• 3xp 2x Ancient Stone Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony - because of Shrewd Analysis
• 1xp Analysis Ever Vigilant
• 4xp Archive of Conduits Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise

2) 4xp

• 1xp Eureka! Orphic Theory
• 2xp Unexpected Courage Well Prepared
• 1xp Perception Four of Cups

3) 5xp

• 3xp Charisma
• 2xp Mr. "Rook" Field Agent

4) 8xp

• 2xp Mr. "Rook" Field Agent
• 3xp Hallowed Mirror Hallowed Mirror
• 3xp First Aid First Aid

5) 7xp

• 6xp Soul Sanctification
• 1xp Unexpected Courage Kerosene

6) 8xp

• 8xp 2x Logical Reasoning Logical Reasoning

7) 4xp

• 3xp First Aid First Aid
• 1xp Stand Together Ever Vigilant