Rita's losing her mind (0xp only cards through Circle Undone

Why not make Rita's greatest weakness (low sanity) into a strength? By using Meat Cleaver (or the natural progression of the scenario) to lower Rita's sanity by 2 points, she gets access to the power of Say Your Prayers, Fight or Flight, Meat Cleaver's bonus attack, and the other low sanity skill cards. In order to protect what little sanity she has left, we use Cherished Keepsake, Guts, Say Your Prayers, and most importantly, Peter Sylvestre (Peter is the top mulligan priority).

The design is to play as many cards as possible before playing Dark Horse. If Peter Sylvestre, Track Shoes, and Dark Horse are in play, Rita has an astounding 8 Agility which she can use to continuously evade, or delete enemies with Waylay.

Dark Horse gives Rita a base willpower of 4. Guts and Say Your Prayers can also help her pass will tests coming from the encounter deck. Just be sure not to take resources during the upkeep phase, but instead to use Drawing Thin and Take Heart to pick up resources when you need them instead.

I made this deck for a 4p game of the Circle Undone. As such, Rita is tuned to fight and exhaust enemies and not to search for clues (that was left to other players). Cards in the side deck would be included if she needed to support clue finding. Our house rules only allow for cards from the expansions before circle undone as well as those from the scenarios themselves, so as nice as they are, I could not use Scarlet Keys cards in this deck.