Mark Harrigan - To Carcosa and back!

Just 3 weapons? I guess more get added with upgrades.

Three is fine. You have "Prepared for the Worst" as a 4th weapon. Mark has very high strength so he can handle weaker opponents without any weapon too.

After 1st or 2nd scenario you should be able to buy Stick to the Plan with Ever Vigilant replacing Prepared for the Worst. Stick to the Plan will pull out Ever Vigilant, Shortcut and Elusive from your deck so it gets much easier to draw a weapon in the early game.

I’m going to start a Carcosa campaign with this deck as the inspiration. I see only two healing cards, were they enough for the whole campaign?

I think so. Healing all in all costs you an action. Or even 2+ if you use First Aid. Emergency Aid is here "just in case". You could consider using Second Wind as well, but Second Wind won't heal you allies.

After few scenarios I managed to buy 2 x Key of Ys, 2 x Brother Xavier, 2 x Bulletproof Vest. It works well well with Ever Vigilant + Stick to the Plan combo (maybe except Brother Xavier).

Check Bulletproof Vest for example. It costs 2 resources and 1 action to heal up you for 4 health points. You can play it even if you're full health. Isn't it much more efficient than Emergency Aid or Second Wind?

You just have to be careful with Sophie. Do not overuse it!

Brother Xavier is a great choice. Upgraded Beat Cop and Charisma sound interesting too. I'm going to replace Physical Training and Scene of the crime for 1x Smoking Pipe and 2x First Aid to add more uses to Sophie. Playing on the edge!

@Taocayo Let me know how it went! :-)

@Taocayo One more thing! For "The Curtain Call" you should be able to gather 7 or 8 experience points (and buy Stick to the Plan + Ever Vigilant at once). Check strategy tips in arkhamdb.com guide. With Mark I managed to survive ALL encounters and kill Royal Emissary many times finishing the scenario with 7 experience points.

Thanks for bringing our attention to the synergy between Shortcut and Scene of the Crime! I never thought of using shortcut in that way.

According to his deck building options, I don't think he can have Shortcut. Even though it's a Tactic, it's a Seeker card. It doesn't say he can use Seeker cards.

Same goes for Elusive.

You also can't upgrade to Ever Vigilant. That's a level 1 Tactic. I'm guessing you are disregarding the deck building rules?

@edomingox as long as they are Tactic level 0 they can come from any class. Ever Vigilant is a Guardian card and Mark Harrigan can use any level 0-5 Guardian cards.

@Taocayo Yes, it's a Guardian card, but it's Level 1. He can't use Level 1 Tactics. Only Level 0's.

I don't see where it says they can come from ANY class. I thought it's restricted based on what Classes are mentioned, then the cards are restricted based on the type which would apply only to those cards he has access to.

Ashcan Pete demonstrates using cards for "any other class". This one simply does not say that.

It’s common in this game that when there’s no explicit limits to mean it’s not limited. Read the Deckbulding Options again and replace every comma with “and in addition to that...” and it might make more sense.

Finn Edwards, Jenny Barnes, Jim Culver, Marie Lambeau. I can go on.

The limits seem pretty explicit to me. Especially when other cards mention Any Other Class in their options. This one simply says he can only use Guardian and Neutral cards, and Tactics level 0. To me, it's implied that Tactics belongs to those 2 classes. Otherwise, it would say "Tactics Level 0 from any other class."

Another way of reading ever rule in the deckbuilding option is to think in terms of sets (from set theory). So for Mark Harrigan we have the following sets:

• A : Guardian cards level 0-5
• B : Neutral cards level 0-5
• C : Tactic cards level 0

So Mark’s available pool of cards is A+B+C.

That does make sense when you see it that way. Now why didn't they just add "from any other class"? That is why it makes me think it's not from any other class.

Fantasy Flight is (in)famous for their succinct approach to the writing on their cards. Check out their FAQ on their website for this game for other examples of this. :)

@edomingox,@Taocayo Another way of looking at is by way of contradiction. If the requirement "Tactic level 0" excludes level 1+ guardian tactics then this contradicts the first requirement of "Guardian cards level 0-5".

Ever since Second Wind was released I’ve included it in every Mark deck I’ve played, but I think my general attitude towards Sophie might be a bit different to yours. I see her as the key to soloing as Mark, as she gives you the flexibility to reasonably attempt any kind of test. Plus there’s the card draw every time you use her, which leads to Mark’s incredible consistency.

I still don’t like First Aid since, as you say, it’s slow, but with 2x Emergency Aid and Second Wind you can get quite a bit of use out of Sophie whilst still staying in the safe health zone.

It’s very interesting to see a different approach, though, and I do like your write-up.

Congrats on Deck of the Week!

Gosh, thanks!

I played this through Carcosa at the beginning of the month in true Solo, and as describe, it's a breeze. I stalled Curtain Call until my deck ran out of cards to get that XP needed and it's crazy this deck can do that. This deck did great through the whole campaign.

@Dwelling_Despair Thanks a lot! :-)

But what is the synergy between Key of Ys and Brother Xavier? Brother don’t attract more horror to Key, it’s a soak. Why did you mention more then once regarding importance to have both cards?

@Yury1975 It's all about the soak :)

What is the difficulty you played it?

@Rancord AFAIR it was "standard" :-)

Hello, what changes would you make to play with two investigators ?