Ky-money Jones' thanks Valentin1331

Introduction:

First, a big thank you to Valentin1331. This deck, like most of the ones I play these days, started out from one of his amazing decklists. In that one, Kymani grew to be an all-evading superstar. In the campaign I played, we had two big fighters, so I evolved this into a big money clue/flex fun time.

Table of Contents:

• Overview

• Main Strategy

• Pay for anything

• The Super Cash Combo

• Other Cards

• Scarlet Key card highlights

• Thank you Valentin1331!

Overview:

Main Strategy:

• Use economy to buy and pay for anything. Embezzled Treasure helps you from scenario two; Underworld Market and Fence help get your cards down quickly and cheaply.
• Then, late campaign, money makes more money with your Stylish Coat, Easy Mark, Pay Day and an Unscrupulous Loan.
• With all that cash on hand, you can pass any test with Well Connected

Pay for anything:

• 24 cards in this deck contribute to economy, by either giving you resources, or reducing costs.
• This means your The Black Fan and Well Connected are going to give you super powers from mid-scenario
• I found in playing that I need a few rounds to get set up, but once the main engine is running, you're super-powered.
• Your underworld market should contain Fence, Thieves' Kit, "I'll take that!", Pickpocketing and Embezzled Treasure (until the final scenario when you can upgrade out of it). Prioritise getting those in play. Once you have Gregory Gry and Stylish Coat in play, the resources will flood in.

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The Super Combo:

If you can manage it, you can pull off a ridiculous turn:

• Action 1 and 2: Play Grappling Hook, triggering Honed Instinct
• Actions 3, 4, 5: Activate Grappling Hook and take 3 basic actions - Move, Evade, Investigate (comitting Quick Thinking to one of them)
• Action 6: The Evade triggers a free fight action from Dirty Fighting
• Action 7: Quick Thinking triggers another free action
• Action 8: The Black Fan's free action (assuming you're >15 resources)
• Action 9: Activate Fence to play #Pay Day Keerrr-ching: NINE resources.

More Pay Day required? Bring in Leo De Luca and commit a second Quick Thinking to another test.

Other Cards:

• Disguise is a good card, but I didn't use it much; Nathaniel Cho and Dexter Drake were more than happy destroying enemies in play.
• Daring Maneuver is for when you're using your special ability. It's a good way to boost the second evade test, to be sure you succeed by enough. It also helps trigger all your "Succeed by x" cards (Pickpocketing, Lucky Cigarette Case, Gregory Gry, "Watch this!" and Breaking and Entering
• The deck looks asset heavy, but you have Fence and "I'll take that!" to help get them to the table quicker.
• Hidden Pocket was somewhat redundant in early campaign, but felt great once the The Black Fan was in the deck. Your deck doesn't need Grappling Hook in play to work well, though, so you could drop this one for something else.

Scarlet Key card highlights

Since I'm still finding my way with the TSK cards, the highlights were:

• Honed Instinct is a lovely, cheeky way to squeeze more action economy.
• "I'll take that!" gives you a great way to get items in play quickly.
• Stylish Coat, with a Hidden Pocket, is thematically wonderful, and gets the resource pile growing really quickly.
• Embezzled Treasure earned its full resource bonus every scenario. I chose not to share the extra starting resources with other investigators, because it's pretty expensive to get all your assets in play early on.

Thank you Valentin1331

Once again, a huge thank you to Valentin1331 for contributing so much to the Arkham community and to making ArkhamdDB.com such a great place!