How to draw your deck in no time with Lola Hayes

Ancestral Knowledge and Underworld Market are only here to increase your deck size, don't use their .

You end up with 35+2×5(Versatile)+15(Forced learning)+10(Market)+5(Ancestral knowledge)+5(signatures and weaknesses) = 80 cards in your deck

Starting hand (7 cards with Studious) :
Feed the Mind, At a Crossroads, 2×Strength in Numbers, 2×Promise of Power, Helping Hand

Your starting role is

When the game begins :

– Observed let you play Feed the Mind (3) for free

– At a Crossroads triggers, you draw Stubborn Detective, Cheat the System and Honed Instinct

– This allows you play Honed Instinct and take an action to activate Feed the Mind (3) with +2 to your skill.

Play Cheat the System. Combined with your 9 starting ressources, that's 14 ressources converted to +28 with Higher Education

Commit to your test the rest of your hand :
2×Strength in Numbers, 2×Promise of Power, Helping Hand (total of +40 )

You are testing at 73 vs 0. Find and draw 75 cards.
More precisely, you have 7 cards (2 events and 5 skills) in limbo and 2 cards (Feed the Mind + detective) in play, so you will reshuffle your deck to draw Cheat the System but you can only draw 71 cards... meaning the "Then" part of Feed the Mind can trigger, and you won't take any horror.

You may now proceed to the first investigation phase of the game.

...

Unless...

Impossible...

It's Mandy Thompson with a steel chair !

How to draw even more cards in no time with Mandy Thompson

Note : i filled the deck with dumb cards before publishing it, but you can consider you have 66 cards level 0-3 from any class in hand at the start of the game for any tool assisted speedrun attempt in a multiplayer group.