Recursion Pete

Upgrade options in no particular order: Stray Cat -> The Red-Gloved Man

Newspaper -> Newspaper

Rise to the Occasion -> Stroke of Luck

Emergency Cache -> Emergency Cache Lucky! -> Lucky!

Lucky! or Emergency Cache -> True Survivor

A Chance Encounter -> A Chance Encounter

Scrapper

Charisma, one copy should do.

This is a very tightly wound deck headed for Carcosa. It's designed to be played primarily for clue hunting in a four man team with a dedicated combatant.

It's got a fair few items to be targeted by Scavenging to ensure you consistently have something to throw away to ready duke. Ideally you can keep playing and soaking damage onto the your fine clothes. Failing any of that calling in favors and inspiring presence should keep Duke happy and healthy to tank damage for you.

For hard to investigate locations it has the Art student and a handful of different methods to pop her on and off the play field to get potentially as many as 8 uses out of her if you luck into the right cards. Most of which work just as well for stay cart and all of which work for the red gloved man.

Carcosa has a bad habit of making you throw assets away and the deck has a great many solutions to bring them back into the fold once they've hit the discard pile.

Once you have true survivor you can use it with Resourceful to keep pulling inspiring presence, rise to the occasion out, or your other copy of resourceful back into your hand.

Rise to the occasion is a surprisingly good pick for pete. He likes to fight and investigate at a 4 with duke but his base stat is a 2 so that lets him swing way above his belt.

Naturally we have Dark house and Madame Labranche. Nuff said. Both pair extremely well with the fire axe

Newspaper is great, especially now that it upgrades. Those first two clues comes easy. Also thematically glorious.