Agnes Baker's Cursed Paradox (14xp core deck)

Solo Agnes deck that revolves around Spirit of Humanity and Paradoxical Covenant, built with cards from Revised Core, Dunwich Legacy and Innsmouth Conspiracy. Probably fine in multiplayer, as long as your fellow investigators are prepared to deal with some curses and do not compete for Favor of the Sun.

Use Spirit of Humanity, Keep Faith, Promise of Power and Tempt Fate to fill up the chaos bag with curses and blessings , while Paradoxical Covenant, Armageddon, Eye of Chaos and Shroud of Shadows serve as payoffs. Favor of the Moon and Favor of the Sun allow you to influence the Blessing/Curse ratio in the bag and give you a way to consistently succeed important checks with impossible odds: Use Favor of the Sun when drawing to trigger Paradoxical Covenant and automatically succeed. Alternatively, use Favor of the Moon to get multiple triggers on Armageddon/Eye of Chaos/Shroud of Shadows. Or do both! When drawing a random during a 8-10+ check (which is fairly common with level 4 Eye of Chaos and Armageddon), it is often better to take your chances with the chaos bag and eat an extra curse or two instead of spending a Favor of the Sun charge to succeed.

The second strategy of the deck is direct checkless damage through Agnes' special ability. Spirit of Humanity, Forbidden Knowledge, Painkillers and Ward of Protection allow you to inflict horror to yourself at action speed, easily finishing off low health threats with no chance of failure. When your health or sanity becomes too low for comfort, you can offload additional horror to Peter Sylvestre and patch yourself up with Spirit of Humanity and Painkillers.

For a 0 xp campaign starter replace all upgraded cards with 1x Rite of Seeking, 1x Shrivelling, 1x "Look what I found!", 1x Drawn to the Flame, 2x Lucky! and 2x Peter Sylvestre and follow this upgrade prioritization: Spirit of Humanity > Paradoxical Covenant > Favor of the Sun/Favor of the Moon > Peter Sylvestre. Alternatively, if you feel confident you can include 2x Delve Too Deep to speed up early progression. The biggest weakness of the deck is a complete lack of draw support and it is advisable to aggressively mulligan for Spirit of Humanity, Armageddon and Eye of Chaos.