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The Henry Knoll House Hunt
| Submitted by: | funkenmittens |
| Submitted: | Feb 27 2014 07:46 PM |
| Last updated: | Feb 28 2014 05:23 AM |
| Category: | Call of Cthulhu Decks |
| Deck Name: | The Henry Knoll House Hunt |
| Deck Strategy: | Resource to 4-3-2. Naomi O'Bannion uses House Advantage and City Map to keep Tactics (Immurement, On the Lam) recycling. Skill lowering characters like the Clover Club Torch Singer and the Clover Club Bouncer combine with Henry Knoll and The Clover Club to destroy or weaken opposing Characters. |
| Deck Contents: | Total Cards (50) Story (0) Character (29) Clover Club Bouncer (Core) x1 Clover Club Pit Boss (DotU) x2 Clover Club Torch Singer (Core) x1 Fall Guy (DotU) x2 Hatchet Man (DotU) x3 Henry Knoll (DotU) x3 Jacob Finnegan (DotU) x2 Lena Di Boerio (DotU) x2 Peter Clover (SoK) x2 Naomi O'Bannion (DotU) x3 Martin Herring (DotU) x2 Numbers Runner (DotU) x2 O'Bannion's Inner Council (DotU) x2 Clover Club High Roller (DotU) x2 Support (9) Dutch Courage (Core) x1 House Advantage (DotU) x2 The Clover Club (DotU) x2 City Map (DotU) x2 Danny O'Bannion's Office (DotU) x2 Event (12) Immurement (DotU) x3 Like A Moth (Core) x1 On the Lam (DotU) x3 Pay Tribute (DotU) x3 Forced Compliance (DotU) x2 Conspiracy (0) Resource to 4-3-2. Naomi O'Bannion uses House Advantage and City Map to keep Tactics (Immurement, On the Lam) recycling. Skill lowering characters like the Clover Club Torch Singer and the Clover Club Bouncer combine with Henry Knoll and The Clover Club to destroy or weaken opposing Characters. Peter Clover, Martin Herring, and Numbers Runner combines with On the Lam to control opponents' access to stories. Immurement is used for direct Support and Character removal. Call in O'Bannions Inner Council late game, with a lot of Criminals on the table, to close the deal. |
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6 Comments
This is my first deck build, for any CCG or LCG. Thank you for looking, and all comments are welcome.
I only have a single Core Set and two deluxe expansions, DotU and the SoK... that explains the card pool for this deck. In my first three games running the deck I did very well against some mixed-factions, but am already wondering about the City Map, O'Bannion's Inner Council (having to resource up to 4 and otherwise doing everything in my power to avoid icon struggles makes it seem less important than I thought it might be), and Numbers Runner. Peter Clover has been very effective with House Advantage, especially against high-skill character-heavy decks.
My immediate thoughts are:
Tear Gas / Crowbar / Ice Shaft should try and make an appearance in here somewhere so it might be worth looking at picking up the packs with those in. Crowbar is awesome on Naomi as it gives you a way to exhaust her without getting her involved in a story.
I also like tattoo Artist in a skill messing deck as she either boosts your side or cripples theirs.
Whizzwang, I'll certainly look into those cards you mentioned. They seem like logical additions.
Wilbur, I looked long and hard at that prophecy card you mentioned and I think you're right, it should be in the deck. I love Immurement, but having Naomi and the Council and Peter in there, I need a 3-2-2 then 4-2-2 resource build, and that means plugging up the biggest domain to use Immurement, which is a tough choice to make late in the game. I'd love to keep things to 2-2-2 and cheat the big characters out there instead.
Syndicate won the first two games (the second in a landslide) and had a 2-0 story advantage the last game, then the tri-deck took all three stories in a single turn! Eek! The Shub prophecy that drives folks nuts ignoring Willpower and Insanity icons was particularly cruel to O'Bannion's Inner Council, the card with which I thought I had secured another victory.
I did make some of the adjustments mentioned earlier... I dropped Numbers Runner and Martin Herring and Forced Compliance, and added the SoK Syndicate Prophecy. I did a straight 2-2-2 resource pool, using any Naomi O's and O's Inner Council as resources until I found a prophecy to play on them.
Jacob Finnegan has been very helpful in the past few games, I've noticed.
Depending on the timing of the cards coming out, the tri-deck could make life pretty difficult for this Syndicate deck. I don't know if I have the nerve to play Syndicate!