William Yorick, Highlander

For my next trip to Carcosa i want to do something a bit different. Using the Highlander rules, every deck is going to include only up to one of each card.

William Yorick is going to team up with Rex Murphy, hopefully navigating their way along the path.

The deck itself isn't using any fancy combos or concepts, it's just a mix of cards that i think should enable Yorick to play the role of Rex's bodyguard well enough.

Rex Murphy deck over here: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/759672

As i play through the campaign, i plan on updating this deck with the upgrades that i made to the deck.

• Campaign log -

Curtain Call: This took forever, with William holding down the Royal Emissary and resetting the Agenda many, many times while Rex took his sweet time picking up the clues... in the end it all went quite well though, the encounter deck simply did a good job of stalling. 7XP for both, that's enough to upgrade both the Diary and the Solution for Rex and to give William a bit more firepower. Knife recursion is all very well, but won't do forever.

Last King: Not bad. Managed to question 3 people. Almost finished the fourth but he just had to transform in front of me, which was the final cue to flee the place. 13 clues collected -> 6XP total -> 3XP for Rex, 3XP for William. Rex got Studious which is an easy staple to pick up. For William, i really wanted Cornered next, the last XP went to another combat boost.

Echoes of the Past: Usually this is on the easier side. Not this time, as the combination of drawing multiple Seekers of Carcosa early, having the Hunting Rifle jam on 2 out of 3 shots and just generally seeing the enemies amass their doom early put a lot of pressure on me. Thankfully Rex was able to just stay on the ground floor undisturbed and was able to just farm clues there. One clutch evasion on the oathspeaker gave me the time to finish up the scenario. A bit of a bummer, i was kinda hoping that i would be in a position to pick up the oathspeakers garb. Ah well, maybe next time. 3XP for everyone. William picks up Charisma as a preparation for upgrades that are still to come. Rex gets rid of some filler cards in his deck with solid 1XP upgrades.

Unspeakable Oath: Another close one. I just find the encounter cards in this scenario incredibly punishing at times. Between Corrosion and Straight Jacket, an unlucky pull can undo turns of setup. In any case, i got bot Rex and William out of there in time, although it was very close. 2 more turns were left. Oof. 5XP were earned (including one from the interlude). Rex got himself a Cryptic Command and switched out one of his 5 offcolor cards. I never used Burglary and money was no issue either, so i swapped it for a more generally useful Leather Coat. On William's side, it's time to reap the benefits of Charisma and put a bunch of very nice ally assets in the deck.

Phantom of Truth: Fairly easy, thanks to Rex finally getting to use his ability to its fullest. William went all-in on his Hungering Blade that he got on his start hand, which was interesting. First time i really got to play with it and it proved to be pretty good here. A steady stream of Byakees to feed into the blade ensured that the Bloodlust cards always went straight into the blade instead of back into the deck. Neat. Finished on 6XP. William gets to grab a pair of Survivor cheater cards. Rex had enough of having to choose between the Cigarette case and Huberts Key, so he got himself Relic Hunter and another neat accessory to make sure there's enough stuff for the slot in the deck.

Pallid Mask: Only 3XP... kind of a bummer. The collapsing locations took two of the XP locations i cleared out with them. And taking the time to kill the big 2XP guy would have meant to see another 2 locations with XP on them get dumped from the table. Unlucky. Through the whole scenario i was seriously lacking in firepower that'd be able to deal a consistent 2 damage which is why i am doing something that feels super weird here: I am actually paying 2XP for the Machete. :| Rex's deck feels pretty much finished, just putting some light touches on it for what few XP are still left to earn.