Agnes Deck Upgrades

This guide is primarily designed as a tool to help you decide what cards to run in your Agnes deck. As such, most of the guide is dedicated to analysing cards that I believe to be worth consideration on Agnes. Since I almost exclusively play Arkham Horror in a multiplayer group on expert, this is the primary setup I am considering when evaluating the cards and creating decks. However, most cards will function with similar results regardless of difficulty, and this deck can be modified for single player.

I am going to make the controversial statement that I believe that Agnes is the single best investigator in the game on higher difficulties, at least for multiplayer. Even though Mark is more consistently powerful at fighting and Rex is more consistently good at sucking up clues, if Agnes gets the right cards in play, she can turn into an absolute juggernaut in combat, especially due to her ability which can give her guaranteed damage under the right circumstances which is extremely good on high difficulty, while also similarly being able pick up clues very quickly if she gets her investigating cards. Additionally, Agnes’s extremely high will makes her far more resilient to many treachery cards then most other investigators. However, the above scenarios also highlight the biggest weakness of Agnes, in that what she can accomplish varies greatly depending on draws. While you will almost always be able to accomplish something significant, what that something is will be inconsistent. As such, it is best not to rely on Agnes for a single specific function when considering team comps, and to instead think of her as a very powerful wild card.

The decklist to the left is ultimately what I believe to be the strongest deck on Agnes at the moment, I do encourage people to make changes to this list as they see fit, as personalizing your deck is part of the fun of Arkham, and there is a section below dedicated to other cards to consider.