Shrivelling + Rite of Seeking upgrades all the way. Peter Sylvestre. Horror techs with Forbidden Knowledge and Painkillers. A super straightforward deck I wanted to have ready for new players wanting to try out the Mystic class that could reasonably survive with Evade and various soaks.

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　A series of decks made with the new distribution model in mind, requiring a Revised Core Set box + just 1 more Investigator Expansion box. ⌂ character on the deck's name means the additional box it uses is The Dunwich Legacy Investigator Expansion.
　It maximizes the chance of newcomers being able to build and learn to play the game, enjoying the story on Standard difficulty ASAP. They can then get into deck-building later if they wished to do so. See other decks in the "2 Packs Deck Guide" series here.

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2 Packs Team Compositions

2 Packs Deck Guide : The Dunwich Legacy series is now complete with the following decks :

• Zoey Samaras: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Shotgun & Magic
• Zoey Samaras: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Snipe the Wicked
• Rex Murphy: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Misfortune Foresight
• Rex Murphy: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Simple Dark Horse Rex Deck
• Jenny Barnes: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Basic Quad-Boost Jenny Deck
• Jenny Barnes: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : News of Isabelle
• Jim Culver: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Aureolus-Axe
• "Ashcan" Pete: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Persistent Pete
• Roland Banks: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Flare Spam Roland Deck
• Daisy Walker: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Higher Willpower
• "Skids" O'Toole: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Adaptable / Typewriter
• Agnes Baker: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : Average Dunwich Agnes Deck
• Wendy Adams: ⌂ 2 Packs Deck Guide : 1 Combat Against All Odds

To help assembling a party made entirely from just 2 packs, I have a tool that let you browse team compositions for 2 players, 3 players, and 4 players, that has manageable amount of card overlaps or even none at all. The result is sorted from low to high overlaps. Click here to see all team comps.

Tips

• It is risky to only have 2x Shrivelling for fighting, so I also give her 2x Baseball Bat. She needs that +2 to land a hit (on Standard). Things that helps hitting are Lucky! and committing Heirloom of Hyperborea (..recommended).
• If you don't get 2x Rite of Seeking, you still have 2x Drawn to the Flame, but that's it for investigation.
• Spell Asset are expensive so 2x Emergency Cache should be used til the end. Forbidden Knowledge can help a bit but often you are looking to play with her and reluctant to just pop it for resources.
• With Peter Sylvestre, her starts at 4 which is at the range that Survival Instinct and Manual Dexterity can get high value. (Avoid damage treachery, evade for extended fighting.) Keeping 2x Manual Dexterity makes her resistant to all kinds of treacheries, still having Ward of Protection for the worst.
• Survival Instinct is often useful for getting a moment where you can play Spell Asset and go back to fight, or if you don't have it yet, continue running away until you found the spell (with Arcane Initiate's help preferably). You can buy a lot of time because you get a free move. You can also commit this to a random treachery test but you will not get a free move since it is not an evasion attempt.
• Survival Instinct (2) : This card is cool because not only it affects multiple enemies, they are all evaded and not just disengage. That means if you decided not to move, they stay down. In effect, you can kill one of them this round without worry about hoard damage, then next round deal with the rest using full 3 actions because you didn't move.
• Shrivelling (5) has higher horror rebound. But at this point in the upgrade plan we have prepared Peter Sylvestre (2), Fearless (2), and Moment of Respite to help offsetting it.