Main Strategy

This deck focuses on the action compression with Dirty Fighting. A typical fighting action looks like this: Breaking and Entering + Hatchet/Fire Extinguisher + Rita's investigator ability for 3 damages, 1 clue and 1 item recursion with Scavenging; Sweeping Kick + Hatchet/Fire Extinguisher + Rita's investigator ability for 5 damages, all in 1 action. If needed, discard Ice Pick, commit Contemplative or Long Shot for extra damages/clues. When you have spare action, play Pilfer and succeed by 2 to grab 3 clues in one action. Note that always trigger Dirty Fighting first then Rita's ability to aovid discarding your Hatchet. By any chance lots of enemies on your location, play "I'm done runnin'!" and discard Fire Extinguisher at most twice (discard first, Breaking and Entering + Scavenging to replay and discard again) in one turn to do AoE damages.

Stat Boosting

Everything done in this deck uses , so we only need to boost her to pass tests. With Track Shoes and Peter Sylvestre, Rita reaches 7, which is 10 in Sweeping Kick, 9 in Breaking and Entering, and 12 in Hatchet with Dirty Fighting. This can be boosted even further with Crafty and Ice Pick, which should be sufficient even under Expert mode.

Economy and Drawing

The consistancy of this deck is greatly increased with Bewitching. Dirty Fighting, Easy Mark and Breaking and Entering should be attached. Use "Where's the party?" to fish out enemies from the encounter deck to activate Bewitching. Grab them in the order of Breaking and Entering, Dirty Fighting, search for other copies of Easy Mark, and finally the attached Easy Mark. Hunting Jacket + Schoffner's Catalogue + Crafty + Easy Mark + "I'll take that!" should give more than sufficient amount of money to play the expensive events and items.

Damage/Horror Soak

Peter Sylvestre has always been the best ally for Rita. He addresses the low sanity issue on her perfectly. The secondary soak here is the Hunting Jacket for extra horror or damage soak. Try to kill the jacket after attaching 3 cards on it to regenerate resources with recursion.

Opening Hand

Mulligan for Peter Sylvestre, Track Shoes, Crafty, Schoffner's Catalogue, Hunting Jacket, and "Where's the party?". If got any of the above items in hand, keep "I'll take that!".

Luxury Upgrades

• Scrapper, great way to spend your spare money
• Peter Sylvestre, more soak and boost for the encounters
• Nightmare Bauble, prevent auto-fail during your Breaking and Entering or Pilfer tests to prevent accidentally losing your key events
• another Scavenging for more item recursions
• Nothing Left to Lose, always a great card to have for smoother setup
• Nine of Rods to grab more enemies during the Mytho phase