Ace of Spades Preston: "Born to lose. Gambling's for fools."

"... you win some, lose some, it's all the same to me..."

If you like to gamble then this particular Preston's not your man. In fact, he won't go near a "chaos bag" if he can possibly avoid it. To be frank, it's beneath him.

There are a handful of clever and inventive ways to build a Fairmont deck. You can ride the Dark Horse, ditch all of his inherited wealth into Fire Axe and other skill boosters... or, conversely, you can revel in keeping fat stacks of cash aside with cards like Well Connected and Money Talks.

But there's also a third way. A cowardly way. An unhelpful way.

Include only two kinds of cards in your deck: those that auto succeed (e.g. Coup de Grâce, Intel Report, Cunning Distraction, Gravedigger's Shovel, Lantern, Stray Cat, etc.); and those that actively depend upon and reward you for failing (e.g. Rabbit's Foot, Take Heart, "Look what I found!", etc.)

Top it all off with some yellow-bellied protection such as Hiding Spot, mix in a little Perseverance and the ubiquitous Leo De Luca to keep the tempo up, and you've got yourself one spoiled rotten millionaire whose charmed life only occasionally (and only incidentally) benefits the other investigators around him.

Have fun. And "don't forget the joker".