Carolyn, the Charismatic Police Medium

This is a deck that I built for a three player campaign of Circle Undone. I wanted to build a thematic deck that was still functional. The idea is: Carolyn as a medium hired as a consultant for Arkham PD.

As a medium, Carolyn uses mystical rituals and artifacts to discover clues. Her assistant, David Renfieldmanages her resources. Meanwhile, she’s protected by her Arkham PD handler, Alice Luxley. Alice uses more traditional means for discovering clues, and with the help of her Guard Dog, they keep Carolyn safe by soaking and dealing damage.

Much of the build is to leverage the allies. So the idea is to use XP to pack two copies of Charisma. And instead of packing straight horror healing cards, it utilizes Calling in Favors and Inspiring Presence to upkeep and recycle, mainly Alice and Guard Dog.

Eventually, I’ll use XP to upgrade to Emergency Cache to refresh Fingerprint Kit and Rite of Seeking. Stick to the Plan would then work well here.

XP will also be used to exchange Scrying for Recall the Future. Both cards work with the medium theme, but I prefer a bag controlling card than an encounter deck manipulator, since, in my view, simply manipulating the encounter deck only postpones the inevitable while bag mitigation can, in many cases, reduce a negative draw down to one token.

Carolyn is a very flexible character that can be build many different ways, so I am still tinkering with some of the cards. For example, I’m considering dropping "I've got a plan!" for a Four of Cups for the will power boost, and I’m considering dropping Fearless and/or Logical Reasoning for Brother Xavier. BX also boosts WP, and since he is unafraid of defeat, horror healing becomes less important. (Update: scratch Brother Xavier. I found a third ally to be overkill. With Calling in Favors, the deck essentially has 6 allies, which is enough. Horror healing remains important, since Carolyn herself has to soak horror to keep Alice and Guard Dog alive. I am now trying an Ancient Stone upgrade.)