Enter: The Dragon Pole

What's better than a martial artist with one weapon? A martial artist with two weapons, of course!

This deck aims to take advantage of the strength of the reusable Dragon Pole, alongside a set of utility spells and Enchanted Blade in order to be able to constantly fight at a strength of 6, 7, or 8 consistently. This deck is not particularly effective at boss-killing, but it's consistent damage and Mystic utility should help smooth out any troubles that arise during Mythos.

You may notice that Lily's Arcane slot is stacked with spells that may... not be the most effective. She's missing the usual suite of Mystic assets. This is because of her unusual deckbuilding.

Mystic assets shine the most when they are upgraded, to increase the willpower for and compression of the test in question. However, Lily cannot take upgraded spells, and is therefore forced into a more unusual avenue. With her five slots of Guardian (three slots and Vicious Blow, if we're being real here,) Lily has juuust enough to make her way through the first scenario, after which her power level will skyrocket.

Because of this, I highly advise taking Discipline: Prescience of Faith as her first Discipline permanent. Lily isn't relying on her Willpower for anything other than the Mythos phase, and that is easily enough combated with Guts and Promise of Power. [Sidenote: I do think Discipline: Alignment of Spirit is the second pick, as the Mythos phase ramps up and the healing becomes a nice asset.

Now, to the specific card choices:

Of course, the deck is built around the inherent power of Dragon Pole and Enchanted Blade. This means that two of our remaining Guardian slots go to Bandolier, so we can sheathe our sword while we carry on with our stick. The final splash is, of course, Prepared for the Worst (though if you're less worried about resource management than I happen to be, go ahead and trade this for a Noble Ally, so this deck has at least a little bit of soak. To that end, Talisman of Protection is a perfectly viable choice to slot in instead of Healing Words, as it provides theoretical soak for zero actions. That's right, zero! However, it lacks the utility to heal your weaker allies.

Voice of Ra is in here because of its synergy with Dark Prophecy, a card which is more than good enough in its own right. I believe that the combination of these is stronger than Emergency Cache.

Ward of Protection is amazing, even if we can't upgrade it to the excellent Ward of Protection 2. That and Deny Existence protect us from the more Treacherous aspects of the encounter deck, letting us focus on our role as Monster Masher.

Our Skill suite is running fairly thin. This would normally be a problem, but we took Discipline: Prescience of Faith, and once we have one or two Arcane slots full, we are never fighting at below 6 Fist, far more often at 7 or 8, or even 14, if we use our Discipline and a Vicious Blow.

Instead, we round ourselves out with a Guts and a Promise of Power to bolster our less-than fantastic Willpower.

Alchemical Transmutation can just chill in our Arcane slot, providing a Fist to our Dragon Pole until we need some resources. Similarly, wait until there's a lull in the action to actually use Clarity of Mind and Healing Words. They're there as mini-Tarots until they're needed.

Storm of Spirits is for large groups and Swarm enemies, Delve Too Deep is to ramp us to our second Discipline (and you can take In The Thick Of It as well, which is hard to use for the first scenario, but turns on your Arcane Spells before the enemies come out.)