Akachi is Magickal

Charged Up!

• Difficulty ★☆☆☆☆
• Enemy Management ★☆☆☆☆
• Clueing ★★★★★
• Encounter protection ★★★★☆
• Survivability ★★★☆☆
• Economy ★★☆☆☆
• Card Drawing ★★★☆☆

This is a main cluever Akachi deck with a crazy amount of clue compression at high accuracy. This works best in a 3-4 player campaign due to mystic clue assets that can grab a huge number of clues with just a single action.

The XP you get from Arcane Research and Down the Rabbit hole which means 4 extra XP per scenario! For an 8 game campaign, you get about 25 extra XP.

Strategy: Get your clue assets quickly, using draw from Arcane Initiate and Scroll of Secrets. When you have the resources, play Sign Magick to get extra actions on your spell assets. You'll be scooping clues very quickly, investigating at 9-10 , making this very good in hard or expert mode.

Enemy Management: Mists of R'lyeh is useful for movement compression mid-scenario, or evading the boss when no more clues are needed.

Clueing: You can only clue through spell assets Clairvoyance, Eyes of the Dreamer, and Rite of Seeking. Ensure at least one is in your opening hand. Upgrade Rite of Seeking first, it's easy to take your last action to investigate with no downside. Early in the campaign, the downside from Clairvoyance is more significant since you have a higher likelihood of drawing a good token. Horror soak with Holy Rosary and Arcane Initiate is important to mitigate the downside when using Clairvoyance early-on.

Card Draw: You don't need much draw once you have your assets out, but ensure one of Scroll of Secrets or Arcane Initiate are in your opening hand to draw your key pieces.

Economy: You have enough resources with Uncage the Soul and Voice of Ra to get out what you need, but not much extra. You can add in The Red Clock as a late campaign luxury upgrade if you need extra resource generation.

0 XP: See the 0 XP Deck and my own upgrade path linked here. You will get so much extra XP, ITTOI is not needed (or recommended) and you already have two mental trauma with Arcane Research. Everything works with Down the Rabbit Hole except replacing Delve Too Deep.

= Discounted spell upgrade with Arcane Research

Upgrade Path:

High Priority:

2x Rite of Seeking → 2x Rite of Seeking (2) → 2x Rite of Seeking (4)

2x Clairvoyance → 2x Clairvoyance (3) → 2x Clairvoyance (5)

2x Sign Magick → Sign Magick (3)

2x Living Ink + Macabre Depiction + Vibrancy

Medium Priority:

2x Ward of Protection → Ward of Protection(2)

2x Fearless → 2x Fearless (2)

Low Priority:

2x Guts → Guts (2)

2x Uncage the Soul → Uncage the Soul (3)

2x Mists of R'lyeh → Mists of R'lyeh (2) → Mists of R'lyeh (4)

Mid/Late-Campaign:

2x Delve Too Deep → Earthly Serenity (1) → Earthly Serenity (4)