Carolyn Fern

You are a star finding clues and making your team invincible!
![Carolyn](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DWvYOmVXcAA8eE9?format=jpg&name=small "Carolyn")
This deck was used in a very successful and enjoyable blind playthrough of _"The Path to Carcosa"_ on standard difficulty together with [Lily Chen](/card/08010) who was the fighter. You find clues, heal horror and damage, provide resources and card draw to you and your fellow investigators. Try to stick together with a fighter investigator as they will protect you from enemies and you will provide them with healing (especially important in _Carcosa_).

Difficulty
Clue Finding
Team Support
Healing
Survivability
Encounter Protection
Economy
Card Draw
Enemy Handling

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Healing

This deck offers heavy healing (especially horror) and support for both you and your teammates.
Place a layline from [Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise](/card/08044) on each investigator. Use an action to activate it when needed to heal 1 damage or horror and draw a card for an investigator at _any_ location! Don't forget to provide a resource from [Carolyn Fern](/card/05001)'s ability to the investigator when healed a horror.
If needed, you can even spent the layline to double the effects of healing and card draw.
Use [Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony](/card/04231) to passively heal horror and gain resource(s) each turn on card draw. If you have [Hypnotic Therapy](/card/05007), you can exhaust it to heal 1 additional horror when healing horror from an investigator. You can also use the card itself to heal 1 horror from an investigator, but it needs to be at your location. Use [First Aid](/card/01019) and its upgraded version [First Aid](/card/01683) to heal damage as well. Once you put [Hallowed Mirror](/card/05313) into play, use the [Soothing Melody](/card/05314) to heal damage and/or horror and draw a card. Note you can distribute the healing as you like between the investigators and allies at your location. If you heal horror from more than one investigator, provide them a resource as well because of your investigator's ability. After upgrading to [Hallowed Mirror](/card/54002), you receive even more healing or the choice to shuffle the used [Soothing Melody](/card/05314) back into the deck. This has proven to be very good approach. [Logical Reasoning](/card/03191) and its very powerful upgraded version [Logical Reasoning](/card/52003) can be used for heavy horror healing on investigators at your location. Later into the campaign, you can also use [Kerosene](/card/04304) to distribute horror healing at your location once an enemy is defeated this round there. - - -

Clue finding

You have several ways to find clues.
First, you start with a 4 but you can easily boost it to 6 with [Alice Luxley](/card/05151) and [Magnifying Glass](/card/01030).
When you upgrade to [Field Agent](/card/09033) you can use one (or even two) of them to discover clue(s) testless each turn. Heal the horror from the ally with the many tools at your disposal, gaining a resource in the process. [Field Agent](/card/09033) also boosts your by 1 so you can investigate at 7 !
You have two more options for testless clue finding - [Scene of the Crime](/card/04103) and [Working a Hunch](/card/01037), both not provoking attack of opportunity.
When needed, boost your skill value with [Analysis](/card/09049), [Eureka!](/card/03231), [Occult Theory](/card/08065), [Perception](/card/01090) and [Unexpected Courage](/card/01093). - - -

Encounter deck protection

You have several tools to protect from the encounter deck. The classic [Ward of Protection](/card/01565) saves you from a treachery card at the cost of a horror which you want anyway for the benefits of healing it. [Logical Reasoning](/card/03191) can discard a Terror card not only from you but also from a teammate. The upgraded [Logical Reasoning](/card/52003) can do it multiple times, combined with healing a lot of horror. Just make sure you have several clues when using these. Use [Orphic Theory](/card/09051) to blank a treachery card in play until the end of the round. [Well Prepared](/card/04151) will help you additionally boost a skill tested for an encounter card. [Orphic Theory](/card/09051) gives you huge amount of equal to your icons. - - -

Handling enemies

Best stick to your fighter utilizing [Safeguard](/card/06196). You can kill 1 health enemies directly with the [Alice Luxley's](/card/05151) ability after discovering a clue. You can trigger it with [Field Agent](/card/09033) which makes a good combo. If you happen to take horror or damage is not that big of a deal as you can heal it. You have several ways to be efficient even when engaged with an enemy, through [Scene of the Crime](/card/04103) and [Working a Hunch](/card/01037) - - -

Skill boosting

There are two powerful cards for constantly boosting skills in this deck. [Soul Sanctification](/card/09123) - you collect offerings of excess horror or damage healing which can be spent to provide up to **+4 boost to any skill test**! The [Hypnotic Therapy](/card/05007)'s reaction ability can be used to trigger this extra horror healing. Note that there is an important rule exception for [Soul Sanctification](/card/09123) that you can trigger healing even when the target is at full health/horror, providing precious offerings for this card! [Well Prepared](/card/04151) is also very powerful utilizing your assets for skill boosting. This is especially useful for encounter deck protection in combination with [Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise](/card/08044) or [Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony](/card/04231). - - -

Action compression

[Ever Vigilant](/card/03023) saves you actions and resources to setup. Use [Safeguard](/card/06196) to efficiently move after your fighter. Typically, guardians upgrade it to [Safeguard](/card/60110) but this is not recommended for Carolyn since she is a cluever not a fighter.
[Eureka!](/card/03231) lets you draw an important card out of 3 options. Naturally you gain resources when you are healed horror which can be done automatically each turn by [Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony](/card/04231) when drawing a card during the upkeep phase. [Alice Luxley](/card/05151) damages an enemy when you discover a clue. - - -

Card drawing

Use [Eureka!](/card/03231) during investigation for a chance to find one of your critical cards without a risk of drawing a weakness. It also shuffles your deck. Use [Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise](/card/08044) to simultaneously heal and draw cards. - - -

Economy

Use [Stand Together](/card/02148) as soon as possible and when you have another investigator at your location to get 2 resources each. Use [Ever Vigilant](/card/03023) to efficiently play assets during your setup rounds. If drawn later, it can be used for its two book icons to support an investigation test. Heal horror from investigators (including you) or allies on every occasion possible so you can use your investigator's ability to provide them a resource. Your team should not afraid to take horror if you have at least some of the healing cards set up. - - -

First scenario

The target is to upgrade both the [Ancient Stone](/card/04022) and the [Archive of Conduits](/card/08033). Find them with mulligan or with [Mr. "Rook"](/card/05153).

Drop the resources from [Archive of Conduits](/card/08033) on low shroud easy to access locations and go to collect them through the scenario.

After having at least one clue, find a high shroud location (4 or more) and commit all the boosts available to research the [Ancient Stone](/card/04022) : [Working a Hunch](/card/01037), [Eureka!](/card/03231), [Occult Theory](/card/08065), [Perception](/card/01090), [Unexpected Courage](/card/01093) and especially [Analysis](/card/09049). If you happen to draw the fail token, drop a clue and try again with [Analysis](/card/09049). Note that you need to research only one of the [Ancient Stones](/card/04022) and upgrade both for the cost of one with [Shrewd Analysis](/card/04106). Since the only allowed upgrade for Carolyn is [Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony](/card/04231), you directly upgrade to it without the randomness usually involved using in [Shrewd Analysis](/card/04106). - - -

Mulligan

In the first scenario you should mulligan for an [Ancient Stone](/card/04022) and [Archive of Conduits](/card/08033), [Analysis](/card/09049), [Occult Theory](/card/08065), [Eureka!](/card/03231) and [Mr. "Rook"](/card/05153) to potentially find them. In the other scenarios it is important to have: * Economy ([Stand Together](/card/02148), [Ever Vigilant](/card/03023)) * Some healing ([Hallowed Mirror](/card/54002) and [Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise](/card/08044) are priority since they are a single copy) * An ally ([Mr. "Rook"](/card/05153) if the other cards are yet to be found) * Movement ([Safeguard](/card/06196)) * Skill boosting ([Magnifying Glass](/card/01030), [Well Prepared](/card/04151))

Upgrade path - After each scenario in Carcosa

#### 1) 8xp * 3xp 2x [Ancient Stone](/card/04022) [Ancient Stone - Minds In Harmony](/card/04231) - because of [Shrewd Analysis](/card/04106) * 1xp [Analysis](/card/09049) [Ever Vigilant](/card/03023) * 4xp [Archive of Conduits](/card/08033) [Archive of Conduits - Gateway to Paradise](/card/08044) #### 2) 4xp * 1xp [Eureka!](/card/03231) [Orphic Theory](/card/09051) * 2xp [Unexpected Courage](/card/01093) [Well Prepared](/card/04151) * 1xp [Perception](/card/01090) [Four of Cups](/card/05035) #### 3) 5xp * 3xp [Charisma](/card/01694) * 2xp [Mr. "Rook"](/card/05153) [Field Agent](/card/09033) #### 4) 8xp * 2xp [Mr. "Rook"](/card/05153) [Field Agent](/card/09033) * 3xp [Hallowed Mirror](/card/05313) [Hallowed Mirror](/card/54002) * 3xp [First Aid](/card/01019) [First Aid](/card/01683) #### 5) 7xp * 6xp [Soul Sanctification](/card/09123) * 1xp [Unexpected Courage](/card/01093) [Kerosene](/card/04304) #### 6) 8xp * 8xp 2x [Logical Reasoning](/card/03191) [Logical Reasoning](/card/52003) #### 7) 4xp * 3xp [First Aid](/card/01019) [First Aid](/card/01683) * 1xp [Stand Together](/card/02148) [Ever Vigilant](/card/03023)

Carolyn Fern destroys Carcosa

Description

Card draw simulator