Easy-come, Easy-go spendy Ashcan deck

This Ashcan Pete deck is meant to be flexible in a single player game or with 2 players. In it, you're meant to spend resources as you get them, utilizing Dark Horse to boost your weaker stats. Other stat boosters include Magnifying Glass, St. Hubert's Key, and Peter Sylvestre. This should get your weak Knowledge and Strength up a bit, but we care less about knowledge and strength as we have Duke on our team. What you really need to boost consistently are will and agility, for those nasty encounter tests like Rotting Remains. We do have weak will, and St. Hubert's Key will take us to dangerous levels of sanity (we want to keep at least 2 in case of anything dealing direct horror). With low levels of sanity, it allows us to fully utilize skill cards Run For Your Life or Reckless Assault, depending if you feel flighty or fighty.

With any Ashcan deck, you want to utilize Duke to his full potential when fighting and investigating. Since Duke may occasionally be exhausted, I'm including Fire Axe for consistent damage dealing. Some great combos here are using Madame Labranche to give you extra cards which you can discard using Pete's ability to ready Duke. Also, Calling in Favors works on Duke, so after you've used him to soak horror and damage, just return him to your hand and play him again later (while maybe getting yourself another ally to use for a turn). Playing him again healed is amazing in a pinch if you need it.

Resource management is key here. You want enough to pay for these expensive survivor assets, events, and allies, but also want to end up at 0 for Dark Horse and Fire Axe to meet their full potential. To keep the balance, there is Emergency Cache to get you resources when you need it, or you can rely on Madame Labranche. Then, if you have too many resources, just use Dig Deep to get rid of them and boost yourself in the process.

This deck hasn't been vetted yet as of this writing, but it was inspired by a pretty popular deck on ArkhamDB, so I have high hopes.