King Book, or the Power of Reason

When I started this deck, I just wanted to play a guy with a sweet beard who gets to see what card he's about to draw. I didn't realize I was going to wind up with a concept deck. People told me seekers were there to get clues. But this guy can't get clues very fast at all.

Thats because King Book didn't come here to get clues. He came here to kill the encounter deck and P A R L E Y.

This man plays his face-up card every turn, effectively getting a free draw and resource every time he does. This man scries ferociously, giving trouble to those who can handle it and and throwing away cards he doesn't like. When he runs out of scrys, he adds more, or just does it anyway. In the meantime, he dons his suit and P A R L E Y S obstacles into dust.

Because he spends so much time Scrying, King Book has no trouble filling up the Key of Ys and sits at a whopping 9 , 7 . When he has to overcome a -2 parley test he does it without even looking at it. He's much too busy manipulating fate to worry about committing something to something.

Mr. "Rook" is an invaluable help in finding the essential gear and then even more invaluable mind armor for the Key.Dr. William T. Maleson is free with King Book's special ability and also excellent mind armor for the key (although Maleson's ability can be used in extreme cases). Basically beat the hell out of King Book before the key pops out because he won't be taking damage for the rest of the game. Even his suit will take a hit in an emergency for the key. Not like he really needed that -2 and King Book is not ashamed to suddenly be nude.

Alyssa Graham, however, is not fodder. I mean sure, she has 2 sanity she's not even using, but her synergy as a source and more importantly as a poor man's scry is invaluable. To see if your 4th player is about to cause doom or die, for example, so you can Split the Angle. Yes, you will probably actually find this combo useful several times if you run a whole campaign like this.

The real difficulty here is cost. It is expensive, both in money and actions, to be King, even with those incredible discounts. If possible, it is always better to use those emergency caches to add resources directly to the fingerprint kit, but needs must.

King Book is very powerful, but not in raw damage or clue bursting. He's the ounce of prevention worth the pound of cure. He pulls his weight, keeps things running smoothly and annihilates parley-base objectives. Also he is fun.