Trish doubles Double, Double, and doubles again.

Credit: Joshua Cairós

Introduction:

This deck uses The Raven Quill to double Double, Double and Crystallizer of Dreams to double again, taking Trish to another dimension.

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Table of Contents:

• Overview

• Main Strategy

• The double Double, Double engine

• Double another time your event with the Crystallizer of Dreams

• Other Cards

• Upgrade Path

Overview:

Main Strategy:

• Eldritch Sophist takes a charge from The Red Clock (2) to maintain it at 3 charges for an additional action (2 with the upgraded version) and transfers it to Divination to use it every turn.

• The Raven Quill's Interwoven Ink activates when you use Divination and readies Double, Double for a second use each turn.

• Crystallizer of Dreams doubles each event's use by also committing it to skill tests.

The double Double, Double engine:

• Attach The Raven Quill to Divination. On every use, Interwoven Ink allows you to ready an asset you control once a turn.

  • Note that you ready an asset even if the test fails and that you can investigate an empty location.

  • Of course, Double, Double is the main target, but Eldritch Sophist or Damning Testimony are also very good if you do not have any good events to play.

  • Living Quill allows you to use Divination without creating AoO, so you can effectively play it any turn even if there is an enemy engaged with you, and the icing on the cake, that will trigger Trish's ability.

• The Red Clock (5) creates a charge every turn that can then be transferred to Divination with the Eldritch Sophist for at least one use per turn.

  • Leaving The Red Clock at 1 charge will help succeed your first test, which is great, but boy, keeping it at 3 charges is an additional action (2 with the 5xp) per turn on top of all the rest!

Double another time your event with the Crystallizer of Dreams:

Doubling your events:

• "I'll take that!" plays 2 Items and free. It will only attach to one of the 2 targets (though it has no importance here)

• Bizarre Diagnosis will heal 6 damage to your party

• Breaking and Entering (2) will give you 2 chances to succeed by 3 or more. If any of the 2 tests succeed by 3 or more, it will return to your hand. Note that you can use it to evade an enemy not engaged with you.

• Captivating Discovery will resolve fully first, shuffle your deck and then a second time for better chances of finding these exceptional cards and make the combo run asap.

• Crack the Case makes big profits.

• Easy Mark will play the second copy as a reaction to the first one.

• Eavesdrop will get a lot of clues, which is especially good after dropping some with Bizarre Diagnosis and Captivating Discovery.

• Kicking the Hornet's Nest can pop 2 enemies, and then you can ready and use Double, Double again on Breaking and Entering (2) to evade the 2 of them.

• Logical Reasoning is a bit expensive but heals 4 horror.

• Working a Hunch to turn the excess of resource into doubled clues.

• Preposterous Sketches and its 0 cost doubles wonderfully for 6 cards in one action!

• Seeking Answers gets you 4 clues with the flexibility of choosing any connecting location and potentially triggers Trish's ability if there is an enemy somewhere. This is a perfect way to exhaust a hunter enemy that would move and attack.

Passing your tests:

With the Crystallizer of Dreams, you can store the events that do not attach ("I'll take that!" and The Raven Quill) to boost your tests.

• Almost every event in this deck commits for at least 1 .

  • Bizarre Diagnosis and Working a Hunch commit for 2

  • Seeking Answers for 2

  • Logical Reasoning for 2 .

  • Finally In the Shadows helps with 2 on top of the agility.

• The Guardian of the Crystallizer may seem like an annoyance at first until you realise that it is going to be a moving enemy target for Damning Testimony and Trish's ability.

Note: Do not forget to commit the events on the Crystallizer of Dreams before your deck runs out of cards and reshuffles. Otherwise, they'll be stuck for another round.
Alternatively, you can use this to thin your deck. For instance, store Crack the Case if you already have enough resources to see your more impactful events faster.

Other Cards:

• Damning Testimony is amazing in Trish on many aspects:

  • With Blackmail, you are investigating at 6 without any further support. Don't forget that you only spend an _Evidence if you succeed and you do not need to spend an Evidence to do a simple investigation with it (it still exhausts, a bit like a Lockpicks)

  • Using an Evidence to investigate another location with an enemy can trigger Trish's ability at a distance, resulting in 3 clues: one at your location and 2 at the enemy's location.

• Magnifying Glass is the cheapest and fastest way to get an additional that will also help with Breaking and Entering (2), Damning Testimony and Divination, but unfortunately not with Eavesdrop.

• "I'll take that!" will help mostly with playing the expensive Damning Testimony.

• If you are running this deck through a campaign, you don't need Interwoven Ink until you got some other cards, so you can let the The Raven Quill upgrade itself automatically to save 4xp.

• Never use Divination when the only card in your hand is Crystallizer of Dreams, The Red Clock or Double, Double, because you may lose it if you succeed by 0.

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Upgrade Path:

Link to the 0xp deck

(View at arkham-starter.com)

Link to the full xp deck

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