Oh no! If Fine Clothes is not available for use in Alessandra deck, would she works well? This deck is not only 2 packs cheap, it tries to play around things that Fine Clothes won't have advantage to make it stands out. This deck will also forego Vamp (3) which is so good with Fine Clothes to buy something else.

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What are we focusing on?

We are focusing on where Well-Dressed is better than Fine Clothes. Though, her signature Beguile does benefit a lot from Fine Clothes if you use the investigate or evade option, can't deny that.

• British Bull Dog •• : Plays on failing the Parley, you likely won't fail with Fine Clothes. (Note that "Singing Your Song" Bianca "Die Katz" is not an enemy so you cannot play even after failing Parley on her card text.)
• Grift : Fine Clothes won't benefit a difficulty 0 test.
• Fake Credentials •••• : Fine Clothes won't help improving the succeeding by when there is no suspicion yet, the difficulty is 0.
• Eyes of Valusia •••• : Parley has no test for Fine Clothes to make it easier.
• Stall for Time : Fine Clothes making difficulty drop to 0 removes the return to hand advantage of this card. Plus you can play British Bull Dog if you fail!
• Well-Dressed : This at the same time as Fine Clothes sometimes is overkill, so now it gets to shine fully. As a plus it helps you get high over success on Grift and Stir the Pot so no icon really go to waste.
• Bianca "Die Katz" : Well-Dressed is better to make your value high enough only fails and get a lot of resources. Basically if 5 due to Cat Burglar, having means you covered -4 and still win an X = 5 test.

This deck paid extra attention to with Cat Burglar and Fox Mask (which replenishes easier with Cat Burglar), so...

• British Bull Dog •• : Lands more accurately.
• Grift : Gets more resources, and you can play with your extra action.
• Lightfooted : A single commit could succeed to peel off an another enemy on your friend, and perhaps Sneak Attack it.
• Bianca "Die Katz" : Get your base to 5 means Well-Dressed covers -4 token on Standard bag on maximum X.

How to use

• Grift : This is mostly a better Emergency Cache that Alessandra can use her extra action to play, has some commit icons, and even can play after she engages due to Parley. You can find enough resources for something expensive like Stir the Pot reactively instead of having to find them in preparation.
• "I'll Pay You Back!" : This is mainly used to give your Grift / Bianca "Die Katz" money to your friends at the end of round, but remember they will have 0 resources to work with if they have not take the turn yet. Or you can aim to give your current resources, then Grift back later, depending on enemies on the board right now.
• Dirty Deeds ••• : This is her version of Prepared for the Worst, basically a British Bull Dog (2) proxy since there are only 3 weapons in this deck (2x Bulldog, 1x Valusia). If you already got a weapon, you can play Fake Credentials (4) which is an expensive card, one-off purchase. This makes 4 XP spent worth more. Remember to spend 2 actions and 1 play cost, as well as play cost of what you choose.
• Stall for Time : Unfortunate that Fox Mask can't support this but I really like to have something to work with Sneak Attack other than Lightfooted. Long exhaust could be very relevant to Sneak Attack the next round instead if you are busy. You can also evade an enemy you are not even engaged with because it is a Parley with "choose" an enemy at your location, so it can get close to feel like Sneak Attack Lv.2 since you can also use your extra action to play. (Which is handy for killing Aloof.) If fails, you can play British Bull Dog and even get it back to hand.
• Fake Credentials •••• : It is a singleton purchase because it is too expensive to double up, could return to hand for a replay, and also Dirty Deeds can act as its proxy. The difficulty 0 is important that you can't fail no matter how harsh the bag is. So you should try committing Perception or Well-Dressed as many times as possible to keep the 0 difficulty usable in a pinch. Remember the +2 on Fox Mask as well.
• Guts : I just want to remind you that there is a test on Stall for Time and Blade of Yoth.
• Stir the Pot : High impact expensive event, so find support from Fox Mask. If you get a free move out of it, remember that Fox Mask might be able to replenish here!
• Bewitching ••• : You'd get this around the end of campaign (fails some scenarios OK). Recommended Trick to stick are :
  • "I'll Pay You Back!" : Singleton. It is a situational combo card, so removing it from the deck let you only pick this up once your resources and your friend's need are lining up. You need to engage an enemy to pick it up though, but it is Fast so you can still use it right away even with an enemy engaged.
  • Snitch •• : This is to keep this card out of deck when there is no need to get clues or nothing to parley with. As an XP card singleton, it makes your XP investment worthwhile that you can find it when you need it without doubling up and have to pay 2 more XP.
  • Lightfooted : There is 1 copy left in the deck so you can also try out the top 9 option. (Take a look at your discard pile to guess your chance.) This is very related to engaging with the enemy, you can evade it with this skill card you just picked up and get the effect. It might help if Alessandra is later in the Mythos Phase draw so you can see your other friends get some enemies first, if you get one also, pick this card up immediately and do the double evade.
  • Beguile : There are 3 copies so the look top 9 option has higher chance to hit. But I like this card coming up naturally since it could be used without engaging, Lightfooted is a better option with no play cost and relevant to engaging.
• Eyes of Valusia •••• : Though we only have XP for 1 copy, this card allow her to perform something similar to Strange Solution : Acidic Ichor, suddenly popping big damage out of nowhere though it is not even your job. You can collect the charge on rounds where you don't need to use her free Parley quota with the Parley Event. Better on 3~4 players.

Zamacona

Some play reminders :

• You must put doom on Zamacona when you Parley with anything, no matter where he's standing at. This is easy to forget since an enemy with only Elusive will just stand still.
• "Nearest empty location, if able." meant if all locations are not empty, the Spawn keyword disappears he spawns engaged with you. (Not that you must choose a nearest non-empty location.)
• Elusive only runs on attack or being attacked. "Dealing damage" won't trigger this keyword. (Stir the Pot, Sneak Attack) Moving damage token to it also won't trigger Elusive. (Drain Essence, not featured in this deck.)