A better Daniela Reyes for Chapter 2 - Deck Guide

This is a straightforward fighter build using only cards from the Chapter 2 Core box. It is intended to be included in a multiplayer team, or at least paired with a clue-finder such as Trish.

As your role is to manage the enemies, use your mulligan aggressively to obtain a weapon or Right Tool for the Job. Try to get a weapon in play as soon as practicable.

Given her low sanity and willpower, Daniela requires both healing from Meat Cleaver and soak from Aleksey. And probably spend early experience to buy Counterattack. Without these ways to manage horror she’s at real risk of defeat!

When you you’re not bashing cultists, low-shroud clues can be grabbed with "Look what I found!". Otherwise we use events like Lesson Learned and Scene of the Crime that ignore shroud values to grab clues without a skill test. These events can get recycled via Hunter's Instinct.

And what if enemies spawn before you make it to a location with clues? You can take a move action while engaged with an enemy to trigger an Attack of Opportunity, which can help Daniela to benefit from her free Fight action AND put her on a connecting location that has clues.

Once the card pool expands I wager that this deck will either dump Endurance or get a better resource engine to fuel it…

As for spending experience, grab Counterattack right away. Scrape By is a good way to pass clutch tests. And the Winchester is great against big boss enemies.

Good luck!