Zoey Samaras: An Updated Stabbing Chef

It's a stupid deck: it advances and it brawls. I like it: I am a simple man.

Дан Маринос

This deck updates on Zoey Samaras: The Stabbing Chef, including some new cards from later expansions. The original deck is meant to deal a lot of damage and give the necessary action and mobility to do so (via Leo De Luca and Shortcut). This deck does the same. It is meant to be played in a 2-investigators scenario, where the other is a dedicated clue gatherer.

The deck has not been tested yet and this should be considered a preliminary deck. Also, it is not Taboo-complying.

Below the differences between that deck and the current.

Weapons:

• Knife Enchanted Blade as the latter is an advanced version of the former. Thematically, I don't like the picture of Enchanted Blade, but it could be a holy templar sword and than it would fit just fine.

• Kukri Survival Knife Kukri is fine especially if Leo in in play, but Survival Knife has a nice combo with guard dog and it's thematically more suited

Allies:

• Beat Cop Guard Dog. First, why would Zoey have any cop friend? Second, Guard Dog has a nice combo with Survival Knife, allowing to dispatch 3hp attackers even outside one's turn (e.g. during use of On the Hunt).

Other Assets:

• I got rid of First Aid for 2 Emergency Aid, which seem a less action intensive option. This should be tested, as Emergency Aid is more resource-intensive and this deck should pack enough actions.

• Liquid Courage is substituted by "If it bleeds..." as the main mean of recovering horror. The latter might not be enough, and Liquid Courage could come back in play in this deck, e.g. substituting Scrying

Events:

• Evidence! is okay but Scene of the Crime seems to be even better for action compression, especially since we play one On the Hunt

• Unexpected Courage Take the Initiative, as the latter adds one pip. The former is a bit more flexible, but less potent overall. Remember to draw encounters with Zoey first in the Mythos phase!

Skills:

• I got rid of Manual Dexterity as with Survival Knife and Guard Dog we rarely want to evade attacks. If we really do, we have the two Dodges.

• Also Overpower got cut off. Zoey is not the strongest guardian and lacking Overpower could be a problem, especially in harder difficulties. The improved weapons should counterbalance this to an extent, but only testing will tell us....