Luke Drifts into Dreams

Deck to take on side A of Dream-Eaters, with Carolyn Fern.

Deck concept

• Deal damage via Shrivelling, Spectral Razor, and Storm of Spirits, the last of which should work with any swarming enemies
  • Blood-Rite (from Occult Lexicon) can also help here, dealing testless damage even from afar
• Leverage Luke's ability as much as possible, with a whole bunch of location-specific Events, and Knowledge is Power to get more usage out of my Spell Assets
• Escaping into the Dream-Gate as often as possible, using janky combos like Shortcut to shift enemies away or Scrying to ignore them entirely when pulled from the encounter deck
  • Mr. "Rook" will actually help here, reaching further to pull Detached from Reality for a free use
• Support Carolyn's cluevering with Hawk-Eye Folding Camera, Working a Hunch, and a lot of Intellect pips, and capitalising on clearing locations with Crack the Case
• Topping up Gate Box with Enraptured (and other later, upgrade cards) when possible
• Take horror indiscriminately, and instead relying on Holy Rosary/Mr. "Rook" jumping to where Carolyn so she can sooth my mental wounds
  • Arcane Research actually helps with this, giving Carolyn a chance to heal something (and grab some resources) on Turn 1
• Avoiding Strength and Agility tests with Ward of Protection when necessary

Upgrades

Spell upgrade options:

• Shrivelling → Shrivelling → Shrivelling
  • Shouldn't be hard with the pair of Arcane Research (total cost of 1+1+0+2 = 4 XP over three upgrades)

Other upgrade options:

• 2x Recharge (4XP) (replacing Enraptured)
  • This should help replenish Gate Box more frequently (and will be helped by Premonition, see below)
• 1x Versatile (2XP) - adding 1x Crystallizer of Dreams (plus some other cards)
  • I want to play with Versatile more than anything else, and having access to the Crystallizer works well with my Event-heavy deck, and Luke can probably Razor the Guardian easily enough
  • Other level 0 cards to consider: 2x Premonition, 2x Uncage the Soul, 1x Barricade
• 2x Grotesque Statue (8XP)
  • Helps with general chaos bag risk management
• 1x Studious (3XP)
  • Helps mitigate effects of Versatile
• 2x Dayana Esperence (6XP)
  • I've used Dayana before with Event Spells like Razor and Storm, lots of fun
• 1x Charisma (3XP)
  • To allow for "Rook" and Dayana to hang out together

I will figure out what to sub out as I play!