I will take 2 horror every turn thank you very much - and I'

The long term game plan is to have a deck consisting of about 8 useful spells, and then playing those spells for nothing, and tanking a bunch of damage every single turn.

This deck can deal a little bit with enemies, but is focussed mostly on clueing, with a bit of healing support in there too.

The advanced Heirloom of Hyperborea is bonkers good (the unadvanced one is never worth playing in my opinion, and just becomes a good skill card that you can scavenge back). With the advanced one, we can mitigate our weakness by tanking the horror it deals each turn, and at the same time play a few events with our ability, all before scavenging the Heirloom back into play.

Take Heart, Backpack, and Scroll of secrets are all tools to help us get set up. The quicker we get cards out of our deck, the quicker it becomes an engine that churns out all the damage, clue, cancel, and evade cards we could ever need - all for the low low cost of a ton of damage :D