Charlie’s Experienced Motivational Speech | Deck Guide

Join us! I will never let you die with my Spectral Shield... unless it is necessary.

This is a Flex Charlie deck that is balanced at finding clues, managing enemies and passing ANY types of scenario skill tests (parleying, testing (5) to lift a rock, etc.). Compared with the Charlie Kane deck three years ago when Charlie is published, he gets boosted again as the new expansion, the Drown City (TDC), is released.

• Whispers of Doom transforms Charlie’s brilliant skill-passing ability to the ability to kill enemies, which is right what Charlie is bad at.
• Motivational Speech is no longer Guardian-only and can be included whatever sub-classes you choose. Meanwhile, as Charlie has so many heavy allies like Mr. "Rook" and Leo De Luca, the upgraded version guarantees you always have sufficient resources to play them.
• Eldritch Tongue lets you play these fantastic parley cards twice. This crazy card costs even 0 experience.
• The Great Work lets Charlie gain even more experience. Together with Charon's Obol, Charlie earns 3 EXTRA EXPERIENCE per game without doing anything and its side effect is automatically overrode (you would rather be killed than be usurped).
• Spectral Shield provides solid protection to the core ally assets - Charlie turns to be a weak citizen and can do nothing if Bonnie Walsh is defeated, so every Charlie deck should have the plan to save her. Meanwhile, The Black Cat can brainlessly trigger its ability with no fear.

Meanwhile, besides the traditional tricks Charlie has, such as Miss Doyle and Mr. "Rook", Charlie now has some new choices. With Spectral Shield that prevents damage and horror, no matter passively or actively, Field Agent agent and Beat Cop are new choices and brings new player experience.

This deck is tested: I finished Return to TCU in a 3-player team with Agatha Crane as cluever and Zoey Samaras as main fighter.

mulligan:

• Bonnie Walsh is always the first priority. She guarantees Charlie to pass at least one skill tests at any type per round.
• Mr. "Rook" is the second. The most important thing is he can intentionally draw the time bomb from the deck to avoid inevitable ally sacrifice. He is also the critical core component searcher for anything.
• Then, mulligan for card-draw and resource engines like David Renfield and Scroll of Secrets.

Early-stage Synergy:

• David Renfield with Bonnie Walsh can give you 1+2+6+6+... resources, and gives you 7 net resources just in two turns! Then ideally you can use Calling in Favors to drain the last 2 resources from him.
• Play Mr. "Rook" by Motivational Speech to immediately trigger his at no cost. Mr. "Rook" is quite critical in the early stage because he can remove Burden of Leadership from the deck and find essential cards including The Red Clock and Bonnie Walsh.
• If possible, use Calling in Favors only on Mr. "Rook" (with no secrets) and David Renfield (with 3 dooms on him), because you only have 2 copies of it.

Converts them to clues and kills:

• Attach Spectral Shield to Field Agent and gain charges from The Red Clock, Eldritch Tongue and Close the Circle. They give you 1 to 2 free clues per round. Note that Field Agent is not unique () so you can play both copies of them.
• Pass tests by Miss Doyle (for anything), Gené Beauregard (for and ) and of course Bonnie Walsh.
• Kill enemies by Whispers of Doom. Reuse it by Eldritch Tongue. Also don't forget to reuse Motivational Speech for yourself or your friends as it is also a parley card.
• You can totally kill 4 enemies in a game with 2xWhispers of Doom, and even 6 if you also have 2xString of Curses (and also regular combat actions as normal).
• And of course, wisely use the second copies of Spectral Shield on your friends' investigator cards to absorb damage/horror if necessary.

For the purpose of supporting your friends, you can exchange the following cards is necessary:

• Hyperphysical Shotcaster
• Faustian Bargain

Meanwhile, as both Charon's Obol and The Great Work are unique () cards, you may definitely give it to other team members - this deck is actually not experience-thirsty and it works pretty well even at 0 experience.

• Delve Too Deep for extra experience. Charlie will have more chance to play it, as 1) he is not a cluever that is always busy as bees, and 2) Charlie has extra actions and resources to play it. It is just for the team, as this deck already has lots of extra experience.
• Scrying Mirror for the team's critical skill tests. It also helps to reduce the cost for you to pass tests, as you already know how many extra skill values from allies are required.
• Eye of the Djinn if you are in a bless/curse team.
• More resource cards, like Bank Job, if your team is pretty thirsty at resources. Also consider leaving more Motivational Speech to them.

• See the 0xp deck here.
• This deck is expected to be fully functional in Scenario 4 with 34xp.
  • +3xp per scenario from Charon's Obol and The Great Work.
  • expecting to play Delve Too Deep 4 times (2+1+1).

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