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I don't think I'd run Last Chance since I expect you'll always have a reasonable sized hand. Also, not a huge fan of Newspaper. I'd look to run things like Elusive.

You don't want to put Fire Axe and Well Connected/Money Talks in one deck. For fireaxe you want to store your whole money on Family Inheritance, but resources there don't count for Money Talks and Well Connected.

From my theorycrafting you can build preston two ways. Rich survivor relying on storing all your money on Family Inheritance and playing with Dark Horse , with no resources in your resource pool, or rich rogue with money hoarder assumption. But then you will probably lean towards investigating and evading. You don't want to mix those archetypes, as they negatively impact each other.

@veneretio at 0 exp deck doesn't have that much card draw, only via Take Heart and kinda Resourceful. Hence I expect Last Chance to yield roughly +3, but sure you can swap for more reliable Unexpected Courage.

Newspaper is here temporary as it's the biggest passive boost at 0 lvl, which doesn't work that often, but Preston is not going to be main cluever at the beggining anyway.

I was considering Elusive, but chose Cunning Distraction over it, since the latter is rather expensive (and not affordable by anyone else except Preston) but has a nice effect useful for the whole team.

@picollo while Preston has a way of boosting his , and can theoretically keep running away (although at great expense) sometimes running away is not enough. You can't rely on fighter being always around, so Fire Axe is meant for dealing small but dependable damage, i.e. taking care of a 1-2 health enemies when friends are not around. If Fire Axe deals only 1 dmg it's still fine, since it at least something you can do almost definitely. Plus hoarding money at 0 exp doesn't do that much , as Well Connected is just +1, and Money Talks will be used maybe twice per game. At the start all money will be poured into surviving until we can acquire combo pieces.

This deck doesn't have Dark Horse as it effectively limits the amount actions you do during your turn. Staying at 4 resources means you can do maybe to axe swings, or run away once or twice. On top of that you are very weak to any treachery during mythos phase since all resources are discarded from Family Inheritance at the end of your turn and are not regenerated until the start of your turn. So the idea is to cash in often but freely use resources for required skill checks.

I prefer the Shovel over the Axe myself in a money hoarding Preston deck, just for the option of getting the testless clue.

I agree with picollo and the other commenters. Fire Axe could be good with Dark Horse but it has anti-sinergy with Well Connected and Money Talks. Shovel, Lantern, Think on Your Feet and Elusive are good options for a Preston deck.

I'm still theorycrafting potential builds, but I guess I'll be able to post some ideas how two ways of building Preston could look in following days. But need some playtesting first.