Bless-Curse Paradoxical Mateo

Mateo - & deck

Plenty of bless () and curse () deck. Thanks to the Mateo's deckbuilding traits blessed 0-3, Mateo is suitable for bless() deck. However, Mateo is more powerful if he works with both bless and curse. Why? Mateo could spend useful, or minimize risk, unlike other investigators.

In AHLCG, is a type of the cost; you could get bonus by adding . For example, Deep Knowledge, Faustian Bargain, Justify the Means, Ríastrad... Of course, Mateo cannot access almost ones. However, don't mind about that. You can simply make a party with teammate with thoes card. Then, your teammate earn something by thoes cards. Your role is simply to remove tokens with gaining another bonus.

Here are main roles & concepts:

• Bless() provider: Mateo is good bless provider using Keep Faith, Tempt Fate, Priest of Two Faiths
• Curse() consumer: Mateo can gain bonus with spell like Armageddon or Eye of Chaos with auto-success by Blessing of Isis or Paradoxical Covenant.
• Auto-success: Mateo aims to auto-success in test. He has an even chance to pass the test regardless of the difficulty.
• Fast deck tempo: This deck has many drawing tools such as Scroll of Secrets, Tempt Fate, Blessing of Isis, Guts.

Recommanded Teammate

• Curse() provider: Mateo may not generate the proper number of curse. In addition, you need to find the good way to earn bonus by adding . Mateo may not access thoes cards.

• Bless() maintainer/provider: On large group (3 or 4), the may not be kept robustly with Mateo alone. With an aid of one of your teammate, your choas bag has always plenty of tokens. The best one is Nephthys, which keeps the total number of . Sacred Covenant is also good, when your teammate don't want to add Nephthys for some reason (ally slot, deck slot, or find...). Otherwise, your teammate may add tokens. If else, you need to build your deck with more tools (for instance, both Keep Fate & Priest of Two Faiths).

Playing Guide

Mulligan guide: if your first hand...

• always keep: one Blessing of Isis, one Olive McBride.
• your choice: Armageddon, Eye of Chaos, one card with generate card
• don't keep: Favor of Sun/Moon, Sacrifice, Prescient. (Those cards ard not for openning hand.)

Keep chaos bag with plenty of and : you need to plenty of and for successful test. Thus, your first objective is add plenty of and in bag. The most important thing is that you should keep lots of if the bag has lots of ; otherwise, you cannot deny at all.

Most important test Moon + Sun + Paradoxical: if you think you must succeed a test, then trigger Moon + Sun + Paradoxical. Then, you guarantee auto-succeed and you earn 1 bonus from curse-spell. However, don't forget this is less effective, and panic button.

Important test Olive: Olive is very powerful, if your bag has lots of both tokens. For 7 tokens case, you could 60% auto-success without Favor. If you have both Favor, you can trigger your Favor after you reveal 3 tokens and then resolve or effect; of course, you need to reveal one or . Therefore, with Olive and Favors, your test is usually auto-succeed.

Important Note: after you trigger Blessing of Isis or Paradoxical Covenant, you don't reveal additional tokens, although there exist any and/or tokens which are not resolved yet. You don't need to fear of after trigger.

Don't fear difficult test with Olive: with olive, it's likely that your test is auto-succeed with plenty of and tokens. Although your bag has no tokens, don't be fear to trigger Olive at difficult test. Olive increase the success rate for hard skill test. NOT FOR EXPERT.

Recharge + Favor = no risk 3 charge: when you play recharge, you simply trigger favor, then you always add 3 charges without discard. Moon is better, but Sun is ok since the token is returned into bag. If Recharge is level 4, you may play without Favor since chosen asset isn't discarded.

Presicent + Favor/Olive = symbol: with Favor or Olive, you could always get bonus of Presicent effect. Possible target is Recharge, Deny Existence, Soothing Melody, or Alter Fate.

Priest of Two Faiths is good absorber: you don't need to discard Priest next upkeep phase. Adding is not a huge penalty. Keep Priest until you use Priest as one-time absorber; enemy attack, encounter's damage/horror, or effect which makes you discard asset. However, if all are in bag and/or sealed, you should discard Priest.

Deckbuilding Guide

0-level example and upgrade notes: link

first 5xp: here are some concepts

• auto-succeed: Paradoxical Covenant + Blessing of Isis
• blessing: Charisma + Priest of Two Faiths * 2 --> you have many blessing tools, but no usage.
• gambit: Blessing of Isis + Favor of the Sun * 2 --> you need many blessing tools

Covenant Choice: how to select?

• Paradoxical Covenant: default one. check this deck.
• Ancient Covenant/Sacred Covenant: if no one generates , pick thoes instead of Paradoxical. In this case, Shrivelling and Rite of Seeking are recommanded instead of Armageddon/Eye of Chaos; additional blessing tools may be necessary.
  • Ancient: you want to increase your test stability
  • Sacred: you want to keep to play A Watchful Peace

Accessory Slot:

• Holy Rosary vs Hallowed Mirror: in fact, this deck rely on auto-succeed, so that skill value is not important. Thus, I select support card, but Holy Rosary also a good card.
• Crystal Pendulum: Isis auto-succeed and Paradoxical auto-succeed has different skill value, so that it seems to be hard to draw.
• Holy Rosary (2) vs Hallowed Mirror (3): both cards are good enough, so that this is your choice. Another solution is to add both with Relic Hunter.

Arcane Research: Armageddon, Eye of Chaos, Recharge, Alter Fate, Deny Existence (total 8 candidates)