Vincent Lee is a Terrible Doctor

It's time to get out your doctoring tools - the Fire Axe, the Bonesaw, and the Machete! This is a Vincent Lee Guardian style deck, focused on bisecting and dissecting monsters, soaking damage, and hanging with your best girls - Grete, Jessica and Lonnie. With their aid, Vincent can pump his fight score to absurd proportions, selfishly acquire On the Mends for even more skill tests, and Practice Make Perfect for repeatable damage bonuses with surgical precision, if by surgical precision we mean wildly swinging a fire axe.

Keep hands with at least one ally and look for Fire Axe and Bonesaw first, but be willing to settle for a Machete or (dealers choice) Runic Axe in the first scenarios. Vincent will need to invest skills in his first hits until he has a critical mass of assets down like Dissection Tools, Dark Horse, and any of his friends. But he also keeps Toe to Toe on hand with the expectation that his allies can soak up some heat for guaranteed damage. You can even invest skills in those tests, which will automatically succeed.

As the game goes on, Vincent will eventually hit 5-7 fight - with a +2 Bonus from Bonesaw or Fire Axe on top - and should then be fully self-sufficient without further card support. And whenever he's not busy fighting monsters or setting up assets, he can still scoop a clue from time to time with his high base book!

Central Combos -

1. Fire Axe + Dark Horse for at least a + 3 bonus to a first fight action.
2. Practice Makes Perfect pulls and repeats a variety of useful fighting skills, including the new Long Shot for extra vicious blows.
3. Lonnie/Heavy Furs allows Vincent to churn tokens and heal horror at the cost of resources, which also has some synergy with Dark Horse. Keep in mind Lonnie's Heal does not give On the Mend, though adding Painkillers to the mix allows you to quickly add the skill to your hand while putting needed horror on Lonnie.
4. Jessica Hyde's natural heal will give Vincent an On the Mend every turn as long as she is doing soaking, which is easy enough to manage with Bonesaw doing self damage per hit.
5. Hallowed Mirror allows for peeling off damage from Grete Wagner and getting more clues from passive fighting. It's the best mitigator for Wounded Bystander in the deck, which may become more of a going concern otherwise depending on how you feel about mental trauma. You can also, I guess, heal your friends, and give them cool skill cards? Sounds dubious, but why not.

Upgrades: Covering Vincents central weaknesses means getting at least one Charisma first, allowing him to leverage three unique allies and give better fight values and soak. You can buy Flare for a cheap, efficient way to find allies or use Ever Vigilant to more quickly set up - either will save you a sizeable chunk of resources and actions.

When you have that base set up and six XP to spare, getting into Ancestral Knowledge is the next great thing, as it will thin out the skills in your deck and give you a little space to play, either by picking up more Cluevering with Deduction and Perception or adding more fight options like Stunning Blow and the unfortunately unpracticed Strong-Armed. Adding four skills will give you room to sneak in one fun-of 0 XP card or a card to fix an issue brought up by the campaign.

From there, the deck can go a lot of directions. One route is to aim for efficient heals to soak more and more damage, either by continuing a more solo Vincent route with selfish cards like Cheat Death, Precious Memento and Deny Existence or adding efficient action heals like Healing Words and First Aid, depending on scenario. Another route might be to improve your weapon kit a little with cards like Timeworn Brand, or drop Dissection Tools and turn yourself into a Runic Axe deck (adding Inscription: Glory will allow Vincent to upgrade it to 10 from there, and you can sneak in a Tool Belt to act as a bandolier when you take Ancestral Knowledge.) Or just get weird and experiment with what L3 seeker cards you can fit in a guardian deck!