Slim Jim‘s Axe Solo

This is a deck I put together for solo play. I don’t yet have much of PTC or TFA so this is mostly using cards from the core set and Dunwich Legacy.

If you manage to get lone wolf and the fire axe out it becomes a pretty deadly combo, it’s important to note that forbidden knowledge and painkillers are there to help you kill off your doom laden allies once they’ve served their purpose but FK also has the added bonus of refuelling your axe mid turn so you can potentially get a spell or discard the top card of the encounter deck whilst also doing 5 damage in a turn. I found i wasn’t really using Rite of Seeking as Alyssa Graham coupled with Jim’s naturally high success rate carries you through, as you sort of want to keep your resources low for the fireaxes it’s not too painful to throw in some resources via Arkane studies to help you investigate, therefore I upgraded this to song of the dead.

The ritual candles are intended to be upgraded to Grotesque statues, when exactly will depend on your priorities for the upcoming scenarios but I upgraded to a level 3 shrivelling first then added one grotesque statue the repeated this. By this point in TDL I had collected several allies so I next took charisma and then finally upgraded both shrivellings to level 5.

It’s important to note that in solo I didn’t really end up using Jim’s trumpet so I would recommend you mulligan this if it ends up in your starting hand in the hope of getting some damage ability and maybe a lone wolf or a scavenging. I managed to scavenge back my Grotesque statue three times in one scenario but that was lucky I guess. If you have scavenging out though don’t forget to scavenge back your spare holy rosary or your trumpet for the icons, just because you can and it really helps pass those skills tests.

The upgraded version can be found here: https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/296495