Painting for Profit - Standalone Sefina

This Big Money Sefina deck is one of the most fun and successful decks I've played. I built it for a hard mode, 3 player Guardians of the Abyss run, which we crushed, getting 7 XP on the first scenario and beating both without any investigator defeats. It was so much fun I played it in several more standalone hard mode scenarios as a true solo deck, something I don't normally enjoy. This deck is great at investigating and evading, and pretty good at killing with the right cards.

If you open with Hot Streak as one of your 5 events, life becomes easy mode. Make sure to copy it at least twice with Painted World before drawing it, holding onto that money to turn on Dario and Well Connected. Keep in mind that you can Uncage the Soul your Painted World->Hot Streak for +10 resources! With the boosts to will and agility that Four of cups, Rosary, Dario, and Lola provide, it's rare to fail any treachery skill tests, but I included one Ward of Protection for non-test treacheries like Ancient Evils.

Once you're setup, every turn should include:

1) One automatic clue from Lola. 2) One or two good skill tests using will or agility. 3) One near automatic skill test with Lockpicks. 4) One near automatic skill test with Well Connected.

Money Talks can be used for more high skill checks before you've assembled the full engine as well.

If you don't open with Hot Streak, the deck definitely becomes more challenging. You're going to need to use Dario's action on a lot of turns for +2 resources, and gradually built up to 10 so Dario and Well Connected are useful. Eventually you'll draw into a Hot Streak or 2 and the deck will really get rolling.

If I was building towards this in a campaign from 0 XP, I'd probably start with the David Renfield / Moonlight Ritual money engine, then replace those as I got Hot Streaks.