Low test Agnes

For the deckbuilding exercise on reddit.

• What role is the deck? Clue gatherer, Fighter, Support, a little of everything?
  Fighter and Support.
• How many players is this deck for?
  This deck would work better the more players there are in the game.
• Does the deck use a limited card pool (not everything released)? Whether it's because you don't own everything, or self imposed limitations.
  Everything up to City of Archives not including Novellas. My self imposed banned list I use for a campaign I'm familiar with:
  Dr. Milan Christopher, Higher Education, Machete, Strange Solution: Acidic Ichor, Peter Sylvestre (2), Key of Ys, Leo De Luca, and Delve Too Deep is restricted to classes that can take it without limiting their card pool.
• If it's a multiplayer deck: Who would the deck like to be paired with? Which cards do you expect them to run that will help you specifically?
  Anyone that can heal sanity would be helpful. Clue gatherers. So probably any seeker running Logical Reasoning.
• What is your Mulligan strategy?
  By priority: The Chthonian Stone then Painkillers or Forbidden Knowledge then Shrivelling or Mists of R'lyeh.
• Are there any treachery cards you're particularly wary of?
  Nothing too common.
• What is your upgrade path? Priorities in general, priorities to get before a specific scenario?
  Fearless is high priority, as it helps us heal sanity and therefore deal more damage. Time Warp can prevent The Chthonian Stone from bouncing back. And then of course Shrivelling and at the end of the campaign, Shrivelling.

Card choices:
The idea of the deck is to lean heavily on testless damage from Agnes' ability. We also take advantage of the fact we're avoiding skill tests by playing The Chthonian Stone to help our partners, since it only bounces back if we pull tentacles.
David Renfield is a will boost, a money generator and a damage soak for our Smoking Pipe to allow us to heal damage. We have both Smoking Pipe and Painkillers to help us get rid of him when he has too much doom.
Perseverance is basically a Guts you can play if you need it, which is better in my opinion than the card draw.
Take Heart to turn skill tests we don't have to beat into wins. | Drawn to the Flame for testless clues.
Premonition can help us avoid bouncing the The Chthonian Stone if we see tentacles. And it also works with Take Heart if we see a high negative modifier token, we can do a meaningless test and get a bonus for it. We can also let another investigator do the test and give them the cards and money.
Mists of R'lyeh I'm not yet sure about, but it seems useful to me. Ever since I've played Forgotten Age, I've warmed up to the idea of evading some enemies.

That's pretty much it.