Having trouble beating this Misk+Cthulhu deck...

By Kallisti, in Call of Cthulhu Deck Construction

Hey all,

I've been constructing decks for my buddy and I to play with, and I've made a Miskatonic+Cthulhu deck that I can't manage to beat with my other three decks (including my MIskatonic+Hastur+Yog discard deck which beats all the others). I'm betting it has to do w/ my inability to construct a good all around deck as my other decks are all based off a specific idea and none of those can combat the speed of the M+C deck. Plus, the Chess Prodigy + Sleeping Pill combo is just absurd and almost impossibly to deal with.

Anyway, here is the deck, and any comments would be greatly appreciated. Any ways you could think to make a deck that would be balanced against this one I'd also like to hear. It'd probably go a long way towards helping me understand deck building a bit better.

3x CS F25 Anthropology Advisor
3x AAH F4 Cafeteria Lady
3x AHS F25 Chess Prodigy
2x CS F22 •Dr. Ali Kafour, Middle Eastern Scholar
3x CS F27 Mad Genius
2x CS F21 •Professor Albert Wilmarth, Folklore Expert
2x CS F24 •Professor Nathaniel Peaslee, Scholar of the Arcane
3x AHS F24 Scholarly Plagiarist
3x CS F26 Visiting Author
2x CS F35 Atwood Science Hall
3x CS F34 Open for Inspection
3x ASL F5 Sleeping Pills
3x CS F48 Adult Deep One
3x CS F51 Mature Deep One
3x CS F46 Ravager from the Deep
3x CS F52 Young Deep One
3x CS F56 Deep One Assault
3x CS F55 Shadowed Reef

from a quick glance it looks like insanity could be an issue. dont over look that you have both villianous and heroic characters in there too, they both cant be in play at the same time. the only thing that is protecting against terror is support cards, burrowing beneath and political demo could help fix that problem. i think a shub/hastur deck could handle this deck.

Thanks for the comments.

I agree that insanity is a bit of a problem. I have noticed my insanity + combat deck (hastur+agency) did the best against it, but ultimately failed. I'm going to try and add some anti-insanity stuff in there. Maybe Dr. Carson's Treatment, and Dr Carson himself. Might do better to have those in there and get rid of Wilmarth and Kafour (heroic). Those heroic guys almost always end up as domain cards anyway, so thanks for the tip there.