Modular Decks

By EnigmaKnight, in Call of Cthulhu Deck Construction

My gaming groups (or gaming duo's) are always pretty casual, and not inductive to people building their own decks. So I liked the mix and match ability of the core game, and I wanted to continue it on with the expansions. I decided to break factions into sets of 20 or 10, and, for the most part, keep the themes of the different cycles and packs together as much as possible. I named the Decks by the origin of the majority of the cards in the deck, Included a conspiracy in each Neutral Deck, and name those decks by that card. I didn't worry to much if an some of the individual modules where unbalanced, as other modules could balance them out, and some people might look for that particular type of unbalance. So far I have included cards from the Core game, the Mountains of Madness(MoM) pack, the Ancient Horrors(AH) pack, and the Summons of the Deep(SotD) packs.

I know that these module decks aren't usually going to compete well against a completely built deck, but so far they allow me to bring out the game much more often, and I find I experiment more with the combinations. I thought others might be interested in what I've put together, and, perhaps, suggest alternative groupings, or point out any bad combinations that I might be unaware of in the decks. All the decks are grouped next by faction, with the "20" decks before the "10" decks.

Agency(20) "Core"-
Core: 1-20

Agency(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 1x3, 2x3, 2, 22x3, 41x3, 42x3, 61x3, 62

Agency(10) "Summons of the Deep"
SotD: 81x3,82x3, 101x3, 102

Agency(10) "Ancient Horrors"
AH: 1x3, 2x3, 3 MoM: 1-2 Base: 23

Miskatonic University(20) "Core"-
Core: 21-22, 24-40 AH: 4

Miskatonic University(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 3-4, 5x3,23, 24x3, 25x3, 43, 44x3, 63-64 AH: 5-6

Miskatonic University(10) "Mountains of Madness"-
MoM: 3, 4x3, 5x3, 43, 44x3, 63-64 SotD: 104x3

Cthulhu(20) "Core"-
Core: 41-60

Cthulhu(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 8x3, 9, 29x3, 30, 48-49, 67, 68x3, 87, 88x3, 107-108

Syndicate(20) "Core"-
Core: 61-80 AH: 4

Syndicate(20) "Summons of the Deep(Spawn of the Sleeper)"-
SotD: 7x3, 26x3, 27x3, 28, 45x3, 46, 47x3 MM: 6x3

Syndicate(20) "Summons of the Deep(Terror of the Tides)"-
SotD: 6, 65x3, 66, 85x3, 86x3, 105x3, 106x3 AH: 8x3

Hastur(20) "Core"-
Core: 81-100

Hastur(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 10-11, 12x3, 31, 32x3, 50-51, 69x3, 70x3, 89-90, 110

Hastur(10) "Ancient Horrors"-
AH: 12x3, 13, 14x3 SotD: 111x3

Yog-Sothoth(20) "Core"-
Core: 101-120

Yog-Sothoth(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 13x3, 14x3, 33x3, 34, 52-53, 71, 72x3, 91, 92x3

Yog-Sothoth(10) "Ancient Horrors"-
AH: 15, 16x3, 17x3 SotD: 112x3

Shrub-Niggurath(20) "Core"-
Core: 121-140

Shrub-Niggurath(20) "Summons of the Deep"-
SotD: 15x3, 16, 35, 36x3, 54x3, 55x3, 56x3, 73x3

Shrub-Niggurath(10) "Ancient Horrors"-
AH: 19x3, 20x3 MoM: 14, 15x3

Neutral (10) "The Bootleg Whiskey Cover up(Core1)"-
Core: 141-147, 155 SotD: 79, 95

Neutral (10) "Fountain of Youth(Core2)"-
Core: 148-154 SotD: 80, 96, 97

Neutral (10) "The Underwater Conspiracy(SotD1)"-
SotD: 17-18, 19x3, 20, 38, 39x3

Neutral (10) "Ask Questions Later(SotD2)"-
SotD: 37, 57, 58x3, 59x3, 60, 75

Neutral (10) "The Path to Y‘ha-nthlei(SotD3)"-
SotD: 76x3, 77x3, 78x3, 120

Neutral (10) "Unorthodox Tactics(SotD4)"-
SotD: 98x3, 99, 100, 117, 118x3, 119

Neutral (10) "Realm of Ice and Death(MoM)"-
MoM: 16x3, 17-20 SotD: 116x3


Hope this is useful to some people, and please, let me know what you think.