What are your thoughts on Sefina?

By Soakman, in Arkham Horror: The Card Game

Just played the first scenario of Carcosa as Sefina, and I had sooooo much fun. I thought I was really going to struggle with her as I don't have a 2nd core set and the options available to her limit her successful investigations and attack options.

I don't know if I had a lucky game, but boy was I wrong.

Of my starting 13 cards, 5 were events so that worked perfectly. I also drew a Painted World in my opening hand giving me a lot of flexibility. One of the cards under Sefina was Backstab which allowed me an available 3 damage attack if I had 3 resources (and another if I spent an action to take the card back into my hand). Additionally I had an uncage the soul under Sefina, and a copy of shriveling in my hand, which I opted to pay for, but I could have played for free.

We earned 6 xp from the first scenario, so I am going to put a couple of lockpicks in the deck to help with the investigation phases, but all in all, I was impressed.

We were playing on easy, but I found her very fun.

(BTW, our party consists of Sefina, Rex, and Wendy. Not an incredibly well-balanced team, but so far it's worked very well)

I thought she would be more mystic than rogue myself, but my first game seemed to really demonstrate that she can be excellent at either as a rogue often does not need to attack to deal damage, and sometimes exhausting an enemy is just as strong as wasting actions killing it. I saved both of the other players in the first scenario by evading a nasty enemy with retaliate.


She seems very versatile and useful so long as you don't pull any straight combat or intelligence checks.

I am very much considering song of the dead over shriveling since she can't upgrade it. Maybe a couple of ritual candles too as path to carcosa starts out with 3 skulls in the bag on easy.

I would actually recommend bind creature or upgrading blinding light. Nothing like near permanently evading a non-elite or or doing damage if you succeed on an evade. They're also events and upgraded binding light is rather cheap resource cost wise. If you don't already have her in your deck, Alyssa Graham can help you look for your weakness card to get it to the bottom of your deck so you don't need to worry about it eating your cards.

Edited by Donel
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