Hey All,

I guess this has been asked many times before, so I am sorry as a new Arkham Horror TCG player to ask this again, but do I really need two core sets? I jus finished the 3 core scenario's with a friend and now I want to start playing the Dunwich Legacy. So I have one core set, the Dunwich Legacy and the Dunwich Legacy scenario packs (still sealed). Could I make 3 (or maybe 4) nice or ok decks with just these sets? Or do I really need a 2nd core for the cards?

And what about if after the Dunwich Legacy I start a next cycle? The big question is what do you really need from the 2nd core, what the next sets don't bring? I prefer to buy a new deluxe than a 2nd core.

Thanks!

Mainly consistense.

Hi! Welcome to the Arkham Horror LCG.

The bare minimum you need to be able to simultaneously construct 4 legal decks is:

• One Core Set.
• The Dunwich Legacy deluxe expansion.
• The Miskatonic Museum and The Essex County Express mythos packs.

With only one Core Set you may find you run out of clue/doom tokens, resource tokens and health/sanity tokens. If you are happy using other counters for these then you are all set. But...

Until you get more player cards from deluxes and mythos packs you will be very limited in which investigators you can play because of their deck building requirements. You will pretty much have to avoid overlapping classes at all (i.e. either everyone takes an investigator from The Dunwich Legacy or three people take investigators from The Dunwich Legacy and the fourth takes the Core Set investigator who fills in the gap).

Your decks may also not be particularly consistent due to only having access to singleton player cards from the Core Set. Therefore if you want to go this route consider playing on Easy, because I think even Standard could be rough.

These are four decks that I made back when The Essex County Express was first released, because someone asked almost exactly the same question:

• Zoey (Guardian): https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/27147
• Rex (Seeker): https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/27148
• Agnes (Mystic/Survivor): https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/27150
• Jenny (Rogue): https://arkhamdb.com/deck/view/27149

In retrospect that Jenny deck doesn't look particularly fun to play - if I were doing this now I think I'd go with Zoey/Rex/Jim/either Wendy or "Ashcan".

If you only want to make three decks rather than four then I think you'll be fine, although you may still run out of tokens.

Finally, it becomes less and less of a problem as you get more and more deluxe boxes and mythos packs because you will have more and more strong cards for each faction.

Thanks. I was looking to play the Dunwich Legacy with 3 people, so just 3 decks (so as I read your post, I should be fine). Also a big thanks for the deck links you provided, I can use that. At this point it doesn't really matter which investigator we play, as every investigator or scenario is new. I can imagine when we will be replaying we will choose specific investigators.

The more product you the buy less a problem it becomes (aside from the toke supply issue which is real). With this small a card pool you are stretching those player cards real thin. So keep in mind that you'll be playing very un-optimized and potentially inconsistent (and in my opinion less enjoyable) decks. That said I don't see why you couldn't mechanically do it. You'll technically have enough player cards for the Dunwich investigators to make decks. Looks like Assussanni made 4 legal decks with the available product in his list.