On the Flex Head Luke deck you could swap one of the Holy Rosaries out for the Mouse Mask. Have one of each. They don't clash on slots and they fulfil the same purpose with equal strength (given Luke will refill the mask a lot). The only reason not to is the loss of 2 horror soak from the deck. With a larger card pool, consistency no longer requires you using 2 of the same card. Consistency can be achieved with differing cards if they can fulfil a close-to identical purpose.
After hearing your closing, it occurs to me that Luke is the Steve Buscemi of investigators. He'll never win an academy award, but everyone who has played him or seen him played will say, "damn, that's tight!" Maybe he'll win a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from PBG in their Yearbook awards of 2029.
Thanks this was the video I was really waiting for to crack the Luke puzzle. And I agree with everything you said, I have never thought of how difficult was to cut the deck to 30 cards until this video, always had a felling of something not right when trying to build it, but never fully grasped the reason 😅 Thanks alot, I watched your video, assembled a quick deck following your idea, called the guys for a quick run of thousand shapes of horror and had a real blast with Luke for the first time. Keep on the good work!
Luke Robinson is my favorite investigator. I love being everywhere at once and event slinging. I prefer an event heavy deck for him, running both mystic spell events alongside some seeker/mystic grab clue events like working a hunch and drawn to the flame. drawing encounter cards is a non issue for someone with 4 will and 3 agility. Sixth sense is great as it doesn't have charges and allows you to focus on your brain and sometimes you get to pick up clues at other locations, though not the best for higher player counts.
I can verify that Luke Flex benefits from being aware of team comp. I played him 2H with Finn using mostly seeker cluever assets and mystic fight assets. Finn investigated high shroud locations, and Luke focused on bigger enemies. They completely steamrolled Carcosa. Perhaps the value and examples of a flexible flex strat (i.e., flex roles divided 60-40 rather than 50-50) could be future content?????
I definitely intend to do some analysis on flex and team support sometime in the future. Not slated for anytime soon atm. I will say, while I've talked about the value of being a 50/50 flex, I think it may have come off as "this is better" and not "there is a lot of value in being able to do this, especially if you want to go clear a portion of the map completely on your own." In most circumstances, flexes don't end up being 50/50 and part of optimizing them is catering to the team.
I should definitely have mentioned it since it is uniquely powerful in him compared to anyone else. I'm just really averse to cards like that which will require me to reveal a bunch of locations without clearing them and play in very specific patterns. It feels inflexible and the powerlevel usually doesn't feel high enough to warrant it with cards like that. Testing Sprint in Luke is pushing it enough that I should've mentioned it though.
Luke can run Whittom Greene LV2 for both some soak and +1 book and head even without running any tomes (and if you do you can find them with her, its a plus) cause the Gatebox is a relic and it's always in play, it works rather well. Also, Mouse Mask has infinite charges on him, pretty much, it's better than running a Hawk Eye cause it'll give you more head more reliably and it’s also not tied to you drawing it early and finding clues before it comes online. You can also cut the Shortcut, yes its good to use it from connected locations on allies, but it’s hardly a necessity.
You mention there's two problems with Luke: Not enough draw, and too many cards you want to include in the deck. Why not run Forced Learning? You're only increasing your deck size by 50% but drawing something like 100% more cards a round. Hell, even the cards you discard can serve a purpose with things like Uncage the Soul (3) alongside it.
@@mechtroidProductions Drawing 100% more cards per round doesn't acknowledge how much card draw affects that (and the chance of getting your draw later due to larger deck size). It also hurts the mulligan a lot. Later in the campaign, when Forced Learning means that 6/50 cards rather than 6/30 are the experienced arcane assets I rely on to do my job, it's generally not going to make me stronger. Even in characters that really want Forced Learning like a vanilla Pete for discard synergies, I really felt that consistency hit.
Dexter's also very good at it. It's just that Luke has access to more draw, giving him more chances at finding the cards that find True Magick pieces. Molly Maxwell can find anything, but you have to find her. It's Seeker draw in conjunction with research librarian, not just the tutor alone.
@@RatherIncoherent yeah I know, but I was feeling Dexter, when I had Molly, was the most consistent I ever played anything and calling in favor helps you find her . Usually if you don't you find the things you wanted to find with her on the way and just play that. But Seeker 2 is just the best off class in general and with card draw in specific. Can't argue with that
On the Flex Head Luke deck you could swap one of the Holy Rosaries out for the Mouse Mask. Have one of each. They don't clash on slots and they fulfil the same purpose with equal strength (given Luke will refill the mask a lot). The only reason not to is the loss of 2 horror soak from the deck.
With a larger card pool, consistency no longer requires you using 2 of the same card. Consistency can be achieved with differing cards if they can fulfil a close-to identical purpose.
Ah, Luke. Seeker off class is insane. Bolted on Luke's ability, it's so good. Seeker off class fixes any character shortcomings.
After hearing your closing, it occurs to me that Luke is the Steve Buscemi of investigators. He'll never win an academy award, but everyone who has played him or seen him played will say, "damn, that's tight!"
Maybe he'll win a "Lifetime Achievement Award" from PBG in their Yearbook awards of 2029.
Thanks this was the video I was really waiting for to crack the Luke puzzle. And I agree with everything you said, I have never thought of how difficult was to cut the deck to 30 cards until this video, always had a felling of something not right when trying to build it, but never fully grasped the reason 😅
Thanks alot, I watched your video, assembled a quick deck following your idea, called the guys for a quick run of thousand shapes of horror and had a real blast with Luke for the first time. Keep on the good work!
Luke Robinson is my favorite investigator. I love being everywhere at once and event slinging. I prefer an event heavy deck for him, running both mystic spell events alongside some seeker/mystic grab clue events like working a hunch and drawn to the flame. drawing encounter cards is a non issue for someone with 4 will and 3 agility. Sixth sense is great as it doesn't have charges and allows you to focus on your brain and sometimes you get to pick up clues at other locations, though not the best for higher player counts.
I can verify that Luke Flex benefits from being aware of team comp. I played him 2H with Finn using mostly seeker cluever assets and mystic fight assets. Finn investigated high shroud locations, and Luke focused on bigger enemies. They completely steamrolled Carcosa.
Perhaps the value and examples of a flexible flex strat (i.e., flex roles divided 60-40 rather than 50-50) could be future content?????
I definitely intend to do some analysis on flex and team support sometime in the future. Not slated for anytime soon atm. I will say, while I've talked about the value of being a 50/50 flex, I think it may have come off as "this is better" and not "there is a lot of value in being able to do this, especially if you want to go clear a portion of the map completely on your own." In most circumstances, flexes don't end up being 50/50 and part of optimizing them is catering to the team.
I would have though testing sprint would be one of the major selling points of book luke
I should definitely have mentioned it since it is uniquely powerful in him compared to anyone else. I'm just really averse to cards like that which will require me to reveal a bunch of locations without clearing them and play in very specific patterns. It feels inflexible and the powerlevel usually doesn't feel high enough to warrant it with cards like that. Testing Sprint in Luke is pushing it enough that I should've mentioned it though.
I had an awesome time with Luke, Twila and True Magic through The Circle Undone. He is both powerful and fun.
Aye good to see the S+ and F tiers.
Would be so much better if he could use tunic axe
Luke can run Whittom Greene LV2 for both some soak and +1 book and head even without running any tomes (and if you do you can find them with her, its a plus) cause the Gatebox is a relic and it's always in play, it works rather well. Also, Mouse Mask has infinite charges on him, pretty much, it's better than running a Hawk Eye cause it'll give you more head more reliably and it’s also not tied to you drawing it early and finding clues before it comes online. You can also cut the Shortcut, yes its good to use it from connected locations on allies, but it’s hardly a necessity.
Go back to the weaker investigators, i need my Preston video 😢
You mention there's two problems with Luke: Not enough draw, and too many cards you want to include in the deck. Why not run Forced Learning? You're only increasing your deck size by 50% but drawing something like 100% more cards a round. Hell, even the cards you discard can serve a purpose with things like Uncage the Soul (3) alongside it.
@@mechtroidProductions Drawing 100% more cards per round doesn't acknowledge how much card draw affects that (and the chance of getting your draw later due to larger deck size). It also hurts the mulligan a lot. Later in the campaign, when Forced Learning means that 6/50 cards rather than 6/30 are the experienced arcane assets I rely on to do my job, it's generally not going to make me stronger.
Even in characters that really want Forced Learning like a vanilla Pete for discard synergies, I really felt that consistency hit.
Luke is the best at finding Twila and true magic? May I introduce you to Molly Maxwell and Calling in Favors.
Dexter's also very good at it. It's just that Luke has access to more draw, giving him more chances at finding the cards that find True Magick pieces. Molly Maxwell can find anything, but you have to find her. It's Seeker draw in conjunction with research librarian, not just the tutor alone.
@@RatherIncoherent yeah I know, but I was feeling Dexter, when I had Molly, was the most consistent I ever played anything and calling in favor helps you find her . Usually if you don't you find the things you wanted to find with her on the way and just play that.
But Seeker 2 is just the best off class in general and with card draw in specific. Can't argue with that
You recorded this quite a bit ago huh.
Nah, this was like two days ago. What changed?
@@RatherIncoherent The tier list went back to having a F tier and S+ tier and I think other stuff reverted too, but I'm not quite sure.
Your videos are too coherent, literally unwatchable