Used Books

Card draw simulator
Odds: 0% – 0% – 0% more
Repartition by Cost
Repartition by Strength
Derived from
Scholar of Stealth: 1st Place Uroboros Cup 2015 (67 players)
Inspiration for
Used Books 1.6 (4-3 Swiss US Nat'ls)
Include in your page (help)

Grimwalker 638

Derived from the "Scholar of Stealth" list from elsewhere on this site, that deck is the business. Zero jank, just installs cards like mad and goes to work.

Still, I wasn't quite happy with it. It could, like any Hayley deck, bog down a little. Enter Street Peddler, which takes the place of Corroder and 1 Career Fair on the influence, while cutting out one Diesel and two Earthrise Hotels--their four cost install was a significant tempo problem, and while Career Fair helps out a lot, it's not so much if the only Hayley drop to go with it is a Daily Casts.

So we'll see how this goes. This semester, Hayley is buying used textbooks from the Street Waif.

10 comments
12 Jul 2015 Grimwalker

-2 Career Fair, -1 Snowball, +2 Aesop, +1 Corroder is the current build.

13 Jul 2015 jmbostwick

The change to Aesop's is an odd one in my eyes -- how much of the stuff you're installing are you actually planning to throw away?

13 Jul 2015 Grimwalker

Aesops is for Armitages and Daily Casts when they reach end of life.

13 Jul 2015 Ayotte

you have 5 potential targets for your 2 career fairs. i just dont buy it

13 Jul 2015 Saan

It seems to me like Hayley really needs 3 Diesel. Even with the extra draw from Street Ped, she burns through her hand so fast that filling it back up is really, really nice. I'm not sold on the Aesop's since there's only a few targets, so maybe you could do +1 Diesel and then maybe +1 Kati, so you see her sooner.

13 Jul 2015 Grimwalker

@Ayotte as noted above, they've already been dropped. @Saan That's a good suggestion. I'll keep it in over the next few games and think about whether the pawnshop is getting good returns.

13 Jul 2015 jmbostwick

I agree with @Saan -- Using Aesop's to milk an extra one credit out of a couple cards doesn't seem worth it to me. I'd add in more draw to get the economy that you have instead.

15 Jul 2015 t-lor

peddler seems a litte scary, considering a large part of the deck works around having the 2 silencers and lockpicks. If by some bad luck you to trash a few, you have no way to recur them !

Besides that, while playing around with the Original deck one of the bigger problems i had were big bariers. Swapping in a less efficient breaker seems bad :P

15 Jul 2015 Grimwalker

Peddler has been absolutely baller. Losing a stealth chip occasionally really isn't a problem with Cloaks, Ghost Runner, and Levy in the deck.

Snowball is definitely out. Will publish the newer iteration after Gen Con.

15 Jul 2015 Grimwalker

Street Peddler has been absolutely baller. The speed boost cannot be overstated. Each one you play pulls 3 more cards out of the deck so it's really almost like running a 36 card deck. Add onto that the discount, the ability to double dip Hayley's ability with corp turn installs, itself being an easy drop alongside any other resource, and losing a stealth chip occasionally really isn't a problem. Cloaks, Ghost Runner, and Levy make up for it.

Snowball is definitely out. Will publish the newer iteration after Gen Con.