Arkham Horror: The Card Game – André Patel Investigator Deck
Arkham Horror: The Card Game – André Patel Investigator Deck Rulebook
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
How to Use This Expansion
This expansion contains a 36-card André Patel investigator deck and 24 upgrades for that deck. This deck and its upgrades can either be used on their own, or can be integrated into a player's collection like player cards in any other Arkham Horror: The Card Game expansion.
When playing this deck on its own, first separate the André Patel investigator card, his four signature cards, the Unaware basic weakness, and all 30 of his level 0 cards, as shown in the sidebar to the right. These 36 cards are a prebuilt André Patel deck which you can use to play any Arkham Horror: The Card Game scenario or campaign (sold separately). When you earn experience during campaign mode, you may spend it to purchase or upgrade into any of the 24 higher level cards included in this expansion. In the Arkham Horror: The Card Game rulebook, experience is described on page 22 and deck customization is described on page 30.
When playing André Patel with an existing collection of Arkham Horror: The Card Game player cards, you can start with the premade deck and modify or upgrade it using any of the cards from your collection, or you can build your own André Patel deck from scratch.
Deck Contents
André Patel, The Film Star (Investigator)
- André Patel. (1)
Assets (14)
- 2x Center Stage. (7)
- 2x Fame. (8)
- 2x The Grapevine. (9)
- 2x Extravagant Ring. (10)
- 2x Lockpicks. (11)
- 2x Marcus Sengstacke. (12)
- 2x Polished Cane. (13)
Events (10)
- 2x Clean Sweep. (14)
- 2x Pay Your Dues. (15)
- 2x Quick Exit. (16)
- 2x A Sudden Fall. (17)
- 2x Right Under Their Noses. (18)
Skills (9)
- Know the Exit. (2)
- Know the Line. (3)
- Know the Scene. (4)
- 2x Easy Street. (19)
- 2x Out the Door. (20)
- 2x “Watch This!”. (21)
Weaknesses (2)
- Weight of the World. (5)
- 1x random basic weakness
- [Unaware. (6)]
Source note on the sidebar: the sheet prints the signature skill as "Know the Line" in the sidebar and as "Know the Lines" in the body text. Both are transcribed as printed. The sidebar bracket around Unaware is also transcribed as printed; the body text identifies Unaware as the basic weakness to separate.
Playing André Patel
Always in the public eye, André Patel is a Rogue driven to over-succeed on all skill tests. The better André performs, the more rewards he receives. His ability allows him to take an extra action on his turn if he succeeds a skill test by 2 or more.
Many cards in André's deck are built around this big success. Polished Cane allows him to automatically evade anyone he succeeds at attacking by 2 or more. Lockpicks combine his two strongest skills, but break on a small success. Finally, Marcus Sengstacke is there to financially reward André's avoidance of failure.
Preparation and commitment also help in André's success on both the silver screen and on the streets of Arkham. His signatures, Know the Exit, Know the Lines, and Know the Scene each give a wild icon when committed. When committed to specific actions found on the card, however, each gains two wild icons.
Weight of the World, André's signature weakness, shows just how damaging failure is to his psyche. When it is drawn, it is played into your threat area. Whenever André fails a skill test and Weight of the World is in play, he takes 1 horror and Weight of the World is shuffled back into his investigator deck. It is only a matter of time before his anxiety and fear come back to the forefront.
Transcription note: the printed text places a custom ability icon before the word "ability" in the upgrade guidance below, and the wild icon in the signature paragraph is printed as a question-mark glyph. Both are rendered here as words.
Upgrading André Patel
There are two main upgrade paths you may choose when using the cards included in this deck. The first is a "big money" playstyle, which emphasizes gaining a lot of resources and using them to increase André's odds of success during skill tests. The other path focuses on maximizing the number of actions André can take during his turn.
To lean into the "big money" archetype, the upgraded version of Marcus Sengstacke (level 2) has more sanity and therefore more patience for possible failure. In addition, André can begin the game with Silver Tongue (level 3) in hand, so that he can spend resources to boost his skills. Well Connected (level 3) turns accumulated wealth into direct skill boosts, encouraging you to hoard your resources. Additionally, the exceptional asset The Black Fan (level 3) provides greater power that increases with the number resources you have.
André's other path focuses on "action compression": efficiently using your actions to do as many things as possible during your turn. Lockpicks (level 1) allows André to investigate with a base 8 skill value once per turn, increasing the odds of triggering his ability to gain more actions on an oversuccess. The Grapevine (level 2) provides incredible movement around the map, provided there is an enemy in play. An improved Right Under Their Noses (level 3) lets André gather clues from both his location and a connecting location on a large success. At the cost of 10 experience, The Red Clock (level 5) provides André an additional 2 actions every 3 turns. Paired with just his investigator ability, the Red Clock allows André to take 6 individual actions on his turn!
Expansion Symbol
The cards in this expansion can be identified by this symbol before each card's collector number.
Transcription note: the symbol is a film-reel icon printed before each card's collector number in the card list above. It is rendered here in words.