Bryn Builds A Short Supply William Yorick Deck | LIVE DECKBUILDING | Arkham Horror: The Card Game
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Ages ago someone asked for us to showcase a Short Supply-focused Will Yorick deck. Look no further, Bryn is here with his Yorick expertise to showcase how he would build a Short Supply Yorick deck!
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I think I was the one who made the request. Thanks a lot! Will try this out next campaign.
if bury them deep is in top 10 discarded - you can always pull it up from the graveyard with your elder sign token.
If you do n tests and have k tokens in the cup, the probability you draw one elder sign at least once is
1-(1-1/k)^n.
With standard k=16, n=15, the probablity is still 0.6, so it's really possible. Becasue 15 tests is pretty normal. Average 1 test per round.
This is a great point! Nice to see combinatorics used to prove how good Will Yorick is after EotE, too
As an additional "Gravy" upgrade I would suggest well prepared. I mean, you plan to have a main weapon with 3 punch symbols on it, so that's a great boost to have once per round.
Good Gravy!
It's great, but with Geared Up you kind of limiting yourself to take (almost) only Item assets. Same with Safeguard, which I would put in pretty much any (multiplayer) Yorick deck.
@@markusschmidt9260 not super sure about that, since skill cards are just as much 'dead' cards in your opening hand and are still in this deck. Well Prepared can very much be considered a repeatable skill card. I do agree with you that you should be careful to retain a high enough % of items.
A separate point is that there's probably a better short supply Will Yorick deck to be made by not including Geared Up. It limits your deck options a lot less.
@@chrisismymiddlename5922 The difference is, that a skill card you have in your opening hand is easier to mulligan away with or without Geared Up. They will be a good draw later in the game as well. Well Prepared, Safeguard, even Beat Cop are giving you a tough choice. If you don't mulligan them away, you reduce your chance of drawing more items, if you do, the next time you'll see them might be actually too late in the game to be worth it playing them. They are normally cards, you are very happy to see in your opening hand. Much more happy than a Talisman of Protection!
I agree, that a Short Supply deck without Geared Up might be better. Honestly, I think any deck would be better without Geared Up. But at least, with off class guardians like Yorick or Joe, there can be made a case, that they can't take the strictly better SttP+EV combo for 7 XP, and unlike Diana for instance, they can build decent decks with lots of items. For most other investigators it is an apparent trap card, imho. But chances are, that Samson will make this card work, like Winifred makes Opportunist level 0 work.
@@markusschmidt9260 that's a good point. Often later in the scenario you lack the actions to put more assets down and assets like Well Prepared benefit from being played earlier, making this a bit more of a dilemma specifically in a Geared Up deck.
Dig Deep and Cornered as suggested in the vid would face a similar issue.
Tested the level 0 of this in Curtain Call alongside an Agnes and Carolyn deck for an upcoming campaign and it's a beast. Big Bu.. Baby was crying whenever they saw Will coming to kill them again.
It’s nice to see geared up getting some attention. Most discussion I’ve seen have been either around ll Daisy or “why not just SttP+ever vigilant instead?”
It’s like a lv0 version of another day another dollar, not quite as generally good but the early money is nice if you can get at least 2 cards.
I’ve had good success with it in Jenny(both signatures). Lots of the high xp cards are items already, black market and another day another dollar maximizes your gains and even let you afford big guns.
How about E-Cache (3) for refilling the Chainsaw?
Try my solo yorrick build, i call it the “pet cemetery” deck, utilizing in the thick of it, versatile, forced learning, short supply and sled dog
Try it for my solo innsmouth run and it went supersmooth, its very easy to get 4 sled dog early using this build and the rest just need to put insta clue item like shovel, crime scene, look what i found, etc to cover his 2 book
They built a Pet Semetary Yorick deck a while back in a "Bryn's Madhouse" episode. No sled dogs since it was before EotE but same concept. (And honestly sled dogs aren't very good)
Edited to clarify and fix spelling
@@oh.hey.matthew its more like fun build instead of min max one, but hey i can get all flashback on innsmouth solo run using that build, although its only normal mode run but still not that bad imo, the mobility and soak that sled dog gave is quite okay and definitely fun 👍
@@yoloyolo2404 To be more transparent on my comment, I'm just recently forming my opinion about Sled Dogs and it's based on limited experience. Also, I definitely don't mean to say anything about your deck, and especially not that it isn't good or fun! My comment would've been more useful and clear, I think, if I'd included a link to the Pet Cemetary video, so here it is: czcams.com/video/ldWcce49hOQ/video.html -- I hope you enjoy that video and please feel free to share your decklist, I'd like to see it :)
If you're interested, here's what I think about Sled Dogs...
I've just started playing a deck with 4 of them in it. I went into the deck construction with the dream of the dogs all being out at the same time, being super action-efficient and rocking their deck spot through an entire campaign. But after recent experience, I see that you can regularly anticipate getting 2 dogs out at the same time by early/mid-scenario, occasionally getting 3 out, very (very) rarely getting 4 dogs out by anything earlier than the final turn of the scenario. And in the odd case you can only get/keep 1 dog out, well, you paid 3 for +1 fight and 2/2 soak, so it's not terrible.
I feel like I've just tempered my expectations for Sled Dogs a bit from my initial enthusiasm for the idea and that's all I meant when I said they aren't very good. They're still good and fun. Especially in Yorick! I think he's the best investigator for the dogs because he can just make zombie dogs that haul him around and maul things, which it sounds like what you've done with your deck, perhaps?
@@oh.hey.matthew yeah i kinda agree with you, overall sled dog shenanigans is not a good card set, and exactly because of that it is fun to try to make it worked, i try the most obvious investigator to pair them with like leo anderson and still find it very unreliable
This kind of expectation is what i expect when trying this yorrick build, but it turn out that out of all games i played during my innsmouth run i always got all 4 dog in play, in theory with versatile + forced learning your decksize become 50 cards, short supply will trim it down to 35 cards at the beginning of the game and after that you draw 2 every upkeep, so it will take 17-18 turn to draw out your whole deck, the statistics seems bad but somehow i always end up with 4 dogs in play earlier than I thought, the core of the deck itself is simple
- in the thick of it
- versatile
- forced learning
- 1x animal rod (for starting)
- 4x doggo
- 2x tetsuo mori
- 2x call in favor
- 2x backpack
- the rest is mostly survivor staple cards like lucky, live and learn, and cantrips like overpower and clue item like keyring, gravedigger shovel, look what i found, etc
As for upgrade i always aim for 2xflare and another animal rod as priorities, the rest are up to player
It is definitely not a overpowered deck, but if you want to utilize the subpar sled dog set i put my bet on this deck as the one that can give you the most consistency to get all 4 dog in play asap
And damn, byrn already put this deck concept 9 months ago, how can i miss that 🤣
Buddy of mine is playing upgraded Plucky in his. 0 cost slotless stat boost and soak has proven pretty good.
I've considered adding that, but was afraid of the frequency I would lose it due to forced upon damage/horror on the card. It does have nice horror soak though.
@@jalarson23 it’s always available to play from discard!
@@rossedwards3623 That's true, but there's probably other cards I want to play from discard. I can see this one lasting a few rounds at least though.
I think Enchanted Blade is the go-to weapon for Yorick, 3 supplies, 3 times the equivalent of what the knife does when discarded, and the 3 resource cost gives a good boost with Act of Desperation.
Edit: Also helps killing a certain enemy that Yorick will struggle to damage otherwise.
Oh man, I'm so glad I could make it to CZcams!
I'm surprised it took you guys this long for this. (Edit: not ripping on you, I'm just honestly surprised since Bryn was so excited when you guys were talking about the new EotE cards like 6 or 7 months ago)
Anyway, there is an effective item-only goon build for Yorick with Geared Up and Short Supply. Instead of events and skills, you just commit the bevy of blue and red items to your fight and treachery tests. You get action economy by never having to take a Play action, and resource economy by never paying resources with recurring Schoffner's Catalogues. You can roll the dice a bit by adding Safeguard to save on Move actions, but it lowers your likelihood of filling your board on turn one by a few percent.
It's nice to start the game with 4-5 items in play, especially when one of them is Schoffner's. Since four of the items are 0-cost soak, it's an easy never-die play.
I'm currently halfway through a campaign with Yorick and I wish I did things a little differently. A lot of overlap here though. With short supply, more often than not, I lose Events to short supply. For that reason, I like to include cards that can bring things back like a scrounge for supply or Resourceful. Of course, there are times those are lost to the discard too.
I added Versatile thinking that the deck is pretty thin and I want to include some more Event cards. The problem is that it is that much more difficult to get to the cards at the bottom of the deck. Also, you end up upgrading two of something when you could probably get away with only upgrading one of something and adding some card draw like upgraded Rabbit's Foot. Oh well, next time.
I did put Old Shotgun in the deck along with Improvised Weapon to pull it out of the Discard Pile fully loaded and ready to go. So that should be fun whenever I finally get to play it.
If you agree Gear Up works with backpack and catelog I have a Yorick deck that does that and can put up to 6-7 cards in play regularly.
This is pretty great. Have a good deck pairing for two-handed solo play with this Yorrick deck?
I loved everything about this deck. I was contemplating running Geared Up in the Yorick deck I'm about to build. This made it look enticing but it also showed me that Geared Up is a bit suboptimal, unfortunately. I may still run it just because it looks fun.
The card I was genuinely surprised to see left off was Eucatastrophe. Was this intentional (probably because of Geared Up) or was it just an oversight? Yorick easily has one of the top 3 elder sign abilities, imo, and Eucatastrophe just works phenomenally with Short Supply. Especially if you aren't using errata and can just keep bouncing the other Eucatastrophe to your hand (provided one is already in the discard pile).
Eucatastrophe is a good card, but a deck would do just fine without it. To further add to this, I don't think Bryn has ever played it. It's not his style.
Just 10 seconds in and I decided you all are my favorite Channel on CZcams. You immediately had me laughing just from your intro and reaction to it and I thoroughly enjoyed the video as I do all your videos. You guys are awesome!
Thoughts on Old Shotgun and Yorick? You can play it from your discard pile when Yorick defeats an enemy to put it into play with 2 ammo.
Unfortunately the Shotgun doesn't come into play with ammo if you are killing with a weapon. It only has 2 ammo *while playing events*, so it doesn't even work with many of the events, unless your fight event does multiple
@@percegaming3075 Im talking about Yorick's ability. So after killing an enemy, you can trigger Yorick's ability (event) to play old shotgun from your discard pile. Thus it comes into play with 2 ammo
@@percegaming3075 Ok. got clarification. It will trigger only on fight events. So yeah it would work from cards like Act of Desperation, but not fight actions from weapons.
@@SP-ev4hv just a bit of clarification, Yorick's ability is a reaction and not an event. Old Shotgun doesn't care whether the event played is a Fight event.
There's only a few cards that let you play or load a weapon, so I don't think it is meant to be that restrictive. If you are resolving a fight event on a card and Yorick's reaction triggers in step 7 of a skill test, then it is still resolving within the event card window's *Fight* keyword. Ultimately though, this is one of those things that people can argue about, but really, play it how you want to.
Didn't Short Supply basically become an instant staple for Yorick as soon as it was released anyway? haha
Still super cool deck, I think the fact that you've taken a stab (pun intended?) at making Geared Up work is the most interesting part. I've still yet to play Yorick but he's one of the investigators at the top of my list to try.
Hey there, great build (as usual). I'm going to try something similar on my next run of TCU. Only question I have is, why no Eucatastrophe on the upgrade path? Pairing it with Resourceful you can really break the game. Comments appreciated.
I think it mostly comes down the playstyle. Looping a card like Eucatastrophe is not really in Bryn's wheelhouse. It's very powerful, but not what Bryn considers to be fun.
@@PlayingBoardGames Yeah that makes sense. I was just wondering as I've not found it on most of the upgraded decks and thought that there might be an additional reason for it. But as you say, for Bryn's style it probably dosen't make to much sense. Thanks for the response!
I understand why Geared Up doesn't work with backpack, but it's unintuitive as heck.
Yorick definitely benefitted a lot from EotE.
I liked it. I thought it was gonna be a Sled Dog/Short Supply/Rod of Annimalism deck but this was fresher. Bryn always surprising us.
The cards, you discard from Short Supply are not the same as the ones which are at the bottom of your deck. Otherwise, Yorick's elder sign effect should read:" If this test is successful, return 1 card from your discard pile to your hand or draw 1 card from the bottom of your deck." In seriousness: I played Yorick with "Short Supply", and always got the opportunity to pull back Bury Them Deep, Act of Desperation or any other event or skill, I was desperate of loosing in the beginning over the course of the game.