The goal of every player in the Resident Evil [Deck Building Game] is to create the perfect deck to deal with any problem that they may face in the Mansion (Deck). Each character in the game has a different way of achieving that goal. Today we will look at jack Krauser. This particular character is very specialized at his methods of fighting the Infected. Not all characters are as card specific as this one is but there really isn’t anything forcing a player to have to use the effects/theme of their character. With that said, let’s look at this character and what his goal is assuming you will be taking advantage of his effect.
The first thing that you as the player should think about is “What do I want my perfect deck/hand to look like?” Since Jack loves him some knives let’s image the best possible hand that we could have for Jack and then simply build towards that goal. First imagine him holding a hand of 5 knives, that isn’t too difficult to accomplish but what does that give us? Without taking anything else into account that gives us 25 Damage. 25 Damage isn’t horrible and will kill just over 50% of the deck. 25 Damage won’t cut it in the long run though, that is where Jack’s 2nd effect comes into play. Once you get him to level 2, that 25 Damage shoots up to 50 Damage. 50 Damage is nothing to laugh about and will defeat about 75-80% of the Mansion Deck.
Now how do we get from 50 Damage to 90 Damage so we can take out the Boss? Let’s look through the action cards for that. Deadly Aim for instance will take that 50 Damage to 80 Damage (assuming that you now have only 4 knives + Deadly Aim). 80 Damage is good but still won’t get you the 90 Damage needed. I have obviously ignored effects that let you draw because there are too any combinations of cards to figure out what you can and can’t play, so this assumes that you either can draw the needed cards with whatever combinations of +Draw and +Action effects you were able to gain. An easy solution to this problem is the Survival Knife, with that in hand plus 3 knives and the Deadly Aim we now get to 100 Damage (Survival Knife/Combat Knife/Combat Knife/Combat Knife/ Deadly Aim). So you now have achieved your goal of 90+ Damage.
The hope is that you have tailored your Inventory to contain effects that help you obtain this hand on a relatively consistent basis. You use the Gold you have to obtain the cards that you need then once you have those, you should start Trashing your Ammo as your shiny knives won’t need any Ammo. Once you have the basics setup, start hacking away at the Infected. The best part is by using Jack’s first effect to gain Combat and Survival knives without having to spend a dime.
Hope you enjoyed the Article and let me know which Character would you like to hear about next!
We have found that the optimum deck for Jack is this.
combat knife x5
Survival knife x1
Fioler mansion x1
This basically gives you all 6 knifes in your hand 80% of the time giving you 6 card in hand with the draw 2.
I m want to know about Claire and her perfect combo, or Jill.
Thanks! This article was really great and I love to see all the possibilities a character has in terms of combos. Oh, and I do see Krauser running Sumbission although its not very common(at least for me). I would love to hear about Barry Burton next, he is my favorite character in this game and is not very easy to use (in some situations) since he is so reliant on those Magnums.
thanks
That’s a really good strategy. I always find Krauser hard to play since he specializes with knives which don’t take ammo, but without ammo he can’t buy anything over 50 (assuming he gets an all +10 ammo hand from his starting deck). So it seems like a few Shattered Memories and a Deadly Aim ought to be the first buys with him.
My favorite character is Leon, but I find that without the Burst-Fire Handgun, he doesn’t excell late-game as much as he does with it. I’d really like to see a strategy for Leon in which you don’t have the Burst-Fire Handgun to use.
GC_Midnight, I’ve found that with Leon’s abilities, he can deal 120dmg with 3 pistols and a deadly aim.
10 (+10 from D.A.) X 3 pistols X 2 times = 120dmg
super effective if you can pull it off.
I would like to see a profile done on rebecca chambers. Krouser and Chris are my favorite characters but i seem to play her a lot from choosing her from a random selection method
i would like to know if one can use albert wesker’s effects in story mode. the one where u could attack a character or the infected to recive gold. i would like to see barry burton for the next character profile
I want to know leons bio. Is it as good as jacks?
I loved this character profile. I would like to see one with Rebecca Chambers next. She’s an interesting character, but I would like to see an optimal strategy with her.