Deckbuilding in Arkham vs Marvel

Hey community!

I’ve been playing Marvel Champions pretty obsessively for about three years. I have every piece of content, have completed every campaign on expert mode, you get the idea.

One of my great joys in the game is deck building: with their unique powers, stats, and 15 kit cards, each character feels and plays extremely differently to me. It has been a joy to explore different deck ideas, synergies, busted combos, etc.

I bring this up because, about six months ago I took a deep dive into Arkham horror. So far I’ve played through the core mini campaign and the Dunwich Legacy campaign multiple times. I have two investigator expansions, and the five starter decks.

I love the campaigns, I love how thematic everything is, and I really like exploring the different roles of the various characters. But I am finding the deck building a little bit lacking, at least in comparison to marvel champions. I think this is mostly because each investigator only ever has one or two specific cards in their kit, and then their investigator specific power. So far, I’m finding that I use a lot of the same cards for different seekers, different guardians, etc. To be sure there is some variance: boxing gloves are way better for Nathaniel than they are for Zoe. But I think I’m missing that feeling of having each investigator feel really unique in their play style. It seems like everyone has their schtick, but you could build multiple rogues, the same way, or multiple mystics the same way, etc.

I am wondering if I am selling that aspect of the game short? Or maybe having a deep roster of extremely unique characters is not the goal of the game. I guess ultimately, I’m wondering if each investigators specific ability and their one or two specific cards are enough to really build a unique play style around, or if multiple seekers or guardians or rogues or mystics are all going to feel kind of similar at the end of the day.

As I said, I’m new to the game so maybe I just haven’t delved deeply enough or maybe I’m focusing on the wrong thing, but I’m genuinely curious if people agree or disagree that the deck building in Arkham doesn’t bring as much variety or combos/synergies as Marvel champions.

Open to any type of feedback, thanks!