Faster with the Rope?

This began with a deck that used Rafi Hamid to Rope and Ride the opposition into Government deeds, but Rafi missed the final cut as Xiong "Wendy" Cheng proved to be a far more useful starter, especially against Desolation Row. This version was built around Rope and Ride and Faster on the Draw; the Gomorra Jail is in so that you have somewhere to Rope and Ride to straight away.

I went 2-2 at the Huddersfield Deputy tournament with this. The details of the day are a blur but this is what I remember happening.

Round 1: Vince had a similar looking Law Dogs deck that did run Rafi. The game went well for me and I was surprised at how many deeds I got out as I'd worried I didn't have enough. We kept fighting over his Hustings and I won in the end.

Round 2: Against John's Morgan Gadgetorium deck. I totally screwed up very early on sending Wendy to try and hang Irving Patterson with an Ol' Fashioned Hangin' which I somehow thought spawned a Gunslinger token (I was muddling things with the hanging Judge Harry Somerset (Exp.1) in my head). John did offer to let me take the move back but I don't think that's a fair thing to do, especially in a tournament, so I went ahead and lost Wendy. From there I was just fighting to save myself and had a couple of lucky breaks which won the game. John told me after that he'd also screwed up by forgetting to play Unprepared on my dude who was about to whip out their Shotgun.

Round 3: Against Steve from Edinburgh's The Fourth Ring control deck. At the end of the day Steve was the runner-up and like most of his other opponents my dude's spent most of their time suffering from Paralysis Mark. The game went to time and his evil clowns won. It's a good job Steve was friendly because his deck was horrible to play against!

Round 4: Scott's The Sloane Gang are back in town. Scott ended up as deputy, and well deserved. I was pleased to kill off Allie Hensman and give him a tough game that again went to time. I felt like if we'd been able to continue I just might have got enough control points out, but he had plenty of ways to rack them up too and I don't begrudge losing to him (especially as he gave me the Sloane deckbox at the end of the day as he already had one :D)

All in all I was pretty pleased with 2-2 especially as neither of the losses were walkovers.

I played a few casual games after, losing to another Fourth Ring deck, having lots of fun playing a mad Hanging Judge Harry deck (I think I won those, might be wrong) then ended the day playing a horrible Oddities control deck ("playing" is not quite the right word, I think 90% of my moves were "pass"). I didn't actually face a Desolation Row deck all day!