Hang 'Em High!

It's "Another Dumb Deck Idea!" from twoeyedjack!

Law Dogs and warrants go together like cake and peanut butter. (Don't knock it until you try it!) I got to wondering how to best shove bounties onto opponents and then go after them dirty outlaws without being all judge rush-ey about it.

I loves me the judge rush deck, especially since it won me a Sheriff badge in 2015. However, judge rush can be built two ways: full house or straight flush. I went straight flush for high risk, high reward. Made for some excruciatingly exciting match ups. But I digress. Bounties are the Law Dogs bread and butter, and there are quite a few cards that can make the Dogs dangerous when hunting down the criminals of Gomorrah.

This deck is meant to distribute a lot of bounty quickly and then run Ol' Fashioned Hangin' to push the opponent into shootouts. Or hand out Tin Stars and push the opponent into shootouts. Or send Clyde Owens and push the opponent into... you get the idea.

Framed is a great card for this deck. Your opponent has to decide - do they boot their dude and pay you a rock or just give them a bounty? While I wouldn't use this on any dude with influence of 2 or higher, it could be advantageous for the late game to pull their bigger influence dudes into the shootout mud. While The Evidence does get aced to put out bounty, you can retrieve them with The Whateley Estate.

The problem? Law Dog dudes at these values aren't that great. Which causes me to wonder why have all these great support cards that seem central to a Law Dog bounty strategy, and not have the dudes to put that strategy into play? Cost is the number one problem plaguing Law Dog dudes, and it shows itself in this build. I would rather put a 108 dude and a Sloane Gang dude in the 9 value than pay for Sister Mary Gideon, where every fight I've seen her in wound up with her getting aced. I don't have much choice in 5 value since the deck needs stud dudes and influence. The 10s are outrageously priced but there isn't much to be done about it other than grin and bear it. I'm hoping that as the card pool grows, Law Dogs will get some better dudes that are more realistically priced in all values.

Possible changes: I had looked at Notary Public for a long time before this deck was formed. I like the deed's ability, and it works beautifully with this deck's plan if it weren't for one small problem; the values only have one Government deed. Plenty of Public deeds here, but the bounty strategy via Government deeds results in a different value set that I'm not sure makes for a viable build strategy. I'm not giving up on it, and the beginnings of a Notary Public Government deck is sitting in my deck database.

I was also holding onto Confession for this build for the longest time. Having two to four Blesseds dropping Confession bounties every day is wicked fast. The problem is this build would need Blessed of at least 1 to do that, and Law Dogs doesn't have the right spread of Blessed 1 dudes at affordable prices. As soon as they get two or three of them with influence at attractive cost and no upkeep, this deck will change entirely to run Confession.

Bounty 'em up, and Hang 'Em High. "Another Dumb Deck Idea!" from twoeyedjack. Have fun!