Cambridge Deputy Kit Winner - 108 Legendary Desires

published May 21, 2016 | | |
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TomTheOlympian 92

I’ve been playing this deck for a long time now and I feel that it’s an incredibly strong deck archetype, and it has single handedly warped our local meta. The deck was strong before The Highbinder Hotel but this card really pushes it over the top.

The deck takes people’s standard impression of Legendary Holster and stands it on it’s head. This deck doesn’t dive into shootouts and stick around, you need to carefully pick and choose your battles based around having Make the Smart Choice or Highbinder Hotel available AND having won lowball. No lowball? No shootout. Your goal is to slowly thin down your opponents dudes until you’re able to out chess a win on the board.

Round 1 - Sanatorium Jia Mein Conditions

This is a really, really cool deck. It ran a heavy Lost to the Plague line as well as Forced Quarantine and Incubation to try and ramp up the Upkeep on one of your dudes and force you to discard them. Unfortunately for my opponent I saw multiple of my 3 bullet dudes early on (and a key Xui Yin Chen to give me a ton of stud to deal with an early Forced Quarantine) so I was able to shuffle the Holster around before one dude was going to get knocked out from the stack. We had a really good chess match which ended with me winning by a large margin on tie breakers at time.

Round 2 - LD Comin’ Up Roses SF

This is an interesting deck that I think has a lot of potential, when it hits Comin’ Up Roses it can really dish out some punishment. Unfortunately for my opponent since my deck does everything it can to avoid Shootout Resolutions Comin’ Up Roses never had a chance to go off. Highbinder Hotel and MTSC let me dodge the Bounty Hunter’s he was counting on for aggression and that, combined with the rest of his engine not showing up, slowed the deck to a crawl and eventually folded.

Round 3 - Sloane CP Rush

This was the closest game of the night. Chea knows my deck and hates it with a passion so he included as much meta as he could, including Sammy Cooke, and Muggin’, because he knew there was good chance we’d play. He got Sammy into my home before I could drop a LH and started rushing CP out onto the board with Allie, Sloane base, and Establishin’ Whose in Charge ending turn 2 with 5 CP in play. This resulted in me stalling until I could drop a Shotgun and run Kidnappin’ Allie off the board. A couple more turns of chess and board positioning resulted in my opponent going all in on a Muggin’ to get rid of the LH. In the shootout a Sun in Your Eyes to remove his stud from the board forced him into a cheatin’ hand and coachwhip took care of the rest. Losing the Muggin’ put him into check with no way out so he gracefully conceded.

On to the deck itself. It’s built as an all-comers deck that should be able to go even or better in every matchup and relies on you positioning your opponents into a corner over many turns by forcing them into poor choices. It works out even better for you if they don’t immediately realize what is happening and let you snipe a few guys before they try to adjust their game plan.

I strongly believe landslide is actually one of it’s best matchups. If you think you’re going into a landslide deck, swap Jake for Hiram Capatch. The important part of beating landslide isn’t taking their control points but shutting off their production. Hiram let’s you use both Xiaodan and Benjamin to accomplish this and forces them to play 6 deeds before they will get money from any of them. Between the Hiram start and combining the decks loose draw structure with the Worldly Desires ability to give you a 6 card Lowball hand you can frequently compete with and beat landslide in lowball, which really puts the hurt on them.

Additionally the deck is incredibly flexible in build. If you wanted to run 2x Highbinder Hotel or Hired Guns you certainly could, or maybe less cheatin’ punishment, this list is tuned around my play style - I value having a toolbox of actions to deal with a multitude of situations over having all around stronger cards but having them be dead weight when their specific situation doesn’t arise.

Common mistakes people think when looking at this deck -

  • A Loose draw structure is bad With cards like LH, winning lowball is the single strongest thing your deck can accomplish. Being able to Ace dudes from the board before your opponent can react puts an incredible amount of pressure on your opponent and gives you a huge amount of space to play in because they don’t know if you have an eject button - because if you do, it’s a 1 for 0 trade in your favor and they can’t stop it.

  • Unprepared stops LH. By only getting into shootouts when you have won lowball and plan to run home booted anyways you completely shut off all of the effects of Unprepared.

  • Scoop Hound beats the deck because it stops you from running home. The only way for Scoop Hound to be effective is for you to have two in the fight and for the LH player to fall into the trap because your first action in the shootout is always kill the dude with Scoop Hound.

  • Goods eating cards (ie. Faithful Hound) You still need to the first action off in the shootout for these cards to work.

  • You lose shootouts in Resolution Your aim is to never go to resolution in a shootout. Let me repeat that. You should never willing get to a shootout resolution if you can instead avoid it.

Feel free to ask questions, I’m more than happy to answer them!

11 comments
May 21, 2016 Gozik

Solid deck. Good job.

May 21, 2016 hats

4R represent! Junior with that holster is a beast

May 21, 2016 MrBlack13

I'll get you next time Gadget, next time...

May 21, 2016 rhythm

How does Harry Highbinder push it over the top?

May 21, 2016 TomTheOlympian

@rhythm good catch haha. Harry Highbinder doesn't do anything for the deck - should be The Highbinder Hotel instead, that's what I get for typing this up at 3am!

May 21, 2016 rhythm

@TomTheOlympianRegardless very nice deck, Chea has discussed with me personally how much he dislikes this deck. Not an easy deck to pilot. Look forward to meeting tou guys next time I am back in Boston!

May 21, 2016 Gozik

let's ban more cards^^

May 21, 2016 hats

@Gozik I hope LH never gets banned. 4R needs competitive, agro options that aren't clunky hexes

Jun 06, 2016 deadeyeknight

changed my law dogs holster deck to this deck and it got me 3rd in the euro marshal event! , great list would add the forth kidnappin' taking out bottom dealing as the coachwhips were enough to stop anyone cheatin .

Jun 06, 2016 TomTheOlympian

Congrats! I had seen 3rd place was a 108 LH build and I had been curious what the list was. Thanks for letting us know! What was your record if you don't mind me asking?

Jun 11, 2016 deadeyeknight

4-2 in the swiss, beat 3 morgan slide decks, 1 4 ring deck, lost to a morgan gadget deck and eagle wardens