Death's Regulator (GenCon DMH Winner)

Stone went undefeated in the Dead Man's Hand event, taking down Cadavaca's Sloane hucksters, pr0digy's Den of Thieves, ShinjoHughes' hexes and Holster Sanatorium deck and finally squeaking a win against Jason from the story team and his 108 Righteous landslide deck (a terrible matchup for this deck) thanks to the blessing of an opening hand Allie Hensman. This won't end well for our heroes...

This doesn't look like a normal DMH deck. The event used variant rules which allowed for several different values to be the fifth card of the Dead Man's Hand: 5, 9 and Q of Diamonds, and Q of Clubs were legal alongside the usual J of Diamonds. Dudes that had died in the fiction weren't legal for the event, hence no Steven Wiles.

Without Steven Wiles, how to solve the problem of not having big, cheap studs to drop into play and charge into shootouts? Well, both aces and eights are home to one-cost three-draw dudes. Zui Waidan is an Abomination, and Horace Manse can retrieve Abominations from boot hill. Morgan Regulators can make either a stud. Regulate with Zui and thanks to Stone you've got a throwaway five stud. If he manages to draw well in a shootout and aces Stone's target, his upkeep is only one so you can hang onto him and his control point and extra bullet for next turn. If he gets aced, then Horace can bring him back to try again.

The starting posse is a bit weird, but works together fairly well to help get you set up. POST-A-TRON is shooty enough, especially with Stone backup, and it helps with economy and provokes fights. The supporting cast invents it at the start of the game and then they all hang around wherever Margaret is for a turn or two to avoid their otherwise crippling upkeep problem. If you can safely take town square, then head there so POST-A-TRON can do its thing.

The rest of the deck is fairly straightforward stuff. Play out as many non-DMH values as you can to increase your chances of hitting it in shootouts.