Publishing this so that it's out there and leaves no uncertainty on the state of community knowledge on it.
No intention of playing this list (outside one game I played with Kacheese so that I can say I did it before it got ban-hammered). But I feel like enough was hinted at in the Discord's Deckshop channel that people can put the pieces together on how to make this, and it's insanely broken if people were to actually bring it to an event.
The combo here is Zach + Petunia. The two cards accelerate each other to infinity (the most-relevant one being Zach, as you'll have infinite bullets in his shootout).
It is very easy to pull off. Once you do, the loose DMH structure in the deck is a lock (at least 2x cards for redundancy in case one ends up in your hand). You win every shootout. For a large swath of decks, your opponent just cannot play.
The other cards are mostly irrelevant, and you could go any direction. This particular list does:
A more-optimized version of this list probably cuts things to shore up on A/8 structure (you do need to win the Tawodi fight without Petunia, if they challenge you). Also 4 guaranteed starting rock would be good to play Petunia from hand (maybe Sequoia for Uncle).
Can't take credit for finding the idea; Rules Team found it (I'm unsure who); I just caught on from the breadcrumbs they left.
Don't play this competitively. It is too good for how easy it is, and a change is coming to stifle it.
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Oct 04, 2025 Kacheese |
Oct 05, 2025
DrTraveler
How does it play in Doomtown online? Does it actually go nuclear? Seems the easy fix is to make Petunia or Zach have a hard cap of 4 from the trait like other cards |
Oct 06, 2025
ironcache
Basically the bullets seem to grow as fast as the compute will let it without stalling the gameplay loop. |
Oct 06, 2025
ironcache
And yeah a number of changes could break this particular loop. I think 4-capping both traits is reasonable and would have nearly no impact on how people use them in most cases. |
Oct 06, 2025
DrTraveler
I was trying to think of the last time I got Zachary to more than 4 bullets using his ability and couldn’t recall one. I’m sure I could engineer one with Ranger’s Bible and Enapy’s ability. But a hard 4 cal would leave him useful. |
It was pretty neat to see the whole combo go off!