Ruthless Aggression

This is a pretty straightforward Law Dogs deck built to pull Dead Man's Hand in shootouts. I keep the number of different cards in the deck relatively low for consistency. The idea is to start the game setting up, getting the low and off value cards onto the table and out of the draw structure. As a rule of thumb (especially in multiplayer) I wait for my deck to shuffle once before I start getting aggressive.

Prescott, Tommy, and Philip are, in my opinion, the quintessential Law Dog start gang, with some stud, a nice amount of influence, and Philip and Tommy's cheat in' traits to scare opponents. I try to keep my Law Dogs together at all times, which makes Prescott a wonderful choice to carry the Shotgun.

Once the deck is thinned, go all in with the whole squad and with enough stud you should draw a Dead Man's Hand pretty consistently, as long as you don't play any of the Jack deeds.