Behold Bullshi(eld)

One way of looking at this deck, would be collab deck-building with Carter in the Discord deck shop channel.

Another would be that I presented an idea in that channel for Carter to mull on, and then stole his ideas?

The idea is to use Tao of the Demon Bull (specifically, Two Hundred Fifty Rounds) to reduce casualties by 1, so that Force Field results in a 1-0.

The deck is going to have 8s as a value (FF + ASM is too good as a base to not go in on). This means the KF dude needs to have at least 9 value (after KF value mod factored in), and at least 1 KF value (to combo into 250R if holding Great Sage Matching Heaven).

Carter provided 2 ideas that I had the blinders on to:

• I was thinking of building around AN/FP and bringing in Roderick Byre. Carter suggested EN, which would be hard, as the KF options can't meet the criteria, until you factor in that Yagn's Mechanical Skeleton on "Mahogany" Jackson (or any of the decked KF dudes) does the job. Standard EN start + Mahogany followed.
• Hank Ketchum serves as a decent eject button, if you weren't able to find Great Sage Matching Heaven.

The rest of the deck followed. I was initially thinking 6/7/8, but bringing in 5s gave a lot: Cheating Resolution, more Yagn's/FF draws, Hammy, Jen. Great Sage + Yagn's off value, we have a deck.

One thing I struggled with making this, was "why not just do Super Mario and skip the KF jank?". I came up with 2 answers:

• Full Moon Brotherhood doesn't outright invalidate me.
• This isn't inherently a "one dude" deck; you can bring along a posse and still get 1-0 trades, whereas crane must fly solo.

Arthur is here as a 3 cost influential MS more than anything; do not need to grift, pending hand. Enjoy.