The deck idea is to go for a grindy/attrition playstyle with lots of sidekicks and cheap dudes. Between Pinned Down,Coachwhip!, and I'm Your Huckleberry you can also aggressively go after their important dudes in shootouts.
Some of the cards that I move around a lot are
-The quantity of Ambush and Play for Blood -The quantity of Pinned Down and Kidnappin'
Depends on how much I think I need to be able to force a fight. The home really helps forcing fights as well.
The 5 of hearts has several options. There is Scratch, Vengeful Spider, and Mother Bear's Rage. All of them seem like reasonable picks. In iterations where I am playing Scratch, I often slide in Monomi Miles as well as you start to have enough non-spirit sidekicks that his ability starts to go off
A lot of those changes really come down to meta dependence.
I am a bit concerned that I don't have enough Shamans for how many spirits I have in the deck. Retooling the starting gang to have an extra Shaman is something I consider often.
The deck could really use some kind of inevitability. Something to pump up the control points when your opponent won't rumble with you. Dealer's choice on that. Most all of them are viable in this deck. Epidemic Lab, New Town Hall, Allie Hensman, etc. I elected to lean into a more aggressive approach with the removal jobs. Heck, I have even tried this deck out of Office of Ancestral Affairs as that home provides inevitability.
Kiva + Sunday Best is a neat combo that lets you move in a very strange timing window. You can pull of some cool tricks with this. I really like throwing Sunday Best on Alexander Sequoia.
I would love to hear any thoughts or constructive criticism regarding the deck
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Oct 05, 2025 DrTraveler |
Oct 05, 2025
DrTraveler
Oh and did you consider James Bogue? He’s one of my favorite 4 Spade drifters, and combos well with a deck planning to soak casualties using Sidekicks. Tawodi and Francisco Morales may be worth considering even off value. |
You could go with Zach/Enapy/Mixer/Squirrel/Agent P as a start to give another chance to get a sidekick in the opening. Hunter Protections can give you another CP engine.