Law Dogs Shootout Economy

This is a fairly typical Law Dogs deck which tries to win through controlling town square, killing people in shootouts, and punishing cheating. In addition to this, though, it is centered around 4 copies of A Coach Comes to Town which should either give you bursts of ghost rock for more dudes or deeds, or entice opponents into the town square where you hopefully gun them down. In particular, this deck loves playing against people who won't challenge you in town square, which turn the job into 4 free ghost rock.

The ideal strategy is to put a few good shooters in town square, wait until the opponent has booted some people or committed them to other locations, then send only one or MAYBE two people to do Coach Comes to Town. (Since your dudes will go home booted after the job is over, it can be really risky to send a ton of people to do the job.) When the job is over, you should hopefully have earned yourself a good boost of ghost rock, or a few targets in town square.

The deck is centered around 2's, 5's and J's. This takes out a lot of the backdoor straight possibilities you get when you're running all low cards, but the deck is fairly focused on getting good shootout hands... And it has to be, because the deck lives or dies on its shootout results.

To this end, the deck is fairly loaded with good shootout cards, and stuff which plays nicely with A Coach Comes to Town. Pearl-handled Revolver is pretty solid in a deck that's heavy on 2-draw dudes, turning them into capable shooters. Buffalo Rifle is great since it lets your dudes participate in shootouts even if they've already been sent home booted from a job. Undertaker is on-value and provides some nice money assuming you're getting into a lot of shootouts. It's also nice that a number of shootout standards are also on-value for us, like Make the Smart Choice, Pistol Whip, and Hiding in the Shadows.

The few off-value cards are mostly too good to pass up. As usual, Allie Hensman is amazing in decks that want to control town square. Sun in Yer Eyes is great for winning shootouts against people who don't have a lot of studs. General Store is good since we're relatively heavy on goods, and most of them can be played for free with its action. Coachwhip! is too powerful not to include, and seeing one usually sends a strong message to the opponent that cheating is very risky. B&B Attorneys is probably the weakest off-value card left in the deck, but it's still pretty solid in all Law Dogs decks for a little bit of control and small economy swings.

Starting dudes are Xiong "Wendy" Cheng, Tommy Harden, Philip Swinford, and Travis Moone. Against Morgan Cattle Co., swap out Wendy for Lucinda "Lucy" Clover and Olivia Jenks for the additional influence just in case you're facing Landslide.

If you don't have 2 base sets, I would suggest replacing 1 copy of Sun in Yer Eyes with The Stakes Just Rose and two copies of A Coach Comes to Town with Recruitment Drive. It's off-value, which means that it will lower draw consistency a bit, which is pretty painful. However, it does close to the same thing, so it will have to do. The only on-value alternative is This is a Holdup!, which is on-value and generates money, but it puts people in the wrong places and really runs counter to what the deck is set up to do.