Fiery Rhetoric!

published Jan 10, 2016 | | |
Card draw simulator
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Woody 154

This deck performed pretty well (2-2) the owner (me) has a tendency to get in his own way as @goreshde would say. Having said that if you are a patient and smart player this could fire off and be incredibly effective. It is also a very strong shooter.

Start off using [Andrew Burton]'s grifter ability to bounty an opposing dude with the highest influence... you will be able to bounty the rest pretty easily with Law Dogs home ability and Clementine Lepp at one of the six saloons you have. Bounty someone every turn with her... bounty every turn if it makes sense that is. I only had a couple turns where it didn't.

Ideally You want to get Erik Samson out and attach a Jael's Guile to him or a Tlaloc's Furies to get more influence and a stud. Deborah West should get both Walk the Path if you get them a Fiery Rhetoric and a Tlaloc's Furies to ensure you can walk dudes into your posse when you kick off Fiery Rhetoric. Spread the Holy Roller's around to your blessed dudes.

The Bounty Hunter's are used to bleed action cards and abilities from my opponent to remove some teeth from them and keep them off balance. The obvious upside to this is when you want to kick off Fiery Rhetoric you are more likely to succeed if you Bounty Hunter one of their dudes prior.

Try get a Jael's Guile and a Quickdraw Handgun in your shootouts. This combo really sucks for the opposition since you can trade hands or if you tie or they beat you by one the Jael's Guile can get you out of a jam by discarding the wanted dudes in the other posse. This works best if you can call a dude out and other wanted dudes have to boot in to assist.

Ultimately you are trying to keep pressure on until you can combo Doris Powell and Walk the Path and/or Fiery Rhetoric.

I have won more with Doris Powell in test games but Fiery Rhetoric works and forces a fight when it benefits you most.

My first game was against The Sanatorium and I believe it was a straight forward win through kills and control. Bounty Hunter and action cards were there when I needed them.

Game two was against Eagle Wardens and I made a completely unnecessary and boneheaded move that cost me Deborah West early and that coupled with not one Bounty Hunter really hurt.

Three was against a The Fourth Ring control deck. I somehow started Erik Samson instead of Deborah West and didn't notice my error until we had draw hands (are you seeing a theme with me). This coupled with again no Bounty Hunter's to deal with Leonardo "Leon" Cavallo really hurt. My opponent tied me up beautifully every turn. I just couldn't recover.
He was gracious enough to let me play another game and it went better but I did end up losing again. I did not see a Bounty Hunter which would have really helped to get him to burn his Hex Slingin' and kick off Fiery Rhetoric. It was a good match though.

Game four I beat the tournament winner another The Sanatorium deck. The deck fired off like a champ. Got all the goods and action cards I needed as well as Wylie Jenks.. holy cow he is a beast when all your opponents dudes are bountied. I got an opportunity to go after Leonardo "Leon" Cavallo when he became separated from the pack and booted. When I aced him it went pretty well after that.

If I had been smarter I think I could have gone 3-1 but the base The Fourth Ring deck really had my number.

I did make a small change to the deck today upping to two Tlaloc's Furies from one and two Quickdraw Handgun from 3... I think that was overkill for the Quickdraw Handgun.

Thoughts, comments, questions welcome.

2 comments
Jan 11, 2016 Woody

Running it through a three round tournament tonight.

Jan 26, 2016 Woody

Went 3-0 in an OP tournament. Beat two 4th ring control decks and a 108th. I kept up with lots of early aggression with Bounty Hunter and went after the Hucksters every chance I got. It payed off really well as this deck likes to shoot. I did get really lucky on some shootouts but when you have only a Bounty Hunter in you really have nothing to lose. The more I play it the more I like this deck. I went back to 3 Quickdraw Handgunand 1 Tlaloc's Furies.

The only deck I really don't like to see is dudeslides. That can be annoying like @goreshde It's Raining men. It shoots well and doesn't care if you win or lose.