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Did you change your starting posse in the MCC landslide matchup? Presumably Zachary Deloria for someone influence?

If not, how did you find the matchup? 3 influence on 2 dudes I'd expect it to be pretty tight early until you can get the economy rolling and get more dudes.

I would definetly change Zachary for Jake (and probablly Mariel for Marcia if I'm sure that I play vs landslyde).

But the game that I played vs MCC was started with current fight-centered line-up due to my inattention to opponents outfit. Game was really hard. Opponent managed to lay about 10 cp(and 16 influence) and I missed all my kidnapps. But early buisness casino and pony express let me to go through all shootout actions and find enough influence to stay alive. I found 2 kindneps after deck reshuffling, kill Max Baine and another 2inf dude. At this point I create check situation, opponent had to boot to jump over square where I had unbooted dude, and thus lose another influence. At this point he concede as he had no more time, but I'm pretty sure I would finish this game in my favor.

The key in this matchup is to slow down opponent early as much as possible. Deny all income you can. Always have unbooted influenceless dude in square to prevent opponent from taking your deeds. And don't rush with kidnappings, sometimes it's better to delay it a turn.

Ps: opponent was playing this deck:

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Some more important tips on lanslyde matchup. Firs, you can occupy deed with Enapay, move Willa or Henry there, give them influence point and occupy second deed for this sundown. This trick can save you a day. Another important note is that you should have unbooted dude in Whataley Estate before this critical turn happens. If you will ignore this deed until last turn - you will not be able to get it as opponent will just boot to match your influence. Next thing is to save early. Don't play dudes if you don't need them right now, play deed instead. Don't play lions and shotguns.Think about this tusk. Every rock matters! The last tip is too ace with your outfit all HLF, Suns, Fasters, Point Blanks and only then ace coachwips, as they can help on lowball. Still it's better to ace coachwhips then discard them.

Hope that helps:)

Excellent point on the outfit, I had forgotten that you could ace cards with it which certainly makes it much better against the slide matchup (hand cycling is a significant factor in the slide matchup). Interestingly a MCC landslide might want to start Dr. Brian Foxworth against Eagle Wardens since it's likely to completely block your card cycle until you get a Kidnappin'.

I think this might struggle against the banditslide a bit more though. Asakichi Cooke and The 108 Righteous Bandits can really cause problems keeping the income up as they can skip over town square and you've got to keep 2 dudes in town square if you want to use your home ability otherwise you're just going to get denied income or booted out of position.

I just think as well you're going to struggle to deny landslide income which is when the problems start as they can just accelerate away playing their whole hand every turn. Jake Smiley doesn't deny income and neither does the Enapay boost.

Don't think landslide is unbeatable with this but I'd favour the landslide in this matchup.

I do not get your point on Brian. How does he blocks my cycling? In yesterday game he was in play and stay in town square for a while, but I still used outfit. Did we play this wrong?

As for denying income - denying first two deeds is probably enough to slow down them and find extra dudes with infl. But I'm agree that this matchup definetly needs more testing followed by extra card adjusting. Probabbly 4th kidnapping is musthave if you are in landslyde meta. Second Sunday Best over tusk or Ancestor is probablly good idea too.

Oh sorry, I'm thinking of Marcia's condition that you need more influence in town square to use the home ability but that's not the case. Ignore me on that.

Pretty similar to a deck I've been testing lately, except our starting dudes are completely different. I am loving it so far though. You are right, it's fun to play!

Turtles Guard is quite possibly the most amazing card ever...

Agree on Turtle's Guard. It makes those Eagle Wardens decks that just want to sit in the middle of town all the harder to shift.

I didn't test specifically against this build, but from general experience as a Slide player, this matchup is heavily in Slide's favour. You are slightly better that most midrange decks due to better card draw, but not enoigh to be a serious opponent for proper 108 build.

I would love to test this matchup in OCTGN. BTW looking for a game now.

Hey I've been looking at this too! Very interesting list.

Lost a game vs 108 slide. Cannot deny enough income. As result we both lay our full deck on table. He burried his deck down to 4 one good turn and 1 tressure and lay down Estate+ NIck. Kidnappings are not enough))

Next version will feature Allie an Laboratory. Also need Mazatl to be able to start shiman with 0 upkeep.

1x Ambush would do the trick IMO. Game will go to time nevertheless.