Sheriff Crane and his Action Dogs!

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Husemann 1

This deck is exactly what it looks like.

It takes the Sloane Action deck and shifts it into a Law Dogs chassis. As a devout Law Dogs player, I wanted to mix the insane shootout ability of the Sloane variant with the faction I enjoy playing most. Incidentally, the deck plays very similar to before it was changed to this action packed version.

This version will rely far more heavily on winning shootouts and taking your opponents deeds. There is one copy of Allie Hensman in the deck as an alternate way to get control points when playing against a deedless deck. The chances of drawing her though, are miserable at best. Rather than simply putting in more copies and messing with the draw structure more, I've tried to offset the odds by slotting in Hired Guns in the ace slot. This should allow your shootouts to remain on value and still give you a way to get Allie out of the discard pile if you manage to pull her in a shootout or a lowball.

Originally, I wanted to try to center this around Clyde to force my opponent into shootouts. Unfortunately, I think he's just too expensive.

In terms of superiority, this version is probably the lesser of the action decks. Losing Allie as a starting dude and losing the Sloane home ability reduces the win conditions and makes it harder to pressure your opponent into shootouts. For a Law Dogs player who just wants to put it all on the line and get the bullets flying, I feel that this deck can do just that.

8 comments
Jan 27, 2015 mplain What benefits does this version have over Sloane? Tommy Harden is a great guy, but the whole point was to engage into shootouts solo with Mario. If you're trying to use Tommy's trait to win shootouts, wouldn't it make more sense to start Wendy instead?
Jan 27, 2015 Gazette_Alex `@mplain`- This was sparked by a discussion on our latest episode. We asked the question "Can it work in other decks", and this seemed like an obvious answer. Sitting across from it tonight, I can say it's no where near as strong.
Jan 27, 2015 mplain What exactly was the problem with starting Clyde, Tommy, Phillip, and Travis? You'd have 2 gr left to play INWYK or even Bounty Hunter. Not enough influence?
Jan 27, 2015 db0 People need to get the memo and start calling this Archetype "Super Mario"!
Jan 27, 2015 mplain `@db0` stop trying to make it happen, it's not going to happen! :D
Jan 27, 2015 Gazette_Alex `@mplain`- If I remember correctly it was limiting to the rest of his posse and he really wanted Mario in the starting posse. It's what makes the archetype viable.
Jan 27, 2015 Husemann `@mplain`- This version doesn't really have any benefits over the Sloane variant. The goal was to simply see if the archetype was viable out of Law Dogs and still be potent enough to win games consistently. The idea behind this lineup is that if I'm in a hairy situation I can always just use Mario as a single shooter and if something happens I've got standard Law Dogs setup to keep my foothold. Otherwise they just become helpers. The idea is to be in the dominant position on turn 1, so it's difficult to use Clyde effectively from the beginning unless you start someone like Olivia Jenks or Lucy to allow for making 2 influence dudes wanted at their home. My idea behind that kind of start for this deck is to take over town square and if they sit at home, send Clyde in to murder them all. `@Gazette_Alex`- I've agreed it's not as strong but, still a viable version I think. `@db0`- I really wish his name was "Mario Jackson" so the deck could be called "Action Jackson".
Jan 28, 2015 mplain You guys inspired me to make my own version of a Law Dogs Flush deck :)