London OP5 Winner

Wanted to try out the new Wagner Memorial Ranch so thought I'd go for a Stables deck with Personal Ornithopter and Yagn's Mechanical Skeleton.

Chuan "Jen" Qí and Kyle Wagner invent gadgets while Max Baine (Exp.1) plays dudes. The possible straight flush is mostly a bonus on the 3 values (13x10s, 13xJs, 12xQs) but I wanted Backroom Deals due to the increase in Steven Wiles being played and Election Day Slaughter for the possible Slide matchup.

I only played 2 games due to getting a bye in the first round. 2nd Round I played Russell's Desolation Row deck which ran me very close. I didn't see any gadgets early to get the production on Wagner Memorial Ranch so was struggling for income. I managed to pick off Rico Rodegain for 3 bounty which allowed me to kickstart my economy and I eek'd out a win as time was called after his dudes all booted.

3rd Round I played against Dave Woof's The 108 Righteous Bandits slide. I had practised this matchup in my bye round and started Rico Rodegain instead of Max Baine (Exp.1) to save the income. I saw a lot of Yagn's early as well as Election Day Slaughter to keep my influence high and his low. The gadgets also got me some good income from Wagner Memorial Ranch and using Gomorra Parish to ace unneeded shootout actions I managed to eek out a win after Dave made a mistake running out of money and having influence with upkeep to California Tax Office which ultimately got me the win.

I don't think this is a top tier deck by any means. Feels reasonably strong but I got lucky in my slide matchup which I wouldn't normally expect to win and it's a bit of a slow starter so fast agression decks really should walk over over this. Still, sometimes the luck rides with you and you win a tournament.