Mech-Abomination horde, v2

Even in a casual environment, you seem awfully vulnerable to being overrun early on - with only 1 starting influence, you're pretty dependent on the influence boost for holding Town Square, but without any studs to fight them off...

Valeria xp1 actually looks pretty useful for this deck. She can invent Mystical Gadgets, is a stud with influence and can use her ability to give one of your Abominations influence to control a deed.

With only starting four dudes, why not bring back The Brute as your fifth starting posse member? He's a great card to have on your side when an early shootout goes badly. If not starting him, why not add him in place of Ol' Howard. Since you're not starting Howard, The Brute is a straight upgrade.

Alternatively Ambrose Douglas would work well here as your fifth starting dude. He can use his ability to gain a point of influence, useful early on especially if you lose grip of the town square, and cycles a card that isn't currently useful from your hand - more card draw for next turn. I'd be tempted to swap the Flamethrower or Force Field for a second Magnum Opus to give him more Mystical cards to get the added bonus from his ability.

With so many Gadgets and only one starting Mad Scientist, is Signing Over the Stores going to be useful enough? Margaret can't be in the job posse either as she'd still need to boot to invent any Gadget you play if the job is successful.

You have eight cards in the deck (plus three starters) that would fail the pull for Margaret inventing The Wretched, increased to twelve for the non-Dude gadgets (except for Force Field). There's quite a high risk of things going wrong, and even a fun deck can become no fun to play if you keep failing your invention pulls, so it may be worth bearing in mind with future revisions.

@Findegil, @DoomDog: Thanks a lot for the feedback! Very good points from both of you. Actually, I was meant to have Ol' Howard in the starting posse, but forgot to tick him as such. He was going to be used for the Undertaker to help me generate lots of income. I really like the Pagliaccio, and the fact that they're non-unique, but in reality they're probably not really all that useful. I mean, good for sacrificing to The Wretched, but then any abomination can do that, and then come back with my other cards.

I could drop the Pags, and start instead with Ambrose Douglas, Margaret Hagerty, The Brute, Richard Slavin and Ol' Howard. Howard can bring in a Pat's Perch at setup, which Richard Slavin can then start digging at once I start getting some items in the discard pile. As you stated, I can get rid of the mundane gadgets, and keep only mystical gadgets, which Richard Slavin is able to dig up. It then also frees up some slots for Adler's Needle, increasing my high card ratio, and allows me to get rid of cards like Signing Over the Stores. Plus, as you said, I then have more cards to boost Ambrose Douglas. Granted, I have only one starting abomination, but I have many more to come.

What are your thoughts?

I do really like Valeria Batten (Exp.1), I am a little concerned though that her cost and upkeep is kinda wasted, since she's not able to utilise her huckster ability, and at level one huckster, Margaret Hagerty is better at inventing gadget dudes.

@DoomDog I forgot to add, I kinda need a way to either reliably enable Richard Slavin to use his power multiple times per turn, or to redraw pulls.

@DoomDog (and others): Okay, so here's my amended version. I do have less control boosting cards, unfortunately, although I have taken out quite a few low rank cards and altered my starting posse (and made a few more changes). :)

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