Apocalypse: Clashing Boom

Summary

One of the biggest weaknesses of classic firearms decks is that the moment the shooters take damage, they can no longer use firearms. Clashing Boom-Boom fixes that directly, making firearms decks more relevant. This was my first attempt to make such a deck. 

Decks

Characters

• 1 Dharma Bum
• 1 Roger Daly
• 1 Syntax
• 1 Haunts-the-Skyline
• 1 Quari Filth
• 1 Firyal the Whip

Some of these characters make more sense than others. Roger Daly is because he takes care of his prey's shooters (and I really wanted to make use of one of the first big cards I opened). The rest are all Homids with duplicates in Bone Gnawers and Glass Walkers to make sure all the sept deck can be used. And mostly above Renown 2 so they can't be massacred by Breath of the Defiled.

Quari has a really useful bonus ability to remove opponents' combat cards, so he will always have a place in the deck.

Sept

• 2 Junkyard 'Dog'
• 2 Monster Joe's Truck-n-Tow
• 2 Clashing Boom Boom
• 3 Arms Dealer
• 3 Flak Jacket
• 2 Kinfolk Small Town Cop
• 3 Sneak Attack
• 3 Friends in High Places
• 1 Sniper Rifle
• 1 Dreamspeaker Mage
• 3 Shotgun
• 3 The Tide
• 3 Big Game Hunter
• 2 Dead Zone
• 2 Checking the Classifieds
• 1 Endron Security Team
• 3 Recycle

At almost 40 cards, this is a large sept deck; but the huge amount of searching available means that you will burn through this deck. A third of the deck replaces itself on the same turn: you could draw a The Tide with Recycling, use it search for Arms Dealer and the latter to find a Shotgun. The Recycles are a late addition because it is possible by the beginning of turn 4 to be drawing cards you just recycled - likely Sneak Attacks and Friends in High Places.

Dead Zone means we aren't using any of my usual Ragabash fun, including Stands Like a Fool since it's not a requirement of the strategy.

I think 22 Renown of prey is excessive, since other options should present themselves, but I added the last one since 3x The Tide will soon find them all. They are, of course, all wielding firearms so Roger  + pack attacks should make their deaths simplicity itself.

Combat

• 1 Rapid Reload
• 2 Full Auto
• 1 Pistol Whip
• 1 Fancy Footwork
• 2 Duck and Cover
• 1 Vital Blow
  
• 1 Overextended Attack
• 2 Lucky Blow
• 1 Hunting Party
• 1 Rally to Battle
• 1 Cornered Rat
• 1 Stunning Strike
• 2 Dismember
• 1 Attacking the Wyrm
• 1 Taking the Death Blow
• 1 Dry Gulch

Despite there being lots of good 7 Rage combat actions, this deck caps off at Vital Blow. It does what you would expect: pack combat with various card draw. With a cycle of Sneak Attacks and Friends, you should hopefully get into combat where you can swamp the target; with a Taking the Death Blow (onto an Arms Dealer or Kinfolk Cop) if you get into trouble.

Substitutions

Why Firyal? Why not some Ahroun to use Outgunned! ? I can't remember. That said, there aren't that many low-Renown Ahroun, so it would be Running Creek and/or Banana Split. Even though he's Metis, with Clashing Boom-Boom, Banana can use his ability AND shoot you in the face.

You might, alternatively, add a single SLAF which you can later Recycle.