Bad Medicine
Bad Medicine is probably one of the best saddlebags to date! Bolster old strategies and create new ones. Also, a competitor for Unprepared!
Horace adds another level of Abomination retrieval to Fourth Ring, and he can do a lot. For only Ghost Rock, he gives you a 3 bullet dude and lets you grab an Abomination from your Boot Hill. If you're building The Wretched, he can retrieve that guy you just killed to invent him. If you're playing Ivor and Raising Hell, you can use Horace to protect yourself from accidentally getting two copies of the same Abomination in your Boot Hill that might otherwise prevent you from bringing them back. You could use Buried Treasure to ace an Abomination in your discard and then bring him to hand with Horace.
Horace has so many possibilities to improve The Fourth Ring over many different builds. Since he isn't an abomination himself, he doesn't cooperate well with Karl Odett unless you plan on giving him a Rose or a Vitality tonic, or just plan on getting him killed. |
With higher value dudes becoming the norm, Shotguns haven't been as popular as they once were. Vasilis can help with that. When he is in a posse, the opposing dudes that are wanted are also -2 value. With a Shotgun, he can start hitting value 6 dudes and lower without any more help. To add icing to the cake, his shootout ability lets you use the weapon a second time! Don't limit yourself to shotguns here. He could use the Legendary Holster a second time or even crank his bullets up to 10 if you had the money for a Flame-Thrower!
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Lula is building more around town, and one of those endeavors is the best return on Ghost Rock in the game so far from a deed. It costs 4 and provides 4 each turn. One hang-up though, it will give +2 Ghost Rock to the left most deed in each other players street. Most players will likely start playing their first deed on their left in order receive this bonus if you're playing The Place. This is why you should establish a healthy fear of the Plasma Drill quickly and burn the left side of the street down, frequently. It's also a nice way to increase zero production deeds so that the Drill can actually cost your opponent. What about increasing their production with the Orphanage as well, right before you burn it down?
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Focusing Chi is an Ace technique that lets you put it back on the top of your deck or draw a card. Focusing Chi will make sure you pass the next pull you make for any low value pulls. Even better, if you reveal it for a pull you can discard any of the next three cards you don't want. With Chi, you'll be able to play a few more of the high value Kung Fu cards, because you know you can set up a combo chain that will succeed. You can also use this to guarantee a pull for the Legendary Holster.
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