“Sloane shot the Sheriff!”
“Don’t worry, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster.”
(Six Million Dollar Dave Montreal?)
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I could see a really interesting story line in Law Dogs future if this happened. The Blessed Law Dogs with the righteous fury of God, and the Mad Science law dogs: something something RoboCop.
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Maybe? I’d have to crunch the numbers, but I don’t think relative cost-by-strength is going down at all. However, we aren’t seeing a lot of new statstick dudes (like say Wylie Jenks) which tend to cost more.
Consider her against Roderick Byre though, for example, and I think her cost is appropriate. She’s a slightly better dude, but for that she costs slightly more (5/0 tends to be net cheaper than 4/1).
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Then, it’s me I guess ^^".
But I see all my starting posses in LD filled qith cost 5 dudes with upkeep and I feel the grass is greener somewhere else…
@Pachinko I don’t think the price of dudes has gotten lower in the sense that the formula for pricing dudes has changed. There just have been a lot more lower costed dudes lately. Lots of 3 cost 1 brass 1 influence +decent ability dudes.
As for Margaret Hagerty. I would be shocked if this wasn’t a sign that we would be getting more gadget dudes. If we dont her value does drop a bit. Still a second neutral MS could help open up that theme in different factions.
Between Val, Dabney, Roderick, and now Margaret (I don’t count Dr. Dawn much, she’s pretty bad) I think a MS build out of 4R is looking potentially viable.
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Possibly. The biggest push for that (at least for me personally) is if there was a new gadget dude who was mystical. Perhaps even an abomination. The biggest problem for 4th ring gadgets is that the faction as a whole is significantly geared towards hexes, and in the current state of the game it is difficult to justify ignoring the primary theme of a faction in exchange for something else. Especially when that their primary theme is so strong.
Not to be a downer but as a competitively minded person i am personally most interested in cards when they are both fun and good. And i can only hope that this new push into the 4r mystical gadgets can support both of those things.
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I would suggest you check the other threads in this forum right about now 
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and there you go.
The Wretched is practically built for a 4R MS archetype. Turn your Pagliaccio’s into 4-studs and then recur the original dude.
I’m a bit irked that both The Wretched and Forced Quarantine are on values that are already obvious power values for 4R (Paralysis Mark, Blood Curse). I think it might have made for more interesting deckbuilding choices if they presented a compelling alternative instead of just supporting the current powerhouse builds.
Well, I don’t think kill jobs and Gadget Aboms really support Control Clowns though.
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I don’t think they’re as distinct as you are portraying them. The control clowns I play against can shoot the fly off the nose of a womp rat from a T-16 already. They’re power values are already tightly packed, it’s pretty easy to get a 45-48 on-value cards with that archetype and not lose key cards you want. Forced Quarantine is quite good for them.
The Wretched perhaps less so because it requires a pretty substantive shake-up in your starting posse and deck focus. However, I do see 4R MS decks still packing hucksters (Valeria & Funtime at least). So if they have hucksters and are running 8’s already they’d be stupid not to run PM, quite frankly.