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Yeeeehaw!! Come out guns blazing with the rip-roarin’est faction to ever ride into Smash Up. The Cowboys are going to call you out at high noon, and make sure you go home in a pine box. Dueling is their strategy of choice, because who better to slap leather than the quickest guns in the west?
Cowboys are from the Oops, You Did It Again set and have a Titan card - Pecos Bill.
Complexity Level: MEDIUM-HIGH
Mechanics
- Duels
- Temporary Power Boosts
Cowboys are able to start duels with other players' minions that usually end with the destruction of one or both dueling minions. To help them win duels, they have an assortment of cards that can greatly boost their minions' power.
Strategy
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Cards - Minions
1x Sheriff
Power 5 - Special: Before this base scores, this minion may duel another player’s minion here. Destroy the losing minion.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
2x Pinkerton
Power 4 - Ongoing: When one of your minions here is in a duel, place a +1 power counter on it.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- This may affect itself in a duel. The power counter is placed before the dueling cards are placed on the table.
3x Gunfighter
Power 3 - This minion may duel another player’s minion here. Destroy the losing minion.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
4x Deputy
Power 2 - Special: On your turn or during a duel involving your minion, you may discard this card from your hand to give a minion +2 power until the end of the turn.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- You may wait until after your opponent has revealed their dueling card to decide whether to discard the Deputy.
Cards - Actions
1x Dynamite Surprise
Special: Before a base scores where you have a minion and are not winning, destroy a minion of power 4 or less there. Special: If another player’s card reveals or looks at a card in your hand or deck, destroy one of their minions of power 4 or less.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- This triggers from your hand, or if revealed from your deck. It is not triggered if another player looks at it in your deck.
1x Form a Posse
Each of your minions gains +1 power and cannot be destroyed, moved, or returned to the hand until the end of the turn.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
1x Gold in Them Thar Hills
Look at the top three cards of your deck. Reveal and draw one of them; you may play it as an extra card. Return the rest in any order.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
1x Gold Strike
Play on a base. Ongoing: After you play a minion here, draw a card.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
2x High Noon
One of your minions duels another player’s minion at the same base. Destroy the losing minion. If your minion wins, you may play an extra minion there.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- If your opponent wins they do not get an extra minion, and neither do you if your minion is destroyed. “There” is where your winning minion is at the end of the duel.
2x Quick Draw
Choose one of your minions. If it is in a duel, it gains +4 power until the end of the turn, otherwise it gains +2 power until the end of the turn.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- The amount of power gained is determined when this card is played and does not change even if the minion’s dueling status changes.
1x Run 'Em Off
One of your minions duels another player’s minion at the same base. The winning minion gains +3 power until the end of the turn, and its controller moves the losing minion to another base.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
1x Stagecoach
Move or transfer up to two of your cards on the same base to another base.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
Cards - Bases
1x Saloon
Breakpoint 20 - VPs: 3 2 1 - After a minion here is destroyed, each player with a minion here may draw a card.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
1x So-so Corral
Breakpoint 19 - VPs: 4 2 1 - After you play a minion here, it may duel another player’s minion here. Destroy the losing minion.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
- If you play a minion here that lets you immediately play other minions here (e.g. Zapbot, Critter Coach), do their duels in reverse order to how they were played. The duel is chosen by the minion’s controller after the minion is played and resolved.
- The losing minion is destroyed by the challenging player.
Card - Titan
1x Pecos Bill
Special: When you become the challenger in a duel, you may discard a card to play this titan there. Do not resolve any titan clashes until after the end of the duel. Ongoing: During duels here, other players may not move minions from here or return them to a player’s hand. Ongoing: After you win a duel, draw a card.
Errata? Yes/No
Clarifications:
