Ashcan's Home for Wayward Puppers

This is my deck for a mostly blind playthrough of Edge of the Earth with my fiancé. Is this a meme deck? Absolutely!

Like many of you I wanted to build a Sled Dog deck as soon as I saw the card. Is this the best shell for the card? Definitely not! However, as you can see the doggo density (TM) of this deck is as high as it gets. Not only do we play the full set of sled doggos but we also play both Guard Dogs as well as the goodest boi Duke for a grand total of 7 doggos.

The nice synergy between Ashcan + In The Thick of It + Desperate Skills is on display here. I'm using my 3XP to immediately purchase Charisma. Note that Duke does not take up an ally slot, so with one copy of charisma our doggo count can already reach 4-5 in a single game (2 sled + duke + guard dog or duke + 4 sled).

It's very unlikely you will ever get a game with all 4 sled doggos in play, but I can dream! One Sled Dog is unremarkable, two is just OK, three is where they start becoming a big deal. Calling in Favors and Eureka are helping us dig for dogs. We will plan to always have Duke around, so favors is going to dig 9 cards deep for a pupper as well as heal any of our loyal pals.

In our hand slots we are trying to cover for the off chance Duke gets sent to a farm upstate. I want to play Sledgehammer, ok? Perception and Overpower allow us to keep passing tests and continue churning through the deck for more doggos. Lastly a playset of Lucky! for clutch saves and of course no dog deck would be complete without a single copy of Lone Wolf for just a pinch of economy.

Will update as I work my way through the campaign with my partner! Likely working with Agnes, though my SO has not decided what 'gator to play yet. Cheers!

Upgrades

Nothing Left to Lose this is an early priority. It's not uncommon to have no cards in and next to no resources in this deck. A lovechild of Emergency Cache/Cryptic Research, this card digs deep for dogs and gives the resources to play them.

Lucid Dreaming too cute? I'll let you know. Three sled dogs in play is pretty legit and very doable with our level 0 draw and selection, this can probably find the last one.

Scrapper probably a luxury purchase but good to tack on a few points of combat as needed here and there.

Charisma the play pattern we are shooting for is guard dog goes away by the time you need your second ally slot, but if we have XP to burn for a second copy we suddenly can reach maximum doggo density (TM) if the game allows.