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Introduction
This is arguably the strongest deck in the game right now (5th October 2024). This is mainly due to the overpowered Cannon Cart. You apply pressure on your opponent with swarms, mortar and miner while Skeleton King and Cannon Cart form a solid defensive backbone.
Deck Information[]
- Deck Created by: DartDartPopper
- Minimum Recommended King Level: 12
- Maximum Recommended King Level: 15
- Arena Required: Executioner's Kitchen (Wrong?)
- Average Elixir Cost: 3.3 (Wrong?)
- More Statistics: Go to Deck Builder
Card Roles[]
- Mortar: Evo 1. This would be your main win condition, if you are building this deck, get this evo first since it’s more of an upgrade compared to bats. Anyways, mortar can also be used on defense, it’s awkward but it can snipe ranged units thanks to its blind spot, more importantly, it also has a lot of health, making it really tanky.
- Bats: Evo 2. One of your bait cards, baiting zap, snowball, rage, delivery or arrows. This can be used with pressure for miner, and can get a lot of value if your opponent doesn’t remove them.
- Miner: Secondary win condition. Synergises well with the multiple bait cards in this deck, can be used for pressure with them, chip or snipe targets in a counterpush.
- Spear Goblins: Another of your bait cards, helps defend air while acting as a ground distraction alongside goblin gang, can also be used as pressure with miner.
- Goblin Gang: This is yet another bait card. This time, it has more DPS against ground units and distracts them well.
- Skeleton King: A core part of your deck. Not only does his ability bring even more bait, and he has splash, but he is also crucial in dealing with your opponent’s splash cards on defense.
- Arrows: Arrows are your only spell. Helps clear out swarms, works well with miner since it can be used offensively and covers a large area.
- Cannon Cart: Main DPS and the reason why this deck is meta is cuz Cannon Cart is overpowered. Together with skeleton king, forms your defensive core.
Strategy[]
- Play aggressively in single elixir, since you have lots of ways to pressure
- Don’t be too afraid to use mortar defensively, especially if you already have a lead and just need to defend.
- Don’t waste your skeleton king ability.
Upgrade Priority[]
- Tier 1: Goblin Gang: Goblin Gang has goblins and spear goblins, both of which are very level dependent cards. Stab goblins die to certain small spells when down a level, while spear goblins do not one shot skeletons and bats that are even 1 level higher, and they take more hits to deal with dart goblins, princesses and shields.
- Tier 1: Spear Goblins: Same reasoning as Goblin Gang spear goblins
- Tier 1: Cannon Cart: Down a level, takes more hits to kill a wide variety of cards, most notably Goblins and Mother Witch. Additionally, it can’t survive a complete Hunter attack or a PEKKA hit. The PEKKA interaction is crucial.
- Tier 2: Skeleton King: Ability still works fine when down a level, but his tankiness suffers.
- Tier 3: Miner: Interactions with tower troops suffer, but not so critical
- Tier 3: Bats: Can’t oneshot skellies or bats, though their quick attack speed can compensate for it. Really only a problem against graveyard.
- Tier 3: Mortar: Your main win condition, but the levels aren’t too critical. Even though evolved mortar spawns Goblins, which should be a very level dependent card, it’s impractical to use small spells on the goblins spawned by the mortar since they die quickly anyways.
- Tier 4: Arrows: As long as it oneshots firecracker, you are good to go.
Substitution[]
- Ice Wizard can substitute spear goblins. That variation of mortar bait has been EXPLODING in popularity very recently, and has even overtaken this variant of the deck with spear goblins. While Ice wizard is awkward to use without tornado, it helps against the PEKKA meta, provides more answers to air swarms and gives you a stronger double elixir and overtime.
- Mother Witch can substitute spear goblins.
- Skeleton Dragons can substitute spear goblins.
- Minion Horde can substitute bats, though it’s outdated and niche. You’ll have to substitute skeleton king for fireball too.
- Guards can substitute goblin gang, better matchup vs Evo PEKKA.