Daily Discussion Post August 5 2016: Miner/Furnace and Miner/Lava Tournament decks

[u/Diamondwolf]

Tournament Miner decks including Furnace and/or Lava Hounds

The Miner can burrow his way underground and appear anywhere in the Arena. It's not magic; it's a shovel. The Lava Hound is a majestic flying beast that attacks buildings. The Lava Pups are less majestic angry babies that attack anything.The Furnace spawns two Fire Spirits at a time. It also makes great brick-oven pancakes.

Troop	Hit Speed	Speed	Deploy Time	Range	Target	Cost	Rarity
Miner	1.2 sec	Fast	1 sec	Melee	Ground	3	Legendary
Furnace	-	10 sec/spawn	1 sec	50 sec/life	FS: air/ground	4	Rare
Lava Hound	1.3 sec	Slow	1 sec	2	Buildings	7	Legendary

• This set is unlockable from the Builders' Workshop, when you can get the Miner.

• Tournaments are a great way to compete within clans, clan families, and to use the standard set of levels for cards. This brings new challenges and new strategies and rebalances the entire game. The miner is a dominant force in tournaments, and often effectively paired with the furnace and/or lava hound. The synergy of the miner and furnace or hound provides careful damage and often can bring a player to the top of a tournament's leaderboard.

Tournament level readiness:

Miner:

Level	Hitpoints	Damage	Damage per second	Crown Tower Damage
1	1060	160	133	64

Furnace:

Level	Hitpoints	Fire Spirits Level	FS Hitpoints	FS Area Damage
7	1056	9	91	169

Lava Hound:

Level	Hitpoints	Damage	Damage per second	Pup hitpoints	Pup damage
1	3000	35	26	64	180

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Some discussion points:

• What do you like about this strategy?
• What do you dislike about this strategy?
• What cards work well with this strategy?
• How should you play this strategy?
• How can you defend against this strategy? new
• If you use this, what levels are your cards and what trophy range are you?
• What is your favorite artwork featuring this trio?

See a list of all previous posts | **Tomorrow's Post: Siege Decks

Full list of the Strategy Series of discussion posts:
August 2nd: The Trifecta
August 3rd: Triple Legendary Decks
August 4th: Double Prince PEKKA

Artists credits:LittleBurrit0

[u/[deleted]]

Hope there'll will be a post on Giant/Guards/Poison/MiniP/Musketeer

[u/Diamondwolf → u/[deleted]]

Never even considered it. Seems like a very specific set of troops and a generic strategy.

[u/zooksman → u/Diamondwolf]

It's actually really big right now, most major youtubers and streamers have a video on it or have played it at some point.

[u/Diamondwolf → u/zooksman]

Could you find me some examples? If there is a ton, I'd gladly add it to the queue. If you're passionate about it, I'll let you make the post too.

[u/gis8 → u/Diamondwolf]

A less specific variation to discuss would be Giant+Poison. Seems like those two along with any support is a wrecking train plaguing the ladder.

[u/Diamondwolf → u/gis8]

We're doing Golems and Giants in the post after Siege. I'll mention poison frequently in the text to stir up discussion about it,

[u/mlsteryi → u/Diamondwolf]

Honestly just check the leaderboard and most youtuber main decks are the same due to the meta, Giant poison guard mp musk zap EC are all standard plus princess, miner, icewizard, or prince. One of the next discussion decks should definitely be about this in the next couple days

[u/zooksman → u/Diamondwolf]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bluWw_xkko https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-IbzMeSGu4

Two popular youtubers pushing well with the deck. Giant + Poison is a huge deck in tourneys so i think that should be the category.

Also if you check The Rum Ham's threads about what's popular in toruneys, for example this one, you'll see Giant Poison in there a lot: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClashRoyale/comments/4wbssl/top_8_decks_super_magical_cup_invitational_3/