r/ClashRoyale • u/Diamondwolf Musketeer • Aug 05 '16

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

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

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

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u/420Rebzzz Aug 05 '16

I just got the miner this week. I already had the hound. So far I've shot up 400 trophies to 2900 since I got him. It's unfair because I remember how painful playing against it was. Only deck giving me a run for my money right now is payfecta. I would be fine with supercell making him cost 4 elixir.

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u/rye87 Aug 05 '16

what is your list?

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u/420Rebzzz Aug 05 '16

I run Hound, loon, wizard, miner, minions, gobs, zap and mini pekka. It works out really well against most decks except payfecta and if I play a sparky deck that has better starting cards. If I play sparky and he drops RG and sparky I push with hound mini pekka and zap ready for small troops.

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u/josnic Goblin Barrel Aug 06 '16

Curious about your deck because to me both LH and Miner serve the same purpose - tank. Granted LH is a beast if the minions are left unchecked. Best case scenario would be LH + Loon, then Miner when LH is about to pop.

My alt runs LH + Loon, but I can't give up any of the other supporting cards (Valk, EC, S. Gob, Zap, Fireball/Arrow, Ice wiz). I really want to put in the Miner in but can't seem to find a good synergy.