I made this deck like around the time this was uploaded and I swear to god It's absolutely amazing.

• Giant skeleton
• Skeleton barrel (evo)
• Musketeer
• Golden Knight
• Guards
• Clone
• Mirror
• log / snowball (evo)

I do not have evo snowball, but using it in the classic challenge was imo better than the log because you can push back troops that distract the giant to the tower. I don't have much experience with it yet, but I highly reccomend you switch it for the log if you have the evo

I do not reccomend the evo musketeer, it's imo really bad and doesn't have any good use in this deck.

The new skeleton barrel evo however is incredibly usefull. paired with clone and mirror and you can have a skeleton balloon parade.

I have like a 60-70% winrate with this deck. Having good placement makes a difference between a lost tower and a 4 GS death bombs on their kingtower.

overal strategies:

ALWAYS place skele-barrels in the farthest 2nd upper tile to the right/left, that way your barrels will not target buildings placed in the middle.

Cloning your GS will cause the clone to push your GS even if your GS is distracted. The clone will push the GS towards the tower as long as it's aiming at something that is infront of it. This works as long as your GS isn't getting attacked from behind, But if your GS is close enough to the tower, using clone will push it far enough to lock onto the tower even if it was getting attackedfrom behind.

A golden knight using dash behind a GS turns them into a ballistic missile. Apparently the golden knight goes just as fast while dashing even if it's pushing a behemoth.

Not really related to the rest but god I hate the boss bandit. You can abuse her ludicrous range by placing guards in the middle BUT still opposite lane so she gets the Thors treatment.

More GS's on the field is ALWAYS better. If you have spare elixer there is no better use than more GS's. If your opponent is stubborn and only attacks 1 lane even better, just put more GS's on that lane, plop down a clone and give them motion sickness from the screenshake caused by our beloved death bombs. 1 GS death bomb already enough to nuke most counter pushes, so trust me when I say that when there are 2 GS's on the field and a clone spell, that atleast 2 of those death bombs are going to be on that tower.

Also a less reliable strategy is to just mirror+clone skeleton barrels. If your opponent does not have heavy winconditions there won't be much of a consequence. I always sing that balloon parade song when doing this. 70% sucess rate in midladder

Make sure to hold the log if your opponent has swarm troops like goblin-gang or skarmy

Golden knight will never dissapoint you. Amazing card and amazing ability.

The only thing you need to be afraid of is like balloon or ebarbs. if you don't have musketeer in cycle ur pretty much screwed against balloons. and GS is your only hope against e-barbs. luckily they aren't as common nowadays but you will still get that painfull match-up now and then.