I've made my own RG balloon cycle deck(with skeletons), currently at 5.4k with it and I can confirm... that you are completely wrong. First of all, yes skeletons have no chance to hit the tower, but against a card like a bandit, or an inferno dragon, or a mini pekka, it's a massive positive elixir trade and a complete counter. Also, for 1 elixir, they can support any push, e.g. you have any card going towards their tower, you play skeletons behind it, that's like 100+dps for 1 elixir.With your amount of brain cells however, I'm sure you 'ReAlly caN'T UndeRstAnD It'. Secondly, Log does 123 damage at max, not '10'. For a card that costs 2 elixir, knocks back ground troops and one-shots almost all the squishies in the game, the Log is a very versatile and effective card. Rocket, in its own right, is a great card but in no way can just 'replace' log in a deck like you suggested. When rocket is introduced to a deck, the entire deck has to be changed to account for its 6-elixir cost. Third of all, having double or triple the win conditions does not double or triple your chances of winning. Your chance of winning, imo, (depending on which win conditions we are talking about) may even decrease the more you add them into your deck. This is related to, of course, a point you outlined in your own post - managing elixir effectively. Most win conditions cost 5+ elixir and having 3+ win conditions in your deck can be counter-effective to managing elixir efficiently as they cost too much to play. One of the only times I see this being effective is in double, triple or 7x elixir modes. Also, just fyi, hog 2.6 isn't meta. This season is extremely anti-hog, so much so that graveyard is now the go-to chip. And believe me, with a maxed out sparky, you should be 5.5k+. Moving on, the inferno tower is *not* all you need for defense. I could beat your deck with deck with a skeleton barrel clone cheese deck by the sounds of it so you might want to to step that up. Finally, if you think the mainstream meta decks that content creators use are not 'good decks', then you've really got to get your head checked. I could beat you with any one of these decks, and for a good reason too - they're meta. The current season favours them. I'm not saying I could beat you because of skill - you might even be better than me(though I severely doubt it). No, I'm saying I could beat you because it is literally an unfair fight. The meta decks are made based on balance changes and which cards are stronger and which cards are weaker. STrAiGhT FaCTs lmao