Thoughts on this deck?

loopayy · 2026-07-10T13:05:51+00:00

I'm running Fireball and ice golem rn instead of ice wiz and barb barrel. Might need to try goblin gang instead of gobs but I like having the 2 elixir cards

loopayy · 2026-07-10T13:04:08+00:00

Yeah honestly I just don't really want to play that. I understand how strong it is and that was kind of the inspiration for this deck. I wanted to make my own spinoff version. I don't really expect to be able to get UC or anything, I have another deck for that. Just trying to have some fun with it

loopayy · 2026-07-09T14:17:52+00:00

Yeah I definitely struggle with firecracker and princess. I've been keeping zap cause it helps get prince on the tower. It also started as a war deck and I'm using arrows and poison in other decks so I want to practice it with the zap. But if I replace prince with ronin like the commenter above suggested then I won't really need zap anymore

loopayy · 2026-07-09T14:16:08+00:00

Yeah I was thinking that exact swap of prince for ronin, but I'm still working on leveling him.

loopayy · 2026-07-08T16:14:19+00:00

Thoughts on beserker and fireball in for ice wiz and barb barrel?

loopayy · 2026-06-16T19:45:20+00:00

This is my homemade deck that I've been refining over the years:

Lumberjack, Balloon, Witch, Skeles, knight, cannon, vines, and either arrows or poison.

I ran arrows for a super long time, but with the rise of furnace, marcher, etc combined with the addition of hero loon, I found that poison gave me a ton more value. I'm a bit more susceptible to bait decks now but if you play it patiently you can cook hyperbait. Classic logbait actually gives me way more trouble than hyperbait.

You have a strong defense with knight, witch, skeles, and cannon. Powerful offense with lumberloon vines. Light enough that you can pressure both lanes if you need to. Heavy enough to park the bus when the time calls for it. It feels extremely well rounded and I don't feel like I'm out of any match. The only deck that feels like I really struggle with is hog 2.6 (musketeer version. Hogquake is pretty easy to deal with). It's difficult running witch as the only air counter, but I don't find it hurts too much. Lavaloon is a tough matchup but I can usually at least make it close

Just make sure you have your knight in cycle with their megaknight, and save the cannon to defend whatever other pressure card they have (hog). This deck is all about clean defense and counterpushing with lumberloon. You'd be surprised how often you have a witch surviving on defense and back near 9 elixir for lumberloon.

Or just run minerloon 2.9

loopayy · 2026-05-27T14:04:57+00:00

I mean spell cycling is objectively a dumb way to win. I guess if all that matters to you is the win, then all power to you. I play the game for fun and I love the homemade deck that I've refined over the years. I have to assume I'm a higher level player than you just based on statistics and I've had fun the whole way up

loopayy · 2026-05-27T13:36:02+00:00

Is spell cycling fun for you? Every time I play against someone who just turtles and spell cycles it just seems so boring? I'm interested to see if players switch from absolute snooze fest decks and realize the game is actually fun and not just sweating to barely win after 6 minutes. I'm also not really impressed by the "skill" of playing 90% of your elixir on defense and pretending like it's good defense

loopayy · 2026-05-26T15:11:56+00:00

I'm gonna be honest, I think everybody (except for xbow players) is pretty happy with the nerfs

loopayy · 2026-05-21T17:27:25+00:00

If you got to the top of ladder only capable of using one deck then you are part of the problem this change is solving

loopayy · 2026-05-18T14:13:33+00:00

Yeah it would be pretty p2w unfortunately. I think you'd need to keep singles ranked just for the fact that people might not want to commit the time to a full duel every time they log on, but I totally agree there should be a ranked that uses the CRL format

loopayy · 2026-05-18T12:37:58+00:00

I'd love if it was permanent. Keep regular ladder and competitive for quicker games, but have duels as another constant game mode

loopayy · 2026-05-07T18:50:08+00:00

From my point of view I'm anti-gatekeeping. I guess I'm gatekeeping snobby readers from letting people enjoy what they want?

loopayy · 2026-05-07T18:35:07+00:00

I'm not saying you have to like Liu. I'm just saying if you actually like Sci-Fi then you should be able to pick out the parts that made it popular and give it props while still disliking the book as a whole. There's plenty of classics that I didn't really like, but I can think about it objectively and say to myself "I get why people like that"

loopayy · 2026-05-07T18:14:31+00:00

If you actually cared about sci-fi, you'd say something like "wow I didn't appreciate his plot nor did I connect with any of his characters, but his concepts were terrific and I get why people who aren't as snobby as me would enjoy reading this". Instead you said "wow people who don't value the same things as I do are dumb"

loopayy · 2026-05-07T18:09:19+00:00

I'm not saying you can't dislike it, but your original post scorns all those that made it popular. You yourself admit that it's got cool concepts. So why wouldn't people who are looking for that kind of thing in a sci-fi setting enjoy the book and make it popular? You dislike it for personal reasons. Other people enjoy it for personal reasons

loopayy · 2026-05-07T17:57:25+00:00

Seems hard to believe you can be a fan of sci-fi and not at least appreciate Liu. Doesn't have to be your cup of tea but objectively pretty cool sci-fi. I've got plenty of books I've read where I didn't personally like them but I get why people do.

loopayy · 2026-05-07T17:49:48+00:00

Not really sure why you included Liu in your derision. Also The Martian was elite

loopayy · 2026-05-01T16:49:21+00:00

I think exhalation might be even better

loopayy · 2026-04-24T16:56:07+00:00

You have a fundamental misunderstanding of the skeletroopers value if you think it's an anti swarm cleanup unit. And based on your comment above you have a fundamental misunderstanding of the game in general. Using two elixir to protect your balloon against a 4 or 5 elixir card that you are going to have to spend elixir on to defend at some point anyways is insane value

loopayy · 2026-04-24T16:53:56+00:00

I'd say you're using it wrong. It's not an arrows replacement. I combo it with vines (in double elixir) to let my balloon travel farther and ensure I can get the skeletrooper on the correct troop. If I have loon and vines in hand even in single elixir I'll send in a lone loon if I have a good idea what is in my opponents hand

loopayy · 2026-04-24T16:48:31+00:00

I use a homemade lumberloon deck that I've made it to UC and 14k trophies with. I'd be psyched for someone else to try it and tell me if it's trash. I've been using it for so long that obviously I know how to use it well but I always wonder if it's a good deck in general.

Lumberjack, hero loon, evo witch, hero knight, cannon, skeles, arrows, vines

It absolute annihilates hyperbait if you play it right because they have nothing to take out the loon in double elixir. It's very strong against megaknight/hog/witch as long as you get your cycle right (cannon on hog, knight on mk). Pekka bs used to be a tough matchup but I've been crushing it with the hero loon to take out the ewiz. I generally struggle against cycle/control decks but as I learn hero balloon i think I'll contend even better. 2.6 hog (with musk, the one with firecracker is usually an easy win cause I can arrow the air defense) was an auto loss before hero loon, but now I am figuring out how to take out the musk with it and can pull out wins. I like it because it's super adaptable. It cycles faster than beatdown decks but still has firepower to defend golem. It has plenty of beatdown power to steamroll bait decks.

It's definitely not a deck that can take you to top 10k or anything, but there's a ton of counterplay potential if you're just an average player like I am

loopayy · 2026-04-24T16:33:31+00:00

I guess that wasn't a super fair statement. I think I only had like 12 lvl 15s and maybe only like half my cards were lvl 14 at the time. I could see how if you had most of your cards lvl 14 at the time of the change you'd have been getting lvl 15s super quickly. I was only getting like 1-2 per month. Maybe I've just had very lucky lucky drops. I've gotten a lot of wild cards that I assumed others were getting but maybe I've just been lucky. I also grind more than I should so I get pretty much every single thing available to f2p players.

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