What's up everyone, this is OJ

The Goblin Gang is kinda like a Knight - Skeleton Army Hybrid

It can distract a lot of cards a Knight can

But, it's fragile like a Skeleton Army

The hard counter to Skeleton Army is the log

So a princess and goblin barrel pair really well with this card

The meta right now is really diverse, so it's hard to say what the best deck is for the goblin gang

But with the princess, goblin barrel, the log and the inferno

It makes a really nice base for a log bait deck

Add three cards to suit your playstyle

A tank and a spell would be ideal

I made a really fun deck that reached twelve wins

But this is during the first day when everyone was running Goblin Gang in the Grand Challenges

Another deck that is more reliable would be the Knight-Rocket deck

They play completely different from each other

With the dart goblin deck, you basically never want to reach 10 elixir

The pushes should be around 3 to 4 elixir

Ice spirit could tank two shots from the tower and freeze it

So the dart goblin could deal over a thousand damage if they ignore it

Pretty deadly combo, and everyone knows it

So it's almost never ignored

This is good because it either draws out a log or something like a knight

This deck is technically a 2.8 deck

But you almost never have to run the Inferno Tower

So it plays more like a 2.4 cycle deck

The idea of this deck is to rapid-fire every single troop

You never want to commit more than 4 elixir though

It's really fun to play, just keep applying pressure

They can never build up a combo for their deck

It is pretty weak to Bowler-Graveyard though

So you will need to save up your Dart Goblin to take out the graveyard

And Bowler practically counters all the cards in this deck

This low cost deck beats all the traditional zap bait decks

Because the princess, barrel, gang, fire spirits, log, ice spirit and dart can take out the goblin barrel

So even if they bait out your log and shoot out two Goblin Barrels

The entire deck counters that strategy

The princess is going to be free damage

It's almost always guaranteed to get a 140 (dmg) off

If they log her, you can send in a barrel

If it's a knight, the Goblin Gang will counter it

Then your dart goblin can take out the knight

And now they have to worry about the dart goblin because it is gonna chip on their tower

This deck isn't necessarily about making positive elixir trades

Rather, it's more like unit trades

The constant need to address your 3 or 4 elixir push

stresses out their deck combo

and they never get to execute it

Starting off this match, I bust out an ice spirit - barrel combo

Casting the barrel first, then the ice spirit

It is prefectly timed so the ice spirit tanks the tower right as the goblins land on it

His Skeleton Army gets destroyed by my ice spirit

4 elixir for 3 elixir trade

And I dealt damage to his tower

Now it's a matter of waiting for the skeletons to pass

so I can plant my princess

He plants the Lava Hound at the same time

His only counter seems to be the tombstone

Since the dart goblin one shots skeletons

He is perfect for protecting my princess

Right as he demolishes the tombstone

I played my fire spirits to protect her from the skeletons that spawned

This is when my opponent realizes the dart goblin and princess are going to deal serious damage

so he arrows them

He spent 6 elixir on the left side

so I am not worried of any big pushes on the right side

since my Inferno takes care of that hound

The stab goblins tank while the spear goblins take out everything

Right now I know he has a skeleton army back on rotation

so I want to bait it out with my princess

She does get one shot off the tower

then the dart goblin cleans up

and as a bonus, he ignored the dart goblin so he dealt the full 400 damage

Because the balloon was planted on the front outer edge

I could had placed it one tile further to the left

I messed up my ice spirit placement

so the balloon's bomb touches my tower

He had arrows in rotation for a few cards now

So I know he is going to waste his arrows directly on the barrel

This means if he has elixir

his only counter to my fire spirits are tombstone

They are pretty deadly

two spirits reaching the tower is basically fireball damage

with the cost of two elixir

I am sitting on a bit of elixir in case he plants anything in front

and I need to cycle to my Inferno

But as soon as I hear the lava hound

I played my princess

I put my dart goblin a bit too forward

so I need to assist him with an ice spirit

Looks like he is going all or nothing with the push on the right side

But that's totally fine, I have an Inferno Tower

The goblin gang is perfect for this push

because the stab goblins distract the Mega Minion

For every goblin it kills, that's one less swing it gets on my buildings.

as long as one of the three fire spirits lands the kill shot

it splashes all of the pups

I know he has arrows in rotation

so I played my dart goblin really far in the front

and it stops the balloon

With 30 seconds left and the position of the lava hound

he just used arrows so I'm throwing everything I have

The thinking is that if he ignores everything that tower goes down

Or he has to defend it, and spend elixir

Leaving him with no elixir for his lava hound push

This deck is super fun and I got in to 12 wins with this

But you really need to count their card rotation

Because one small mistake

will allow your opponent to build a huge 20 elixir push and three crown you in under a minute

Never pair the dart goblin, princess, gang or barrel together

The combo should never be more than 4 elixir

and generally you shouldn't have more than 7 elixir, just keep spending it

Rapidly applying pressure synchronizes your elixir with your opponent

and destroys any combo they potentially could play

This deck isn't reliable against tank - graveyard poison decks

but it's so cheese it's fun to play

I started off this match with an ice spirit - dart goblin combo

Unfortunately for my opponent, he was being polite

And that cost them over 700 damage on his tower

He pumps up, so this deck seems a little fishy to me

The goblin gang is really threatening and is never ignored

so I want to see what he has

It's the log, so this is perfect

he can't counter my princess or my barrel

she gets one shot off the tower before dying, so it was a positive unit trade

The dart goblin takes out the tombstone

breaking even and gets a shot off of the tower.

I still don't know what his last two cards are

but I do know that his log is one card away from rotation

He has to show me those last two cards or use archers to absorb my fire spirits for a negative trade

as a bonus, one fire spirit lands on the Golem and splashes the tower

So far I have seen archers, pump, log, mega minion, tombstone and golem.

I am pretty sure his last two cards are baby dragon and Lightning.

Assuming he has a Lightning,

I am playing the Inferno Tower in front of the river

one tile in the other lane.

This is the anti-Lightning position.

I know his log is back in rotation

So I wanted to bait out with a Goblin Gang

But he reveals the 7th card is the baby dragon

now I am positive he has Lightning.

The dart goblin does work to the baby dragon and the ice spirit tanks one shot then freezes it.

He can't take any damages from the dart, so he logs it

This is perfect for my barrel.

I should had played my princess a bit earlier

but since I hesitated the Mega Minion does get one swing out of my tower.

His tombstone is out of rotation and I am a bit in the lead

so I bait with a 5 elixir combo - Fire spirits and dart goblins.

This essentially protects my princess on the left side

letting her finish off that tower

On top of that, he now doesn't have anything to counter my barrel on the right side

I can afford the damage from the baby dragon

And the ice spirit does a really good job on cutting his damage in half for 1 elixir

Princess gets one shot off the tower and trades with the Mega Minion

The Golem is approaching so I placed the Inferno Tower in the anti-Lightning position

Goblin Gang takes out the tombstone

and distracts the baby dragon for a bit

This deck is ridiculously fun to play

but if you want to take it seriously and want to reach 12 wins

You need to be able to control their elixir and engage the situation

You don't really need to track all of their cards

just keep a mental note of when they use the log

and never over commit more than 4 elixir

and never let them build big pushes.

Don't sit at 10 elixir

Otherwise, you will end up having to defend a huge push

with 15 elixir worth of cards on your side

all clumped up that will die to arrows at once

You will get three crowned instantly

The base of this deck is really solid

with almost every player running the Log in Grand Challenges

It makes a lot of sense to run princess and goblin barrel with the gang.

This deck uses rocket instead of dart goblin

and knight instead of an ice spirit

The tank aspect of this very makes the deck much more reliable

especially against bowlers, but plays completely differently.

You don't have the dart goblin to constantly chip their tower

So it's not like the previous deck where you have to stay below 7 elixir at all times

Since the knight allows you to defend against the bigger pushes

it's easier to handle.

I did mess up the timing of the knight

and I played him a bit too high so the bowler isn't in range of the tower

That was a negative trade

On the plus side, he used his log on the goblin gang

So I am free to barrel and fire spirits his tower

turns out he had zap for the spirits, but that's fine

The barrel deals quite a bit of damage

The giant won't make it past the Inferno, but I kinda messed up my princess placement

so I used my knight to tank the minions

I am considering surrounding the bowler

but I realized my inferno tower has just enough health to take it out.

Having just used his log on my princess

He only has zap for my fire spirits or barrel, but not both.

He misses his zap anyways

counters with a musketeer, and I rocket her

At tourney standard, the rocket deals 493 damage

and the log deals exactly 100

so the tower isn't low enough

I am waiting for him to play something, so I can plant my princess on the front

This is great, now I have multiple options

and can over co mmit in defense because one rocket will win the game

As usual, the giant won't make it past the Inferno Tower

Ice spirits do a really good job at protecting the giant from an Inferno tower

So I need to log it

The Knight clumps everything together

and I can rocket it out

Again, cheesing him with a front princess

we trade damage

So far the only damage he has done to my tower is with his logs

Baiting his log, the barrel can take out his tower

With the Executioner's reduced splash radius

it no longer counters the goblin barrel perfectly like a bowler can

This deck is a bit slower and not as spammy as the previous one

but it is certainly a lot more reliable

The rocket allows you to take out larger support troops

that are clumped up behind if your knight isn't enough to distract them

Looking back at this replay, I have really only used the Goblin Gang once.

And that was because I messed up my Knight placement

He had Bowler and Executioner so it was a bit hard to use them defensively

And every big push he had,

I didn't need to use the gang because all of his troops are clumped up perfectly for the rocket