Best Decks in Clash Royale for the King of Cards Event

The King of Cards is an event in Clash Royale where you have to win five times using Win Condition cards to collect Crown Tokens. You can use the Crown Tokens in the Royale Market shop to buy valuable items like 5-star chests and emotes. Eventually, after spending enough Crown Tokens, you’ll get the Evo Mirror for free. However, before all that, you need to create strong decks for these Win Condition cards.

This guide will have the best decks for every Win Condition card in phase 1:

1. Best Giant Deck
2. Best Battle Ram Deck
3. Best Hog Rider Deck
4. Best Mortar Deck
5. Best Minion Giant Deck
6. Best Goblin Barrel Deck

I’ll keep updating the guide regularly to add more Win Condition cards as they become available.

Best Giant Deck

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This Giant deck depends on creating pushes with the Giant and Hero Valkyrie to overwhelm opponents. Use the Evo Musketeer with the help of the other defensive spells to defend pushes, then punish enemies by placing the Giant on the bridge to create a big push against their towers. You can always create an elixir advantage by using rotation cards like the Electro Spirit and Skeletons. Finally, if opponents are using cards like Hog Rider and other tanky Win Conditions to push your towers, place the Cannon to distract them, then punish their push.

Best Battle Ram Deck

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This Battle Ram deck follows the same formula as the Evo Giant deck. Defend well and create a positive elixir exchange, then punish opponents by placing the Evo Battle Ram on the bridge. In both the Giant and Battle Ram decks, always use the Evo Musketeer to take out their strong backline cards. That will always give you an elixir advantage for a big push after.

Best Hog Rider Deck

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This Hog Rider deck creates multiple situations for your opponent to deal with. It has a very cheap attack where you place both the Hog Rider and Firecracker on the bridge. Most opponents will try to quickly intercept the Hog Rider, which will allow the Firecracker to punish them with her ranged splash attacks. If opponents keep using building cards to defend the Hog Rider, use your Earthquake spell to destroy them, giving your Hog Rider enough time to hit the tower once or twice.

Best Mortar Deck

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This Mortar deck uses the Mortar to target opponents’ towers, then punishes them when they try to defend against it. Once you place the Mortar, it pressures opponents to place tanky units to take the Mortar hits. They also need to use cards on the bridge to counter the Mortar. You only spend four elixirs to place the Mortar, and now you have more elixir than your opponent and need to use the other cards to counter their counters. If they try to swarm the Mortar, use the Log. If they place buildings, use the Tesla.

The best approach to defending the Mortar is to place the Hero Knight in front of it with the Cannon Cart to support both cards and deal massive damage. Additionally, this deck only depends on the Phoenix to defend air pushes, so only place it when opponents use air cards. The advantage of using the Phoenix as an anti-air card is its ability to add more pressure on the bridge after defending. Opponents have to defend it with all the pressure you’re creating with your Mortar and its supportive cards.

Best Minion Giant Deck

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After many nerfs, Minion Giant doesn’t perform on the same level as at its release, but it can still be useful. In this Minion Giant deck, the Rune Giant is the core card for your offensive approach. Use the Little Prince to defend, then place the Minion Giant on the bridge to defend the Little Prince and create a strong counter push. Just before the Little Prince reaches the bridge, place the Rune Giant in front of it, behind the Minion Giant. The Rune Giant will buff both the Minion Giant and the Little Prince. The buff can stay active for a longer duration because the Minion Giant will tank most of the damage.

Just like other defensive decks, it’s important to defend and create a positive elixir exchange with opponents, then counter-push them. The Minion Giant can’t take down the tower immediately, so it’s important to be patient and slowly damage opponents’ towers with your attack.

Best Goblin Barrel Deck

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There’s nothing better than bait decks in Clash Royale for the Goblin Barrel card. Your plan for this Goblin Barrel deck is to use your cards to chip away at the opponent’s towers. Just constantly put the pressure of defending on them. They only have one Log card to defend, and you’re attacking with the Goblins, Princess, and Goblin Barrel cards. They can only counter one of those attacks efficiently, and the rest forces them to start using more elixir to defend. For example, if they Log your Princess, now they need to Fireball your Goblin Barrel. If you keep that pressure active while using your small cards to defend, they will eventually watch your cards destroy their towers while they’re waiting for their elixir to load.

This deck has the Princess, Goblin Barrel, and Rocket as Win Condition cards. During the match, Princess and Goblin Barrel have to get enough damage, but when the endgame kicks in, the Rocket has to finish the job. Additionally, if opponents are using backline cards that are hard to defend, you can always use the Rocket to get rid of them.

Systems

Released

March 2, 2016

Engine

Unity

Multiplayer

Online Multiplayer