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· This season's best Evolved Minion Horde deck is a Mortar bait deck.
· When Evolved Minion Horde takes damage, they become invincible, allowing them to attack but not be targeted.
· Fireball can defeat Minions in one hit before they become invincible, but Arrows struggle to defeat Evolved Minion Horde due to multiple attacks.
· It can be a difficult matchup against opponents using Fireball, such as 2.6 Hog Cycle decks.
· However, if the opponent uses Fireball on other units like Mother Witch or Cannon Cart, the Evolved Minion Horde becomes very powerful.

· Evolved Minion Horde can deal significant damage to towers, and Mortar decks have excellent defense and counter-attack capabilities.
· You can use Miner to predict counter units like Wizard.
· If you have to choose between Hero Balloon and Evolved Minion Horde in this season's Pass Royale, I recommend Evolved Minion Horde.
· It's crucial to bait your opponent into using Fireball on other units like Mother Witch to create opportunities for the Evolved Minion Horde to shine.
· Evolved Mortar is very powerful and a good deck to win against popular decks like 2.6 Hog Cycle.

· The deck's average elixir cost is around 3.9, making it a mid-range deck, neither a beatdown nor a cycle deck.
· If you want to make the deck cheaper, you can use cards like Royal Ghost instead of Cannon Cart, but Cannon Cart is the optimal choice. Royal Ghost is less efficient as it doesn't have an evolution slot.
· Thanks to the Evolved Minion Horde's high DPS, you can use Mortar more aggressively and it's effective for defending against tank units like Ram Rider or Giant.
· It's better to use Evolved Minion Horde defensively.
· Momentum is crucial for this deck, and controlling the game's tempo is key to victory.
· Mother Witch is strong against Evolved Ghost, transforming ghouls into pigs to bait the opponent into wasting elixir.
· If the opponent wastes Fireball on units other than the Minion Horde, the Evolved Minion Horde becomes a significant threat.

· Against Hero Balloon Decks: Defend Balloon with Mother Witch, and push with Miner and Evolved Minion Horde when the opponent wastes counter units. Ice Golem's ability can slow down Evolved Minion Horde. Use Skeleton King's ability to damage towers and bait opponent's cards.
· Against 3.0 X-Bow Decks: Split Minion Horde to cycle evolutions faster. Aggressive Mortar play is effective. Cannon Cart is excellent for defending X-Bow, and Skeleton King's ability can damage Tesla and towers.
· Against PEKKA Bridge Spam Decks: This deck will become even stronger after the Magic Archer nerf. Miner and Arrows can effectively counter Magic Archer.
· Against Sparky/Mega Knight Decks: Mother Witch generates many pigs from Skeleton Army, baiting the opponent's Dagger Duchess. Evolved Minion Horde shows powerful push potential, able to destroy towers even after being hit by Arrows. Use Miner to target the second tower.

· Magic Archer's ability will be nerfed to 2 elixir.
· This deck might struggle to defeat Magic Archer without Fireball, but the Miner and Arrows combination can adequately counter it.
· After the nerf, concerns about Magic Archer will be significantly reduced; it will still be a good card but not overpowered (OP).