What Santa’s Strike is Used For

It works quite similar to the Lightning Spell and its primary use-case is to spread a Christmas mood in the game and bring fun and joy. Don’t get me wrong here, but this is a seasonal spell that is more of entertaining use than strategic and it would be a little bit weird if this spell would be overpowered, but I will come to this later.

Basically, Santa’s strike works like this:

• When dropped Santa will drop a few presents that will explode and deal damage to ground troops and buildings
• The place is quite random, similar to the Lightning Spell (if you ignore the strike pattern of the Lightning Spell
• When the defender comes back to his village, he will see presents where the Santa’s Strike has dealt damage and can pick them up like tombstones and get 5,000 Elixir from each one

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I would like to now show you the important differences to the Lightning Spell. When looking at the pure stats, the Santa’s Strike looks a lot more powerful than the Lightning Spell:

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No worries, I don’t want you to now compare the figures 🙂 I have here the important ones for you:

• Santa’s Strike deals more damage IN TOTAL
• Lightning Spell is more precise because of the smaller range, Santa’s Strike tends to be more random

You might now think that this is not that big of a deal, double the damage will always overcome the randomness? I will show you something that will make you think again about it.

In general, I think the only strategic reason to use the Santa’s Strike instead of the Lightning Spell would be if I can destroy a defense with fewer spells than using a Lightning Spell, right? A strategy doesn’t rely on randomness, but when dropping 2 Santa’s Strike in an Air Defense Level 8 (1170 HP versus my 2 Santa’s Strike with 1528 damage at my Town Hall 9 mini account), the Air Defense survived in like 80% of all cases!

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I can go on giving you examples and bottom line there’s only one thing I can recommend you for using the Santa’s Strike.

If you’re so much into Christmas and want to spread some mood and use it in Friendly Battles or Multiplayer Attacks, you can’t do that much wrong – however, do not use it in attacks where you rely on every percentage point (e.g. pushing in high trophy range or War attacks!)

Bottom line it’s still a fun thing we have here and it’s a game that’s not supposed to always be player extremely serious 🙂

What are your thoughts and tips on the Santa’s Strike? Please share in the comments below.

How To Win Every Clan Games (Full Strategy Revealed)

Win Clan Games – How To Get The Highest Reward Tier

The Strongman has arrived with his Clan Games, a new ongoing mode that will reward every clan for working together completing challenges with resources, gems and even the extremely powerful magical items. In this article, I will tell you how the Clan Games work and also how your clan will be able to reach the highest reward tier.

How Clan Games Work

Clan Games are, very basically, a bunch of challenges that will reward you clan points that will reward everyone in your clan with resources, gems and magical items, depending on how many of them you and your clanmates complete.

You won’t compete against other clans, you only compete against the time – the more challenges you and your clanmates complete, the higher your reward tier, simple as that.

So, when you click on the strongman’s camp, you will see a bunch of challenges available.

All of them are not only available to you exclusively, the same ones are also available to your clanmates.

You don’t need to be afraid that you can’t complete all of them, you clan mates with higher Town Halls Level will be able to complete challenges that you can’t complete – it’s all about working together as a team.

When you take a look at each of the challenges, you will see how many clan points they will reward to the clan pool and how much time you have to complete it to get the clan points for your clan.

In the case here, you would have 5 hours time to donate 100 housing space to your clanmates to get 50 clan points.

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Once you press the “Start” button, you will get the challenge and your clan mates can’t start this very challenge.

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Once you started a challenge, you can’t take another one, but you’ll be able to trash it if you see that you can’t finish it (for whatever reason).

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Of course, when you trash a challenge you will not get any clan points no matter how much you have reached, so make sure to only take challenges that you’re able to complete.

When you trash it, the challenge will get available to your clanmates again and you can start a new challenge after a short cooldown.

You’re not collecting the points yourself! All points that you earn and all the points that your clanmates earn will get put together in a pool that will determine how many rewards you will get (as a clan).

You will also be able to choose between multiple rewards, depending on the reward tier you’ve reached, but you need to have finished at least one single challenge during the Clan Game.

…coming soon… I will show you all reward tiers and more details about rewards here as soon as they are available…

If you would like to learn more about the available magical items, I have been putting them together here in an article that teaches you all that you need to know about them:

Strategy To Get The Highest Reward Tier & Magical Items

As being said before, only the highest reward tiers offer the strong and powerful magical items and more resources and gems. Here are some simple strategies that you (and your clanmates) should use to get the highest reward tiers.

It’s About The Team!

The rewards you get are determined by how many clan points your whole clan collects, not how many you finished!

A simple rule here is to not take challenges that are supposed to be done by lower level players – if you take the one that needs 15 Gold Mines to be destroyed as a TH11 and leave the TH8 in your clan the challenge to destroy 5 Eagle Artilleries you will see that your whole clan won’t reach the highest reward tier.Simply choose those that you can do but leave the easy ones for the lower players.There is no reason to be greedy, your whole clans’ reward depends on the reward tier and not how many points you personally got.

Be Sure!

If you take a challenge just to take it without being sure that you will finish it, you will waste power and time of your clan.Clan Games are a game against the clock and if you take a challenge and trash it after a couple of hours again, you took your other clanmates the chance to finish that challenge and now they have less time to do it

All Magical Items (Books & Potions) Fully Explained.

All Magical Items And How to Get Them? 

Magical items got introduced along with the Clan Games in December 2017 and they are very powerful items that can boost your progress a lot and help you so much. In this article, you will find everything that you need to know about them, how to use them, what magical items you can get in Clash of Clans and finally also how to get ?

What are Magical Items? 

So let’s start off with the magical items themselves – they are consumable items that you can use to boost upgrades, resource collection, your army or army training. They are divided into books and potions and some of them also work for your Builder Base as well:

Book of Fighting

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Filled with very efficient training Programs, this magical book can be used to instantly complete any ongoing troop upgrade. Works in both villages!

Book of Building

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Supposedly authored by the Master Builder himself, this magical book can be used to instantly complete any building upgrade. Works in both villages!

Book of Spells

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Written by unknown wizards, this magical book can be used to instantly complete any ongoing spell upgrade. Works only in Home Village.

Book of Heroes

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Full of heroic tales and sound advice, this magical book can be used to instantly complete any ongoing hero upgrade. Works in both villages!

Book of Everything

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This extremely powerful magical encyclopedia can be used to instantly complete any ongoing upgrade. Works in both villages!

Power Potion 

This strong-smelling magical brew can boost your troops and spells to the maximum level allowed by your Laboratory for 1 hour. Works in both villages!

This strong-smelling magical brew can boost your troops and spells to the maximum level allowed by your Laboratory for 1 hour. Works in both villaResource Potion

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A haste spell turned into a potion, this magical elixir can greatly boost your resource collector efficiency for 1 day. Works in Home Village!

Resource  Potion

A haste spell turned into a potion, this magical elixir can greatly boost your resource collector efficiency for 1 day. Works in Home Village!

Training potion 

This energetic elixir boosts your army production, increasing efficiency of barracks, spell factories and hero regeneration. Works in Home Village.

You can always see the available magical items inside your treasury of your Clan Castle 

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How To Use Magical Items

When you have a book available that you can use, you will see it directly when selecting an upgrade – here as an example the upgrade of the Barbarian King when I have one Book of Heroes available:

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This will automatically skip the whole upgrade time and you can use the Hero right away instead of paying the Gems to finish the upgrade. Of course you will need to have the corresponding book depending if you want to skip the upgrade time of a spall upgrade, troop upgrade, hero upgrade or building upgrade.

Using spells are a global buff that you can start right out of the Magical Items section of your treasury and once you use it you have the power active for the time the potion offers (max troops levels, much more resource production or faster training times).

You can also do that when you have selected a building (in this case boost hero regeneration with a Training Potion):

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How To Get Magical Items

The only way to get magical items is by unlocking them in the highest reward tiers of the Clan Games. Supercell still tries around how often and from which reward tier they are giving out the magical items, but especially books are exclusively only rewarded on the highest tiers right now.

Still, if you have a somewhat-active clan it’s not that difficult to unlock the highest reward tier and get yourself some nice magical items next to resources and gems.: