# By Demand: Common Troop Team // Rare Troop Team

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/by-demand-common-troop-team-rare-troop-team/19957>\
**Category:** Community Guides\
**Created:** [February 12, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/by-demand-common-troop-team-rare-troop-team/19957 "2017-02-12T16:35:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![KrudlerTheHorse](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/krudlerthehorse/32/9505_2.png) [@KrudlerTheHorse](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/KrudlerTheHorse)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/by-demand-common-troop-team-rare-troop-team/19957/1 "2017-02-12T16:35:25Z")

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Good morning and happy Sunday everybody 🙂

I was blown away by how much positive feedback I got from my “Team Building w/ Ultra-Rares Tutorial”. Per follow-up requests from players on Reddit, in this video I demonstrate teams that can be built using ONLY Commons or ONLY Rares and down.

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The **Common team** is something only **newer** players will use for a short time (although the tutorial demonstrates some very key GoW strategy concepts of

- Troop Synergy
- Adding/Destroying Gems
- Extra Turns

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The **Rare team** believe it or not is an exceptionally versatile, all-around early-game team. Useful for

- Soul Farming
- Quests
- PvP (not for PvP Defend)
- Challenges
- Explore

I use the Rare team for all of my main progress in my “new” account - no lie. (I have Sheggra, Keeper, EK, and so many more… higher rarity does not always translate to better or more efficient!!!)

[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZU9NwUK4rA)

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**Author:** ![CSZ](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/csz/32/4784_2.png) [@CSZ](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/CSZ)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2017, 6:35pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/by-demand-common-troop-team-rare-troop-team/19957/2 "2017-02-12T18:35:20Z")

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Dogs and Pigs:

Armored Boar  
Warhound  
Boar Rider  
Hellhound

Not much synergy, but with a traited Boar and Warhound’s spell skull damage is pretty much negated. Boar Rider and Hellhound deal damage.