DECK BREAKDOWN
Balloon Graveyard
- Archetype
- Graveyard
- Average elixir
- 4.4
- Win conditions
- Balloon, Graveyard
What this deck is
Balloon Graveyard is a graveyard shell built around Balloon, Graveyard. It sits at 4.4 elixir, which sets how often you can repeat its pressure and how much you can afford to defend before answering back.
How it wins
The pressure this deck applies, strongest angle first.
- Air pressure — threats that punish decks short on reliable anti-air.
- Bridge spam — fast units that punish an opponent mid-placement.
Where it breaks
Structural weak points read off the deck's own shell, not off a single matchup.
- No dominant structural weakness — this shell covers its own gaps, so its losses come from matchups and piloting rather than a missing answer.
Cards that counter this deck
Curated card interactions, ranked by how much of this deck's plan they take away. Counters on a win condition weigh heaviest.
FireballAnswers Balloon, Archers, Firecracker · hits the win condition
ArrowsAnswers Graveyard, Firecracker, Archers · hits the win condition
ExecutionerAnswers Balloon, Graveyard · hits the win condition
Inferno TowerAnswers Balloon, Giant Skeleton, Golden Knight · hits the win condition
PoisonAnswers Graveyard, Witch · hits the win condition
RocketAnswers Balloon, Witch · hits the win condition
Royal DeliveryAnswers Graveyard, Firecracker · hits the win condition
Matchups
Structural read from the archetype engine: which side's game plan the other cannot answer. It measures shells, not card levels or piloting.
Favoured into
- Royal Hogs Split laneSplit lane
- Battle Ram Bridge spamBridge spam
- Balloon ControlControl
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
Struggles against
- X-Bow SiegeSiege
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
- Golem BeatdownBeatdown
- Royal Giant BaitBait
Where this deck is played
Brackets where this deck shows up in the most-played panel, with its usage share of that bracket.
Similar decks
Measure this deck against the live meta
The Deck Lab scores it with the win-chance model, and can search single-card swaps that raise its win rate.
Open in the Deck LabQuestions about this deck
- What counters Balloon Graveyard?
- Fireball, Arrows, Executioner are the strongest answers — the interactions that take away the most of this deck's plan.
- What archetype is Balloon Graveyard?
- It is a graveyard deck at 4.4 average elixir, winning through Balloon, Graveyard.
- Is Balloon Graveyard good for ladder?
- It appears in the most-played panel of 7,000–8,999 trophies, so it is a real ladder deck in those brackets rather than a theoretical build.
Interaction data: patch July 2026 (Season 85 — Ronin counter pass). Usage data: meta panel 3ab3d279e96c8aed, built 2026年7月29日.