DECK BREAKDOWN
Royal Hogs Midrange
- Archetype
- Midrange
- Average elixir
- 3.6
- Win conditions
- Royal Hogs
What this deck is
Royal Hogs Midrange is a midrange shell built around Royal Hogs. It sits at 3.6 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.
- Split-lane — both lanes threatened at once to stretch defensive elixir.
- 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.
- One-dimensional: answer the single win condition and the deck runs out of plans.
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 Royal Hogs, Mother Witch, Magic Archer · hits the win condition
Bomb TowerAnswers Royal Hogs · hits the win condition
ValkyrieAnswers Royal Hogs · hits the win condition
Dark PrinceAnswers Royal Hogs · hits the win condition
Mega KnightAnswers Royal Hogs · hits the win condition
LightningAnswers Mother Witch, Magic Archer
BowlerAnswers Royal Hogs · hits the win condition
ExecutionerAnswers Royal Hogs · 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
- Mortar SiegeSiege
- Hog Rider MidrangeMidrange
- Royal Hogs Split laneSplit lane
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
Struggles against
- Giant GraveyardGraveyard
- Royal Giant BeatdownBeatdown
- Goblin Demolisher Chip controlChip control
- Elixir Golem BeatdownBeatdown
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 Royal Hogs Midrange?
- Fireball, Bomb Tower, Valkyrie are the strongest answers — the interactions that take away the most of this deck's plan.
- What archetype is Royal Hogs Midrange?
- It is a midrange deck at 3.6 average elixir, winning through Royal Hogs.
- Is Royal Hogs Midrange good for ladder?
- It appears in the most-played panel of Master 2, 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 08ebbaf916cba2a5, built 30 jul 2026.