DECK BREAKDOWN
Mortar Siege
- Archetype
- Siege
- Average elixir
- 3.6
- Win conditions
- Mortar, Skeleton Barrel
What this deck is
Mortar Siege is a siege shell built around Mortar, Skeleton Barrel. 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.
- Spell bait — layered cheap threats that punish a spent small spell.
- Siege — the tower is attacked from your side of the bridge.
- Cycle pressure — the same cheap threat returns faster than the answer.
Where it breaks
Structural weak points read off the deck's own shell, not off a single matchup.
- Swarm-reliant defence: area damage clears the blockers this deck leans on.
- Thin anti-air: air win conditions get value before an answer lands.
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.
ArrowsAnswers Skeleton Barrel, Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang · hits the win condition
ZapAnswers Skeleton Barrel, Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang · hits the win condition
The LogAnswers Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang, Dart Goblin
Baby DragonAnswers Skeleton Barrel, Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang · hits the win condition
Dark PrinceAnswers Mortar, Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang · hits the win condition
Mega KnightAnswers Mortar, Skeleton Army · hits the win condition
Barbarian BarrelAnswers Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang, Dart Goblin
WizardAnswers Skeleton Barrel, Goblin Gang · 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
- Golem BeatdownBeatdown
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
- Goblinstein Bridge spamBridge spam
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
Struggles against
- Rocket MidrangeMidrange
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
- Balloon ControlControl
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 Mortar Siege?
- Arrows, Zap, The Log are the strongest answers — the interactions that take away the most of this deck's plan.
- What archetype is Mortar Siege?
- It is a siege deck at 3.6 average elixir, winning through Mortar, Skeleton Barrel.
- Is Mortar Siege good for ladder?
- It appears in the most-played panel of Champion, 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 29 jul 2026.