DECK BREAKDOWN
Mortar Siege
- Archetype
- Siege
- Average elixir
- 2.9
- Win conditions
- Mortar
What this deck is
Mortar Siege is a siege shell built around Mortar. It sits at 2.9 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.
- Siege — the tower is attacked from your side of the bridge.
- Cycle pressure — the same cheap threat returns faster than the answer.
- Spell bait — layered cheap threats that punish a spent small spell.
Where it breaks
Structural weak points read off the deck's own shell, not off a single matchup.
- Thin anti-air: air win conditions get value before an answer lands.
- One-dimensional: answer the single win condition and the deck runs out of plans.
- Swarm-reliant defence: area damage clears the blockers this deck leans on.
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 Bats, Goblin Gang, Firecracker
EarthquakeAnswers Mortar, Bomb Tower · hits the win condition
ZapAnswers Bats, Goblin Gang, Firecracker
Royal DeliveryAnswers Goblin Gang, Bats, Firecracker
FireballAnswers Mortar, Firecracker · hits the win condition
WizardAnswers Goblin Gang, Bats
ExecutionerAnswers Goblin Gang, Bats
RocketAnswers Mortar · 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
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
- Royal Hogs Split laneSplit lane
Struggles against
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
- Lava Hound LavaloonLavaloon
- Balloon MidrangeMidrange
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
Where this deck is played
Brackets where this deck shows up in the most-played panel, with its usage share of that bracket.
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, Earthquake, Zap 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 2.9 average elixir, winning through Mortar.
- Is Mortar Siege good for ladder?
- It appears in the most-played panel of 12,000–13,999 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 11 Tem 2026.