DECK BREAKDOWN
Mortar Siege
- Archetype
- Siege
- Average elixir
- 3.3
- Win conditions
- Mortar
What this deck is
Mortar Siege is a siege shell built around Mortar. It sits at 3.3 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.
- Spell bait — layered cheap threats that punish a spent small spell.
- Cycle pressure — the same cheap threat returns faster than the answer.
- 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.
- 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.
FireballAnswers Mortar, Archers, Magic Archer · hits the win condition
RocketAnswers Mortar, Witch · hits the win condition
Mega KnightAnswers Mortar, Skeleton Army · hits the win condition
ValkyrieAnswers Skeleton Army, Guards, Berserker
MinerAnswers Mortar, Magic Archer · hits the win condition
Dark PrinceAnswers Mortar, Skeleton Army · hits the win condition
KnightAnswers Mortar, Berserker · hits the win condition
ArrowsAnswers Skeleton Army, Archers
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
- Golem BeatdownBeatdown
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
Struggles against
- X-Bow SiegeSiege
- Electro Giant BeatdownBeatdown
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
- Miner Chip controlChip control
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?
- Fireball, Rocket, Mega Knight 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 3.3 average elixir, winning through Mortar.
- Is Mortar Siege 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 29 Tem 2026.