DECK BREAKDOWN
Mortar Siege
- Archetype
- Siege
- Average elixir
- 2.6
- Win conditions
- Goblin Barrel, Mortar
What this deck is
Mortar Siege is a siege shell built around Goblin Barrel, Mortar. It sits at 2.6 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.
- Thin anti-air: air win conditions get value before an answer lands.
- 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.
Barbarian BarrelAnswers Goblin Barrel, Princess, Goblins · hits the win condition
ArrowsAnswers Goblin Barrel, Princess, Dart Goblin · hits the win condition
FireballAnswers Mortar, Dart Goblin, Princess · hits the win condition
ZapAnswers Goblin Barrel, Goblins, Dart Goblin · hits the win condition
Giant SnowballAnswers Goblin Barrel, Goblins, Princess · hits the win condition
MinerAnswers Mortar, Princess · hits the win condition
Mother WitchAnswers Goblin Barrel, Goblins · 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
- Hog Rider CycleCycle
- Goblin Barrel BaitBait
- Graveyard GraveyardGraveyard
Struggles against
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
- Lava Hound LavaloonLavaloon
- Lava Hound Air beatdownAir beatdown
- Electro Giant 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 Mortar Siege?
- Barbarian Barrel, Arrows, Fireball 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 2.6 average elixir, winning through Goblin Barrel, Mortar.
- Is Mortar Siege good for ladder?
- It appears in the most-played panel of Grand Champion, Royal 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 thg 7, 2026.