Royal Ghost

Short Answer

The best Royal Ghost deck on the Oct 12, 2026 panel is P.E.K.K.A, Battle Ram, Bandit, Royal Ghost, Golden Knight, Electro Wizard, Furnace, and Arrows, at 0.9%. It was the third-most-played deck in that panel's Ultimate Champion slice. Battle Ram takes the tower. Royal Ghost is not a win condition.

Overview

Royal Ghost costs 3. He is invisible until he swings, then he disappears again. He targets ground troops, and the swing splashes. He forces an answer early so the bridge card behind him is answered late. Delete him and Battle Ram is still the card that hits the building.

He was in 10.5% of ranked decks on that panel, with a 48.9% win rate across 806 battles. 69% of the play was the evolution. In Ultimate Champion he was 13.53% of that bracket and 10th of 123 cards. The evolved ghost turns visible on the attack and summons two Souldiers. They are low health. A small spell still matters.

The cards that pair with him far more often than chance are Battle Ram, Bandit, and P.E.K.K.A. That is bridge spam. The same eight cards are already deck 2 on the P.E.K.K.A guide, with Battle Ram and Royal Ghost named as the evolved slots there.

The Royal Ghost Deck

How to Pilot Him

• Play him at the bridge on the lane they are not defending. Invisibility is pressure only if a second card, usually Battle Ram, is the one that has to be answered with a building-hitter.
• He splashes a clump. Skeleton Army, Graveyard, and a Sparky that is already charging lose the first swing. He does not path onto the tower while a troop is still hitting him.
• Do not spend him as the tower plan after P.E.K.K.A dies. She killed their tank. The Ram is the punish. Ghost without the Ram is a 3-elixir troop they can surround.
• The Souldiers die to the same spell as a skeleton. If the evolution's extra bodies are the only damage, Arrows ends it. The Ram has to be the damage.

What Beats Him

• Skeletons, Skeleton Army, Goblin Gang, and Bats — he has to appear to hit them. A surround gets hits in before the splash finishes the stack. Bats also sit off his ground swing until he is visible and they are low enough to die.
• Tombstone and Royal Hogs — more bodies than one splash clears cleanly. The hogs are also a building-targeter, so you are punishing, not only defending.
• A small spell after he appears — the Souldiers are the evolved health pool that is not on the ghost. Arrows in the deck above exist for this, on your side of the matchup too.
• Do not answer him with the card you needed for Battle Ram. If Mini P.E.K.K.A chases the ghost, the Ram connects. That is the deck working as designed.

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