Mother Witch

What it looks like

The Mother Witch is a Legendary card that is unlocked from the Miner's Mine (Arena 15). It spawns a single-target, air-targeting, medium-ranged, ground troop with moderate hitpoints and moderate damage. When the Mother Witch attacks a troop, that troop will have a curse placed on it for 5 seconds. If the troop dies during the curse's duration, a Cursed Hog will spawn, which has moderate hitpoints and very low damage. She appears to be an elderly Witch wearing a lighter-colored cloak with a pink outline and a team-colored patch on its front and back, shorter purple gloves with team-colored cuffs, and a belt with a skull face in the middle, has glowing blue eyes and purple nail paint, wields a staff with a cauldron placed on top, and carries a wooden spoon. The Cursed Hog resembles a Royal Hog without its helmet and has a team-colored band on its tusks and a skull logo on the side of its back. A Mother Witch card costs 4 Elixir to deploy.

Trivia

• The Mother Witch is based on Circe, a Greek witch that appeared in Homer's Odyssey epic. In Odyssey, Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan War and she changes most of his crew into swine. He managed to persuade her to return them to human shape, lived with her for a year and received advice on how to continue his journey back to Ithaca.
• The Mother Witch's stats are the highest or lowest among all troops. More specifically: The Cursed Hogs are tied with Hog Rider, Royal Hogs, Princess, Santa Hog Rider, and the Terry for the longest sight range of all troops, with a sight range of 9.5 tiles. The Cursed Hogs has the shortest deployment time of all troops, with a deployment time of 0.2 seconds.
• The Cursed Hogs are 1 of 8 troops that can jump over the river, the others being Hog Rider, Royal Hogs, Dark Prince, Prince, Raging Prince, Ram Rider, and Santa Hog Rider.
• In the Russian and Chinese language setting of the game, the Mother Witch's name translates to "Grandmother Witch". In the Japanese language setting of the game, the Witch's name translates to "Mother Necromancer". In the Malaysian language setting of the game, the Mother Witch's name translates to "Magic Grandmother". In the French, Turkish, and Thai language setting of the game, the Mother Witch's names translates to "Granny Witch", "Old Witch", and "Great Grandmother" respectively.
• It is rumored that the Super Witch has been summoned from all the other 3 Witches, as demonstrated in the Super Witch trailer, hence explaining the combination of all the other Witches' abilities.
• When attacking, the Mother Witch may say "Hocus Pocus" or “Oinkie Poinkie”. She also laughs. The Mother Witch is 1 of 24 troops that speak distinct words when on the field, the others being Mini P.E.K.K.A., Mega Minion, Wizard, Hog Rider, P.E.K.K.A., Dark Prince, Bowler, Ram Rider, Electro Wizard, Princess, Ice Wizard, Magic Archer, Lumberjack, Fisherman, Goblin Machine, Super Mini P.E.K.K.A., Santa Hog Rider, Super Magic Archer, Golden Knight, Boss Bandit, Archer Queen, Little Prince, and the Terry.
• The Mother Witch is 1 of 2 troops that have been featured with an Initial Spawn buff, the other being the Skeleton King.
• In the card's description, the “She also bakes great cookies.” line is likely a reference to Cookie Run: Kingdom and Cookie Run: OvenBreak, as the characters are baked by a witch to be eaten.
• The Mother Witch and her Cursed Hogs are the subject of a few Emotes. The Spooky Cursed Hog Emote is a reference to the Here's Johnny scene from The Shining.
• A cloned Mother Witch does not fall from the sky when deployed.
• The Mother Witch was featured in the winning deck of the Clash Royale League 2023 Tournament, by a player called Mugi.
• The initial balance change for Mother Witch on the 7/6/2022 balance changes was an attack time interval decrease to 0.9 seconds (from 1.1 seconds), but it was raised to 1 second last minute.