Today I'm sharing this hot new 2.9 hog cycle deck that has extremely strong defensive capabilities and it can also be used to punish your opponent after a successful defence. Bomb tower works great against a variety of archetypes because it's splash damage can help take out support troops and it's death bomb can help finish units off. Practice cycling with this deck to get to the card to need to defend or apply pressure at the bridge. The triple spells allows you to easily defend against bait decks as well as been able to use the spells to help support the hog rider. The knight or royal recruit can be used as a meat shield for the hog rider. Against graveyard apply opposite lane pressure and try to stop their tank at the bridge, you can use bomb tower or bats to help defend the skeletons. If you're up against hound then cycling the bats and spear goblins will be important but you need to pressure opposite lane with the hog so they can't fully support their push. Use the royal delivery to take out the lava pups.
Hog rider is your main win condition and you will mostly likely need to keep up the pressure throughout the match and slowly chip away at their tower. Been offensive with this guy can be a good defensive strategy because it can prevent the opponent from fully supporting a push! He has great synergy with the earthquake, especially against buildings and swarm decks.
This unique card can damage both ground and air units, it is also capable of taking out minions and even the extremely annoying firecracker. Its knock back works well against balloon, ram rider, battle ram and even the hog rider. The recruit can also be used as a meat shield to either tank damage for your hog rider or tank a heavy hit from a pekka, prince or even a sparky.
Bats are one of your main cycle cards in this deck. Use them to help protect your other units and keep them alive as long as possible, they can also be used to support the hog if you know your opponent is low on elixir or their zap is out of cycle.
Early game you can just start out with a hog rider at the bridge to see how the opponent responds. Be careful not to over commit, try to make positive elixir trades on defence and then cash in on them by applying pressure at the bridge. Keep switching lanes if you need to and use the earthquake to support the hog if you can get good spell value.
Once you're in double elixir you can start to be even more aggressive with the hog rider, have earthquake ready to deploy if needed. On defence try to always have bomb tower in cycle, you can use bomb tower preemptively to bait out an earthquake before cycling back to it!
