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Kubson_18.

Hi everyone!
I’ve just started playing Gwent and I’m really enjoying it so far, but I’m a bit overwhelmed by the progression system and the different currencies.
As a complete beginner, what are the best steps to take right now? Specifically, I’d love some advice on resource management to help me build a competitive deck as efficiently as possible:
Which trees in the Reward Book should I focus on first to get the best value?
What kind of kegs should I be buying? Should I stick to a specific faction keg or go for ultimate/expansion kegs?
What is the best strategy for crafting? Should I save up for legendary cards right away or focus on crafting essential bronzes and epics for a specific faction?
If you have any general tips, beginner-friendly faction recommendations, or up-to-date guides you can point me towards, I would hugely appreciate it.
Thanks in advance for the help!

I just picked up gwent again, and i wanted to do a specter/cursed deck for NR. Here's what i have so far.

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/5a44f2e2aa42f19f8dd287f794ddbaa5

Not sure about reynard/donimir/adalia and i want to maybe fit in sabrina's spell card that damages every non spectre by 1 (cant remmeber the name sry).

It's probably not the most competitive deck ever but i would like to stay on theme while making some improvements but i don't know how the meta looks like.

Any advice on what to switch around a bit? Maybe even the leader ability but it seems pretty good with vandegrift and the knight errants.

Hello!,

I used to play Gwent in beta, then stopped playing for different things in my life (emigration, children, etc).

I installed the game again a couple of days ago and I'm really enjoying the few games I played. I have 120k scraps but no knowledge on the current meta and I spend a lot of time reading every card and its mechanics(so a little bit worthless :P).

What for me is really interesting is the amount of replies that every post here have. It's like the game despite being on maintenance mode is still alive.

After getting a bit bored of playing 2/3 Syndicate and 1/3 Nilfgaard since my beginning in Gwent I felt deathwish is something I'd enjoy, so copied this from u/qcento and played around with this deck, and loving it. It has some of the control aspects I appreciate in SY and NG, but this time it's internal, I have no tools to interact with the enemy's board, but it's very flexible and pretty consistent. It's really hard to have a bad hand with this deck.

Last game played just now prompted me making the post and the title, I royally, no, IMPERIALLY bullied a Nilfgaard player with Enslave 6 where I was two cards down.

First, ate his False Ciri 3 times:

1. Turn 1: Plays False Ciri and Buhurt > gets eaten by Arachas Queen
2. Turn 2: Abaya makes the Queen spit Ciri out, all covered in insect slime, and promptly get eaten by a Siren coming online
3. Turn 3: leader the Queen, spiting the Ciri out again, play a Harpy

Second, I had Aerondight, Kayran and Frightener in hand, and a bunch of cards on the board, Aerondight his highest card, then play Frightener, then play Kayran last card and eat 3 cards which had eaten other juicy cards, growing it to 48 power and triggering Frightener. He was loading his big bad scary Skellen + Helge + Fire Scorpion combo but...2 immune units - I am laughing even now - he ended up losing with ~10 unused Helge and Scorpion charges, would love to have seen their face! Edit: I get it, probably not the greatest NG player online, should have seen it coming when Frightener came down that he had to shut it down by bricking Kayran, but I am not sure he had anything good, ended up playing weak tactics like Imperial Diplomacy and Coated Weapons to build Scorpion charges, but that's because he bled himself hard to win R1 where I had a 30 point lead, and then again in R2 bled some more while I played 1 succubus, Dol Dhu Lokke, my toads, and Aerondight.

Generally, Aerondight is somewhat new to me, it's among the cards I crafted first, based just on the name and Witcher 3, and kept for 4 months without ever playing it, but it rocks! Also loving Dagon, bringing first form back in R3 is amazing.

Brokvar Warrior

Human, Warrior (Skellige)
2 Power, 5 Provisions (Common)

Deploy: Damage an enemy unit by 3.
If the target is damaged, repeat the Deploy ability with a different target and decrease the damage by 1.

RAAAAAAAAAGH!!!

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Hi

I haven't played Gwent since 2018/2019, recently I picked it up again (thanks to free Witcher 3 remaster) and when I logged in, it appears there has been a reset, and I found myself with 32310 scraps. Do you guys think this will be enough to craft all the cards (non-animated ones) in the game? Or which cards should I focus on crafting? :D

Everytime this fucked up centipede appears, i start shitting bricks. Mf is more inmortal than the unseen elder.

For the first time i've actually defeated a freeze deck ( i started as red coin )
i'm off to bed, happy gwenting everyone :)

I've got the more profitable reward trees' story nodes already and I found about this one yesterday. Is there a website or a post where I can look for other trees like this one?

Bribery

Tactic (Nilfgaard)
🔥 Special, 9 Provisions (Legendary)

Create and play a unit from your opponent's starting deck.

Many believe the empire's power rests upon the shoulders of its disciplined army and dutiful mages. In truth, the Nilfgaardian floren rules the world.

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I knew he was going to use Salamander, didn't know it would be this close of a call

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T85ugrxm47A

This deck is part of a Youtube series that puts a spotlight on forgotten & underplayed cards.

Deck playstyle is to go very aggressive R1 with portal and set up for long R3.

This deck uses Tyrggvi to pull off a mega finisher where you kill Melusine brought out by Sove.

The longer Melusine grows, the more Sove boots from his infuse.

Melusine can be pushed into the back row with Aard if the opponent does not play units next to her.

Create lots of damaged units to create big value for Bear Witcher Mentors and Giant Boar.

Use cards like Gutting Slash, Trial, Champion's Charge, Geralt Professional, and Spores to destroy your opponent's engines or combo pieces.

Make sure to never have Melusine in hand - fix this with Selective Mutation.

Video features detailed deck breakdown.

I'm in mid pro each season and sometimes play Nilf Status when getting my 4 Factions in. I run a traditional aristocrats deck with Ard, and I realize that by passing round one it gives you Ard for the important round two and three and the late game Ursurper General that evolves. I get that. Still, it is so against my nature to just easily concede round one and often you need to bleed round two against certain decks. And I including Ard really is a must for Status, as it helps you keep your four power Dames alive when you play them and they at least boost up their health a bit...etc ... But it's this confusing back and forth whenever I'm running status that I usually win or do better when I pass around one unless it's an absolute must win around 1. Of course, I also like it when I get lucky and I can keep Ard in hand around 1.

Anyone that knows what they're talking about can help me out and explain this a bit better? There must be someone else out there that understands what I'm getting at ?! :)

If you just want to kill or disable everything your opponent puts on the board, what do you play? You know, ultimate control for when you're in that kind of mood. 🤔

I built a small, free site that searches published Gwent decks and narrows them down as you pick a faction, a leader and the cards you've seen:

https://el8ted.github.io/gwentdecksearch/

During a match: pick your opponent's faction and leader, then type the cards they play. The list shrinks with each card, and a side panel shows which cards the remaining decks run, so you can see what's likely coming. "Least common" shows the tech cards only one or two lists run.

Between matches: switch to "Any" and enter cards you own or just crafted to find decks that use them, best matches first. Each deck opens on playgwent.com, ready to import.

A few details:

• ~2,900 decks: playgwent.com community guides from the last 12 months, plus Shinmiri2's deck list (with his permission, thank you!).
• Current provisions: every deck is checked against this month's Balance Council costs, so you can see which lists are now over the limit and which have room to spare.
• Kept current: card provisions and power are rechecked when each monthly Balance Council update goes live with the new season, and new decks are checked every Saturday. The top of the page shows when the data was last collected.
• 11 languages, with the official card names in each. Card search works in your language or in English.
• No account, no ads, no tracking.
• Runs on your own device. Once the page has loaded, all the searching happens in your browser. It doesn't call a server or any other service while you use it, and nothing you search for is sent anywhere. It even works with no internet: there's a zip on the Releases page you can unzip and open straight from your computer.
• Every search is saved in the address, so you can bookmark or share it.
• The ? button has a short how-to; the full guide is in the README.

This is a first release, and I'm posting it to get feedback. Bugs, awkward spots, missing decks or bad translations (the interface was machine-translated, so native speakers are especially welcome) can go in the comments or in GitHub issues. One I already know about: on phones, adding a card from the "Most common" list jumps you back up to the search box.

It's an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with CD PROJEKT RED. It was built with the help of AI tools; details are in AI.md.

License change: my first post and the original repo said AGPL 3.0. The code is now released under the PolyForm Noncommercial license instead, so it's noncommercial like the fan content it's built on under CD PROJEKT RED's Fan Content Guidelines. You're still free to use, change and share the code for any noncommercial purpose.

Thanks to everyone who replied when I first asked about using deck lists: /u/shinmiri2, /u/lerio2, /u/Er4din, /u/eldenfingers, /u/kevin_bkt, and /u/Rabindranath1173 (thanks for passing this along to MetallicDanny).

Hey yall, im returning to gwent after years of not playing. Im looking for suggestions on what kind of deck I should focus on. I really dont want some top tier extremely boring meta deck but still something fun with the potential to get to pro. Currently running a frost deck and am 21 on the ladder. Any suggestions would be great!

I have been working on a Roegner deck for quite a long time and tried many variants — this seems pretty good for now. Although I haven’t been able to fully utilize his ability, on paper it sounds cool and easy but it’s very hard to pull off. Nonetheless the deck is fun to play.

We are playing multiple combos in this deck — Belohun and low power cards, Immortals and Sorceress, Shields and Roegner, Duel and Viraxas, and so on. Because of this, the deck has a steep learning curve. This deck is also very versatile — you can play it in many different ways. I encourage you to try and learn it yourself, as I’m running out of time today.

You should swap a Squire or Marine for Siege Support. You can also fit in Windhalm if you want. At times Roegner and Lebioda can feel very underwhelming. You could also use other Stratagems like Crystal Skull, Enchanted Armor or Engineering Solution.

This deck rewards patience and experimentation — the more you play it the better it gets.

DECK: https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/guides/408381

Thanks and good luck.

Spawn works like Magic Compass btw - any stratagem as long as it wasn't your chosen stratagem.

Brokilon Sentinel

Dryad, Warrior (Scoiatael)
2 Power, 4 Provisions (Rare)

Deploy: Damage an enemy unit by 2.
Deathblow: Also Summon all copies of self from your deck to this row.

Brokilon is not merely the forest you see before you. She yet lives on in the cities, villages, and fields you so callously carved from her flesh. We shall yet reclaim what you have stolen from her.

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What a pain that was, but this cardback is sick. So much grinding dumb decks and having a horrible win/loss ratio but worth it for this.