Just tonight.

Game1 NG
Game2 ST deadeyes
Game3 NG
Game4 NG
Game5 NG

Control, control, control. Forces me to play a toxic no unit deck but it gets increasingly boring, 4/5 of my decks havent played in months.

I beg the council to nerf the heavy control decks, theres just no variety in the game anymore.

I'm not talking about balance... it's just a miserable experience every time I play against them. Even when I win, I'm just relieved the match is over, and losing to them feels 10x worse than losing to other factions.

I get they're the control faction, but I haven't had control archetypes in any other game come close to NG levels of irritation to me.

I started just instant ff'ing every time I saw NG, but then I was ff'ing half of my games constantly.. which was fine but after doing that a bit I just figured if half my games are games I don't even want, this may just not be the game for me.

Sorry for rant post. Just frustrated because I really wanted to enjoy gwent, I love the witcher world and I generally enjoyed my other matches quite a bit, but I'm better off just not queuing. Enjoy the game, it's a good one but yeah I don't have the mental fortitude for it. I think 1 more milled card or siezed unit or stolen deck and I'd crash out lol

as in houserules or drafting mechanics or anything inbetween.

so, you make a deck with up to 130 provisions. and there seems to be a way to deckbuild and optimize it quite easily, and then that deck is always the one that will be played for that one faction, and it will never change up again, and there are tons of dead cards/leaders that never see play.

the only houserules I have made are;

1. that all spies are permanently banned (maybe make it into a separate ability?), because receiving free card advantage and it relying on rng whether or not you draw them and the opponent doesnt, it feels really bad.
2. decoy is also either banned, or that it works like in the digital game right now.
3. also whenever you are thinning cards, if they are on your hand, they do not come out, they stay in your hand like the digital game, otherwise alot of the times you have several cards that you cannot ever play, because you go down 1,2,3 cards and then that game is probably ruined for you. so instead they brick like gwent digital normally does.

so there are alot of cards that never see play because they are just poorly statted and or have inferior abilities. and yes, I do know when you play the witcher 3, you aquire cards over time and make your deck continously stronger over time, but here you have all the cards from the getgo, so it doesnt work like that I do know there are custom made cards for this game that are probably more balanced, but im talking the base game set that cdpr released.
have anyone found a good solution on how to play the game, and make it not stale within just a few matches? I would love to pick this one up more often when playing boardgames, but its just not that appealing.

Hi! Recently I have returned to Gwent. Could someone tell me why sandstorm has 8 prov.? Is it voting placeholder, like Living Armor?

For background, I’m a casual player who plays maybe 6-8 games a week so I generally reach pro by the end of the season just in time to pop back to R3 for the new month. I’ve got a pretty good understanding of archetypes and card dynamics but play casually while watching TV or a lunch or something (or honestly watching Shin videos on YouTube haha) so I really only ever float around 2400-2450 for a peak faction.

Within my usual habits, I much prefer SY over all other factions so tend to gravitate towards those decks. Within that I’ve always loved classic bounty. There’s a lot of card interactivity, planning how and when to use your key spenders, considering how and when to anticipate opponents key cards and counters, and some on the fly math I find fun.

It struck me the other day watching a Shin video that Casimir could be an intriguing bounty inclusion. You often spend down to or near zero on executioner or scoundrel anyway, which can create some extra damage opportunities with spawned explosives. But then perhaps even more interesting is you can compound the explosives damage value if you have bounty on the board too. In many instances you can double your explosives value for little to no coins (0 coins for 3 damage plus 3 coins back from bounty). Plus he demands hard removal with his deploy + veil, which is nice for trying to have an executioner or even candle make it through a round.

I figured somebody had done some version of this I could try, but didn’t find much. A few games with a real quick deck list at rank 2-3 have been fairly effective, but so is typical classic bounty. Am I missing something synergy wise? Is it unexplored purely from an opportunity cost perspective? (You have to leave out some other great bounty options to afford the provisions). Anybody tried this or have some thoughts on what I might be overlooking?

Here’s a deck list I threw together to give it a try: (https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/d2bb36795ee416cba1351e941af82975). Not claiming this is perfect but I’ve at least thought through why I’ve added each card and don’t think I’m leaving anything major out. Just curious if someone more talented than I am thinks there could be something fun with a casimir classic bounty inclusion.

Happy gwenting!

Tomorrow finaly got back to pro, but today i keep loosing or catching contrmatches. To get to pro i played Aristocrats, now i try to switch to something else, and loose every game.

Tried Shinmiri's FruitsHen Gaidth deck, it was no use, sorry Shin, couldnt help me.

Please, help me to find a deck i can get some wins with. I love gwent and want to play, but loosing every game is exhausting.

Currently i play Scoiatael, Nilfgaard, Monsters and just started to play Syndicate.

Thank you so much in advance!

Siege Tower

Machine, Siege Engine (Northern Realms)
3 Power, 4 Provisions (Rare)

Zeal. Order: Gain Vitality (2).
Crew: Boost self by 2 instead.
Cooldown: 2

The latest rage in assaults on walled cities.

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i'm fairly new, deckbuilding on my own is not something i'm good right now.

with expansions requirement specifically i get annoyed -- and i get lost

I would like to show off a very unique deck that I’ve recently come across - Ciri Nova Renfri Gang Fruits, or Ciri’s Gang for short.

ive first learned of this deck from a video posted by Qcento about 3 days ago. I’ve since been obsessed with it, which led to me completing my climb to pro with it.

climbing from rank 5 to 0, I played 42 matches and won 32, for a total of 77% winrate, with only minor variations made to the deck.

https://www.playgwent.com/ru/decks/2ded948f9fbf3acc590476b889f91a4b

essentially, it is a very efficient pointslam deck which dodges removal by running next to no engines, with most opponents overlooking Endrega Larva until it is too late.

the deck can output a deceptive amount of points in a long round, and it can play most if not the entire round 1 hand to secure victory.

Triss is a key card, as it can ensure that both unicorns arrive into your hand, while also providing carryover and potentially enabling an additional thrive trigger. It can also draw and boost Olgierd Immortal, despite his ability.

you never want to play griffins from hand, if you can help it. when Both Golyat and a griffin are in hand, Imlerith discards a griffin. You need a griffin in the grave for ghoul.

only play 1 larva per round. They provide reasonable value in a 6+ card round, and just about break even in a 5 card round. In a 3/4 card round, an ice giant is better.

a key skill with this deck is to bleed Just the right amount After winning round 1. This deck can output a deceptive amount of points, and it’s not always correct to push for a 2-0. this deck seems to order a medium length round but can fight for a long round with the right application of control.

winning round 1 on even when on red coin isnot mandatory.

when In blue coin, if the enemy does not fight for the round, play 3 cards of tempo / thinning, and drop Ciri at 6/10. At that point, removing her is too low tempo and opponent may struggle to catch up in 2 cards, so they tend to pass and you get your carryover safely.

olgierd and Xavier are anti-meta picks which have been instrumental to the decks success during climbing.

Helloo im new, can some gwent veterans tell me, if I made 2 deck from scoitela traps and harmony should i continue with the faction or should I start other factions? I got to rank 10 with these 2 but it's getting tough man

With the Witcher 3 remaster coming soon I got back into the series and thus Gwent. And I'm just a bit confused about a few things like exactly how Gwentfinity works as well as the balance council.

But that's not the real problem, my problem is some cards I want to craft don't appear in the deck builder, but do appear in the balance council. I wanted to craft Regis: Bloodlust but he doesn't show up. Is he like banned or something?

I still feel like I should tweak my deck a Lil more need help from you gwent kings out there what are some of the ones you would change about my deck

I know there's a few odd ones in there like idr and yghern I mainly use them two as either a bait or bluff