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Hello Everyone,
In order to keep on improving communication we thought that it would be cool to share some data from the Season of the Elves.
To test run this initiative we want to show the leader ability win rate and play rate percentages divided by rank. Below you will find a visual representation and here you can download a .xlsx file if you want to play around with the data.
Enjoy and as always we welcome your feedback!
Cheers!
In order to keep on improving communication we thought that it would be cool to share some data from the Season of the Elves.
To test run this initiative we want to show the leader ability win rate and play rate percentages divided by rank. Below you will find a visual representation and here you can download a .xlsx file if you want to play around with the data.
Enjoy and as always we welcome your feedback!
Cheers!
Season of the Viper has ended – are you ready for the new Qualifiers? This time counting towards GWENT Open #3 scheduled for August!
First Qualifier will take place on June 13th, and the Second one – on June 20th-21st.
Players eligible to participate in the First Qualifier (TOP 16) of the Season of the Viper:
- kams134
- tailbot
- graveshgravesh
- saber97
- demarcation
- pajabol
- 五花膘
- wlastelin
- wangid1
- green-knight
- magpie131
- lllpukalll
- iluxa228
- damorquis
- qnerr
- kt莽夫北
Players eligible to participate in the Second Qualifier (TOP 64) of the Season of the Viper – with the exception of two winners of the First Qualifier:
- kams134
- tailbot
- graveshgravesh
- saber97
- demarcation
- pajabol
- 五花膘
- wlastelin
- wangid1
- green-knight
- magpie131
- lllpukalll
- iluxa228
- damorquis
- qnerr
- kt莽夫北
- 耿鬼小胖子
- unforgiven-iv
- spyroza
- kolemoen
- so1ento
- xcyberzz
- javis99
- ch.ase
- mya-mon369ex
- acalajucha
- ci_87
- theshaggynuts
- danirai
- energiix
- ivan2610
- idiot_witcher
- radu.andrada
- rewka
- whitecool
- cyper94
- beardybog
- mrsweetpiggy
- 苏墨
- akela114
- 蓝天风暴
- proneo3001
- 한쿡은조흔나라
- 9kjer
- arcansor
- ferdinator87
- orphantears614
- truzky
- lphanachan
- cmel
- yannisoly
- garigari
- 353days
- kwild
- villeks
- adzikov
- one_two12
- axor07
- sempereu
- innominesatanas
- gigifacile
- shinmiri2
- virus4am
- mcp0yle
The new season has arrived on all platforms and with it the latest Update 6.3, a new seasonal mode and new bundles in the shop.
Seasonal mode:
In this seasonal mode, once per turn, when you play a special card, spawn and play a copy of it immediately after.
Update 6.3:
This update brings the following changes:
- Added new visuals and sound effects when removing lock and immunity status.
- Several issues with visual effects for statuses were fixed.
- Disabled chat on Android. We are working on fixing the chat but in the meantime we need to disable it.
- Fixed AI crashes/discarding hand.
- Intro Screen Battle Cries should now originate from leader position (left/right).
The following bundles have been added to the in-game shop on all platforms:
Season of Love bundle:
Contains:
- Love Cardback
- 3 seasonal avatars: Priscilla, Dandelion, Succubus
- 4 seasonal borders: Secret Admirer, Sweet Talker, Casanova, Crimson Avenger
- Bonus title: True Romantic
Overgrown bundle:
Contains:
- Forgotten Board skin
- Green Cricket skin for Arachas Queen.
Contains:
- Animated Earth border
- Earth Elemental avatar
- D'ao title
- 400 Meteorite Powder
It is official! The newest free expansion for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game is coming to PC, iOS and Android on June 30th, 2020. But no need to wait! Dive into the world of the Master Mirror right now and enjoy this brand new trailer:
The Master Mirror expansion brings over 70 new cards to GWENT, themed after the shadowy, powerful influence of Gaunter O’Dimm — Master Mirror himself — and his role in key events in the Continent’s history. Among these new cards are faction-specific ones, including a brand new Legendary card type which evolves in both appearance and power as the battle progresses. 11 neutral cards are also included, which can be used across all GWENT factions. In addition, new statuses and abilities will also be introduced, bringing with them a fresh set of tricks and strategies to take advantage of in the heat of combat.
In anticipation of the upcoming release, we added a number of Master Mirror pre-order offers to the GWENT in-game store. These packs will grant you access to new cards from the expansion upon its release, with a unique Gaunter O’Dimm leader skin, as well as a Master Mirror-inspired cardback and title also available in specific packs — ready to equip in-game immediately following purchase. That means you do not have to wait for the release of the expansion to already wear these new items.
We hope you are as excited as we are and join us on this next adventure! For more detailed information on the new expansion and all things related to GWENT, please visit playgwent.com.
We decided to move Night City Wire to Jun 25th. We still look forward to sharing new information about Cyberpunk 2077, but more important discussions are happening right now and we want them to be heard. We wholeheartedly stand against racism, intolerance and violence. Black Lives Matter.
Last weekend we held our first online GWENT Open! To start the second season of our esports series, we had veterans and new faces clash over two days for a spot in the World Masters, the grand finale of each GWENT Masters season, and a share of the $29,200 prize pool.
Day 1 saw a lot of surprises with all three previous Open and Challenger winners by the names of kolemoen, wangid1 and TailBot losing to their opponents and getting eliminated from the competition. Nevertheless, games on Day 2 were full of fantastic plays – in the first semifinal Nik_r was able to defeat SuMo with a convincing 3:1, while Demarcation was able to defeat his semifinal opponent Santtu2x 3:1 after playing a total of five games, one of them resulting in a draw.
The final battle was all about ups and down – Demarcation took the early 1:0 lead against Nik_r, but the next game resulted in another draw that day. In the end, the match ended 3:1 in favor of Demarcation and it was the Chinese player who secured a spot at the GWENT World Masters.
If you missed the action, you can re-watch the whole tournament on our YouTube channel!
Final standings:
Sidong “Demarcation” Guo (China) – $5,775
Nikita “Nik_r” Rykov (Ukraine) – $4,275
Santeri “Santtu2x” Paananen (Finland) – $3,650
Yuanfei “SuMo” Yang (China) – $3,525
Damian “TailBot” Kaźmierczak (Poland) – $3,025
Lipao “wangid1” Ni (China) – $3,025
Benjamin “kolemoen” Pfannstiel (Germany) – $3,025
Andrian “Andi99” Sölter (Brazil) – $2,900
PS Mark your calendars – GWENT Open #2 is coming on June 27th and 28th!
We are thrilled to announce that the 5 finalists for our ‘Cyber-up Your PC’ contest have been chosen by our expert jury. More than 1500 Chombattas from around the world answered the call to create the Cyberpunk 2077 case of their dreams, submitting some incredibly creative designs. We’d like to thank you all for participating — deciding on just 5 final designs was an incredibly tough choice to make!
These 5 finalists will be paired with professional case modders who will turn the designs into reality, and a grand winner will be chosen during the competition finale — set to take place in the form of an online event on 17th July, 2020. More details about the finale will be revealed closer to the event.
Take a look at the 5 astonishing final designs:
BONDYE’S THRONE
FINDERS KEEPERS
MILITECH 'CURVHEAD' BOT / MAELSTROM MOD
THE NEO BLACK
YAIBA KUSANAGI AURORA
All finalists will receive prizes for making it to the finale, which include top-of-the-line PC gaming gear sponsored by our partners Alienware, NVIDIA, and SteelSeries. The grand winner will be awarded a main prize during the online finale, to mark their impressive achievement!
If you’d like to learn more about this contest, please visit the official ‘Cyber-up Your PC’ contest website.
Geralt's love and the adoptive mother to Ciri, Yennefer of Vengerberg joins the Nendoroid family from Good Smile Company! The Nendoroid is fully articulated allowing you to easily pose her in combat scenes, and she comes with both a standard composed face plate as well as a talking expression to display her more diplomatic side.
Optional parts include a raven to display by her side, lightning effect parts to show off her powerful magic as well as a Gwent card for her to join in a round of cards. Be sure to display her with Nendoroid Geralt and Nendoroid Ciri to bring out the world of the Witcher in Nendoroid size!
Nendoroid Yennefer is planned to release in October 2020. You can pre-order it here.
GWENT Open #1 is coming to your homes this weekend, Saturday and Sunday, May 30th-31st! The tournament will be held online and streamed live on our official Twitch, YouTube and Mixer channels – starting at 4 PM CEST on both days.
Among some of your favorite veterans, you will see a lot of new faces:
They will be competing for a spot in the Grand Finale of Season 2 – the World Masters tournament, as well as a share of the 10 000 USD base prize pool. Additionally, all players will receive an equal share of the community-funded prize pool! You can still contribute by purchasing the unique Flaming Bundle and Flaming Pack, available only until tomorrow noon (May 27th, 12 PM CEST):
See you there!
Thankfully, @Easha has written a set of comprehensive guides about our intro decks and how to improve pre-constructed decks - we are extremely happy that we can share them here with you. Please make sure to also read the general overview in addition to the specific guides.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
While the deck still focuses on Deathwish units, some of them have been removed in favour of a second strategy: Tall units and consuming them from graveyard.
You should win a short round 3 against most other faction decks you face, so try win round 1 and bleed during round 2 in order to assure such a short round 3 where you have an advantage.
Consume and Deathwish
This deck combines Deathwish units and Consume effects to trigger the former.
Each on its own is rather lacklustre, but if you combine the two and Consume the Deathwish units you can get plenty of points. For this reason you need to have both Deathwish cards (Werecat, Harpy Egg, Endrega Eggs, Bridge Troll, Foglet, Dettlaff: Higher Vampire) and cards that can trigger their effects (Abaya, Kayran, Barghest) in your hand, so mulligan accordingly. Make sure you enable the Dominance effect of Barghest, so you can use its Order effect as well.
Your leader ability Overwhelming Hunger is part of the latter group, granting you 3 more Consume options. Preferably use Kayran and Barghest first if you need Consume effects and your leader ability only if you have to.
Aim for a short round 3, you can play a huge amount of points using Dettlaff: Higher Vampire together with the Consume effects (of your leader ability).
Thinning is winning
Thinning means playing a card that draws another one from the deck which reduces the number of cards remaining. This helps with your deck’s consistency in later rounds, so you it is more likely to draw what you need. For this reason thinning should be done preferably during the first round.
This deck contains two thinning options in Wild Hunt Rider and Foglet. Only keep one copy in hand so its effect can fetch the other one from the deck. If you already used some of your mulligans and have only one left, using it can be risky. You might draw the second copy of them, so it is usually safer to avoid this and keep your current hand. If you end up having both copies in your hand, this is called “bricking” cards. A bricked card cannot be used to its full potential and usually plays for much less value. Naturally, this should be avoided as it might you lose the game.
If you expect your opponent to use Locks, use Foglet’s Deathwish in the same turn you play it so your opponent cannot disrupt it and bricks the remaining Foglet in your deck.
Wild Hunt Rider can be played on an empty board, as it counts itself as highest unit. Get them out as soon as possible before your opponent can get a higher unit and block their Dominance condition.
Consuming from the graveyard
After you played your tall units in one round, you can utilise their strength once again by Consuming them from your graveyard. This makes your graveyard a pool of pseudo-“carryover”. This means using points you set up earlier in later rounds. Ozzrel should be used on Old Speartip: Asleep, unless your opponent has a unit with higher base power in their graveyard. If tied, use your opponent’s unit to deny their potential graveyard interaction. Ghoul can be used only on bronze cards in your graveyard, which makes Ice Giant its most efficient target. As both Ozzrel and Ghoul need targets in your graveyard first, consider to mulligan them away in the first round. If you need more Consume effects, you can replace one Ice Giant with Barbegazi.
Ozzrel and Ghoul grant you good value in a short round.
Other cards
Use She-Troll of Vergen in a round where you want to trigger a lot of Deathwish effects. If you expect your opponent to do four damage, play the She-Troll and use a Consume effect – either your leader ability or Barghest’s Order ability – at once to bring her up to six power. It is still vulnerable to movement effects.
The Beast synergises with a Kayran or Barghest that consumed several units and has a huge power for this reason. Make sure to play it when there already is a unit with more than four power so it grows to six at once which makes it much harder for your opponent to remove it.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
Notable changes to the list (original deck here)
The deck’s Stratagem Urn of Shadows has been replaced with Tactical Advantage. Tactical Advantage guarantees you five points, while the urn could only do that if used on Harpy Egg. In all other cases you get less value.
While the deck still focuses on Deathwish units, some of them have been removed in favour of a second strategy: Tall units and consuming them from graveyard.
Playing the improved intro deck
The monster faction is known for their strong short rounds where they can burst out a lot of points in just a few cards. Try to win round 1 and “bleed” during round 2. Bleeding as strategy means playing out round 2 so your opponent has to commit their good cards to keep up – unlike you they cannot pass so you dictate the length of round 2. Do not confuse it with the status effect of the same name.
You should win a short round 3 against most other faction decks you face, so try win round 1 and bleed during round 2 in order to assure such a short round 3 where you have an advantage.
Consume and Deathwish
This deck combines Deathwish units and Consume effects to trigger the former.
Each on its own is rather lacklustre, but if you combine the two and Consume the Deathwish units you can get plenty of points. For this reason you need to have both Deathwish cards (Werecat, Harpy Egg, Endrega Eggs, Bridge Troll, Foglet, Dettlaff: Higher Vampire) and cards that can trigger their effects (Abaya, Kayran, Barghest) in your hand, so mulligan accordingly. Make sure you enable the Dominance effect of Barghest, so you can use its Order effect as well.
Your leader ability Overwhelming Hunger is part of the latter group, granting you 3 more Consume options. Preferably use Kayran and Barghest first if you need Consume effects and your leader ability only if you have to.
Aim for a short round 3, you can play a huge amount of points using Dettlaff: Higher Vampire together with the Consume effects (of your leader ability).
Thinning is winning
Thinning means playing a card that draws another one from the deck which reduces the number of cards remaining. This helps with your deck’s consistency in later rounds, so you it is more likely to draw what you need. For this reason thinning should be done preferably during the first round.
This deck contains two thinning options in Wild Hunt Rider and Foglet. Only keep one copy in hand so its effect can fetch the other one from the deck. If you already used some of your mulligans and have only one left, using it can be risky. You might draw the second copy of them, so it is usually safer to avoid this and keep your current hand. If you end up having both copies in your hand, this is called “bricking” cards. A bricked card cannot be used to its full potential and usually plays for much less value. Naturally, this should be avoided as it might you lose the game.
If you expect your opponent to use Locks, use Foglet’s Deathwish in the same turn you play it so your opponent cannot disrupt it and bricks the remaining Foglet in your deck.
Wild Hunt Rider can be played on an empty board, as it counts itself as highest unit. Get them out as soon as possible before your opponent can get a higher unit and block their Dominance condition.
Consuming from the graveyard
After you played your tall units in one round, you can utilise their strength once again by Consuming them from your graveyard. This makes your graveyard a pool of pseudo-“carryover”. This means using points you set up earlier in later rounds. Ozzrel should be used on Old Speartip: Asleep, unless your opponent has a unit with higher base power in their graveyard. If tied, use your opponent’s unit to deny their potential graveyard interaction. Ghoul can be used only on bronze cards in your graveyard, which makes Ice Giant its most efficient target. As both Ozzrel and Ghoul need targets in your graveyard first, consider to mulligan them away in the first round. If you need more Consume effects, you can replace one Ice Giant with Barbegazi.
Ozzrel and Ghoul grant you good value in a short round.
Other cards
Use She-Troll of Vergen in a round where you want to trigger a lot of Deathwish effects. If you expect your opponent to do four damage, play the She-Troll and use a Consume effect – either your leader ability or Barghest’s Order ability – at once to bring her up to six power. It is still vulnerable to movement effects.
The Beast synergises with a Kayran or Barghest that consumed several units and has a huge power for this reason. Make sure to play it when there already is a unit with more than four power so it grows to six at once which makes it much harder for your opponent to remove it.
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Hey Everyone!
We’ve been seeing more and more MODs for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game and with it we’ve also received a lot of questions with regards to our approach to the subject. So here are some basic rules to follow -- MODs must follow rules which can be found both in the Fan Content Guidelines and in the CD PROJEKT RED User Agreement , which means that:
In case of further questions feel free to reach out!
Thanks!
Burza
We’ve been seeing more and more MODs for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game and with it we’ve also received a lot of questions with regards to our approach to the subject. So here are some basic rules to follow -- MODs must follow rules which can be found both in the Fan Content Guidelines and in the CD PROJEKT RED User Agreement , which means that:
- We don’t allow any MODs which endanger our ratings (ESRB, PEGI etc.) - meaning uncensored art, sexual depiction of GWENT characters, gore and disturbing horror/fear themes are not allowed.
- If you create a MOD it needs to be created for non-commercial purposes meaning you cannot monetize them in any way
- You cannot use 3rd party assets or art without proper consent from the fanarts’ creators (example: card backs), since they infringe upon 3rd parties’ copyrights
- When uploading MODs, do not create any kind of impression that we are your official partner, co-author of your MODs or that we assume any responsibility for the MODs.
In case of further questions feel free to reach out!
Thanks!
Burza
Please keep in mind that all intro deck guides are not officially provided by us or associates of CD PROJEKT, but are community guides. We share them because we think they might be helpful, especially to newcomers.
The links will be corrected soon, thanks for being vigilant.
The links will be corrected soon, thanks for being vigilant.
Thankfully, @Easha has written a set of comprehensive guides about our intro decks and how to improve pre-constructed decks - we are extremely happy that we can share them here with you. Please make sure to also read the general overview in addition to the specific guides.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
First of all the leader ability has been changed from Mahakam Forge to Guerilla Tactics. While the armour helps to prevent some damage, barely any card in the deck has inherent synergy with one point of extra armour. The leader ability itself is only worth five points in a vacuum.
Guerilla Tactics is more flexible as you can use it offensively to interrupt the effect of row-restricted engines (cards with ongoing effects like Xavier Moran) and improve the value of your Lacerate; and defensively to boost your fragile engines and keep them in the right row if they are row-locked.
The Stratagem has been changed from Enchanted Armor to Tactical Advantage. There are no cards that benefit from being buffed in your hand and five points are simply better than three.
The original list also lacked interaction with the opponent’s side of the board. While it is easier for a new player to focus on their own plays, completely neglecting what your opponent is doing is not advised. For this reason cards which can meddle with your opponent’s game plan like Milaen, Dorregaray of Vole and Geralt of Rivia were added to the deck.
Points over time
In general the deck aims for long rounds. Dwarven Berserker, Mahakam Defender and Xavier Moran are engine cards that generate value over time and they need a long round to shine. You can enable all of them using Miner’s Order ability: It provides Armour for the Berserker and an initial boost to the Mahakam Defender.
Pavko Gale is another engine, but not focused on getting points like the ones mentioned above, but removing points from your opponent’s board. Try to kill their engines with it and mind the second part of his effect – preferably play it in a round where you do not want to use Dorregaray of Vole or Geralt of Rivia as they are non-Scoia’tael units and would weaken its damage.
Resilience
Zoltan Chivay and Gabor Zigrin’s Melee effect is Resilience which means they will not be removed from the board after the round they were played in has ended. This means that you should use them in either round 1 or 2 to benefit from it. If you get Gabor in Round 3 you can still use the Ranged effect, as Resilience is no longer necessary – there won’t be a 4th round after all. Resilience will only work once, so if you already used that effect from round 1 to round 2, they will not stay on the board after round 2 has ended. It is of advantage to start a round while already having points on the board. If you used Resilience Round 1 and the cards at your hand are good, you can attempt to 2-0 your opponent (preferably if you already have nine points from both resilient units. If your opponent won round 1 and passed without playing any cards (also known as drypassing), those resilient units are a good card to take the round and start with a small advantage into the next one.
Resilience will also carry over all Statuses applied to a unit into the next round, which enables you to do the following: If you use Dryad Enchantress on Zoltan Chivay, it will get four Vitality, so if you pass early enough after playing Enchantress, Zoltan will continue boosting itself in the next round. The other good target for the Enchantress is Dwarven Berserker before it expended its Armour.
The more, the merrier
Try to put all your dwarves in the same row to improve the effects of Barclay Els and Mahakam Guard. While this makes your deck vulnerable to Lacerate, it also improves the Ranged effect of Dennis Cranmer. To have enough room for those, play other cards that are not row restricted into the other row but also consider the circumstances: Play Milaen where she has the better effect for you depending on the situation, even if you lose one point on your dwarves.
Other cards
Make sure to place Mahakam Horn in the centre of a row filled with units, so your opponent does not kill a unit adjacent to the trap before passing which would only give you four points instead of the expected eight.
Do not forget to only have one copy of Mahakam Volunteers in your hand and the other one in the deck so you can use their effect. Sometimes it is wiser o not take the last Mulligan if you already have one copy in hand. You will regret it if you draw the second one.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
Notable changes to the list (original deck here)
First of all the leader ability has been changed from Mahakam Forge to Guerilla Tactics. While the armour helps to prevent some damage, barely any card in the deck has inherent synergy with one point of extra armour. The leader ability itself is only worth five points in a vacuum.
Guerilla Tactics is more flexible as you can use it offensively to interrupt the effect of row-restricted engines (cards with ongoing effects like Xavier Moran) and improve the value of your Lacerate; and defensively to boost your fragile engines and keep them in the right row if they are row-locked.
The Stratagem has been changed from Enchanted Armor to Tactical Advantage. There are no cards that benefit from being buffed in your hand and five points are simply better than three.
The original list also lacked interaction with the opponent’s side of the board. While it is easier for a new player to focus on their own plays, completely neglecting what your opponent is doing is not advised. For this reason cards which can meddle with your opponent’s game plan like Milaen, Dorregaray of Vole and Geralt of Rivia were added to the deck.
Playing the improved intro deck
Points over time
In general the deck aims for long rounds. Dwarven Berserker, Mahakam Defender and Xavier Moran are engine cards that generate value over time and they need a long round to shine. You can enable all of them using Miner’s Order ability: It provides Armour for the Berserker and an initial boost to the Mahakam Defender.
Pavko Gale is another engine, but not focused on getting points like the ones mentioned above, but removing points from your opponent’s board. Try to kill their engines with it and mind the second part of his effect – preferably play it in a round where you do not want to use Dorregaray of Vole or Geralt of Rivia as they are non-Scoia’tael units and would weaken its damage.
Resilience
Zoltan Chivay and Gabor Zigrin’s Melee effect is Resilience which means they will not be removed from the board after the round they were played in has ended. This means that you should use them in either round 1 or 2 to benefit from it. If you get Gabor in Round 3 you can still use the Ranged effect, as Resilience is no longer necessary – there won’t be a 4th round after all. Resilience will only work once, so if you already used that effect from round 1 to round 2, they will not stay on the board after round 2 has ended. It is of advantage to start a round while already having points on the board. If you used Resilience Round 1 and the cards at your hand are good, you can attempt to 2-0 your opponent (preferably if you already have nine points from both resilient units. If your opponent won round 1 and passed without playing any cards (also known as drypassing), those resilient units are a good card to take the round and start with a small advantage into the next one.
Resilience will also carry over all Statuses applied to a unit into the next round, which enables you to do the following: If you use Dryad Enchantress on Zoltan Chivay, it will get four Vitality, so if you pass early enough after playing Enchantress, Zoltan will continue boosting itself in the next round. The other good target for the Enchantress is Dwarven Berserker before it expended its Armour.
The more, the merrier
Try to put all your dwarves in the same row to improve the effects of Barclay Els and Mahakam Guard. While this makes your deck vulnerable to Lacerate, it also improves the Ranged effect of Dennis Cranmer. To have enough room for those, play other cards that are not row restricted into the other row but also consider the circumstances: Play Milaen where she has the better effect for you depending on the situation, even if you lose one point on your dwarves.
Other cards
Make sure to place Mahakam Horn in the centre of a row filled with units, so your opponent does not kill a unit adjacent to the trap before passing which would only give you four points instead of the expected eight.
Do not forget to only have one copy of Mahakam Volunteers in your hand and the other one in the deck so you can use their effect. Sometimes it is wiser o not take the last Mulligan if you already have one copy in hand. You will regret it if you draw the second one.
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GWENT, the beloved card game of The Witcher universe, is now available on Steam! Following the successful launches of GWENT on iOS and Android, release on Steam is the next step in CD PROJEKT RED’s strategy to bring the game to millions of players worldwide
The Steam release features full cross-play and synchronization functionality with other versions of the game, meaning you can compete with players on iOS, Android, and GOG.COM, as well as carry over all items and progress between these platforms. In addition, the release also includes Steam achievements and Steam Trading Cards integration — details can be found on GWENT’s Steam product page.
Additionally, thanks to an update to Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales on Steam, from today, you can earn rewards to use in GWENT by making progress in the Thronebreaker campaign. These rewards include premium cards and vanity items, which will unlock automatically once requisite conditions are met. If you played The Witcher Tales earlier on Steam you can unlock the rewards retroactively only if you completed your play-through of the game in online mode (with connection to the internet).
Every owner of Thronebreaker on Steam will also receive following rewards:
- 2 player avatars
- 2 player titles
- 5 premium kegs
- 20 cards for Multiplayer GWENT
See you on the battlefield!
But that's not all! To celebrate the 5th anniversary of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Marcin Przybyłowicz, the Music Director, invited Taylor Davis, Miracle of Sound, Malukah, Tina Guo, Łukasz Kapuściński, Alina Gingertail and Jasinka to recreate the main theme from the game!
We’re excited to announce the Steam release of GWENT: The Witcher Card Game!
Following the successful launches of GWENT on iOS and Android, release on Steam is the next step in CD PROJEKT RED’s strategy to bring the game to millions of players worldwide.
The Steam release features full cross-play and synchronization functionality with other versions of the game, meaning you can compete with players on iOS, Android, and GOG.COM, as well as carry over all items and progress between these platforms. In addition, the release also includes Steam achievements and Steam Trading Cards integration - details can be found here.
Additionally, thanks to an update to Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales on Steam, from today, you can now earn rewards to use in GWENT by making progress in the Thronebreaker campaign. These rewards include premium cards and vanity items, which will unlock automatically once requisite conditions are met. If you played The Witcher Tales earlier on Steam you can unlock the rewards retroactively only if you completed your play-through of the game in online mode (with connection to the internet).
Rewards granted upon startup include:
- 2 player avatars
- 2 player titles
- 5 premium kegs
- 20 brand new cards for Multiplayer GWENT
It’s hard to believe that it’s already been 5 years since Geralt of Rivia embarked on his last epic adventure. Your help in finding Ciri, fighting off the Wild Hunt and mastering gwent was invaluable, friends! Thank you, it wouldn't be the same without you!
The commemorative, 5th Anniversary Premium Poster can now be pre-ordered in CD PROJEKT RED Store.
Additionally, we prepared special offers for The Witcher games on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC!
PlayStation (lasts until May 27th)
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Game of The Year Edition 70% off
Xbox (lasts until May 25th)
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 85% off
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt base game and Game of The Year Edition 70% off
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansions 60% off
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales 50% off
GOG.COM (lasts until May 25th)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition 85% off
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 85% off
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt base game and Game of The Year Edition 70% off
- Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansions 60% off
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales 50% off
Steam (lasts until May 25th)
- The Witcher: Enhanced Edition 85% off
- The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings 85% off
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt base game and Game of The Year Edition 70% off
- Witcher 3: Wild Hunt expansions 60% off
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales 50% off
Epic Games Store (lasts until June 4th)
- Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Game of The Year Edition 70% off
Thankfully, @Easha has written a set of comprehensive guides about our intro decks and how to improve pre-constructed decks - we are extremely happy that we can share them here with you. Please make sure to also read the general overview in addition to the specific guides.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
Fringilla Virgo has been removed. It was the only Mage in the deck and thus her effect was quite literally pointless.
Most of the 4 provision bronzes have been replaced by more expensive cards from the Nilfgaard starter deck.
As many Nilfgaardian game plans, the deck aims to disrupt your opponent’s strategy and gain points from doing so.
You have plenty of Locks to deny your opponent’s engine cards (cards with an ongoing effect) and Poison to destroy tall units. Thirsty Dame gets points whenever you apply a Status to your opponent’s units, so play her early before you start to apply statuses. Combined with a Rot Tosser, the Dame gets three points: one from the Spying status of the Cow Carcass and two more from the two Poison statuses it applies. You can finish off already poisoned units with another Rot Tosser or Van Moorlehem’s Cupbearer.
Do not use Philippe Van Moorlehem’s effect on poisoned units when you have a second Poison to destroy it anyway - damage locked units instead.
You leader ability combined with Vanhemar and Vincent Van Moorlehem lets you destroy any unit at your opponent’s side of the board and they can do nothing about it as the whole process happens over the course of one turn.
Thinning is winning
Thinning means playing a card that draws another one from the deck which reduces the number of cards remaining. This helps with your deck’s consistency in later rounds, so you it is more likely to draw what you need. For this reason thinning should be done preferably during the first round.
This deck contains two thinning options in Impera Brigade and Hunting Pack. Only keep one copy in hand so its effect can fetch the other one from the deck. If you already used some of your mulligans and have only one left, using it can be risky. You might draw the second copy of them, so it is usually safer to avoid this and keep your current hand. If you end up having both copies in your hand, this is called “bricking” cards. A bricked card cannot be used to its full potential and usually plays for much less value. Naturally, this should be avoided as it might you lose the game.
Random card draws
Writing of bricking: Be very careful with the random card draws of Roderick of Dun Tynne and Joachim de Wett. Always assume the worst possible outcome what they could draw you and do not take the risk unless you absolutely have to. Roderick offers a choice so you can take the card that is not bricked. Joachim, however, does not – it might play Geralt of Rivia from your deck while there are no valid targets for the Witcher.
Other cards
Alba Pikeman as an engine card should be played early as soon as your opponent places a unit worth damaging into their Melee Row. If you would end up killing that unit, you can place your Spying cards in that row to keep the effect going. Pikeman also makes your opponent play their units in the ranged row to avoid their effect, improving the value of your Lacerate.
Ramon Tyrconnel works only with Soldiers and has three targets in this deck: Ard Feainn Tortoise for plain and simple value in a short round, Alba Armored Cavalry if your opponent plays a lot of engine cards or Alba Pikeman in a longer round. Do the math before you decide and make sure you have a soldier in hand so Ramon does not brick.
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My name is Easha Dustfeather, member of the Lodge of Sorceresses and co-author of the Glittering Girly Gwent Gaming blog. As author of the starter deck guides I already explained how to play the free starter decks provided to every player. With the addition of pre-constructed intro decks for sale in Shupe’s shop, I decided to write a guide for them as well, just like I did for the Syndicate starter pack deck.
It is meant for players who just started the game and decided to buy those intro decks. This guide explains how to improve and use them.
Notable changes to the list (original deck here)
Fringilla Virgo has been removed. It was the only Mage in the deck and thus her effect was quite literally pointless.
Most of the 4 provision bronzes have been replaced by more expensive cards from the Nilfgaard starter deck.
Playing the improved intro deck
As many Nilfgaardian game plans, the deck aims to disrupt your opponent’s strategy and gain points from doing so.
You have plenty of Locks to deny your opponent’s engine cards (cards with an ongoing effect) and Poison to destroy tall units. Thirsty Dame gets points whenever you apply a Status to your opponent’s units, so play her early before you start to apply statuses. Combined with a Rot Tosser, the Dame gets three points: one from the Spying status of the Cow Carcass and two more from the two Poison statuses it applies. You can finish off already poisoned units with another Rot Tosser or Van Moorlehem’s Cupbearer.
Do not use Philippe Van Moorlehem’s effect on poisoned units when you have a second Poison to destroy it anyway - damage locked units instead.
You leader ability combined with Vanhemar and Vincent Van Moorlehem lets you destroy any unit at your opponent’s side of the board and they can do nothing about it as the whole process happens over the course of one turn.
Thinning is winning
Thinning means playing a card that draws another one from the deck which reduces the number of cards remaining. This helps with your deck’s consistency in later rounds, so you it is more likely to draw what you need. For this reason thinning should be done preferably during the first round.
This deck contains two thinning options in Impera Brigade and Hunting Pack. Only keep one copy in hand so its effect can fetch the other one from the deck. If you already used some of your mulligans and have only one left, using it can be risky. You might draw the second copy of them, so it is usually safer to avoid this and keep your current hand. If you end up having both copies in your hand, this is called “bricking” cards. A bricked card cannot be used to its full potential and usually plays for much less value. Naturally, this should be avoided as it might you lose the game.
Random card draws
Writing of bricking: Be very careful with the random card draws of Roderick of Dun Tynne and Joachim de Wett. Always assume the worst possible outcome what they could draw you and do not take the risk unless you absolutely have to. Roderick offers a choice so you can take the card that is not bricked. Joachim, however, does not – it might play Geralt of Rivia from your deck while there are no valid targets for the Witcher.
Other cards
Alba Pikeman as an engine card should be played early as soon as your opponent places a unit worth damaging into their Melee Row. If you would end up killing that unit, you can place your Spying cards in that row to keep the effect going. Pikeman also makes your opponent play their units in the ranged row to avoid their effect, improving the value of your Lacerate.
Ramon Tyrconnel works only with Soldiers and has three targets in this deck: Ard Feainn Tortoise for plain and simple value in a short round, Alba Armored Cavalry if your opponent plays a lot of engine cards or Alba Pikeman in a longer round. Do the math before you decide and make sure you have a soldier in hand so Ramon does not brick.
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We are looking into this problem. You are not able to craft it because it is part of the starter deck. Sorry for the inconvenience!