General17491;n9660691 said:
Well, normally you should be able to build a decent deck for rank 10 with most of the starter cards. If you play casual you can be matched against higher opponents. If you play ranked you should have no problem if you have a decent deck. You don't even need a positive winrate to rank up.
The problem is one needs to reach lvl 10 to play Ranked.
Casual now has the same strong decks as 4000+ MMR (spelltael, dagon consume/carryover, restore/dorregaray discard skellige). For that reason I now play Pro League as casual: more deck variety and less netdecks.
Gwent desperately needs a mode like arena/draft, so new players have better chances in catching up in card quality. And veteran players get a chance to move away from the meta once in a while.
Every single CCG out there has some kind of draft mode, I have no idea why CDPR won't introduce it into Gwent.
It could be a draft 25 cards mode where the 1st, 5th, 10th and 20th cards are gold, the 3rd, 7th, 13th, 17th, 23rd, 25th are silvers. It could either be choose 1 of 3 or 1 of 5. And faction cards would be more common than neutrals (say, 70% chance for a faction).
Yes, card synergy is important in Gwent, so draft decks would be much weaker or even weird, but this is true for other CCGs. And it works there!