If anyone struggles to win in Gwent, then here are a few tips:
- use as many spies as possible in your deck. They are the one of best cards, even the ones with high combat stats
- use the feint card if the enemy uses spies on you. I recommend putting two feint cards in your deck. You can also use feint to repeat the effect of healer units.
- buy cards from merchants that get you kickstarted quickly
- use at most one weather card from each type. Too many of them may spoil your deck
- do not play your strongest cards first (exception: spies). If your opponent is very strong in the current round, then you should not waste your good cards during that round. Save your cards for the rest of the game if you are able to. Basically this is some sort of bluffing and the AI can be fooled quite easily. The more cards you have in hand the easier you can bluff, which is why spies can be so strong.
- There are special cards that will burn the strongest cards on the table. The worst thing that can happen is that it burns multiple cards from your side.
Let's say you have set up three cards with 6 strength. If they are the strongest ones on the table, then all three can get burnt. In order to counter this, you can put a card with e.g. 8 strength, so it gets burnt instead of the other cards with 6 strength. Bear in mind that golden hero cards cannot get burnt.
I feel like Gwent is too easy even on hard Gwent difficulty. There are a few characters you can meet during competition quests that are really good, but most of the NPCs are weak. It feels like robbing 10 crowns from them each time I play, because I almost never loose.