Hello all, I was hoping someone who might be in a similar boat as me could give me a solid answer on running Throne Breaker and Rogue Mage on their budget tablets and if they've had any issues. I bought a $100 dollar tcl tablet at Walmart strictly for reading as for whatever reason recently I've gotten hooked on graphic novels and Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian and thought yeah I need a bigger screen. Well I had a hankering to play me some Gwent as I haven't played it since my obsession with it on ps4 (rip) and I got hooked on starting back over from scratch

Well now that I know there's 2 standalone single player games I'm thinking those might be just as fun but I'm worried they might not run or be tougher to run on my tablet. Any of you tried those on a similar device and what was your experience.

Sorry for the rant hope everyone's doing well!

Obviously I'm missing something, because from where I'm sitting, it seems like coin gain and bounty application is almost completely non-interactive, and because of that, their damage cards get essentially infinite value, on the turn they're played and every turn they stay alive. Doesn't matter if it's Whoreson's Freak Show at 8p or Witch Hunter Executioner at 5p, they just get to kill anything lower than 10 and get all their money back, then reapply bounty next turn and repeat. I get that its conditional on the bounty, but I honestly can't say I've ever fought against any version of this deck that doesn't easily manage enough bounties to board wipe every single turn.

It's gotten to the point where I genuinely can't remember the last time I fought this deck and didn't get no-stress 2-0d. The kinda 2-0 where they don't even need to make a decision, because there's zero pushback, they just get ahead in on turn 1 and stay ahead all game because anything played gets deleted with tempo.

And this is with me playing a wide variety of decks, btw. All Skellige, but various archetypes across all leader abilities. None of them even remotely stand a chance. I thought the swarm I get with witchers might counter a control deck, but no, they can put the damage wherever they like so spread power means nothing. I also thought a control deck might be the answer, but no, not really, because when they play an engine they get to spend any lost value from their previous engines straight away, before you have a chance to react. Even self-wound gets beaten all the way in.

So, what's the answer?

Yesterday i encountered a new player post, asking for suggestions on how to build out their collection, and branch out to new factions. The broadly shared new player advice is that you should stick to one faction until you get a strong deck and then continue to play it until you get enough scraps to build strong decks for the other factions, before trying them out. This advice can sound discouraging because it makes it seem like trying new things is a bad idea. So i challenged myself to find the cheapest ways to upgrade each of the starter decks into a competent state.

I gave myself the following restrictions for what cards i can use:

1) Cards from the starter set (which every fresh account has)

2) Cards from the Faction Beginner Reward tree (extremely value-packed, unlocked in 15 keys and a handful of games)

3) 1000 scrap budget for crafting any additional cards

4) I can choose any leader ability, since they are all free.

With these restrictions, these decks are extremely cheap to make, and should be possible to achieve within 1, at most 2 hours of play, after creatinga fresh account. All of these decks are "competent" - meaning that they include no more than 25 cards, while using all of the available provisions.

Without further ado, here are the decks:

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Northern Realms

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/4f7be4242bcd2cfabf09635a0a8c3681

Cards to craft:

1x Raffard's Vengeance

1x Black Rayla

1x Reynard Odo

1x Onager

2x Siege Master

1x Boiling Oil

1x Carroballista

2x Kaedweni Sergeant

2x Winch

Budget: 970/1000 scraps

Leans toward engine overload, with Raffard's Vengeance allowing you to develop multiple engines in a single turn, while Winch and Siege Masters threaten to reduce its cooldown and repeat the order. Kerack Frigate is your main proactive engine, which can quickly swarm the board. Temerian Infantry and Onager can provide a large amount of random pings of damage, which allows Lyrian Arbalest, Black Rayla and Carrobalista to do the cleanup, giving you decent engine-based removal.

Amphibious Assault can tutor all of your most important engines, while also protecting them from damage. You need to save 1 leader charge for Prince Anseis, and 1 for Raffard's Vengeance, to give their order's zeal. Be careful with over-swarming - do not keep more than 1 Kerack Frigate on the board at a time.

The general game plan is to play Raffard's Vengeance in round 1, and win round 1 by overwhelming the opponent with efficient engines. Be careful not to overcommit, and try to spread your points evenly across all rounds.

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Scoia'tael

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/67834984f77661fcab392eaf118be181

Cards to craft:

1x Zoltan: Warrior

1x Mastercrafted Spear

2x Dwarven Chariot

2x Brokilon Sentinel

Budget: 1200/1000

This is a heavy control deck, with the Precision Strike leader helping you to remove enemy units, while also thinning your Brokilon Sentinels upon the consumption of the last charge, and quickly swarming your board for Great Oak. You have a couple powerful but hard to remove engines in Treant Boar, Pavko Gale, and Freixenet who contribute to the overall gameplan. In general, the deck wants to win round 1, and push hard in round 2 while developing carryover with Dunca, aiming to deprive the enemy of resources and win in a short round 3 with quick points from cards like Zoltan and Great Oak.

The gameplan is to remove opponent's engines before they can generate value, and then simply outvalue whatever they have left with your strong short-round plays. Avoid having any high power units when playing this deck. Part of the strength of this deck is denying the opponent a target for their Geralt of Rivia. For that reason, it is important to win round 1, and go into round 3, where Great Oak is the last card you play.

I was not happy with any version of the deck that stayed under budget, and chose to exceed it. Zoltan Warrior is an incredibly versatile and popular card, which fits very well in this deck, but it demands support from Dwarven Chariots to give it armor. The deck can be incrementally upgraded further, replacing Friexenet with Ele'yas, Dorregaray for Ciaran and Forest protector with Garrison.

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Nilfgaard

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/33883fa428bbb5988cd7091e5b351161

Cards to Craft:

1x Battle Stations!

1x Hefty Helge

1x Assassination

2x Magne Division

2x Joust

2x Buhurt

2x Fire Scorpion

Budget: 820/1000

This is a control / combo deck. The goal is to develop your Fire Scorpions / Hefty Helge and then play a lot of Tactics to give them charges, to allow them to kill enemy units, or damage them into range of your leader ability. The Enslave leader can steal a powerful enemy engine, denying them the value and giving it to you. You can also make copies of enemy units with Braathens and the Duchess informant to trigger Assimilate for additional value. Steffan Skellen is your ultimate finisher, as he creates 4 Aces, each of which is a Tactic, therefore giving charges to your scorpions and Helga, while also triggering Assimilate, since these Aces were spawned by Skellen, and did not start in your deck

The general gameplan is to play a scorpion round 1, and see if your opponent answers it. If they don't, you can try to win round 1, using your leader if you have to, while thinning aggressively via Battle Stations and Magne divisions. If your scorpion is answered, you can surrender round 1, and play a long round 2 and 3. Winning round 3 requires developing a board state where Skellen will play for massive value via order charges and assimilate value. Glinnis, Helge, and Skellen are your ideal hand for a short round 3.

This deck can easily be upgraded by replacing Braathens with Jan Calveit, to guarantee consistency in round 3.

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Monsters

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/162219b234958c072e682a8d2e0289c7

Cards to Craft:

1x Mammuna

1x Lord Riptide

1x Jotunn

1x Golyat

1x Ancient Foglet

Budget: 880/1000

This is an aggressive midrange deck, which overwhelms the opponent with high tempo plays and efficient engines. The white frost leader provides a lot of passive value, boosting your Wild Hunt units when you play them opposite of Frost, while slowly chipping away at the enemy. The deck is not focused on control, but it has a select few answers to dangerous threats, thanks to Lord Riptide and Parasite.

It is important to use round 1 to set up Mammuna - Ice Giant or Aen Elle Conqueror are her desired targets. You want to play exactly 1 copy of at least one of them, so that in round 2, you have 1 in the graveyard for Mammuna to consume, immediately summoning the other from your deck. Likewise, you want to play Yghern early in round 1 or round 2, because you need him in your graveyard so that you can consume him with Ozzrel in round 3. Be careful with playing Golyat if you suspect the opponent has the means to kill him. The deck lacks consistency, so it is important to mulligan aggressively to increase the odds of finding your golds.

The deck can easily be upgraded into a more frost-focused list by replacing Nithral with Imlerith, Jotunn with Caranthir Golden Child, and Mammuna with King Auberon, and Golyat to Ge'els

Alternatively, you can pivot towards midrange fruits of ysgith by replacing Yghern with Oneiromancy, Aen Elle Conquerors for Werewolves, Wild Hunt Bruisers for Griffins, Eredin for Adda, Ozzrel for Alpha Werewolf, Nithral for Imlerith, Red Riders for Fiends while Naglfer's crew and ancient foglet are downgraded to some utility 4p bronzes, like squirrel, spores and pellar.

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Skellige

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/c4680d3940aef3302353dc3226d12fa1

Cards to craft:

1x Fucusya

1x Ulula

Budget: 1000/1000

This is a midrange deck with some recursion. Most of your units are warriors which deal damage, which is then amplified by Ulula. This same damage serves to power up your AN Craite Greatswords and Dagur Two Blades. Your leader serves to boost your Greatswords and Dagur while setting up bloodthirst for key cards like Blood Eagle (your main tutor), and Madman Lugos. You can use Freya's Blessings to return An Craite Greatswords to teh board from your graveyard in round 2 or 3, while fucusya can return any unit from the grave, creating rain with the unspent provisions.

This deck wants to fight for round 1, and is happy to give up any and all cards except Fucusya to win it. The goal is to win round 1 while filling your graveyard, so you could push in round 2 to force your opponent to give up their best cards, aiming to then go into a short round 3, which you win with Fucusya + leader. Finding Fucusya is key, so you have to mulligan aggressively to increase the chances of finidng her. If you do not find Fucusya during round 1 or 2, do your best to hold onto the last leader charge, as those points may win you round 3 if you still do not find fucusya.

It is somewhat challenging to recommend upgrades for, as it stands at a crossroads between multiple archetypes, and is glued together by the Patricidal Fury Leader. The only clear upgrade is replacing Donar an Hindar with Herkja Drummond, as Herkja goes hand in hand with Ulula. Beyond that, you need to pick one of the various warrior archetypes which use similar cards.

I recommend one of the following:

1. Devotion Ulula Warriors. No neutral cards, emphasis on recursion to let your warriors fight again and again.
2. Renfri Warriors. Lesser focus on recursion, and more on midrange value and consistency.
3. Golden Nekker Warriors. Combo deck designed around Ulula's effect, but Golden Nekker decks are notoriously hard to pilot., and are expensive to build.

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Syndicate

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/245dcfefb509479e92ee812d86708e7f

Cards to craft:

1x Cyrus Engelkind Hemmelfart

1x Damnation

1x Bone Talisman

2x Lonely Champion

Budget: 1190/1000

This is a pure-as-water combo deck. This is a token swarm deck, where one half of your cards spawns tokens on your board, and the other half does things anytime you spawn a unit. If you have 2 Firesworn Scribes stationed on your ranged row you can go infinite with Grand Inquisitor Helveed, as they refund the cost of his Fee. Lonely Champion's order cleans up your boardspace, allowing you to continue executing the combo.

Additionally, you can use Hemmelfart to return Scribes from your graveyard, allowing you to execute the combo in a second round. More importantly, you can use Damnation to craft another Hemmelfart by killing an 8 power unit, another Helveed by killing a 5 power unit, another von Herst by killing a 4 power unit, and a procession of penance by killing a 2-power unit.

This deck can be improved further by adding Saint Gregory - who is a classic finisher card designed for Fireswarm, cutting non archetype cards like Tavern Brawl, Ludovicus Brunenbaum as well as weak cards like Sacred Flame and Procession of penance. You can improve consistency by running more tutors namely Mercenary Contract, or thinning packages like Casino Bouncers

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I hope that the new players find this helpful.

Hey guys, what would be a good Syndicate deck which is also competitive for someone who is looking to start playing the faction?

I played this game very long time ago, now im back, but it seems so overwhelming, so many new cards and everybody is so strong, i tried to copy some deck online but not enough material.

my question is how can i get materials the fastest? i would rather not spend money :) thank you!

Merigold's Hailstorm

Spell (Neutral)
🔥 Special, 8 Provisions (Epic)

Damage 5 enemy units by 2.

The sky dimmed of a sudden, and clouds amassed over the town. It grew fiendishly dark, and a cold gust swept in. Oh my, gasped Yennefer. We're about to make quite the mess, I think.

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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.

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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.

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.

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!

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

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

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 ?! :)

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

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'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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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.

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