Fuck yes. I just bought the game not so long ago cuz of BeSt GaMe EvEr hype. First time playing it i didnt really get it. Few button map problems like triangle for attack instead of jumping on horse etc. But gwent. I just didnt get at all and tried to avoid it. Now that i know the ins and outs ive only been grinding for cards and shit. Not even for the cards tho. Just for a good match. The baron is the one that got me into it. Thnx to his spies i found value in the decoy card by taking his spies and playing it to draw an extra card. Then i found the decoy/healer combo AND the seige buff leader. Im at work atm and all i wanna do is play gwent.
@@hailhydra3058 Trust me bro I know how you feel. I felt the same way when I started the game but after a few months I got almost every cards . Btw I made it to pro rank when I had only 400 cards. Gaining 400 cards only takes 30-35 days. Add me on gwent if you need any help making cheap but good deck. My in game name is IRONATION
“Looks like somebody’s grumpy.” “You would be if yer fuckin son was lost in the sea of skillega (or something)” *”That’s cool, wanna play some Gwent?”*
You probably won't see this, but your guides are a massive help to me almost 7 years later and without a doubt for many more years to come for other gwent newbies out there.
Baiting scorch out with the catapults is a great tactic, then just medic the catapults back. The AI scorches them instantly when they're both on the board
if scorch annoys you so much you can use biting frost and impenetrable fog to make your dragon hunters and blue stripe commandos unscorchable then putting your 2 catapults down making them scorch them then clear the weather and you win
It is really difficult for me to defeat monster deck I never get a biting frost and if I do he always has a clear weather for it so I can't play a lot in skellige
@@dorisdsouza9276 Monster decks usually use up most of their cards during that round, so just use the most minimal supporting cards as possible then wipe them out in the next round
Nilfgaard is pretty funny. Put the highest level spy on there side at the start of the round, scorch it before he decoys it, activate leader ability to take a card from the enemy discard pile which the spy will be there, and repeat till he runs out of cards on the first round.
Assuming your opponent didn’t draw a decoy, which they are hard wired to play immediately on spies. Also, you can’t even repeat this strategy, because you can only use that Nilfgaardian leader’s ability once.
for some reason i had 4 blue stripes commandos in my deck and once i managed to play them all and put a commander's horn on it, so i had 142 in my front line, it was epic (also had villentretenmerth)
I started out straight away playing with northern realms and slowly built the exact same deck with the same strategy. I barely played with the other factions because I really don't see how I can lose with this one considering you will always have more cards than the opponent, can clear any weather effect (i really only use the ability in the last round before i win if i need it) and use medics to bring back the opponent's spies if even needed since you can use decoy cards as well. I rarely even lose the first round because i just spam the spies and build a large deck while the opponents just keeps throwing away his cards and finally stops because he leads something like 40 to 0. I can then either use a bitting frost card if a lot of cards are infantry or scorch even. So sometimes the opponent has 6-7 cards left after losing the first round while i still have 10-11 cards. Also when you win a round you get another card from your card pile. I never lose and the games that are closer are so because i get really unlucky and start the game without spies or medics at all but the fact that if you push to win at any cost the first round you get another card that effectively gives you the advantage for round 2.
I’ve done a thousand play throughs on TW3 and never got into Gwent. But on my 1001 play through I said what the hell a tried it. I fooking love it!! Thx for the tutorial!
I run 5 blue stripes instead of the dragon hunters. But besides that our decks are the same. Have you ever thought of using bitter frost on your own blue stripes so they can't get scorched? It works pretty great and then your opponent will waste hella cards and you can simply use your commander ability to pull the bitter frost of last min
Before the DLC patches came out you could buy two, but since then an exploit was found where the merchants inventories reset back to 1.0.0's values, allowing players to buy another two, making 5 total. It replicatable, I think... but hardly worth the effort. You don't need 5 to make Northern Realms incredibly broken
This deck is a freaking beast!! It took a freaking long time to complete it because of the random found cards like Philippa or Villen but it's totally worth it!! I'm unbeaten since I completed it no matter who I play. Also won the tournament in the posh brothel in Novigrad easily :D Thanks Mr. Codeslinger!!
Include them if you like or don't. They are not a requirement for the deck to be useful once you get enough cards together to actually field a decent NR deck.
Never really realised the potential of the decoys but after I played a few games against Nilfgaard and the Realms, I realised. But by then all the Npcs I played had monsters or scoiatael. What I'm trying to say is that decoys are only really useful against Nilfgaard and you can beat it without them.
The only difference between my tactic and yours, is that I use seige units and the commander's horn foltest card instead of the tight bonds strategy. Otherwise, I use all spies, medics and heroes shown in the video.
Heynow , cool guide 👑 i own the Witcher III Goty edition pc since April 27, 2016 with all Dlc's and finished the game two times and never played Gwent until this morning ☀long story Short, clicked Secondary quest ; Win Gwent cards from ... Everyone & strengthen your collection so i can play in the high stakes quest & after 6 hours ~ think im hooked .... Thanx 4 posting 🎮
Siegemaster, all siege, all heros all spies and a couple decoys was my endgame deck and i can Never lose on hard. Run a couple clear weathers to negate possible torrential rain and youve got the most invincible deck in the game.
It took me such along time to get my head around gwent, I got so fed up of losing all of the time, in this play through I beat the baron before he died! Since then I've been obsessed I probably spent a day play through just trying to build the collection and to do the side quests/tournaments lol. Although I missed a card or two when at mask party. I hope it won't be detrimental! Xx
It’s mad that this is exactly the same deck I tend to run except I haven’t got Philippa yet and I usually run the Siegemaster leader for a 3rd round pop with Catapults
Yeah for me this strat and deck is the best in the game imo, if I get spies and medic in my initial draw I use the first round to bulk up and concede if it makes sense. However I like the dragon and scorch more than the horn to try and take the first round putting the pressure on them and then I use my 2 bond units alternately (leaving the medic or yen till needed) to try and draw a possible scorch from them. I rarely lose with this and I don't have the mys elf yet. Nice vid dude, whether it's great minds think alike or common sense it's good to see a like minded player
My deck is pretty op, all I do is get 22 catapult card and use Foltest Lord Commander Of The North To beat almost any deck out there. I usually end the second round with over 600 points of my opponents.
Great video! i recently bought the game and I'm really enjoying it. I've gotten into Gwent too, even though i'm not far in the game and don't have that many cards. But this video was great to get some inspiration how to play and compose my deck. Great Job! ^^
Glad you liked the video. You might want to check out the video description. There are links in there to a full Gwent tutorial video as well as videos for finding all of the Gwent cards in the game. You might also want to check this out. It is a checklist for where all the cards come from. (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15RUB-aG3Y2mRY3oWyNY1TlfDTRE-ySgNURUfTpMH0XQ/edit?usp=sharing&pageId=115174563476490065092)
I am stuck in triss's side quest where you have to beat the 3 guys in gwent otherwise you fail collect them all. After trying 10x I finally beat the 2nd one and my game crashed immediately before saving. This has just given me depression
Just put an evening into starting gwent… I made pretty much the exact same deck you did. Already I’m whipping the floor with everyone I play. I don’t run any decoys, but this idea of decoying off to draw 4 is a neat one. I fucking hate torch too… always always I get 2x catapult and I would bet the farm they’ll be scorched when played - So satisfying when you have two medics and put em right back though
With the DLC you can run a cow as well so as to use all of your spies in one round and put the cow down allowing you to throw the round and steamroll them with another chort
z3ro7o I don't know what the deal is. I have more views than people who have 10x as many subs... Probably a combination of A) people tell me that can't stand my accent and B) that I make generally shitty videos... so I'm guessing there are only a small number of people that actually enjoy them. Oh well. I enjoy making them and I know they do help those of you out there that are sub's so that's all that matters. Have a great weekend.
+MrCodeslinger I think a lot of subs are fake accounts to be honest. I wouldn't worry too much about what others do. Very nice video tutorial. PS I pretty much have a very similar deck myself (I also play Northern Realms).
Personally, I don’t use any weather cards or scorch. I usually find that whenever I could really use one, I have one that I don’t need. The only time I would even consider using one is against a monster deck.
In the high stakes tourney I took out the 2nd to last guy with a scorch on the opening round. I played low cards at first I think just 1 spy and maybe a blue commando and he brought out horn and four cards with strength of 5 each (3 of them were the scoital smuggler) so right off the bat he’s got 40 points and I scorch (using the dragon vil ) all 4 of his cards down to zero and then he passes lol. The next round he was already down several cards and his horn and I only used 1 or 2. It was the most rewarding gwent game I ever played.
Thank you for making this guide. I have a fairly good understanding of the basics of the game, but I have difficulty balancing my decks for play against standard opponents (shopkeepers etc.) Obviously for quest players I save the game and then custom-build a deck to suit the opponent but I'm not about to create a custom deck for every John Doe merchant I run into, so this guide was very helpful for me, especially as I'm still collecting cards. Personally, I run a Foltest the Steel Forged for the free commander's horn, since, unless my hand dictates that I heavily reinforce a single line, I don't have as much difficulty playing around weather cards. On those occasions I do run into a problematic weather effect, not having a redundant commander's horn in my deck creates room for an extra Clear Weather. In any event, it works for me. thank you again for making this guide.
Chris Roberts Glad you found it useful. Check out the video description as there are links to walkthroughs on all of the Gwent quests and it will show you what decks your opponents run and how they play their hands. There's also a fairly decent tutorial up on the channel where I go through some of the basic stuff as well as play a few rounds and discuss a few advanced strats. Thanks for watching!
MrCodeslinger definitely going to check those out. I can't believe I mixed up Siegemaster and Steel-Forged. getting Siegemaster was a pain because of the sheer number of ten-strength cards in that nobleman's deck. leader weather effects came in handy there, no question.
I ran a Northern Realms deck my first playthrough and I always ran Foltest the Siegemaster. I built a siege deck and stacked it with clear weather cards and commanders horns and I got some STUPID numbers in some of my matches. It was honestly insane lol.
About halfway through your video and the only thing I would change is 2 less heroes and 2 more Blue Stripes Commandos. If you can get all 5 of those bad boys out there plus a Commander's Horn, that's 200 points right there and it's always fun to pull off.
I don't worry about playing a handful of 6 power sieges cuz I just torrential rain myself as a scorch deterrent, then drop a commander horn and clear the weather. Boom
Great Video man, really helped me out, fun to see how our decks and strategies compared. Very similar thinking behind mine in terms of the leader and use of spies and medics, keep up the great content!
In basic fundamentals of any trading card game is to have advantage either on the field or in your hand either by stealing your opponents cards or pulling from the deck or graveyard and medics and spies do just that very efficiently.
I find the best way to play is to use the decoy/spy/medic game with clear weather and the siege boosting leader. You can use a counter weather to the opponent’s deck (fog for scoia’tael, frost for monsters, etc) and bring out your siege weapons against their weak lines.
This is almost exactly the same deck im using just minus the Gearlt card. I just haven't got it yet. Also a couple cards I will be switching out to carry another decoy .
I run almost the same setup, but instead of the dragon hunters I run 5 blue stripes commandos and dandelion because you will more consistently be able to draw multiples and they get insanely strong. To get around scorch I sometimes freeze them and play my leader later in the hand. Dandelion also almost completely replaces commander horns and is great against the high point value spies in nilfgaard
Gwent is a great game and a great idea but it sux in-game. I just wish the AI would stop randomly pulling "magic" out of its arse to win every time with a stacked deck. it's unfair
I use almost the same deck except that I stack biting frosts and have almost no melee cards. the very first time I played someone with a monster deck, it scared the crap out of me so from that point on I keep at least one biting frost in my hand at all times just in case.
I removed just about all my immortal cards [not sure the name but they have the golden sunburst around the number. They can’t be doubled with horn. And although they can’t be scorched either you should almost always have some sort of doubled up card that would be higher than a 10 anyway so their scorch resistance is moot.. I am open to advice if someone disagrees with me.
The Clear Weather Commander is good too because you don't have to waste a card that you drawn from your deck and allows for you not to have to run Clear Weather cards.
I don't run any siege units other than Thaler and Dun Bannar Medic, sometimes Gaunter O'dimm, but usually only the tree O'dimm shadow. I do fun Poor Fucking infantry, Blue Stripes Commando and Dandelion. This is because Dandelion's effect is cumulative with commander's horn so playing doubles you close combat units if you the play Commander's Horn on the same row it doubles thwm all again so three Blue stripes Commando + Dandelion + Commander's Horn comes to 196 streangth for 5 cards. 64 per Blue Stripes Commando + 4 for Dandelion. Devastating.
I don't think running triss is worth it. Some 10 str hero cards is good enough to warrant bulking the deck up and make spy draws and tight bonds less likely, but even those are not auto includes.
I hate scorch I had a 50 point lead with 2 cards and the dwarf at gwent tournament scorched my siege engines with commanders horn, I use alot of catapults, thanks for vid
I fracking love gwent. I hated it, until I failed the side quest. Then it really bugged me that it was failed....so much, I restarted after level 40 in the middle of blood and wine....I just had to play Gwent. I didn't want to fail a quest, and I grumbled until I actually understood it. I now LOVE it, and play merchants all of the time to get better at it. I sometimes realize that I have a great card like scorch, and when I decide to play it, is the worse possible time, Like against the monster deck. They stack up then throw a random 6 card. Meanwhile, they have 3 of their 5 point cards on there....worse day ever for me. haha
One time I got mad because my opponent played 3 scorch in a row. Technically it was a card, leader ability, then another card, but still infuriating because I was able to counter two of them.
I know I'm late but I can't find the third copy of the tight bond cards for this deck. Is it because I skipped the merchants in Midcopse when I was early game and didn't have money to purchase the cards if they come from there otherwise I can't find more cards in Velen and Novigrad.
+DUCKY_TIE_WHATUP So hard to choose... Scoia'Tael is definitely the most versatile deck of the 4 available. The more I played the game, the more I came to like all of the decks for what the could provide against specific opponents. However, NR was definitely my go to deck if I was walking into a match blind. Thank you very much for the sub, I really appreciate it, and thanks for watching!
This is all about using the cards you have collected. What about the best way to collect the cards? I'm at level 10 and I play people with much better decks than me.
The video description has links to everything you need to find every card in the game as well as a checklist so you can figure out what is in each deck, what you want and where it comes from.
NPC: They killed all my family and friends, robbed me of all my worldly possessions, tortured and mutilated me for life. Geralt: Wanna play Gwent? NPC: Hell yeah!!!
Oh I just love it when a monster deck puts a shitton of melee on the board and I just go with biting frost and then scorch his whole line with the dragon... I would love to see the enemy's face :D
mild9966 Yeah that truly has to be the single most devastating counter to the monster deck. It's one of the reasons that the Scoia'tael deck is so nasty against the monster deck as it has a commander that has that ability along with being able to run the puff the magic dragon card. :) Love it! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for this man really fantastic build guide, I learnt a lot here :) Unfortunately I can't build this deck because of all the cards I missed from the innkeeper at white orchard and unfortunately Bram still doesn't sell those missing cards, no matter what I try. Also man, have u made a video of merchants to play in velen?? I see you have videos for both merchants to play in skellige and novigrad but I can't find one for velen?? Cheers matey.
willypallmall HK The info on Velen is in the video description of the Collect 'em All (Velen) video. I thought that they were so easy to find that no one would need a video for them, that was wrong, but for the moment the text based description of the location is all that's out there. I'm still slacking on getting a video up for them. Check it out and let me know if you have any trouble.
After figuring out how to play gwent...I'm addicted!
Fuck yes. I just bought the game not so long ago cuz of BeSt GaMe EvEr hype. First time playing it i didnt really get it. Few button map problems like triangle for attack instead of jumping on horse etc. But gwent. I just didnt get at all and tried to avoid it. Now that i know the ins and outs ive only been grinding for cards and shit. Not even for the cards tho. Just for a good match. The baron is the one that got me into it. Thnx to his spies i found value in the decoy card by taking his spies and playing it to draw an extra card. Then i found the decoy/healer combo AND the seige buff leader. Im at work atm and all i wanna do is play gwent.
There is a complete game name gwent made by CD project red. You can play on PC, iOS and android platforms
@@ironside12 but i dont have my cards so im literally gonna be dogshit
@@hailhydra3058 It takes only 3-4 months to collect almost every cards(1198) if you are active enough and play with brain.
@@hailhydra3058 Trust me bro I know how you feel. I felt the same way when I started the game but after a few months I got almost every cards . Btw I made it to pro rank when I had only 400 cards. Gaining 400 cards only takes 30-35 days. Add me on gwent if you need any help making cheap but good deck. My in game name is IRONATION
Armourer: My son was lost on the sea if skillega
Geralt: how about a round of Gwent
Armourer: YES
“Looks like somebody’s grumpy.” “You would be if yer fuckin son was lost in the sea of skillega (or something)” *”That’s cool, wanna play some Gwent?”*
@@Wilzer38 DO I ! :D :D
🤣🤣
You probably won't see this, but your guides are a massive help to me almost 7 years later and without a doubt for many more years to come for other gwent newbies out there.
I second this. I'm also a gwent newbie
Baiting scorch out with the catapults is a great tactic, then just medic the catapults back. The AI scorches them instantly when they're both on the board
if scorch annoys you so much you can use biting frost and impenetrable fog to make your dragon hunters and blue stripe commandos unscorchable then putting your 2 catapults down making them scorch them then clear the weather and you win
So, we can use the weather cards to protect our highest value cards from scorch. OMG! You're a genius!
All I use is: Foltest to clear weather, Biting Frost to kill the monster decks stacking and my spies! I'll beat any Monster decks! Bring em!
Samr
It is really difficult for me to defeat monster deck I never get a biting frost and if I do he always has a clear weather for it so I can't play a lot in skellige
@@dorisdsouza9276 Monster decks usually use up most of their cards during that round, so just use the most minimal supporting cards as possible then wipe them out in the next round
If you already beated the game, you will never loose in gwent anymore. I dont even use freeze in my deck. Just throw spyes and you're fine 😎👍
My deck is mainly siege so I use him to boost the stats
I use the siege master card with a big focus on siege units, combo units, boosts that double card strength, Spies, and medics.
If you're using siege units I'd recommend using siegemaster leader card.
like me...its very strong.
SexyBaconGod my type of girl right here 😂
I just use clear weather as I get loads of horns
How do you get him?
@@rabiealkurba2520 u win hin from the guy in vizima
Imagine getting addicted to a game that was made inside a game that was supposed to be a side game
Now imagine finding out it was so popular it has its own standalone game that's even better and prettier.. For FREE. :)
@@Radtastical nah witcher 3 gwent > pay to win gwent
@@alexandersong5753 yeah, I made that comment before I saw that. Truth.
Happened to me playing Triple Triad in Final Fantasy VIII
Nilfgaard is pretty funny. Put the highest level spy on there side at the start of the round, scorch it before he decoys it, activate leader ability to take a card from the enemy discard pile which the spy will be there, and repeat till he runs out of cards on the first round.
Assuming your opponent didn’t draw a decoy, which they are hard wired to play immediately on spies. Also, you can’t even repeat this strategy, because you can only use that Nilfgaardian leader’s ability once.
griffin armor makes geralt look fat.
#bearSchoolMasterRace
when ur looking at it from the side which I avoid XD
naw, wolf school master race
Feline master race. (Quite late am I..?) Well, bear= big, thicc boi, Griffin=Fat. Wolf=ugly shoulder plate. Feline=dark assassin
@@quercingtime blue looks ugly on geralt
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I got scortch-ed 4 times at the last high stakes match 😑😑😑
Use monster and u might be able to avoid it, the units are a lot weaker, but u get more of em. Use horn last
I too run Northern Realms Deck as well and I also am big on Spies to out-card the other players deck, especially the damn Monster deck!
When a fighting a monster deck all I use is biting frost and their screwed
it took me so long before getting into gwent. Because I never knew how to play. But now that I know how to, its amazing
Yeah I really wish they had added something similar to Cyberpunk 2077. Gwent was really fun to play. Thanks for watching!
for some reason i had 4 blue stripes commandos in my deck and once i managed to play them all and put a commander's horn on it, so i had 142 in my front line, it was epic (also had villentretenmerth)
I believe there's only 3 available in the game
@@joshstromer5640 I've had 4 as well
@@joshstromer5640 there was a patch, but if you did it before or for some reason didn't get the patch you can have more than 3
I started out straight away playing with northern realms and slowly built the exact same deck with the same strategy. I barely played with the other factions because I really don't see how I can lose with this one considering you will always have more cards than the opponent, can clear any weather effect (i really only use the ability in the last round before i win if i need it) and use medics to bring back the opponent's spies if even needed since you can use decoy cards as well.
I rarely even lose the first round because i just spam the spies and build a large deck while the opponents just keeps throwing away his cards and finally stops because he leads something like 40 to 0. I can then either use a bitting frost card if a lot of cards are infantry or scorch even. So sometimes the opponent has 6-7 cards left after losing the first round while i still have 10-11 cards. Also when you win a round you get another card from your card pile.
I never lose and the games that are closer are so because i get really unlucky and start the game without spies or medics at all but the fact that if you push to win at any cost the first round you get another card that effectively gives you the advantage for round 2.
I’ve done a thousand play throughs on TW3 and never got into Gwent. But on my 1001 play through I said what the hell a tried it. I fooking love it!!
Thx for the tutorial!
I run 5 blue stripes instead of the dragon hunters. But besides that our decks are the same. Have you ever thought of using bitter frost on your own blue stripes so they can't get scorched? It works pretty great and then your opponent will waste hella cards and you can simply use your commander ability to pull the bitter frost of last min
how did you get 5??
He has a mod installed i guess. Without mods/bugs you can only have 3 of them.
Necro-posting but another youtuber going for the highest army points possible mentioned that before certain update/version you could get 5.
Before the DLC patches came out you could buy two, but since then an exploit was found where the merchants inventories reset back to 1.0.0's values, allowing players to buy another two, making 5 total.
It replicatable, I think... but hardly worth the effort. You don't need 5 to make Northern Realms incredibly broken
Only decoy and commander horn never used any weather shits
This deck is a freaking beast!! It took a freaking long time to complete it because of the random found cards like Philippa or Villen but it's totally worth it!! I'm unbeaten since I completed it no matter who I play. Also won the tournament in the posh brothel in Novigrad easily :D Thanks Mr. Codeslinger!!
+Andrew Patsalos Congrats on completing your deck and winning the tournament! Glad to hear you have found the build to be useful. Thanks for watching!
Frost and Villetrentementh is such a great combo
Where's the Poor Fucking Infantry?
Include them if you like or don't. They are not a requirement for the deck to be useful once you get enough cards together to actually field a decent NR deck.
The Northern Realms deck crushed all opposition at the Passiflora. Thank you!
Never really realised the potential of the decoys but after I played a few games against Nilfgaard and the Realms, I realised. But by then all the Npcs I played had monsters or scoiatael. What I'm trying to say is that decoys are only really useful against Nilfgaard and you can beat it without them.
The only difference between my tactic and yours, is that I use seige units and the commander's horn foltest card instead of the tight bonds strategy.
Otherwise, I use all spies, medics and heroes shown in the video.
This is great stuff. I like your strategy, it is very similar to how I think. So, to see a video of how to set up the deck is brilliant. Thanks
+Natalie Hobson Thinking like I do is scary, don't do that. ;) Glad you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
Heynow , cool guide 👑 i own the Witcher III Goty edition pc since April 27, 2016 with all Dlc's and finished the game two times and never played Gwent until this morning ☀long story Short, clicked Secondary quest ; Win Gwent cards from ... Everyone & strengthen your collection so i can play in the high stakes quest & after 6 hours ~ think im hooked .... Thanx 4 posting 🎮
You are most welcome Carlos. Glad you're getting to enjoy another aspect of such a wonderful game. Thanks for watching!
Siegemaster, all siege, all heros all spies and a couple decoys was my endgame deck and i can Never lose on hard. Run a couple clear weathers to negate possible torrential rain and youve got the most invincible deck in the game.
It took me such along time to get my head around gwent, I got so fed up of losing all of the time, in this play through I beat the baron before he died! Since then I've been obsessed I probably spent a day play through just trying to build the collection and to do the side quests/tournaments lol. Although I missed a card or two when at mask party. I hope it won't be detrimental! Xx
Siegemaster all day.
Randy stannnnn
amen brother
It’s mad that this is exactly the same deck I tend to run except I haven’t got Philippa yet and I usually run the Siegemaster leader for a 3rd round pop with Catapults
The Baron : did you find my wife and daughter
Geralt : how about the round of Gwent
Baron : okay
Thanks for your help! I was having trouble against monster decks but with your strategies I have kicked ass! I’m Gwent addicted...
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!
This deck is unbeatable, very hard to draw a bad hand. Out drawing your opponent is an underestimated tactic, almost always guarantees a win.
Yeah for me this strat and deck is the best in the game imo, if I get spies and medic in my initial draw I use the first round to bulk up and concede if it makes sense. However I like the dragon and scorch more than the horn to try and take the first round putting the pressure on them and then I use my 2 bond units alternately (leaving the medic or yen till needed) to try and draw a possible scorch from them. I rarely lose with this and I don't have the mys elf yet. Nice vid dude, whether it's great minds think alike or common sense it's good to see a like minded player
The clear weather leader card has by far been my favorite one. It’s saved my ass a lot.
Yeah, that's a hard one to give up.
Thank you for your Gwent videos, helped me finally understand this game and give me a fresh go at it. You made a subscriber out of me :)
I wish you many hours of enjoyment in Gwent stejward. Thanks for watching and thanks for the sub, I really appreciate it!
My deck is pretty op, all I do is get 22 catapult card and use Foltest Lord Commander Of The North To beat almost any deck out there. I usually end the second round with over 600 points of my opponents.
🌟 *My guy, you helped me!!*
Thank you, very much bro.
Dude I bear the tourney no problem with this guide bro still works 2021 thanks man
You bet Dallas, thanks for watching!
Thanks for the tip soothsayer was a major pain in my arse with his monster deck
Great video!
i recently bought the game and I'm really enjoying it. I've gotten into Gwent too, even though i'm not far in the game and don't have that many cards.
But this video was great to get some inspiration how to play and compose my deck.
Great Job! ^^
Glad you liked the video. You might want to check out the video description. There are links in there to a full Gwent tutorial video as well as videos for finding all of the Gwent cards in the game. You might also want to check this out. It is a checklist for where all the cards come from. (docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15RUB-aG3Y2mRY3oWyNY1TlfDTRE-ySgNURUfTpMH0XQ/edit?usp=sharing&pageId=115174563476490065092)
I am stuck in triss's side quest where you have to beat the 3 guys in gwent otherwise you fail collect them all. After trying 10x I finally beat the 2nd one and my game crashed immediately before saving. This has just given me depression
You… don’t have to beat them
Just put an evening into starting gwent… I made pretty much the exact same deck you did. Already I’m whipping the floor with everyone I play. I don’t run any decoys, but this idea of decoying off to draw 4 is a neat one. I fucking hate torch too… always always I get 2x catapult and I would bet the farm they’ll be scorched when played - So satisfying when you have two medics and put em right back though
Yeah, it's such a fun deck. My favorite by far. Glad you're enjoying it too B A. Thanks for watching!
I totally ignored went early game and didn’t get into until like level 20. My deck could be so much better if I gave it a chance earlier
With the DLC you can run a cow as well so as to use all of your spies in one round and put the cow down allowing you to throw the round and steamroll them with another chort
Best deck, haven't had any problems with opponents since I started building it.
z3ro7o I don't know what the deal is. I have more views than people who have 10x as many subs... Probably a combination of A) people tell me that can't stand my accent and B) that I make generally shitty videos... so I'm guessing there are only a small number of people that actually enjoy them. Oh well. I enjoy making them and I know they do help those of you out there that are sub's so that's all that matters. Have a great weekend.
you 2 bro , n thanks again :D
I love watching videos but rarely sub because I'm rarely signed in.
+MrCodeslinger shut up, ur not bad at all, keep doing you.
+MrCodeslinger I think a lot of subs are fake accounts to be honest. I wouldn't worry too much about what others do. Very nice video tutorial. PS I pretty much have a very similar deck myself (I also play Northern Realms).
+MrCodeslinger
Don't define yourself by the subs you have, you won't be satisfied, trust me.
Personally, I don’t use any weather cards or scorch. I usually find that whenever I could really use one, I have one that I don’t need. The only time I would even consider using one is against a monster deck.
In the high stakes tourney I took out the 2nd to last guy with a scorch on the opening round. I played low cards at first I think just 1 spy and maybe a blue commando and he brought out horn and four cards with strength of 5 each (3 of them were the scoital smuggler) so right off the bat he’s got 40 points and I scorch (using the dragon vil ) all 4 of his cards down to zero and then he passes lol. The next round he was already down several cards and his horn and I only used 1 or 2. It was the most rewarding gwent game I ever played.
Thank you for making this guide. I have a fairly good understanding of the basics of the game, but I have difficulty balancing my decks for play against standard opponents (shopkeepers etc.) Obviously for quest players I save the game and then custom-build a deck to suit the opponent but I'm not about to create a custom deck for every John Doe merchant I run into, so this guide was very helpful for me, especially as I'm still collecting cards. Personally, I run a Foltest the Steel Forged for the free commander's horn, since, unless my hand dictates that I heavily reinforce a single line, I don't have as much difficulty playing around weather cards. On those occasions I do run into a problematic weather effect, not having a redundant commander's horn in my deck creates room for an extra Clear Weather. In any event, it works for me. thank you again for making this guide.
Chris Roberts Glad you found it useful. Check out the video description as there are links to walkthroughs on all of the Gwent quests and it will show you what decks your opponents run and how they play their hands. There's also a fairly decent tutorial up on the channel where I go through some of the basic stuff as well as play a few rounds and discuss a few advanced strats. Thanks for watching!
MrCodeslinger definitely going to check those out. I can't believe I mixed up Siegemaster and Steel-Forged. getting Siegemaster was a pain because of the sheer number of ten-strength cards in that nobleman's deck. leader weather effects came in handy there, no question.
As soon as I saw his leader card I was like okay this knows his shit
Keep decoys for monster deck to vellentretenmirth them multiple times. Nullifies their muster groups.
I ran a Northern Realms deck my first playthrough and I always ran Foltest the Siegemaster. I built a siege deck and stacked it with clear weather cards and commanders horns and I got some STUPID numbers in some of my matches. It was honestly insane lol.
Went with the first one that clears weather loved having him never ran weather cards didn’t always win but did alot
Thus amazingly close to how I play, tha ks for the great video dude
You are most welcome Peter. Thanks for watching!
About halfway through your video and the only thing I would change is 2 less heroes and 2 more Blue Stripes Commandos. If you can get all 5 of those bad boys out there plus a Commander's Horn, that's 200 points right there and it's always fun to pull off.
Sub here. Always. Great tutorials and you always seems to create the ones I need. Keep going. Good work mate!
I appreciate the words of encouragement. I'm glad to hear that you're finding the videos on the channel to be useful. Thanks for watching!
I don't worry about playing a handful of 6 power sieges cuz I just torrential rain myself as a scorch deterrent, then drop a commander horn and clear the weather. Boom
Great Video man, really helped me out, fun to see how our decks and strategies compared. Very similar thinking behind mine in terms of the leader and use of spies and medics, keep up the great content!
Glad you enjoyed it Teddy. Thanks for watching!
Gaunter o Dimm: darkness cards are good for an early 12 points.
In basic fundamentals of any trading card game is to have advantage either on the field or in your hand either by stealing your opponents cards or pulling from the deck or graveyard and medics and spies do just that very efficiently.
+88riddlemethis Hope you enjoyed the video. Thanks for watching!
I find the best way to play is to use the decoy/spy/medic game with clear weather and the siege boosting leader. You can use a counter weather to the opponent’s deck (fog for scoia’tael, frost for monsters, etc) and bring out your siege weapons against their weak lines.
I thought about it the best thing to do is get all hero cards, and spies, and play all weather cards
This is almost exactly the same deck im using just minus the Gearlt card. I just haven't got it yet. Also a couple cards I will be switching out to carry another decoy .
I also use weather to my advantage if they have scorch.
+Thefinalcure RUclips knowing i have a clear weather i can use when they pass.
I like your Gwent related videos. You earned yourself a sub, pal.
I run almost the same setup, but instead of the dragon hunters I run 5 blue stripes commandos and dandelion because you will more consistently be able to draw multiples and they get insanely strong. To get around scorch I sometimes freeze them and play my leader later in the hand. Dandelion also almost completely replaces commander horns and is great against the high point value spies in nilfgaard
+Robert Ford Yeah, at the time of this recording the bug that allows you to get 5 BSC's didn't exist. I love those cards! Thanks for watching!
Gwent is a great game and a great idea but it sux in-game. I just wish the AI would stop randomly pulling "magic" out of its arse to win every time with a stacked deck. it's unfair
ExoticSpeedify i know what you mean but in my opinion it is easy to play around them
H0lm3s agreed.
It's pretty easy to exploit because the AI is predictable and easily tricked.
I almost never lose. You just need to build your deck up and learn how to play the game on a deeper level.
So you don't lose anything if you lose? Also if I play the same Innkeeper and win do I continue to get a card just started playing the game?
I use almost the same deck except that I stack biting frosts and have almost no melee cards. the very first time I played someone with a monster deck, it scared the crap out of me so from that point on I keep at least one biting frost in my hand at all times just in case.
I removed just about all my immortal cards [not sure the name but they have the golden sunburst around the number. They can’t be doubled with horn. And although they can’t be scorched either you should almost always have some sort of doubled up card that would be higher than a 10 anyway so their scorch resistance is moot.. I am open to advice if someone disagrees with me.
The Clear Weather Commander is good too because you don't have to waste a card that you drawn from your deck and allows for you not to have to run Clear Weather cards.
Yeah, Foltest Lord Commander card is my usual Commander card for the deck.
About tikme someone made a video! I basically run this deck but need to switch a few things up but now I know! Thanks man!
You are most welcome Nancy. Thanks for watching!
Don't forget Villetretenmouth only against the Close Combat row with makes it very situational.
Sorry his name is Villetrettenmerth. He is great against monsters as you can decoy him out to destroy multiple swarms of monsters just using him.
I don't run any siege units other than Thaler and Dun Bannar Medic, sometimes Gaunter O'dimm, but usually only the tree O'dimm shadow. I do fun Poor Fucking infantry, Blue Stripes Commando and Dandelion. This is because Dandelion's effect is cumulative with commander's horn so playing doubles you close combat units if you the play Commander's Horn on the same row it doubles thwm all again so three Blue stripes Commando + Dandelion + Commander's Horn comes to 196 streangth for 5 cards. 64 per Blue Stripes Commando + 4 for Dandelion. Devastating.
the catapult card can be used to bait out scorch
Great video, but a bit outdated now.. in the hearts of stone expansion there are some pretty good neutral cards like Oligierd and Gaunter O’Dimm
I don't think running triss is worth it. Some 10 str hero cards is good enough to warrant bulking the deck up and make spy draws and tight bonds less likely, but even those are not auto includes.
I just recently started playing The Witcher thanks for the guide! This looks like a good strategy to use while getting more cards :-)
Glad you enjoyed it Dcypherman. Thanks for watching!
Eye card + dummy is the most powerful baiting card in this game, I literally never lose any games, it's soo op,
Why do I only get 10 cards to use and my opponent gets 30 cards to use? It's impossible to win anything
I hate scorch I had a 50 point lead with 2 cards and the dwarf at gwent tournament scorched my siege engines with commanders horn, I use alot of catapults, thanks for vid
Pretty much same as me
I fracking love gwent. I hated it, until I failed the side quest. Then it really bugged me that it was failed....so much, I restarted after level 40 in the middle of blood and wine....I just had to play Gwent.
I didn't want to fail a quest, and I grumbled until I actually understood it. I now LOVE it, and play merchants all of the time to get better at it. I sometimes realize that I have a great card like scorch, and when I decide to play it, is the worse possible time, Like against the monster deck. They stack up then throw a random 6 card. Meanwhile, they have 3 of their 5 point cards on there....worse day ever for me. haha
Glad you found your way to loving yet another aspect of such a great game Tippy. Thanks for watching!
dude, thanx for this deck build, this is awesome!!
+Dylan Lee Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!
One time I got mad because my opponent played 3 scorch in a row. Technically it was a card, leader ability, then another card, but still infuriating because I was able to counter two of them.
Can someone tell me the top 10 easy gwent players to face first before going to medium players and their locations
Think I'll have to replay the game to get hand over these cards.
Why use a 1 value card when you can use a 5?
PS: I use the same strat, just with less spies at the moment as I don't have thaler or mysterious elf yet.
I know I'm late but I can't find the third copy of the tight bond cards for this deck. Is it because I skipped the merchants in Midcopse when I was early game and didn't have money to purchase the cards if they come from there otherwise I can't find more cards in Velen and Novigrad.
I really like your videos. They are clear and very helpfull! Keep it up!
My favorite deck is the Scoia'Tael. What's yours?
*Subbed
+DUCKY_TIE_WHATUP So hard to choose... Scoia'Tael is definitely the most versatile deck of the 4 available. The more I played the game, the more I came to like all of the decks for what the could provide against specific opponents. However, NR was definitely my go to deck if I was walking into a match blind. Thank you very much for the sub, I really appreciate it, and thanks for watching!
Going through my playthrough and being good at Gwent for the first time.
That's good to hear. It is definitely more enjoyable to play when you're winning, that's for sure.
Have you tried less heroes especially the straight power only ones and increasing use of specials to boost your cards?
Eredin: Time to die Geralt 👹 Ziraael is mine 😈 White Frost is coming ❄️
Geralt: Hankering for a few rounds of gwent 🃏
Eredin: *Nods*
Helpful vid bud. Keep up the good work.
This is all about using the cards you have collected. What about the best way to collect the cards? I'm at level 10 and I play people with much better decks than me.
The video description has links to everything you need to find every card in the game as well as a checklist so you can figure out what is in each deck, what you want and where it comes from.
Haven't really alot of spies and also missed playing gwent with the baron is there any other way to get his dijkstra card or am i screwed ?
Monster deck all the way
I usually get 35-50 first round and 60-100 in the second just from my starting hand
NPC: They killed all my family and friends, robbed me of all my worldly possessions, tortured and mutilated me for life.
Geralt: Wanna play Gwent?
NPC: Hell yeah!!!
Oh I just love it when a monster deck puts a shitton of melee on the board and I just go with biting frost and then scorch his whole line with the dragon... I would love to see the enemy's face :D
mild9966 Yeah that truly has to be the single most devastating counter to the monster deck. It's one of the reasons that the Scoia'tael deck is so nasty against the monster deck as it has a commander that has that ability along with being able to run the puff the magic dragon card. :) Love it! Thanks for watching!
I do have to ask this question....How do you know what faction they are running before you play them?
i like spys,but not using decoys a lot... no need a gigantic card advantage
Thanks for this man really fantastic build guide, I learnt a lot here :)
Unfortunately I can't build this deck because of all the cards I missed from the innkeeper at white orchard and unfortunately Bram still doesn't sell those missing cards, no matter what I try.
Also man, have u made a video of merchants to play in velen?? I see you have videos for both merchants to play in skellige and novigrad but I can't find one for velen??
Cheers matey.
willypallmall HK The info on Velen is in the video description of the Collect 'em All (Velen) video. I thought that they were so easy to find that no one would need a video for them, that was wrong, but for the moment the text based description of the location is all that's out there. I'm still slacking on getting a video up for them. Check it out and let me know if you have any trouble.
You can buy the missed cards from the merchant outside the tavern in any location where the owner has disappeared.