Like several other Skellige units, he uses a self-wounding ability when deployed, and that takes a little getting used to. You begin with Crach en Craite in your starter’s deck. King Bran - Deploy: Discard up to 3 cards from your Deck and Strengthen all Units among them by 1. If this Destroys it, repeat this ability with Damage Power reduced by 1.Ĭrach en Craite - Deploy: Play the Highest Loyal Bronze or Silver Unit in your Deck, Strengthen it by 3 and Damage it by 1. Harald the Cripple - Deploy: Damage a Unit by 5. Skellige are a hardy bunch, with a playstyle built around harming (and then buffing) many of their units. This really only impacts how many scraps they produce when you mill them, so it’s only something to worry about from a collector’s standpoint, rather than a tactician’s. Monsters can use frost to create chain reaction buffs when it damages an opposing unit, for example.Ĭards also come in white, blue, purple, and gold rarity values, with white the most common and gold the rarest. All three rows are now targets for any of the weather-triggering cards, and they each manifest different effects now. If you played some Gwent in The Witcher 3 and remember how weather worked there, note that it’s different in the standalone. Positioning matters because a) you can often buff cards on the same row and b) weather effects impact all cards on the same row. Ranged cards live in the middle row, and siege are deployed on the back row. Agile cards can be played in any row, while melee cards can only be deployed in the front row. In addition to their colour and power, cards also have a positional attribute. It all comes down to deck composition, as you’ll see in the decks below.

While an individual gold card can provide a swing moment in a round, the composition of silver and bronze cards in your deck is equally important-some would argue even more important. Traditional CCG wisdom would have it that you should build a deck around the golds, but that doesn’t hold entirely true in Gwent. Most competitive decks have 25 cards in them-maxing out on golds and silvers.

When building a deck you can have up to three copies of any bronze card, but only six silvers and four golds total. Gold cards are generally the most powerful in the game, and the rarest to find in kegs (Gwent's version of card packs). Decks contain 25-40 cards, made up of units of varying rarities and colours.

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