{"id":3043,"date":"2017-06-26T17:27:56","date_gmt":"2017-06-26T17:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:44:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:44:31","slug":"gwent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/gwent\/","title":{"rendered":"GWENT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, since shortly after the public beta started, I&#8217;ve fallen down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gog.com\/game\/gwent_the_witcher_card_game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gwent<\/a> rabbit hole. It scratches that card game itch I previously soothed with first <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic:_The_Gathering_Online\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MTGO<\/a> (stopping after it seemed like WotC cared more about making money than satisfying their customers; shortly after the super epic rares popped up I think it was) and then slightly more recently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duelofchampions.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Duel of Champions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Having spent no money on this just yet, I&#8217;m at level 32 (floating between ranks 11 &#038; 12) with pretty much all the bronze cards, some key silver cards, and a handful of gold cards.<\/p>\n<p>Starting out in ranked play I went with Henselt-Reavers (I&#8217;m missing the golds and witcher trio to make it really good), then moved on to Elder-Consume (missing all the golds) and Voorhis-Reveal (lacking the reveal golds), next to Elf-Control (missing Villentret), and finally ended up having the most luck with Bran-Discard:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Queensguard x3, Pirate Captain x3, Pirate x3, Priestess x2, War Longship x2, Mardroeme x2<\/li>\n<li>Champ of Champs, Morkvarg, Donar, Operator, Sigrdrifa, Svanrige<\/li>\n<li>Ermion, Ciri: Dash, Drought, Decree<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Primarily the deck wins with giant Pirate Captains, supported by giant Ciri, but it also has a bit of a Queensguard-resurrection backup plan (whether you use Operator on them or the Captains depends on the matchup) and I&#8217;ve also won a number of games thanks to a 20+ power Champion of Champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Mardroeme used to be Raiders, but I desperately needed more removal. Svanrige has been a bit underwhelming while Cerys, Coral, Kambi, and Lugos are all possible Drought replacements I&#8217;m considering. That said, I don&#8217;t really <em>like<\/em> playing Skellige and so may instead save up Scrap for the cards necessary to make a better Monster (Kayran, Ge&#8217;els, Crones, Succubus, Woodland Spirit), Elf (Villentretenmerth), or Nilfgaard (Leo, Letho, Vattier) deck.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, since shortly after the public beta started, I&#8217;ve fallen down the Gwent rabbit hole. It scratches that card game itch I previously soothed with first MTGO (stopping after it seemed like WotC cared more about making money than satisfying their customers; shortly after the super epic rares popped up I think it was) and then slightly more recently Duel of Champions. Having spent no money on this just yet, I&#8217;m at level 32 (floating between ranks 11 &#038; 12) with pretty much all the bronze cards, some key silver cards, and a handful of gold cards. Starting out in ranked play I went with Henselt-Reavers (I&#8217;m missing the golds and witcher trio to make it really good), then moved on to Elder-Consume (missing all the golds) and Voorhis-Reveal (lacking the reveal golds), next to Elf-Control (missing Villentret), and finally ended up having the most luck with Bran-Discard: Queensguard x3, Pirate Captain x3, Pirate x3, Priestess x2, War Longship x2, Mardroeme x2 Champ of Champs, Morkvarg, Donar, Operator, Sigrdrifa, Svanrige Ermion, Ciri: Dash, Drought, Decree Primarily the deck wins with giant Pirate Captains, supported by giant Ciri, but it also has a bit of a Queensguard-resurrection backup plan (whether you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[149,472,170],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-card-game","tag-first-person-perspective","tag-witcher"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}