{"id":3167,"date":"2017-07-21T01:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T01:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=3167"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:44:07","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:44:07","slug":"gwent-rank-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/gwent-rank-18\/","title":{"rendered":"GWENT &#8211; Rank 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/gwent-rank-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the last post<\/a> I ended up stuck at Rank 17 for like a week. Couldn&#8217;t gain any traction whatsoever against all the Butterfly and Kaedweni Sergeant decks that were suddenly so popular.<\/p>\n<p>So I built a Eithn\u00e9 deck specifically to fight them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Smuggler x3, Trapper x2, Dragoon x3, Thunder x1, First Light x1, Shackles x1, Epidemic x1, Mardroeme x1, Lacerate x2<\/li>\n<li>Toruviel, Ciaran, Myrgtabrakke, Braenn, Nature&#8217;s Gift, Necromancy<\/li>\n<li>Saskia, Saesenthessis, Schirr\u00fa, Ithlinne<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, I was not skilled enough to make the most of it (making dumb misplays rather often) and didn&#8217;t get very far. So to hell with it I thought, I&#8217;ll go back to my roots with John Calveit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Golem x3, Pikeman x3, Brigade x2, Medic x2, Rot Tosser x3, Emissary x2<\/li>\n<li>Peter Saar, Aukes, Assire, D-Bomb, Fake Ciri, Cantarella<\/li>\n<li>Cahir, Vilgefortz, Tibor, Letho<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Less weak to player error and far better at topdecking&#8230; and it certainly didn&#8217;t hurt that Letho plays havoc with Fogling\/Resilience strategies&#8230; this deck finally broke me past the 3600 point barrier. The only change I made since putting it together was switching out Twisted Mirror for Assire (it was a dead card too often and I sometimes ended up without any cards to draw). Now let&#8217;s see if I can make it any higher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the last post I ended up stuck at Rank 17 for like a week. Couldn&#8217;t gain any traction whatsoever against all the Butterfly and Kaedweni Sergeant decks that were suddenly so popular. So I built a Eithn\u00e9 deck specifically to fight them: Smuggler x3, Trapper x2, Dragoon x3, Thunder x1, First Light x1, Shackles x1, Epidemic x1, Mardroeme x1, Lacerate x2 Toruviel, Ciaran, Myrgtabrakke, Braenn, Nature&#8217;s Gift, Necromancy Saskia, Saesenthessis, Schirr\u00fa, Ithlinne Unfortunately, I was not skilled enough to make the most of it (making dumb misplays rather often) and didn&#8217;t get very far. So to hell with it I thought, I&#8217;ll go back to my roots with John Calveit: Golem x3, Pikeman x3, Brigade x2, Medic x2, Rot Tosser x3, Emissary x2 Peter Saar, Aukes, Assire, D-Bomb, Fake Ciri, Cantarella Cahir, Vilgefortz, Tibor, Letho Less weak to player error and far better at topdecking&#8230; and it certainly didn&#8217;t hurt that Letho plays havoc with Fogling\/Resilience strategies&#8230; this deck finally broke me past the 3600 point barrier. The only change I made since putting it together was switching out Twisted Mirror for Assire (it was a dead card too often and I sometimes ended up without any cards to [&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-3167","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\/3167","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=3167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}