{"id":3325,"date":"2017-08-14T00:51:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2020-08-20T05:43:32","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T05:43:32","slug":"gwent-rank-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/gwent-rank-19\/","title":{"rendered":"GWENT &#8211; Rank 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After switching through a bunch of decks, and falling all the way down to 3400, the realization hit that I simply was no longer having any fun playing the game. A fundamental change was in order. So rather than thinking about what would be good against the current metagame (which is a crapshoot to predict with the blind matchmaking) I instead just put together a bunch of cards that would be fun to play.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, I ended up with a variation of Dagon-Butterfly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Foglet x3, Celaeno Harpy x3, Ekimmara x2, Earth Elemental x2, Arachas x3, Lacerate x2<\/li>\n<li>Grave Hag, Fiend, Katakan, Water Hag, Decoy, Monster Nest<\/li>\n<li>Ge&#8217;els, Triss: Butterflies, Woodland Spirit, Succubus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now this is not an optimized deck; it has only two methods of calling fog, the Arachas seem orphaned, the consume aspects come across as half-baked, and you can get an awful draw with multiple Foglets\/Arachas. Yet its variety, and flexibility (Weather, Butterflies, Succubus, Resilience, Grave Hag, Behemoth\/Foglet via Monster Nest), is exactly what I ended up liking most about it and the only real complaint is a lack of card draw.<\/p>\n<p>It brought me up to 4050 in rather short order considering I only played enough each day to reach the first daily reward (a countermeasure against burning out again). Assuming nothing changes I&#8217;ll probably stick with this for the foreseeable future, though I&#8217;m curious about a Dwarf-Resilience deck I saw a few times that takes a similar approach (it ran Sheldon, Blue Mountain Elves, and even a couple Skirmishers).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After switching through a bunch of decks, and falling all the way down to 3400, the realization hit that I simply was no longer having any fun playing the game. A fundamental change was in order. So rather than thinking about what would be good against the current metagame (which is a crapshoot to predict with the blind matchmaking) I instead just put together a bunch of cards that would be fun to play. Ironically, I ended up with a variation of Dagon-Butterfly: Foglet x3, Celaeno Harpy x3, Ekimmara x2, Earth Elemental x2, Arachas x3, Lacerate x2 Grave Hag, Fiend, Katakan, Water Hag, Decoy, Monster Nest Ge&#8217;els, Triss: Butterflies, Woodland Spirit, Succubus Now this is not an optimized deck; it has only two methods of calling fog, the Arachas seem orphaned, the consume aspects come across as half-baked, and you can get an awful draw with multiple Foglets\/Arachas. Yet its variety, and flexibility (Weather, Butterflies, Succubus, Resilience, Grave Hag, Behemoth\/Foglet via Monster Nest), is exactly what I ended up liking most about it and the only real complaint is a lack of card draw. It brought me up to 4050 in rather short order considering I only played enough each [&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-3325","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\/3325","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=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}