GWENT: The Witcher Card Game is a new iOS and Android adaptation of the highly popular card game from The Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt. Your goal in this CCG is to beat your opponent in two out of three rounds by putting your best deck out and by outplaying your opponent, so that you end up with more points at the end of the round.
You can pick from one of many races and factions, each with their own card playing style, you can build a nearly endless number of decks, play against other players and their decks, and fight for supremacy in all arenas, including (eventually) in e-sports.
Read on for some tips and tricks for GWENT: The Witcher Card Game!
Because there are so many different cards, and so many different things that each of your cards do, always keep reading over each description of each card so that you can remember what they do. The better you remember their uses, the more that you can strategize.
When you get prompted to redraw at the beginning of the game, remember, you don’t HAVE to redraw. If you are happy with your cards, then keep using them. If you find a card that you want to try to improve upon, then drag it onto the draw pile to see if you get a better card, and if you do, then stick with it.
There is no “mana” system in this game; everyone plays one card at a time, so card strength and use of cards is everything. Don’t play an attack card when there are no enemy cards on the screen; wait until there are plenty of them, and if you get the opportunity to knock out a card altogether, knock out an enemy card that is boosting its allies.
Play first the cards with no point-related effect on enemies or allies. Then when you have allies on the board, play cards that boost their points or give them Vitality. Vitality means that for a specific number of turns, they gain one more point with each turn that you take.
If you see “End Turn” displayed, but you think that you have used all of your turns, then start tapping around to figure out which turn you haven’t used. Often, it’s your main character, rather than one of your cards. Sometimes, it’s due to a card that you placed face down. If you want to use its face down skill (such as Ambush), then end the turn, or you can tap it to flip it and use its face-up skill.
When you go to the card builder menu, you’ll be able to build more decks, but you have to use cards that you already have more than one copy of, or cards that are not currently assigned to a deck. The amount of cards in the deck itself depends on the max card count of the sub-faction (the faction underneath the faction). For some it’s as low as 11, while for others it’s as high as 17.
There are a ton of card barrels and packs that you can spend money on, but they are not required in order to play, as the card uses are so diverse that with the right kind of strategy, you’ll be able to beat almost anybody without having to spend any money at all.
There is an absolutely gigantic amount of settings that you can modify in order to make the game to your liking. The main thing is to accept the Pro Rank Regulations if you want to get into the e-sports scene with GWENT. Beyond that, many are appearance and battery life related. For example, you can turn shadows off, speed up the “tooltips” (pop up windows with info about enemy cards), battery saving mode, the usual sound options, and more.