I wonder how effective Eldain will be? In the video into it shows him turning a trap into an elf to summon the other elf out of the deck. Is that pretty much all he will be used for is mill?
I'm trying to understand the meta and different deck building strategies here. I've been working on a Usurper deck designed to shut down the opponents deck while playing their cards. My question is along the lines of how to work around that? Do we dare go for a game plan where our leader is absolutely central to our strategy? Or do we simply have our leader function as an added bonus to an already existing strategy lest we have our deck bricked from the start? For me its a big deal that Usurper just removes the leader from the game. So because of this are we left with "best value" cards and hope to out value our opponent?Only recently started playing Unseen Elder for the first time because of the Monster EXP buff.
So many 2:0 and he is great in a short round. Imperial Manticore can clear the entire board in a short round unanswered - so dirty.
I'm trying to understand the meta and different deck building strategies here. I've been working on a Usurper deck designed to shut down the opponents deck while playing their cards. My question is along the lines of how to work around that? Do we dare go for a game plan where our leader is absolutely central to our strategy? Or do we simply have our leader function as an added bonus to an already existing strategy lest we have our deck bricked from the start? For me its a big deal that Usurper just removes the leader from the game. So because of this are we left with "best value" cards and hope to out value our opponent?
Edit: Forgot this bit. This might be a better way to phrase my other question(s): What do you do when you don't have Unseen Elder?
I'm trying out a few different archetypes, personally. Trying different variations of the good old spella'tael deck with the sage card and Aguara true form/Triss telekinesis doing work. Trying out weather/move Henselt Trebuchet decks. The new deck I'm mainly running is a Usurper deny deck that manipulates the top of their deck and graveyard while having a slave infantry combo finisher with Vreemde and Vrygheff.What decks are people enjoying at the moment? I've been enjoying Bran Lippy and Adda Hubert.
Lippy is a fun card, and it's nice to use Bran for a deck other than Beasts (which I find boring). I know people are playing Crach Lippy but I'm so tired of Crach.
Hubert is also fun with how you have to play super greedy and bait your opponent in the final round to removing your "worst" engines. I know Shinmiri has a Meve Hubert deck, which I might try out at some point.
The meta is actually quite interesting at the moment. There is still a lot of Woodland Spirit and Crach everywhere, but feels like majority of leaders have usable (not top tier, but usable) decks atm.
I'm trying out a few different archetypes, personally. Trying different variations of the good old spella'tael deck with the sage card and Aguara true form/Triss telekinesis doing work. Trying out weather/move Henselt Trebuchet decks. The new deck I'm mainly running is a Usurper deny deck that manipulates the top of their deck and graveyard while having a slave infantry combo finisher with Vreemde and Vrygheff.
I'd say check out gwentup.com and filter by what leader you want or what is most saved, at least to see what the meta might be.
I'm playing Skellige deck, managed to climb up to rank 7 last night.
Now I'm stuck again, going up and down on the avatar mosaic, lol! :D
I'm gonna have to make few changes to my deck.
I found Lippy Bran super easy to use this season, but I guess that was partly because no one else was playing it and they underrated Bran. I think more people are used to it now, but it's still easy enough to use.
Freddy posted a video sharing what he thinks are the best decks for each faction last night, maybe something here will give you some ideas? Some are tournament decks though, so probably not the most ideal for laddering, but they give a general direction you could go for. (Although I think the Filavandrel deck he shared is worse than the one Pumpkn shared)
Fantastic! Thank you.
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I'm having this vicious cycle where not having played recently is making me bounce off the game even harder, since knowing the meta is such a huge part of Gwent.
Maybe the expansion will pull me back in.
Well there is a meta snapshot if you are interested https://teamaretuza.com/meta-snapshot/
For better or for worse I do my best to try out different decks and homebrew. Meta netdecking is soo boring. I spend most of my time playing the game trying different card combos. Thats the fun part to me, making a deck with a playstyle all its own and having success with it. Sometimes if its good you can influence the meta which is cool.This game sometimes feels like I'm playing against 10 different bots who follow their programmed patterns. Same decks, same turns over and over.
You can add 2000 more cards and it still would be the same decks every game.
The thinking behind the Seasonal tree is that they will repeat again next year (your progress will be remembered) so you don't have to unlock everything if you don't want to (or if you don't have enough points to do so). I guess you can prioritize what's more important to you personally.
How well that'll work in real life is yet to be seen...