Or any other good place to pick up deck ideas? Playgwent doesn't really have anything anymore.

As a lover of Gwent, here's a mod I've been working on - awaiting permission from CDPR before I post it since I'm using the Gwent standalone assets :)

Hello everyone,

I have been playing Gwent since Beta and last month I thought about rejoining the community after a 3 year break and currently I am having a blast.

The thing is, I have always hated the Northern Realm decks. I despise the Reavers/ Mages/ Kaedweni Revenant - I am going to summon 10 copies of this one Bronze Card decks - and since pretty much always, I have been milling Northern Realm cards to fuel the rest of the collection. However, I am currently approaching Pro Rank and I should consider some NR decks to play. I am currently sitting at a comfortable amount of Ores and Scrap to craft a deck or two.

What's some strong NR decks that don't revolve around the afformentioned spam-archetype? Can anyone show me a way to love Northern Realms for once?

Endrega Warrior

Insectoid, Warrior (Monster)
4 Power, 4 Provisions (Rare)

Deploy: Consume your adjacent units. For each Consumed Insectoid, gain 1 Charge.
Zeal. Order: Spawn a Drone on this row.
Charge: 1

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Where I come from no one was afraid of the Big Bad Wolf or Baba Yaga. Instead, we had an Endrega nest in the shrubs beyond the village.

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This deck is part of a Youtube series that puts a spotlight on forgotten & underplayed cards.

This deck features Dire Bear & Tuirseach Bearmaster in an aggressive beast centric deck.

Deck playstyle is to push hard on R1, and establish a lot of unique beasts on the board before finishing with Kraken or Bearmaster (both scale with number of unique beasts).

Continue pushing and discarding in R2, and drop Corrupted Flaminica as your finisher.

In R3, use Magic Compass to replay Corrupted Flaminica via Fucusya as your last play.

Use Dire Bear situationally, and keep in mind that it's Berserk status can deactivate when buffed by Kelpie, preventing boosts on your row.

Play Radeyah front row to help with discarding and making more beasts.

Delirium should be used R1 & R2 to create more beasts so R3 Flaminica gets maximum value.

Increase Kraken & Bearmaster value through leader ability, Mask of Uroboros, and Feral Bond (spawns Crows, Sirens, and Skellige Wolves).

Spores, Funeral Boat, and Skirmisher are flexible bronze slots that can be replaced (e.g. Crow's Eye, Dire Wolf, Gutting Slash, etc.).

Anglerfish is not recommended in this deck, as it can potentially jeopardize Magic Compass.

Detailed deck breakdown included in gameplay video.

https://youtu.be/rg0eOkW5krw

Hi, returning beta player here and want to get all cards.

1. Should I spend my Ore on buying kegs or it's better to play draft instead?

2. And is there any tierlists for draft mode? I would love to understand its best leaders and combos before I spend my ore there.

3. I've read that Ofir and Cursed toad are available only three months. Should I do anything about them now?

Thank you!

I've seen a few avatar and border combos of this style and can't seem to find information on them. Are they obtainable in 2026 Gwent?

As the title says, I've just reached Rank 4 for the first time, which I'm quite proud of :)

But since getting here, I've been encountering so many angry angry people!

I don't think I'm playing anything particularly toxic or anything, though I could be wrong. Everything I play is homebrew. I've mainly been playing a deck where I play Meve R1, then Roegner and/or Devotion Adda R2 and R3, whichever works out best.

But anyways, I've had people absolutely spamming the HELL out of taunts, I've got the Yennefer avatar in the top left of my screen giving me a round of applause and then I've got Ogroid/Thrive players waiting out the timer to the maximum every turn. Does this just come with the territory? Or is my deck toxic? I also never taunt anyone or anything!

Edit to add: These also aren't angry newbies or anything, I check their profiles and these guys have literally 3000 wins and stuff compared to my 514

why do cards have different power and provisions? and why is the bc feature "temporarily disabled". its like im back to before bc era. very weird.

After a long time away, we are happy to announce that the Aretuza Tournament Pick and Ban Tool is back and available to use for your Gwent tournaments.

You can find the tool at: https://teamaretuza.net/gwent/pick-and-ban

We are sorry there was such a delay bringing it back online, but we have it available for you now and please let me know if there are any questions or comments about the tool!

Thanks!

What if: Predicted Changes

Something I do for myself, but thought I would share this month because so many results are available. Data courtesy of the predicted changes published by Lerio2 and Shinmiri2. I changed to Olgierd: Immortal based on original CN post.

4627 published decks on Gwent Deck Search (data from 2026-10-24): guides and curated lists, not ladder play. Provisions are checked against today's limit; power and ability changes don't show in deck lists.

61 candidates, each counted on its own: this lists predictions, not what passes.

Power increase

Power decrease

Provision increase

Provision decrease

Pushed over / back within: decks that cross today's limit. Last column: decks by guide date per half-year; sheet decks are undated. Add --detail for every effect, faction and leader per change.

My main gripe with scenarios is that they essentially take the weakness of engine decks or any bronze heavy deck and make them an advantage. Often times having a scenario is more powerful than the best gold card of your faction. ST is probably my most hated example with Call of Harmony and Loc Feainn. No leader ability should play for so many points.

I use two accounts at the same time when playing gwent, one day I got fed up with roping players wasting my time and thought if I play on mobile and PC at the same time they will be just wasting their time while I play gwent with another player

So I had a silly match when my both accounts got a match together, the same deck with RNG gods on their side won.

Greater Brothers

Human, Mutant, Salamandra (Syndicate)
13 Power, 5 Armor, 7 Provisions (Epic)

Insanity.
Fee 2: Gain 2 Armor.
Exposed: Destroy self.

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A battering ram? No need, we'll handle it another way.

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Your deck is replaced with 16 Elder Bears with different power. Leader abilities are disabled.

Preface

Gwent Balance Council with u/shinmiri2. Early Balance Council Survey used as a point of reference to measure sentiment towards changes. Check out poll results here.

Our choice of buffed and nerfed factions/archetypes is heavily based on Balance Councils made by the other balance coalitions! 

1. MetallicDanny (MD) | post, vod (order varies between publications)
2. Ofir&Qcento (OQ) | post, vod
3. Violet.Kiramman (VK) | Astorian post, vod
4. Evil Coalition (EC) | youtube post, vod

All predicted changes are gathered in => Balance Council Prediction Sheet

BC Landscape

1. Bountiful Harvest 99.9% gets reverted to 5-cost given the poll result in the VK community.
2. There is no nerfs scheduled for NR and SY when it comes to meta level decks.
3. There is no tug of war changes.
4. Buffs are spread well enough between factions, with ST (Harvest revert, Ithlinne) and SY (Congregate + Sacred Flame) getting quantitively the least.

Votes

+1 power

• ***Hybrid - similarly to Maerolorn which got buffed recently, Hybrid is a card which looks good on paper ("9 for 4"), but doesn't see any play in practice. If we look deeper, in consume engine decks Hybrid feels obsolete right now - when a consume card sticks, a Deatwish unit or another threat is better. When used in a classic Deathwish deck with Succubi, Harpy consuming Succubus (5+5=10 + maybe Bonded value) or Endrega Warrior (possibly even 15 on neighboring Succs) are better. Hybrid at 5 power would be played in both mentioned kinds of decks and maybe beyond. Hybrid +5 boost effect is also a kind of backup if all Deathwish units get locked.
• **Ardal aep Dahy - (also MD) a thematic card in Tactics decks which is challenging for deckbuliders (how to setup a good, or minimize the risk of a bad topdeck?) and not played that much. We and poll respondents preferred +1 power rather than -1 cost because Ardal is already not weak, but just unexplored and variant in value.
• *Endrega Eggs (support of MD)- Endrega Eggs are underpowered amongst 4-cost Deathwish units, but most imporantly it supports archetypes which are rather niche now - a hybrid Consume + Deathwish hybrid with cards like Glustyworp or She-Troll. Eggs would be especially interesting in the context of GN Necromancer's Tome branch of such decks.

-1 power

• ***She Who Knows - She Who Knows got double power buffed in two last balance patches. While on average SWK performance is not outstanding, the way it operates is quite unhealthy. SWK could be played from red coin for reach with no possible counterplay. Then 12 points are carried over for the next round and SWK remains a threat which needs to be answered. I started to witness SWK added to many MO decks (e.g. Koshchey) just to possibly win games on spot if the coinflip is right or opponent misses crucial removal in time. As we noted earlier, for SWK buff we much preferred provision rather power buff which doubles down on the binarity of this card.
• **Peasant Militia (support of OQ) - Peasant Militia at 5-power outshines many factional engines at this cost and is a universal Portal target. One could only argue if the game is better with a bit too strong or niche Militia. In the context of Harvest revert and Ivo provision buff we decided to prior the balance aspect.
• *Kikimore Worker (also MD) - another slight nerf to the pointslam aspect of Hive Mind and a conveniency buff to Kikimore Warrior Sabbath decks at the same time. Power nerf to Kikimore Worker doesn't impact the trade of Hive Mind with Squirrel, which according to a part of playerbase shouldn't be made worse (personally I don't mind direct nerf to Hive Mind either and even find it essential at some point).

+1 provision

• ***Siege Master - in Top10 fMMR charts NR is the best performing faction, slightly ahead of SY. At the same time its hard to regard possible nerfs to Lebioda or Odo as changing anything to this state. Hence we suggest a widespread, balancewise legitimate nerf to Siege Master. SM is included in probably all high ladder meta NR decks, provides at least ~2 points + thinning for one excessive cost. Sometimes the effective value is higher when charge helps to instantly remove something with Reinforced Ballista, let's play Demavend into Winch into something or gets combined with Onager. Another context is the possible Yennefer: Conjurer buff which as a side effect may make widely hated Mobilization GN Arbalests even more popular.
• **Conjurer's Candle - in the absence of other SY nerfs we decided to go for a general one as the faction surely deserves a little tempering given pro ladder stats. SY along with NR tops Top10 fMMR charts. Candle is unassuming due to low instant value, but in practice is the backbone of many SY decks - an uninteractive spender which lets one to play just value cards rather than below-curve spenders and to protect engines. We don't love or regard big scaling threats + Candle as Syndicate's DNA and would like to slightly discentivize this style of play; that being said we don't plan anything like bringing Candle out of GN range.
• *Portal (support of OQ) - roughly 16 for 10 with double thinning. Totally unjustified nerf recommendation, there are 120 better real provision nerfs to make in a year, which every Redditor could easily list for general applaude if only wasn't a serious hard working man with limited free time.

-1 provision

• ***Whisperer of Dol Blathanna (5-cost plan) - at 4-power WDB proven to have too high ceiling, which is especially annoying in the case of rolls from cards like Bountiful Harvest or Imperial Diplomacy. As the result of last month -1 power we suggested, we are commited to recommend Whisperer buff down at least to 5-cost to bring this card to considerable, but less game decisive state. We put Whisperer above Archer in our BC because we are afraid of possible revert to 4-power, which combined with certain Harvest revert and Ivo buff may be disastrous.
• **Dol Blathanna Archer (finishing 2-step) - last month we recommended DBA 2-step nerf to 1p/4c to reduce Backup Plan highroll capabilities. At 4-cost DBA would be an interesting card which in some circumstances could play above power vs provision cost, especially with Angus, but also has a low floor.
• *Ithlinne Aegli (support of OQ) - Invigorate leader is decent enough and so are midrange decks built on it, but thematic Handbuff still needs some love. Ithlinne raw value is 10 points, where 4 may be carryover. As a raw carryover card Ithlinne is far less efficient than for example Hawker Support, Farseer or 2x Nauzicaa Brigade.

Closure

We identify following main risks for the November patch:

1. Bountiful Harvest revert + Ivo provision buff into quadruple Harvest omnipresence again. We think preemptive nerfs on top of what we already recommended to reduce BH highrolls + Peasant Militia / Portal natural nerfs are not necessary, but voting could go various ways.
2. Dimun Smuggler to 4 power (Evil Coalition). Already proven very abusable with Otkell.
3. Enslave 6 Assimilate viewed as overnerfed due to Braathens power nerf in one patch with Calveit multistep to 8/12. We very like Calveit multistep to reduce coin polarization, maybe even 9/12; Braathens simulnerf though doesn't help to safely get it through without hostilities.
4. Golden Nekker SK gets overbuffed with Haern Caduch -1 cost.
5. Yennefer Conjurer buff (which is okay by itself) leads to another surge in popularity of not much beloved GN Mobilization Arbalests.

If you like our recommendations let's join to make the impact together. If not - check out predictions table to get general info and maybe find some ideas which appeal to you.

Cheers!
lerio2

Very satisfying win. First round picked up the Blue stripes commando with yennefers invocation. Second round took the copy with vigo's muzzle, i guess he hoped id at least dump it in his graveyard.

tridam infantry needs the love he deserves. not a fan of nr but thats quite literally the og gwent card. as for the provision increase, yeah. thrive package sucks ass. makes playing ogroids look like solving nanoscience. fuck sir scratch a lot all my homies hate him.

Title. I understand the concept of how to play scenario pirates, you want to test the waters round 1, thin with abordages and generate armour on units in hand, and hopefully end up taking a long round 3 with voyage for max cataclysm value.

The issue I’m facing is knowing what to fit in a deck, and how much thinning/tutoring to include. If anybody has a strong deck list that they believe to be optimal/solved, please let me know.

Thanks

It has come to my attention that I have faced some opponents that have Way Of The Witcher Theme as their faction/deck ost theme and I don't understand how, I don't see any related contracts, purchasable cosmetics, journey hidden secret or something.

Anyone knows how?

The spooky season is here! This event will last until November 9th.