Prestige is one of the most opaque and badly communicated aspects of the Gwent card game. Arguably this doesn’t matter as understanding Prestige isn’t going to affect the way you play (other than encourage you to play more often). Unfortunately, the current communication is actually worse than useless and confuses people (well, it did me!)….
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The Gwent Good Game (GG) System
Many players in online games like to say/emote Good Game (GG) after a match. Gwent has taken this convention a step further. The game actually recognises and encourages the Good Game, rewarding the recipient. In this post I’ll discuss how the GG system in Gwent works: what a GG in Gwent does along with how…
Gwent Mechanics: Patience & Sabbath
There’s a school of thought that says a collectible card game (CCG) needs to keep adding new mechanics in order to stay fresh. Personally, I’m not convinced by that – but I’m not on the Gwent game design team. The new Once Upon A Pyre expansion cards (part of the Price of Power set) introduces…
Gwent Patch 9.0
The latest Gwent expansion, Once Upon A Pyre (Price of Power 1), has been released. To go with the new cards is patch 9.0. As well as support for the new cards and balance tweaks to old ones, plus a few bug fixes, here are the main changes in this version: Northern Realms Rework A…