Team Aretuza

Ingredients have been collected, measurements have been taken, and the cookbook is now ready. Welcome everyone to the latest Gwent Meta Snapshot presented by the masterchefs of Team Aretuza & Team Nova! We’ve been hard at work studying how the game has changed since the addition of the new leaders, and we’re now ready to share our results. We hope this collection of 29 meta-defining recipes, errr… decks will sweeten Gwent’s Season of Love for you.

The online qualifiers for Gwent Open #8 represented a prelude to the first Gwent Masters event of the Homecoming era: Many in the community followed the event closely, keen to get a first look at how the competitive scene may develop. To provide an inside perspective on the tournament, guest writer and event participant JMJWilson returns with a two-part piece covering the qualifier. In this first part, he discusses his preparation for the event.

This week we're taking a look at another version of the Giant, which has different strengths and weaknesses than the Woodland version.

Utilize Gernichoras fruits for long round value and push in a short round 2 with your giants.

After the recent patch at the beginning of the month, the master chefs of Team Aretuza and Team Nova have once again entered the kitchen and are hard at work cooking up a new Gwent Meta Snapshot. While you are waiting, we would like to treat you with a small taste of some of the decks that define the flavor of the patch and the current metagame. Here, we present you a pro player-picked aperitif of five archetypes, one from each faction, which we hope will make your mouths water for the full Meta Snapshot to be delivered soon^TM.

Recently, Gwent saw its first major content update in the Homecoming era. Once again, the core gameplay saw changes; this time through alterations to the mulligan system. Such a shift completely changes how games play out and how decks are evaluated. In this article, guest writer JMJWilson analyzes the impact that the changes of the “Mulligan Update” imparts on the metagame both now and in the future.

With five new leaders making their debuts in Gwent, how can players use them? This article covers the new leaders and the roles they might fill in Gwent's competitive metagame.

As an unbiased team, we obviously just want to provide the best content possible.

So take this Midrange Usurper guide and crush some filthy nordlings, fishermen, monsters or pointy ears.

Hael Ker'zaer!

Eist Warriors offers a consistent playstyle, amazing tempo in short intervals and lots of options to react to your enemy.

If you're looking for a solid deck that you can play in any situation, then this deck is for you!

Changes to Gwent's redraw (or "mulligan") system are set to shake the game up yet again. What is changing, and what are the possible consequences?

As we all know, Homecoming established profound changes to Gwent’s game mechanics. Two of the most controversial alterations were the introduction of a hand limit and an increase in card draws per round. Gnurrgard returns for his second guest article, in which he explains and analyzes the intricacies of Gwent’s new card draw system, details its benefits and flaws, and offers suggestions for its inevitable adjustments.