Glossary
This glossary was compiled, written, and edited by Lothari and SwanDive with the help of these amazing people: Damorquis, Danman233, Green Cricket, Gvuardya, Gwent2town, ImpairedTuxedo, Kai_a, lordgort, Molegion, Santtu2x and shinmiri2.
Special thanks to Gnurrgard for inspiring this project by sharing his knowledge on CCG theory and giving us continued feedback.
A broad classification describing a deck's goal and win condition.
Deck type is the fundamental concept of what a deck attempts to achieve as part of its win condition. There are three basic deck types in Gwent: control, point-slam, and greed. As a general rule, control decks beat greedy decks, greedy decks beat point-slam decks, and point-slam decks beat control decks. In practice, however, it is not this simple, and many archetypes use more than one of these concepts in order to be viable.
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Green Cricket
Green Cricket is one of the heads of Aretuza, creating an environment where players and content creators can thrive and continuously improve themselves. In addition to his work at Aretuza, he runs a Gwent YouTube channel for beginners and advanced players alike. He teaches how to become better at Gwent and offers one in-depth Gwent guide each week as inspiration.