that'd be nice, sorta like acting as gaunter's errand boy (again) to deal with several of his "clients" seeing from the hopeful beginning of the deals to the end where the contract comes to bite them back in the arse.
Sadly I doubt they'll ever make another after the financial failure of Thronebreaker, even though it was largely due to lack of marketing and only initially releasing on GOG.com. We can dream.
Jacques de Aldersberg was a fascinating foe. Man, the Witcher 1 is sooooo underrated. Such a bold and fabulous game of great depth! Fisttech, dice poker, drinking games, even the now frowned upon romance cards with their illustrations... The Order of the Flaming Rose & the Scoiatael's crusade and king Foltest, a flawed but great king. Most game "journalists" nowadays claim that Witcher 1 is irrelevant which is more more a testament to the irrelevance of gaming journalism than to that of the Witcher 1. I'll always defend this game.
Though Witcher1 had worse quality comparing it with Witcher3 it was a great game and had with Alvin/Jaques de Aldersberg a better Villain than Witcher3 with Eredin.
Great idea for a card CDPR, big fan of W1 and the twist at the end when you realize little Albin became Jacques de Aldersberg, the Grandmaster of the flaming rose. I have been waiting for this card since the Salamdra cards.
Jacques De Aldersberg was a Grandmaster of the Order, so powerful and so wise he could use his charisma to influence the people to create fanatics... He had such a knowledge of the Power that he could even keep the ones he cared about from the white frost. The Elder Blood is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so influential...the only thing he was afraid of was losing his influence, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he misinterpreted Geralt's lessons and the witcher killed him with his silver sword. Ironic. He wanted to stop monsters but became one himself.
Jaques de Aldersberg :"I have been waiting for you Geralt, we meet again at last. The circle is now complete. When I left you I was but the learner, now I am the master. " Geralt :"Only a master of evil, Alvin" Jaques de Aldersberg :"your power is weak old man"
Man I'm really happy they gave Aldersberg some real love. His card descriptions are great as well they depict how he's morally gray nicely. Siegfried being neutral makes it so he can be with both his Flaming Rose bros and the North too very clever. These evolve cards have some real flavor to them I like it.
Arkadiusz Paterak maybe, as I guess the books are polish. But the name Jacques de Alderburg (however it’s spelled) is remarkably similar to last grand master of the Templar’s Jacques de molay
First deck I built after coming back to gwent a few months ago after not playing since the beta was a firesworn swarm deck, which I kinda stopped playing, really excited to see what it'll be able to do with the master mirror expansion.
So which effect of the final card is correct? Here it says "gain a coin whenever X" on the reveal site it says "Boost self by 1 whenever X" - the latter would make the veil on this card alot better and also looks more in line with the ursurper
@@mamufixie Lol I really don't want CDPR to imply that literally each and everyone important thing involved O'Dimm in some fashion. Not only does that milk his character but it also takes away the "wow factor" once we do find out that O'Dimm was behind something but they have not overdone anything just yet.
@@katt.1787 Yeah I agree, that is why I said that nothing has been overdone yet. I raised the point in the first place because the whole Usurper deal interfares with the lore quite a bit.
I'm so glad the lads working on Gwent aren't just adding new features and archetypes for the sake of it. Rather they’re improving on the existing, weak archetypes like spies and swarm syndicate so that they’re more viable. I look forward to what they do with other factions.
Wow, finally one mystery solved. Alvin is the grand master. Even though I know grand master necklace same like alvin, but I dont really think its alvin
@@Desintyx2 And Alvin appears in the frost vision with his older self (Jaques de Aldersberg) Shadow, and Geralt finds on Jaques de Aldersbergs Corpse the same amulet he gave Alvin but in older version which give hints that Alvin traveled back in time, stayed there and became the fanatic leader of the flaming rose. His racist hatred towards elves may has to do with the situation that young Alvin was held hostage by Scoiatel. Another hint that Alvin and Jaques are one and the same person is that young Alvin likes to plays the Grandmaster in the game "kill the elves" and wins.
It's clear that Alvin is Jaques de Aldersberg from the beginning. Everything you tell young Alvin influences Jaques de Aldersberg. And in the white frost vision Alvin appears as vision with Grandmaster Jaques Shadow. Later when Jaques is dead and geralt finds on Jaques de Aldersbergs corpse the amulet he gave Alvin but just in older version gives hints that Alvin teleported back in the past and grew up to fanatic leader of the flaming rose
@@ConkerVonZap, he has dark blond hair on the card and in Witcher 1 his hair looks a bit lighter but it's clear that the kid on child card is Alvin. He has the same clothes and face too. Alvin is Jaques de Aldersberg. It was confirmed in Witcher 3 too.
