HOW TO PLAY GWENT (Beginner Tutorial) - The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 

watched this video for how to play gwent, and after 10 mins, still don't know.

I'm convinced that I'm always going to suck at Gwent.

My, and I believe other players' relationship with Gwent is weird. On my first playthrough I hated it, I felt like this stupid little card game was distracting me from the hackin' and slashin' as well as the overall narrative with their complicated rules, and it had no business beating my ass when I felt like sitting down for a bit to actually try my hand at it. In addition the NPCs seemed to have better cards I had never seen, and I didn't want to spend the meager gold I had on the "normal" cards sold by inkeepers. I finally caught a break from it when I failed to win the Gwent game at the masquerade quest, but that red x in my quest list haunted me for the rest of my days as Geralt I. Currently on my second playthrough, I decided to grit my teeth and Git Gud at Gwent because the perfectionist in me couldn't let that "Failed" quest slide. I looked up strategies. I sold weapons for Gwent cards. Every merchant, inkeeper, armourer and blacksmith I met I challenged them before anything else (one guy tearfully mentioned losing his son to sea and I went "Yeah, but do you have time for Gwent?" and proceeded to beat him soundly). I actually haven't played the masquerade quest yet even though I'm way too overlevelled because I'm trying to build a powerful Monster deck just to be sure. My Geralt will do anything for a rare Gwent card, if the Emperor had offered to pay him for returning Ciri with a card instead of gold or a horse I'm not entirely sure he'd have refused. Gwent has turned me into someone I don't recognise. When once I traversed the world of the Witcher 3 to see the beautiful sights, meet interesting characters, and battle monsters of all kinds, now I only do so in pursuit of the Best Deck you could possibly make. Every interaction with a new NPC has me sitting up in my seat in hopes of a Gwent challenge. It took me a while to realise I had gotten in too deep, that I had a problem... but it's too late now.

Very odd but I began my second playthrough last night and finally started playing Gwent. The timing of this video couldn't be better.

Something very important that wasn't mentioned, is that there's a book which shows how many more gwent cards are available for each region. It's called "A Miraculous Guide to Gwent" and it can be obtained at the beginning in white orchard or purchased later in novigrad. Very helpful if you're trying to build full decks.

People really ignored Gwent in their first playthough? Man, in the moment that dude from the beginning tough me how to play I became addicted 😂 i remember asking every new NPC I met if they played Gwent

Some tips for you guys: 1- Fuck weather cards: if you don’t find it necessary for dealing with certain opponents dont have any weather cards on your deck since they can become 4 cards on your hand making your offense capabilities very low. If you don’t want to deal with opponents who use them use the Northerns deck with the second Foltest leader who clears the weather whenever you want and without wasting one card in your hand. 2- SPIES SPIES SPIES: Find spy cards as fast as you can and if you don’t, have as many of decoys as you can for you to steal one from your opponent if he uses it 3- Accept to throw one round: If you have spies in your hand use the first round to use them and increase the number os cards in your hand and maybe throw some weak unit cards to make the opponent waste cards and make him defenseless by the end of the second round 4- Watch out for Scorch: Try playing safe by putting a somehow strong card on the field and lure your opponent to waste a scorch card on him and then you can begin stacking a line with units and a cammander’s horn 5- Always have heroes on your deck: Heroes are immune to any effect and mostly they provide a lot of points 6- By the end of the game you will probably have a lot of heroes, healers and spy cards, make sure to remove cards that don’t have any ability and offer less then 9 points, they will only occupy your hand and make you lose the opportunity to have two spies at their place, always try to keep the lowest quantity of card in your deck to make it more possible that you begin with a strong hand 7- Monster decks: avoid them at the begging since they are very hard to handle as a beginner and keep in mind that you will not have a descent monster deck until you reach Skellige Islands. If you happen to have enough cards for one make sure that you have the most of copies of Muster cards since they are the base for the deck being very strong. And remember my tip about scorch because a single scorch card can f*ck up your strategy with this deck

Haven't even played this game yet, new to Witcher, but this seems so complicated. I wish you had a tutorial game where you actually played and described what and why you laid down the cards you play.

"poor fucking infantry" what a great name for a card lol

My suggestion for those starting gwent? Play northern Realms. It’s kind of a no-Brainer of throwing spies out, decoying the enemy’s spies and tight bond cards. Also most of the essential cards can be bought or obtained naturally through challenging people who are in the early game such as the Baron and a few innkeeps .

Lowkey confusing 😭

Thank you for making this. I completely ignored Gwent in my first play through, but I wanted to try it just because of how popular the card game is.

I'm doing my my first witcher 3 play through and I'm terrified this is going to come up in some critical quest, like "No witcher I shall not give you this all important key-mcguffin-thing, unless you can beat me in gwent!"

at first i thought it would be kinda fun to play gwent. . . . . i thought i could learn to play. . . . i think i just suck at grasping this. . . . . it is beyond my level of ability to comprehend. . . . . its like teaching my cat to fix my car.. . . . thanks for trying to explain this aspect of witcher.

Caravan in New Vegas: I hate this Gwent in Witcher 3: i hate this

Finished the game without playing gwent. After some months I came back to play the DLCs but before that I'm clearing all quests I had left. And a lot of them were gwent. I watched this video and after like 5 tries I finally won my first game! Thank you! :)

Great video! I would also add that the hero cards (those with the gold border), can't be effected by other cards. Weather effects won't lower their power, you won't be able to pick them up with decoys, and horns won't double their power. It's something that frustrated me a great deal but became a great strategy in later games. For example a mysterious elf can be put down as a zero power spy, but can't be picked up or revived from the graveyard. Another strategy that is super beneficial is with the gather cards, if you have for example 2 Gaunther cards in your hand, always redraw one as it will be taken from your hand anyway when playing and will cause you to lose an extra card. Hand size is crucial. You can and at some point will win by one card, so reducing your hand by one or two because you threw down a gather card is not great. To piggyback on that. If your opponent passes, play as little cards as you can to beat his power. Or if you are leading anyway, just pass and win the round. Hand management is a key strategy. Anyway, the video was very informative and I would have loved something like that when I started playing Gwent, but these are the things that I wished I also knew when just starting.

Guys. There are three rounds. Your hand is used for ALL THREE ROUNDS. You win if you have a higher score for two of those rounds. That's it. The rest is just learning what individual cards do.

I hate playing against those merchants that use monsters. They literally push their total from 10 to 50 in just 2 turns

I have an understanding of it but I hate when it looks like I'm about to win and the opponents last card is an OP number and I'm just left with a low number card.

Hey, thank you for this. I started The Witcher 3, ended up not playing it for a year, and then when I finally got back to it I completely forgot everything there was to know about GWENT. Put that on top of the tutorial already being confusing, your crystal clear explanation was exactly what I needed. Thank you!

Very helpful. Thank you. I’m re playing Witcher 3 trying to get all trophies and Gwent is always something I avoided at all costs. So this video was a must.

Thank you for the video. I am on my 3rd playthrough and I want to try to master Gwent instead of avoiding it. This helped a lot.

Learned it in 2 days and beaten almost all of them. I really like it. Checking this vid for additional tips.

I still find it confusing and this is coming from someone who plays yugioh.

Glad you are still making videos

Just came back from basic so glad to see that your still making videos, been around for years keep it up bro

I started to play this game for the first time a few days ago and this helped me alot!! At first I thought "what a ridiculous game" but it's addictive!!! Considering to buy a gwent card to play with friends if they visit my place. Thanks!!

One of the things I like to do is use a decoy on a medic card to redraw multiple cards

I play northern realms deck with 3 decoys and 1 frost card because I use the foltest clear weather card to mitigate opponents weather cards and the frost card is good for playing against monster decks. For monsters I just usually let them play all the their muster cards and just play spies and let them win the first round so their mjster cards are gone. I never play with more than 1 weather card.

Thanks a lot for this guide!

Pro tip play as many spy cards as possible

Man thank you thank you THANK YOU this was a major help

Thank you this was super helpful

That Geralt impression was spot on!

I first started watching since back in the Fallout New Vegas vids haha, good to see you still on YT

6 playthroughs, 250+ hrs, and here I am checking Gwent tutorial.

This is what stumped me... Who makes these? How are there not counterfeits with absurd stats?

Thanks for this! I learned the hard way that after winning one match, then those cards cannot be played again. ; _ ; That's what brought me here to watch your video. Thanks~

I now know as little as when I started.

I just started playing the Witcher 3 a couple of days ago. This is really helpful, thank you. Reminds me of Triple Triad card game from Final Fantasy 8. I really enjoyed Triple Triad... I hope Gwent is similarly fun.

The female armorer in Crow's Nest or whatever kicks my butt every time with her nasty monster deck! Also, iirc, I played one game and we ended up continuing to draw more cards which made it a lot easier. I must be missing something.

Note to mention that in the Blood and Wine DLC there is another faction, Skellige. And the best card ever: Cow. Mooo

Thanks my new addiction starts

I'm still downloading the game and will be playing soon but so far the game seems easy enough. I've played Magic the Gathering since 97 though so it seems very similar.

Thank you!!

Learnt poker quickly but this baffles me. The witcher 3 has suddenly clicked for me so really wanna get into gwent.

I can't believe back in 2015, I knew the ins and outs of this game to where I was good, really good. I'd make a point to travel far and wide when I heard about a gwent player npc to go and get a new card when I beat them. I recently started playing hearthstone again after a 5 year hiatus and I just downloaded gwent and I'm totally lost, but I remember it being so much fun I want to get back into it. One feature I wish they could add is somehow linking the standalone gwent game with the collection you've gathered from the Witcher 3 gwent. Good video though, I'll probably have to watch it at least 4 more times before I understand

Great video

i m here because, after getting to lvl 10 i realise that i must go back and search all the cards that i missed from the start. sounds so fun :D

That Geralt impression at the beginning had me dying.

Came here after Vlodimir von Everec bet all of Geralt's gold on a Gwent game, not about to lose now.

WELL THAT CLEARS THAT UP

Villentretenmerth mixed with decoy can be devastating to monster decks late in the round. Playing the card and killing off 3-4 cards, then playing a decoy and then playing it again to take out more units. I also like to mix it with a medic card to bring it back on rounds 2 and 3

Even with this tutorial I didn’t understand anything of gwent. The last card game I played in videogame was Final Fantasy 8 cause it was easy to understand.

Worthy of note is that, right off the bat playing Gwent will be very frustrating as you don't have a lot to work with, so buying new cards and padding your deck a bit before challenging for unique cards is a must-do move. When I first started playing Gwent I hated it because yours odds of winning with such a vanilla deck are pretty slim. Buy some from merchants and innkeepers and pad them a bit and you're off to the races and you'll now need to rely on your strategy.

Is there a stronger faction of the 4 decks? Can you dump lousy cards, or are the 10 starting cards locked in to your deck.

It said tk me that i had 19 cards left but than i vould not get the cards from it and i had zeo card on mx battlefield in the third round. PLEASE HELP ME WHAT SHOULD I DO NEXT TIME.i am now afraid of gwen

Around 50 hours into Witcher 3 and I've only started to play Gwent. Still a bit confused but I am having fun though

I need help with the setting up the deck before you even start the game because I try to start but it keeps saying I don't have enough cards in my deck and don't know what to do

Anyone know who to get the best cards from?

nope. Got half way through the vid and gave up. Makes me feel stupid for something that should be a simple card game. Seeing other comments here tells me im not the only one, making me feel a little better. Recommended you do another vid with footage of you playing gwent, nice and slow, showing how and why.

Awesome video! Not so awesome is that I have never used Decoy before :-/ So, thank you for that

I still don’t understand the first screen before you play. And is it possible to get rid of cards, I hear that you should keep a small deck

I've tried many times to do Gwent but opponent always wins. I can lay out a strong card but the other dude pulls one from his ass and wins.

I watched the whole video and I still don't fucking understand how to play Gwent. Is there a mod that removes the quests from the game? They're in my log and I want to get rid of them. Playing through them is out of the question.

i still dont get it

Ok I tried but this game is really over my head !!

I knew all this from being a gwent addict myself lol. Good to see Witcher content from you though :)

i am approaching my second playthrough and avoided gwent as i have no idea how to play it, after watching this i am even more confused, i guess its a trial and error sort of game you have to be hands on with to figure it out then this tutorial would start to make more sense, one thing though, the artwork on the cards is really beautiful

I got lost in the game of Gwent in my first play through when the game came out and never played the campaign funny enough ! I wished they had printed actual cards so my friends and I could play together but I think they hadn’t thought of that when the game came out. I know now you can buy sets on Amazon and play irl so that’s fun.

They drawn1 crad in the 2nd round and win instantly WTF DO I DO IN THIS CASE? How do I ev0en pick a card when theres no cards to draw from and you can't get any from the deck?

i feel like im just supposed to wait to challenge the dude in vizima. he has over 40 guards of a nilfgardian deck, and most of those are unaffected by weather cards

Thanks

Doing my first real play through after failed first one. Now on new gen. I’ve started playing gwent after the baron missions and now I can’t get his card but I feel like ever one has better cards I’ve been trying to find a lot but it’s pretty addicting not gonna lie

I've played W3:WH for many, many hours and I've watched many, MANY videos purporting to explain how to play, and I assume win, Gwent, but I have yet to win a single hand in-game. I'm old (late 50s) and therefore have of course never played, or watched being played, a deck building type game. This also means that this card game genre is simply beyond my brain's ability to comprehend. That said, is there any in-game way to get advice or hints on what to do while playing Gwent?

I think this would've been a bit more helpful if you'd ended with an example game, also commentated.

How do you use the cards on the loser right corner

Clear as mud 😂 I'm even more confused now after watching this

When a gwent game starts game decides on itself which 10 cards to play with. I can't choose the cards that I'm supposed to play with. Anyway to fix this?

I've only been playing for about eight hours and I really liked your tips and tricks videos, but this one has left me even more confused. I hope that the main game doesn't force me to play Gwent because it I definitely isn't for me.

completed the game but never won a single game of gwent . Hoping this will change after watching you vid.

3am and I'm here learning how to play fucking gwent

Do merchants and bar keeps sell all unique cards or do they sell cards you may already have. There's no way to quickly check if you own a card or not from what I can see

I feel like the tutorial is pretty bad for Gwent. The first time I tried it, both me and the npc just placed down all of our cards first round, because I really don't see the point in a strategic loss if your just continuing with pretty much the same cards next round, and I won, but then for the next 2 rounds neither of us had any power at all, and it just defaulted to me losing for some reason. It seems like there's much more strategy later on, but just starting out there doesn't seem to be any

i placed a seige card {heart shaped} card bu i didnot get a free card from the deck ?????? any one know why

Does playing gwent affects my character stats?

How does one select their starting hand(10)

I'm on level 25 and haven't played a single game of gwent yet, I attempted it but got bored and turned it off. I know I need to learn it but this is a lot to take in lol 😂 Thanks for the info 👍

As a Magic the Gathering player who's *still* playing Skyrim and been saving W3 (which I have but have not played yet) for when I'm done Skyrim....I know...LOL. This has got me pumped and a bit worried. It's bad enough all the time I spend playing MtG, now I'm gonna have it in my RPG as well? This might not go well for me. 8-P

I think you explained it well, but I’m still a little confused. I’ll probably do better after I play a bit.

I love The Witcher 3 I do. I just cant seem to get the hang of this damn game no matter how many tutorials or help videos I watch. and I want too mainly because I wanna 100% this game so badly. I wish I was someone who could easily pick up this game.

How do you unlock leader cards?

m out it all went up from my head

i hated it until i started thinking a bit on first round focused on making opponent waste his cards passing and overpowering them in next 2 rounds can end up in 3 card advantage against them all on hard gwent difficulty

Basically a combination between Yu Gi Oh and Pazzak

I got the bit about playing against an opponent and then sort of lost it after that.

GWENT!

Hey so I wanted to skip gwent at first but now I've picked up an interest in completeing the gwent quests but whenever I try to play it it tells me "not enough unit cards|. I don't know where I can get cards if i can't even play.. currently at level 19. Is it over or can I still do something about it?

most convoluted mini game ever