"Toss a coin to your Witcher"
You'll never pass on a round of Gwent!
Choose your faction, build your army and master the battlerfield. Play with cards featuring characters, items and creatures from the world of The Witcher.
How to Play
Gameplay and Objective
Gwent is a duelling card game that pits two armies against each other on the field of battle. It first appeared as a minigame in The Witcher 3 and is now expanded into a tabletop card game.
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Each player picks a faction and builds a deck. All cards in the deck must show the colour of the chosen faction. Each faction encourages a specific style of play and comes with a passive ability.
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Players take turns placing one card on the battlefield at a time until both players decide to pass. This ends the round. At the end of each round, players calculate the total Strength of all Unit and Hero Cards on their respective sides of the battlefield.
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The player with the highest total Strength wins the round. The losing player removes a gem. When a player runs out of gems, they lose the game and their opponent wins the game.
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Cards
Your deck is made up of many different card types, which are:
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Leader Cards: This card is chosen before the battle and it grants its player a special ability (passive or active ability). Each Leader Card contains a description of the Leader's ability. Active abilities can only be used once per game, while Passive abilities are always in use.
Unit Cards: When placed on the battlefield, the Strength value in the top left corner of a card is added to its player's total. Each Unit Card has a battlefield position represented by the icon below the Strength icon.
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Some Unit Cards are Heroes. Heroes are the only cards not affected by any special abilities.
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Special Cards: such as Weather, Decoy, Scorch, etc, do not have Strength values, but instead have abilities that can. For example, modify the Strength of Units already on the battlefield.
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Unit Cards
Special Cards
Factions
Gwent launched with 5 factions, each with its own play style. The factions are:
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Monsters: focusing on the "Muster" ability, which allows swarms of monsters to be quickly summoned to the battlefield.
Nilfgaard: is full of "Spy" and "Medic" cards, which use underhanded tactics to achieve card advantage.
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Northern Realms: has many units with " Tight Bond," which allows them to empower each other on the battlefield.
Scoia'tael: hosts a lot of "Agile" cards, which allow flexibility on the Close Combat and Ranged Combat rows on the battlefield.
Skellige: This faction has "Berserkers" that channel their inner monster to transform into more powerful cards.
Just Starting? We Recommend
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Learning how to play via YouTube videos.
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Purchase the Gwent: The Legendary Card Game box(available in-store).
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Book a Demo with a staff member to learn how to play in person.
Our Weekly Store Gwent Events
COMING SOON...
Events
​At Geeks Headquarters, we will be hosting a large range of Gwent events in the near future.
Find out more about what Gwent events are going on in-store by clicking HERE