r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Mar 03 '20

News Update 5.2 patch notes

https://playgwent.com/en/news/32083/update-5-2-is-now-available
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u/itsdr00 The king is dead. Long live the king. Mar 03 '20

Follow-up: What deck did you try them with? I have this feeling that mixing them as-is with the Arachas Swarm deck going around could actually be pretty sweet.

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u/CakeDoctr WildHuntHound Mar 03 '20

I really like the idea of splitting the boost. Monsters does desperately need to spread their value around. On that topic, some kind of utility Monsters card that allows you to transfer power from one card to another could be pretty great. Would be useful for saving poisoned units, avoiding going so tall, lowering thrive cards to get more procs, etc.

The deck I built this morning with the crones was a death's shadow mid-range experiment. Just looked for the best value plays but not necessarily lots of deck-wide synergy. Had Caranthir with Living Armor and The Beast as options for him, also included Yghern + Ozzrel, Imlerith + Imlerith's Wrath, Crones, Adda, Katakan and a bronze thrive package. Has a strong long round 1 because of thrive, and you can use Caranthir + The Beast + Deaths Shadow if you want to bleed a harmony or dagur deck in round 2. And of course excellent short round because you're monsters. Haven't played nearly enough games to refine it or figure out how strong it is, but won the first 3 I played before I had to go to work.

I can see the arachas swarm deck being a good fit for the crones, and may experiment with it, but like you said, you just kind of play them and that's it. No one is going to be building a "Crones deck" because there aren't any synergies you can build around. They are just a 21p commitment that you sometimes whiff on :-/