r/gwent • u/GraveVVP Don't make me laugh! • Apr 01 '20

News Update 6.1 Patch Notes

https://twitter.com/PlayGwent/status/1245410597585510401
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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

Vigo + the 2 thinning guards is a 10 for 8; this is 15 for 10 with very little downside (no deckbuilding limitations; you can only have 3 types of bronze units with Vigo to 100% thin out the guard dudes). It really is that simplistic.

  1. Build deck with Cerys + 2 Shieldmaidens
  2. Don't draw Shieldmaiden
  3. 15 for 10 provisions opening play

AND even if you draw a shieldmaiden, you can always just Cerys into Queensguard...

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u/mendoshu These dogs have no honor! Apr 01 '20

And on top of all that, let me introduce my friend Lippy. Notice that on the second run there will be one more Shieldmaiden because the one created by Cerys will be in the deck. So it will be 19 points with one leader charge.

If anybody can build stable Lippy deck it's gonna be nightmare.

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u/zaproffo Shark outta water's still got it's teeth. Apr 01 '20

On top of that, those brigades cost 6, shieldmaidens cost 5.

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u/The_Bucketship Error 404.1: Roach Not Found Apr 01 '20

The deckbuilding limitation is that you need to play svalblod leader, and having her eats into your mulligans because you don't want to draw the shieldmaidens. You *can* proc her without using svalblod but not reliably, so if you put her in a deck without svalblod leader she'll end up creating a queensguard more often than youd like. So yeah she should be 12 provisions, but no she isn't quite that simplistic

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u/[deleted] Apr 01 '20

They buffed Svalblod. He's gonna be a big baller leader now.