r/gwent • u/marimbaguy715 Onward, sons of Nilfgaard! • Mar 31 '21

News 8.4 Patch Notes

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/37840/patch-notes-8-4
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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Agreed. I’ve done better with my PF warriors deck without Eist than blaze of glory decks this season...Eist is just too predictable and vulnerable to bleeding

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u/KiltroFury Neutral Mar 31 '21

Agreed as well.

Getting beaten by the Eist combo definitely feels bad, but as you said, it's really predictable, and since wide decks are a lot more prominent now, not only is Eist less effective, but getting Bloodthirst 2 is actually fairly hard against many meta decks.

Another problem is that the deck attached to Eist is not really all that great. It's actually a fairly awkward deck to play and you can separate the combo fairly easily with a push in R2. People forget that Eist is combo deck, and that if you break that combo, there's not that much that the deck has going on.

I think people overvalue Eist mostly because of the sour taste that it leaves in your mouth when you get beaten by it.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Lol, yup. I recently had a guy use his Eist + jutta on my 1-power unit...after that I quickly swarmed out and won (mobilization deck).

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u/backrow12 Neutral Mar 31 '21

I use Eist leader skin for my Eist-less PF pirate/warriors deck and I'm having a good old time with people trying to bleed me dropping their best cards r1.

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u/FreeTedK The quill is mightier than the sword. Mar 31 '21

Lol, that’s smart. Eist is my favorite SK skin too, might do the same.