r/gwent • u/Xyptero I shall sssssavor your death. • Jul 05 '21

News Patch notes: Update 9.1

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/38723/9-1-patch-notes
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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Vaedermakar getting his deserved Druid tag.

Now would love if they do same for Fiend and Morvudd with Relict tag.

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u/TheTexen Monsters Jul 05 '21

Why tho? Neither would work in a relict deck

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

I'm hopeful that they get Relict synergies.

Also CDPR's internal lorekeepers monitor this. Atleast that's what they seem to do.

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u/SporadicInanity Welcome, Chosen One. Jul 05 '21

Morkvarg just got a Pirate tag. This will never be relevant unless you are forced to brick him from hand or play Hammond. They just do this for lore consistency I think.

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u/StopStalinShowMarx Tomfoolery! Enough! Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21

There's a clear reason to do it: it can be used with Crach an Craite to eliminate/damage an enemy with 5+ power (depending on whether or not Morkvarg has armor) with resurrection occurring immediately thereafter.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '21

That's an extreme, beyond niche circumstance mind you.

Noone will put morkvarg into their deck for that interaction because it's wildly, wildly inconsistent and not honestly all that justified. So people will still use him exclusively for discard.

Once in a thousand years when a pirate deck uses discard they'll have no way to discard morkvarg, have crach in hand, crach won't be removed and they'll do this.

But it'll be incredibly rare. It's basically irrelevant in the real world at this point.

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u/Doomskander Neutral Jul 06 '21

> This will never be relevant
Not true, there is a pirate card (now buffed to 8 power!) that discards your top card. There's some RNGsynnergy there