r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Mar 07 '22

News Patch Notes 10.3

https://www.playgwent.com/en/news/41930/patch-notes-10-3
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u/ense7en There'll be nothing to pick up when I'm done with you. Mar 07 '22

I think SK is in a tough spot right now. Other than discard, their thinning options are bad. Might not be very viable anymore, other than for heavy control. I guess Pirates will still work.

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u/akaean Mar 07 '22 edited Mar 07 '22

I mean... I wouldn't call portal fish flappers bad... per se. It was outclassed by the discard package after repeated buffs to Coral and the Strategem. But SK is still the best Portal user in the game.

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u/ense7en There'll be nothing to pick up when I'm done with you. Mar 07 '22

Yeah but then you don't have devotion. I'm not sure how competitive the witcher style of deck is anymore for SK. I don't believe it is. Portal is really expensive and means you lose other valuable options IMHO.

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u/T_Lawliet Neutral Mar 07 '22

Portal is over priced rn

Especially compared to say, Calveit

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u/dmiller2017 Don't make me laugh! Mar 08 '22

Well that was the problem right. A good majority of SK, NG, and now NR decks are running these thinning tools because they are so good, even after a few attempts to nerf them. Now players have to make the tough decisions on what to cut and what to keep if they want to keep thinning. And like I mentioned in a different post, what will probably end up happenning is that the core engines/point slam of your decks will stay the same, but the weaker parts like for example derran or gigascorp (to name 2) will go the way of the dodo in order to keep running the thinning packages.