Guest author Kabyk brings us a piece exploring the cadence of Gwent’s 3-round system over the course of the Beta.

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Compared to some other popular CCG’s, Gwent uses a unique 3-Round format. Gwent is also limited, by default, to 14 turns of card plays (13 cards in hand plus Leader). When we play a Round of Gwent, we have to decide not only how many of our points we want to dedicate to a particular Round, but also how many turns we invest in each – for example, “do I play my big point cards for an early lead and risk having something ‘bricked’ on Round 3?” This means CDPR must consider balance not only for individual cards, but their implication in how they affect Round Equilibrium, and what kind of card usage distribution they want. Are they okay with long Round 1’s every match? Would they prefer people to pass quickly and have long Round 3’s instead? What should Round 2’s main purpose be? How does the power scale of cards affect Round 1’s importance and, subsequently, the ease of abandoning it?

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GwentSlam 3: Meet the Players

With the third iteration of GwentSlam taking place this weekend in Vienna, eight hopeful players are gearing up to compete for Crown Points, and a slice of the respectable $10,000 prizepool. These players are Adzikov, Shaggy, Tailbot, Petrify, eiSloth, Gameking, Dyuhaaa, and Freddybabes. Qualifying for the tournament in various ways, each player has their own unique background and history in Gwent. A love for the game and a thirst to compete ties them all together.

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In a world where MMR lives and dies by the color of the coin, humanity is ravaged by a plague of trying hard to survive the struggle to the top 1000 in order to receive the greatest gift imaginable: a shiny border. In this unforgiving world, 12 men stand defiant in the face of certain annihilation as Team Blue Coin will take on Team Red Coin in an exclusive fight! This Christmas season, ImpetuousPanda, Swim, Jaggerous and Sqwerell watch as the factions of Red and Blue coin face each other in a cataclysmic showdown that will change the face of Gwent as we know it… forever.

Coin Clash, coming December 9th

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In the recent Gwent Open new leader and item cards were revealed. This news post recaps all those cards.

These initially revealed cards were confirmed by Burza to be The Usurper and Filavandrel aén Fidháil. We speculate that they’ll serve as new leaders for the Nilfgaard and Scoia’tael factions respectively.

The next set of cards revealed were confirmed by Burza to be Sihil and Eist Tuirseach. We speculate that Sihil will be a new type of item card while Eist Tuirseach will represent the Skellige faction.

That concludes the Gwent Open revealed cards. Make sure follow the Gwentlemen news posts for future card reveals, recaps, updates and more!

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In this week’s Gwentlemen Talkshow we have a special guest - AliasV. AliasV is a Gwent streamer who is looking to seize the scene with her charms and lively way of playing the game. This week we talked about the recent Gwent Slam and the effect of it on the Gwent competetive scene. We talk about the updated snapshot and the current meta in Gwent. Impetuouspanda stood in for Dale this episode and gave us some of his thoughts on casting a live event.

For more from AliasV you can find her on twitch