From the revolting inns of Velen to the spectacular Royal Castle at Vizima, it seems anyone who is anyone is enjoying the card game known as Gwent. However, this enjoyable pastime can become addictive when you realize there are a large number of cards to find to bolster your deck, improve your chances of victory, and complete your collection. While innkeepers (and some merchants) may sell the more common cards, the following quests allow you to gather many unique Gwent cards, which are critical to your collection.
Before you start your search for Gwent cards, here are a few tactical tips to help you:
ON THE CARDS: GWENT COLLECTING TIPS
Gwent cards are acquired in a number of ways. Be sure you thoroughly inspect the Gwent Collecting Appendix (page 450) for a complete list of cards!
In your Base Deck : You begin with a fair number of cards, which you should employ in your initial games.
Purchased : Some cards can be bought from a trader (a merchant, innkeeper, or shop owner) at a variety of locations .
Won: Some cards must be won from a merchant, innkeeper, or trader. This is anyone, in this guide’s Atlas chapter, that offers “Merchants and Repairs” in the Atlas legend. They may (or may not) be a Gwent player. Visit them to see if they play Gwent, and challenge them. If you win, you receive a random card. Having trouble finding a merchant who likes to play Gwent? Then seek out the naming merchants who sell cards; they are usually players, too. The Gwent Appendix chart lists all these people. If you beat a merchant and take their card, you can always play them again for coin.
Gwent Ques t: Some cards are acquired during the Gwent Quests listed in this chapter. Individuals in the different realms are faced, one after the other, and their cards acquired once you beat them.
Secondary Quest : There are cards to acquire during a few Secondary Quests too (again, the Appendix lists which quests). Sometime these are won during a tournament (like Secondary Quest: High Stakes , later in this chapter). Sometimes they are a reward.
There is a simple pleasure in challenging Gwent players across these lands, and learning from them. Before returning and fleecing them for a card and coins, obviously.
OFF THE CARDS: KNOW WHEN TO HOLD ‘EM!
You may be wondering what happens if someone who is holding Gwent cards dies. Do your chances of gathering cards vanish? No; any foes that die or depart an area leave their cards in the place they are usually found, or give you their cards automatically.
