The makers of GWENT have one Beginners and a deck guide published for their free online card game.

GWENT is a bit more demanding in terms of mechanics than Hearthstone, for example. But that is precisely what makes it so attractive for an incredible number of players. It usually depends more on your own tactics and strategy than on the element of chance. Top players like Life coach switched from Hearthstone to GWENT precisely because of the minor coincidence and the focus on deck building and strategy.

GWENT - Beginners Guide

To make it easier to get started, the developers are not only planning a major Homecoming Update, a significantly better tutorial in the game, but also have one today Introductory guide published by Francesca “Jaggerous” Jagger.

In this she explains the basics, the groups and the first steps.

If you want to get a closer look after the guide, the big GWENT Challenger tournament will take place this weekend. There you can watch a few professionals and also experience some of the best decks in action. For a better understanding and overview there is a matching one Beginner's Guide to Deck Archetypes.

It explains 7 popular, powerful decks that are safe to play on weekends. This gives you a “cheat sheet” which particularly strong cards you have to watch out for. And maybe you will come up with cool deck ideas yourself or you can build them for yourself.

GWENT Challenger #3

The GWENT Challenger will take place this weekend on April 28th and 29th from 4 p.m. After the castle at the last tournament, this time a real salt mine was chosen as the venue, namely the “Wieliczka” salt mine.

8 players compete for a prize pool of 100,000 US dollars. The action will be broadcast live on the Twitch and YouTube Channel by CD Projekt Red. There are also the Twitch drops activated. Have fun!