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KetchupAddict Aug 4, 2021 @ 1:29pm
NR this season
Anyone has any ideas what NR can play this season? NR Magic is still quite weak even though CDPR is apparently trying to promote it, since CDPR pretty much sucks at balance. The only really viable option is Blue Stripes but well, it isn't fun to play it or play against yet.
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Lokiator Aug 4, 2021 @ 3:34pm 
Patience decks are actually quite competitive. The new epic, Letitia, can be absolutely devastating in a long round. I've played against a few decks that probably didn't understand what she can do if there are a bunch of active Patience units on the board. Suddenly boosting their patience by a load of points makes for a massive amount of boosts and removals.

The new Practice makes Perfect is also fantastic. It's great for putting cards with a bunch of accumulated patience back into the deck after you use them. The side-benefit of boosting a replacement card is just a bonus. Between that and Shani, you can have a bunch of pre-charged cards to play in R3. And if you use Letitia on them, they become really overpowered.

I played a round earlier in the day where I made a 60+ point swing in the final turn of the match after unleashing Letitia on four active units, bumping them into the boost / damage by 11-15 range. I'm pretty sure my opponent didn't realize how potent a card she can be if left unchecked.
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t(^_^t) Aug 5, 2021 @ 7:02am 
Originally posted by Lokiator:
Patience decks are actually quite competitive. The new epic, Letitia, can be absolutely devastating in a long round. I've played against a few decks that probably didn't understand what she can do if there are a bunch of active Patience units on the board. Suddenly boosting their patience by a load of points makes for a massive amount of boosts and removals.

The new Practice makes Perfect is also fantastic. It's great for putting cards with a bunch of accumulated patience back into the deck after you use them. The side-benefit of boosting a replacement card is just a bonus. Between that and Shani, you can have a bunch of pre-charged cards to play in R3. And if you use Letitia on them, they become really overpowered.

I played a round earlier in the day where I made a 60+ point swing in the final turn of the match after unleashing Letitia on four active units, bumping them into the boost / damage by 11-15 range. I'm pretty sure my opponent didn't realize how potent a card she can be if left unchecked.
YES!!! I agree. if you don't do anything when a patience cards were already on the board youre screwed. hahaha learned the hard way.
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Sanjay_2077 Aug 6, 2021 @ 1:10am 
NR Mages are way too slow for current standards and very vulnerable. And one more thing, Why are all NR mages are row lock? Stupidity!

Anyway, Here are few NR mages deck that you can try if you want to. Good luck. 👍

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/guides/252697

https://www.playgwent.com/en/decks/guides/251569
Last edited by Sanjay_2077; Aug 6, 2021 @ 1:11am
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epic meow Aug 6, 2021 @ 6:43am 
could always probably just go back and play an old war elephant meta deck w duel and bloody baron. should still be somewhat viable. if you gotta play the faction for like a quest or something i mean
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KetchupAddict Aug 6, 2021 @ 10:54am 
War elephant? When was war elephant in any meta deck?
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Lagrange Aug 6, 2021 @ 11:20am 
Originally posted by KetchupAddict:
War elephant? When was war elephant in any meta deck?
When was the last time NR was meta?
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Lokiator Aug 6, 2021 @ 11:22am 
Originally posted by Lagrange:
Originally posted by KetchupAddict:
War elephant? When was war elephant in any meta deck?
When was the last time NR was meta?

Briefly when Shieldwall was introduced. The shielded dueling units with Viraxis to reset them were challenging SK for dominance at one point last year. But that didn't really last long...
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Lagrange Aug 6, 2021 @ 1:41pm 
Originally posted by Lokiator:
Originally posted by Lagrange:
When was the last time NR was meta?

Briefly when Shieldwall was introduced. The shielded dueling units with Viraxis to reset them were challenging SK for dominance at one point last year. But that didn't really last long...
Remember 40-card Foltest? That was a true NR meta.
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epic meow Aug 6, 2021 @ 6:03pm 
Originally posted by Lagrange:
Originally posted by Lokiator:

Briefly when Shieldwall was introduced. The shielded dueling units with Viraxis to reset them were challenging SK for dominance at one point last year. But that didn't really last long...
Remember 40-card Foltest? That was a true NR meta.
remember when foltest used to turn an entire row into gold units? that was the true NR meta (it really wasn't)
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KetchupAddict Aug 6, 2021 @ 6:26pm 
NR was "not really good but not garbage either" most of the time. Even the rework didn't really push them into the meta. Now two versions later they are at the bottom because of some serious point inflation in the recent updates.
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Smart Sheep Aug 8, 2021 @ 5:45pm 
Patience, and good old commando + duel or siege are still competitive I think. Especially duel variant, it sometimes outright wins monster match-up before your opponent can snowball.
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KetchupAddict Aug 8, 2021 @ 7:02pm 
Patience isn't really competitive. It's too slow, can't beat the non-interactive decks, and super vulnerable to the interactive decks. Oh and a defender can only protect like half of them for some reason.
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Lagrange Aug 9, 2021 @ 5:20am 
NR will always be playing catch up with Syndicate as far as their Order ability is concerned. Patience definitely shortened the gap but the fact you cannot actively decide the game puts you on the backfoot. It gets decimated against control, the defender might as well not exist, monsters outrank them in terms of points and a loss in Round 1 almost assures their end. NR Witcher is a dynamic deck but has been power-crept with later cards in other factions. I reckon a Draug-Machine deck may work but haven't tried it in the current meta yet, but worth considering.
Last edited by Lagrange; Aug 9, 2021 @ 5:21am
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Rialm Aug 9, 2021 @ 6:47am 
Patience is quite good because there are so many things to lock or kill that you always have value. Plus most cards are really cheap. The deck that can easily destroy Patience is movement.
In my case, I would not focus only in Patience. They are so cheap that It's just a way to attract locks or being killed. So that way I can use other cards.
It's the most interesting deck from the expansion but it's getting better every new small expansion.
edit: + practice make perfect is so freaking good. what it does is to recycle your cheap patience bronze cards. let say that you play a bronze card and is not dead so you send it back to your deck and that card has already patience above 0. It's really good.
edit2: they have like 4 really good 4 provisions cards that synergize. It's really good
Last edited by Rialm; Aug 9, 2021 @ 7:25am
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