What's the fastest way to accumulate cards?

[Stübi Senpai]

Hey. I recently hit sort of a "wall" when it comes to my Gwent collection and the completion of daylies.

I have between 70-85% of all cards for each individual faction, and about 60% on neutrals. Im reasonably certain I got 2 copies of every faction common. And as you can guess, the issue is that most of my missing cards are gold, and thus cost a lot of scraps to craft.

The reason this is tedious is that certain daylies become incredibly aggravating to complete. I've been able to make a Nilfgaard and Scoiatel deck each that work well enough that I can usually brute force their quests within an evening. But for the other 3, I simply can't make a deck that has a decent winrate. I managed to make a somewhat workable Salamandra decklist for Syndicate that wins sporadically off poisoning most of the enemies off the board, but for a "5 wins" quest, that still means playing anywhere between 10-20 matches.

Northern Realms and Skellige are even worse. I simply can't construct something that stands a chance against the stuff I face in both ranked and unranked. My Deathwish Monster Decks works sometimes, as long as I don't go up against certain archetypes over and over.

So my question is this: What's the best way to spend my RP and Gold to get more of those Gold cards? I've been trying to brute force more RP from journey and contracts, and then making a beeline for any big gold payouts in the different RP trees. But doing that nets me about 20 kegs every week or so, which when all is said and done, maybe gives me enough scrap for 2, maybe 3 gold cards. It's gonna take me literal months to worm my way up to "playable" with certain factions.

[scrollo]

what is your milling option set to? mine was on the setting where you keep enough cards to be able to transmute them into premiums. if you change this you might (as I did) have a sudden massive influx of scraps to spend, i was able to buy about 15 800 point cards after I did this. you can worry about premiums when you've actually got all the cards (and the 'premium in keg' bonus you get for levelling will kick in at that point). aside from that i bought all the 200 or less cards first to maximise scrap return from kegs, with that done i can buy an 800 point card every couple of days.

[⛧ M♱ropele ⛧]

Just play with the decks that have all of the cards that you need to able to win there is no need to craft all the cards since most of them are not that good, focuse on 1 faction and when you gonna have all of the card that are actually good start with the next faction.

When it comes to daylies always try to refresh them till you get rp from them since they are better.

For now spend rp only for kegs/ore/scraps in the reward book ( or if there is a card you dont have grap that as well) no need for the powder, leaders, etc.

[Lokiator]

At a certain point, you have to face the facts that you're in for a very long grind... I am very close to a full deck (7 cards away), but it's taken almost 700 hours of play.

EDIT - I should note that I have my mill set to collecting mode, so I keep both standard and premium copies of all my cards. I could probably have finished my deck a while ago if I milled the standard copies.

If you're actually in it for the long haul, then here's my best advice: Only buy kegs for the faction with the most missing legendary cards. The last thing you want is a "chose 1 of 3 legendaries" where you have already have all three cards offered. That's 200 scraps of recycle value versus 800 scraps construction value. While you're doing this, focus on spending your scraps to finish your favorite deck.

If you're going for a complete deck, this essentially means buy only neutral kegs and use the scraps to craft faction cards (when you hit that point where most of your faction keg cards are duplicates). If you want to complete only a few factions, then pick the one with the most missing legendaries and craft cards for the others.

[Pablo escobar]

how long does it actually take to have decent deck is every faction and how much resources does it take?

[Castyles]

Originally posted by Pablo escobar:

how long does it actually take to have decent deck is every faction and how much resources does it take?

You can do the math yourself for the last question.

[⛧ M♱ropele ⛧]

Originally posted by Pablo escobar:

how long does it actually take to have decent deck is every faction and how much resources does it take?

it doesn't take that long its around 8-9k scraps for each deck

[Raskol]

When you're building a deck, look to see what is in the current meta that's strong. A good example would be here: https://teamleviathangaming.com/meta/

Before I had a decent collection, I found that I had to substitute cards that I didn't have for other cards that kinda do what the missing one would've done.

Also, focus on one faction to spend your ore on for kegs, as you'll get competitive quicker for one faction. You can get all the way to Rank 1 with just one good faction, you just can't get to Pro without 4 factions.

I have my milling option set to resource focused, to maximise the number of scraps I have.

I don't know how long it took me to be competitive to be honest, but it wasn't all that long. The hardest grind is at the moment where I have the vast majority of the cards, apart from 10 or so in each faction (apart from Scoia-tael and neutral). At this point, I just save my scraps to build new decks when the meta changes to include cards I don't currently have.

[Darth Joules]

It's also worth following this spreadsheet as a guide to the best way to spending keys because the more ore you have the more scrap you'll get from the kegs you open:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/15O7TL1NPNliouDGCu-IK7Kw7OkFZ9VLxzI4wfJd5u1g/edit#gid=0

Also if you haven't reached Prestige Rank 1 it's worth holding onto as many kegs as possible until you do. Prestige Rank 1 guarantees an extra rare per keg and thus 20 extra scrap. That really adds up over a long time.