Random Gwent card wins from merchants

[Wolf]

From several guides, there are over 50 Gwent cards that can only be obtained randomly via playing merchants. Several questions:

1. As there are over 50 randomly obtainable Gwent cards, how many merchants can be played?
2. After obtaining a specific Gwent card from merchants, such as Philippa Eilhart, can you receive another duplicate of it next time? I ask this because the last player in the Novigrad tournament, 'Gwent: High Stakes', had two Kayran monster cards (obtainable only via random win).

[Kenji Uchimura]

Nearly all Innkeepers and Blacksmiths can be played, and general Merchants some of the time. No Herbalists that I can recall.

Would highly recommend witcher3map.com and hiding all but Gwent Players/Innkeepers. Make sure you beat every player you come in contact with before moving on so you know if you've played them before or not. And you probably know to check all Innkeepers' stores to buy all their 4-5 cards.

#2 - Sounds like a cheater, but I have some weirdness with my Poor Infantry in that I have one stack of x2 and two more x1 (which I think is supposed to be x3 total).


Edit: Just did a quick count and there are about 46 gwent playable NPC nodes on the Velen/Novigrad map, and a bunch on Skellige.

[Warlord]

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[Wolf]

Originally posted by Uchimura:

Nearly all Innkeepers and Blacksmiths can be played, and general Merchants some of the time. No Herbalists that I can recall.

Would highly recommend witcher3map.com and hiding all but Gwent Players/Innkeepers. Make sure you beat every player you come in contact with before moving on so you know if you've played them before or not. And you probably know to check all Innkeepers' stores to buy all their 4-5 cards.

#2 - Sounds like a cheater, but I have some weirdness with my Poor Infantry in that I have one stack of x2 and two more x1 (which I think is supposed to be x3 total).


Edit: Just did a quick count and there are about 46 gwent playable NPC nodes on the Velen/Novigrad map, and a bunch on Skellige.

Thanks. I'm hoping the number of merchants playable outnumbers the amount of randomly obtainable Gwent cards. Will look around a bit more.

[JeblaNator]

does anybody know why Im not getting a card after beating somebody new?

[Wolf]

Originally posted by JeblaNator:

does anybody know why Im not getting a card after beating somebody new?

You always get a random card from a playable NPC the first time. After the first win, you get crafting items/other junk. You may've played that NPC at a previous point. Not sure otherwise.

[kaffekoppen]

Originally posted by JeblaNator:

does anybody know why Im not getting a card after beating somebody new?

I think at some point you can't win any random cards from regular players anymore. I'm not winning cards anymore, and as far as I can tell, I'm only missing a few. Probably in the hands of some merchant somewhere.

[JeblaNator]

Originally posted by kaffekoppen:

Originally posted by JeblaNator:

does anybody know why Im not getting a card after beating somebody new?

I think at some point you can't win any random cards from regular players anymore. I'm not winning cards anymore, and as far as I can tell, I'm only missing a few. Probably in the hands of some merchant somewhere.

argh...dammit
winnning new cards from craftsmen/merchant was so much fun...
thank you for clearing that out for me.

[MINUANO GAMING]

Here's what you need to know:

- You can play with most NPCs and vendors in the Game (Some Herbalists included)

- You can only get ONE CARD PER NPC, save your game before you play with someone new, HE/SHE CAN GIVE YOU A DUPLICATE, but it'll mostly be a wheater duplicate. Never seen a rare card duplicate.

- You can see if the NPC will give you a card or not by looking at the "Let's Play Gwent" dialogue option. If it's grayed out, you already beat him and you won't get any cards. If it's white/yellowish you can get a new card from that NPC.

- Most Hero cards (the rare ones) are obtained from Gwent quests and other side missions, with the exception of Phillipa Eilheart, Imlerith & Kayran. Maybe there's someone else I don't remember right now.

- Most Leader cards are either bought or won at the high stakes side quest, make sure you beat every competitor!

- On Triss' sidequest, a matter of life and death, you'll get the option to play with 3 or 4 players in a party. MAKE SURE TO BEAT ALL OF THEM, or else you'll lose those cards forever.

- On Zoltan's sidequest, a dangerous game, you'll get the option to keep the cards or ask for coin. Keep the cards or you'll lose them forever.

- When you start playing with an NPC, MAKE SURE TO BEAT HIM BEFORE YOU LEAVE. If you lose, keep playing until you win or load a save where you haven't challenged him/her. Every time you start a game, the game picks a random card from the random pile and sets to that NPC, if you lose, you'll only get the chosen card from that particular NPC. I found this the hard way since I was playing at early game with a poor deck, got owned by some merchant in the middle of nowhere in Velen and rage quit. After I beat the game, I had all cards but the Wyvern card, and all new NPCs would only give me wheater cards. I had to track down this bastard again in order to get my Wyvern card.

Ok, I think that'll minimize the damage. Gwent is a great mini game, but it's terrible that there are so many gimmicks involved in order to get all cards.

[Sparhawk122]

We need fallback ways to get these missable cards as you basically have to read a guide to get them all.

[hubertgreen]

It's old but played a merchant with Killer amount of spies and 10 after 10 lvl cards. I played a savescum to "test" the random win theory and I never "randomly" won a card higher that a 3... Specifically 4 hands and two 2's and two 3's are what i won. He never even used a 2 or 3 against me.