How to beat the Monster Gwent Deck?

[Guess5050]

I find it so overpowering.

It has a 10 point melee card, immune to frost bite. And its leader card can be played in multiple rounds. And, regardless whether it loses or it wins, it always get to keep one 5 point card for next round. And everytime I played against a monster deck, there's always a clear weather and decoy card.

I tried to drag on the first round, hoping the computer will throw away all its good cards. The computer always place its 10 point elite card in the first round. It also uses leader card to double all its melee points. After I stop putting up a fight in the first round, the decoy card withdraws the elite 10 point card for the last round.

Now, I get to win the second with a single card. Then third round becomes slaughter again. The elite card and leader card gets played again. You may argue then just use frostbite. Unless, I have two frostbites: I don't stand a chance when the computer has a clear weather card.

I think I can beat the monster deck if it doesn't get to use its leader card more than once. There're just too many perks associated with the monster deck.

[Coin]

Scorched earth, golden dragon, baiting out cards that summon other cards. Thats my way of beating moster decks. Spies are always good obviously, and if you don't have spies it's too early for you to battle strong decks. I never used weather cards, so it's not required imo. Actually now that i think about it, spies are more important than anything else. You also either force your oponent to skip round (so win it by playing a spy), or play cards and loose power, while you'r gaining cards or staing with same amount of cards.

[Carthias]

Monster deck has the flaw(AI sucks at this as well) of using all it's swarm cards at once. What I mean by this is use your garbage cards and the AI will typically run out of normal cards and start to use the vampires/ghouls all at once.

Another weakness the deck has is many of it's 'swarm' cards are vulnerable to scorch, the only one that does not is the vampire and arachas The crones/nekkers/ghouls can all be one-shot provided you do not have a larger card on your end or the enemy does not have one on yours.

It's all about out-lasting the deck, you don't want to try to go all-in in round one or you will potentially have to deal with 16+ points from a single card being played.

I'm not sure what leader card you're talking about? To my knowledge leader cards can only be played once, do you mean the innate effect of keeping one card in play?

Decoy cannot work on elite cards, neither can rezz. They can only be played once and no other cards or abilities will effect them.

[Go0lden_Archer]

Frost+Golden dragon. Most of the time, monster deck's AI is stupid. Getting out 3-4 swarm cards to get 10 or more on the deck, and then passes. After that moment, Frost+Golden Dragon. And that's about it. Then it has nothing to put against you. Well, except if your deck is crappy, thus you don't have medics/decoys/elites.
Also, elite +10 cards can't be withdrawn. And if by elite you don't mean "golden", then it's not elite.

[DeGorro82]

Monster Card rely on "MUSTER" ability. Either you destroy these card by using Dragon Card or Scorch, or use frost bite to make their number to 1.

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Coin:

Scorched earth, golden dragon, baiting out cards that summon other cards. Thats my way of beating moster decks. Spies are always good obviously, and if you don't have spies it's too early for you to battle strong decks. I never used weather cards, so it's not required imo.

From the sounds of it, its appear my deck is just too weak as I don't have any of your mentioned cards. I don't think I am battling someone beyond my level. There are other two gwent players in the area. And I had easily beaten both of them.

Is it normal to just walk away from monster decks until you have basically over-leveled them?

[Coin]

Yea, its ok to wait until you get better cards, just dont forget if it's important to you. Spies are really key for any battle imo, especially against monster decks, because they cant turn your spies around by resurrecting them.

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Carthias:

I'm not sure what leader card you're talking about? To my knowledge leader cards can only be played once, do you mean the innate effect of keeping one card in play?

Well, in all my matches: the Wild hunt leader card, doubling the melee points, is allowed to be played in every round.

Is that a bug?

[Coin]

Commander ability can only be used once, if i get you right.

[Carnasid]

Two words: Bitter Frost

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Archib@ld:

Frost+Golden dragon. Most of the time, monster deck's AI is stupid. Getting out 3-4 swarm cards to get 10 or more on the deck, and then passes. After that moment, Frost+Golden Dragon. And that's about it. Then it has nothing to put against you. Well, except if your deck is crappy, thus you don't have medics/decoys/elites.
Also, elite +10 cards can't be withdrawn. And if by elite you don't mean "golden", then it's not elite.

Yea, I meant the golden cards.

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Coin:

No, commander ability can only be used once, if i get you right.

That what I thought too until I played against the girl in the bloody baron's fort. She used the leader card every round.

[Coin]

That must be a bug. Also she has really strong deck, i dont think you'r suppose to beat her right when you meet her.

[Oh My Gawd]

The biggest disadvantage to the monster deck is there are way to many mele units in the cards. The big monster cards that are like gold 10 and immune to everything are not hard to deal with you can even try to stratigicaly use one of your rounds weekending your opponet by useing spy cards and building army while your opponete waist monstercards then counter attack.

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Coin:

That must be a bug. Also she has really strong deck, i dont think you'r suppose to beat her right when you meet her.

Oh well, I guess I will just move on. I a bit disappointed. Had great fun with Gwent so far. Had beaten everyone I had met, until now.

[Guess5050]

Messaggio originale di Flip:

The biggest disadvantage to the monster deck is there are way to many mele units in the cards. The big monster cards that are like gold 10 and immune to everything are not hard to deal with you can even try to stratigicaly use one of your rounds weekending your opponet by useing spy cards and building army while your opponete waist monstercards then counter attack.

My problem is: with the computer having decoy card and able to use the leader card every round, the computer can practically replicate its winning hand for two rounds. So wasting one round won't help in this instance.