Category: Gwent

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 10/18

Things have been quiet this week at Team Rankstar. After the launch of our new website, many of us have been putting our heads down to work on bigger projects. Expect some cool things coming up before the end of the year! Eternal Gwent Magic: The Gathering Mythgard TEPPEN Don’t forget, you can play your games with your style with Inkedgaming.com. Use code TRS12 at checkout for 12% off your final purchase total! Make sure to follow us on our socials

Team Rankstar October 18, 2019 No Comments

Community

Merchants of Novigrad #4

A biweekly podcast where we discuss everything Gwent, from the freshest of leeks and patch news, through the meme and content creation, all the way to the competitive scene! As the future of the competitive scene remains uncertain we’re looking back at the previous tournaments, their most memorable moments and what made them a real treat for the audience and the participants alike. And who’s a better person to break it down for us than TailBot, the winner of Gwent

Weissenberg October 14, 2019 No Comments

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 10/11

We could not be more excited to launch our new website this week! We appreciate all of the support and feedback we have received so far, looking forward to continuing to improve the Rankstar experience! On that note, we are launching a weekly video recap by Whats_Up_Woody, check it out here: Eternal Gwent Magic: the Gathering Mythgard TEPPEN The Elder Scrolls: Legends Don’t forget, you can play your games with your style with Inkedgaming.com. Use code TRS12 at checkout for 12%

Team Rankstar October 11, 2019 No Comments

Gwent

Deckbuilding on Patch Day: Thrive Monsters

Hey guys, I was thinking about doing another generic, “Top x cards of the expansion” article, but we see enough of those. This month, I wanted to write about something a little different, and I’m not sure how it’ll turn out. Rather than an article that provides a decklist and talks about it, I wanted to write about the process of getting to that decklist. The process of taking a rough idea for a deck, and refining it. Not wanting

trynet123 October 4, 2019 No Comments

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 10/4

We missed last week because Aphelion and Magikarp went to TwitchCon! So we are getting caught up with lots of the happenings over the past two weeks, including some new faces! Community Eternal Gwent Hearthstone Magic: the Gathering Mythgard https://teamrankstar.com/lore-brokers-files-chapter-1/ The Elder Scrolls: Legends Use the code “TRS12” to get 12% off your order on InkedGaming here: http://bit.ly/2WrjhR5 Make sure to follow us on our socials and check out our sponsors: https://linktr.ee/teamrankstar

Team Rankstar October 4, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. Freddybabes & Qupor’s Baldshot

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS! This is where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! This week was in the name of Gwent Reveals once again but it would take too much time to cover all of it. So we will just cover the memes, an incredible play, some tips and a cosplay!

drdenuz October 4, 2019 No Comments

Community

Merchants of Novigrad #3

A biweekly podcast where we discuss everything Gwent, from the freshest of leeks and patch news, through the meme and content creation, all the way to the competitive scene! If you’re a fan of Gwent tournaments, their atmosphere and intensity, you will definitely enjoy this episode. Our guests this week are the iconic caster duo of McBeard and Flake. They are both long-time members of the community who through their hard work earned the utmost respect of the Gwent playerbase.

Weissenberg October 2, 2019 No Comments

Deck Tech

Weekly Stream Recap: Viva Vivienne

Hello and welcome to the Weekly Stream Recap with Weissenberg! In this segment your humble servant and the loyal subject to the Nilfgaardian Emperor provides a written testimony of his adventures in the realm of Gwent. Each week we will try our luck with a creative and non-competitive deck and each week we will try to design a set of rules we have to follow throughout the broadcasts. Viva Vivienne With the season slowly coming to an end and the

Weissenberg September 30, 2019 No Comments

Deck Tech

Weekly Stream Recap: Swarm Like Never Before

Hello and welcome to the Weekly Stream Recap with Weissenberg! In this segment, your humble servant and the loyal subject to the Nilfgaardian Emperor provides a written testimony of his adventures in the realm of Gwent. Each week we will try our luck with a creative deck and non-competitive and each week we will design a set of rules we have to follow throughout the broadcasts. Swarm Like Never Before While Gwent has drifted towards the tournament meta and the

Weissenberg September 26, 2019 No Comments

Community

Welcome to the team Ace_Of_Plays

As our love for Gwent continues to grow, so does our content roster! We are very excited to welcome the content producer and well known YouTuber to the team: Ace_Of_Plays! Make sure to subscribe to their YouTube channel! Get to know them more here: https://teamrankstar.com/ace_of_plays/

Team Rankstar September 23, 2019 1 Comment

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 9/20

We are ready for this weekend’s Arena Rumble! It has been a big undertaking, and we could not be more excited to have it on the horizon! We appreciate everything our sponsors have contributed, plus everyone taking part in the event planning. Good luck to all of the competitors! We have also expanded into TEPPEN recently, and had our first meta breakdown posted this week. Stay tuned for more TEPPEN content soon! Lastly, we just published our Mythgard New Players

Team Rankstar September 20, 2019 No Comments

Deck Tech

Weekly Stream Recap: Commanding the Troops

Hello and welcome to the Weekly Stream Recap with Weissenberg! In this segment, your humble servant and the loyal subject to the Nilfgaardian Emperor provides a written testimony of his adventures in the realm of Gwent. Each week we will try our luck with a creative deck and non-competitive and each week we will design a set of rules we have to follow throughout the broadcasts. Commanding the Troops Soldiers Nilfgaard… That one Nilfgaard deck that is always around, but

Weissenberg September 19, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. Weissenberg & Babyjosus | Pawel Burza on Merchants of Novigrad Podcast?!

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS! This is where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this weeks episode we pay a lot of attention to the recent challenger, some stats, memes, & more! GUESTS With great pleasure I welcome two great guys and my very good friends Weissenberg and Babyjosus!

drdenuz September 18, 2019 No Comments

Community

Welcome to the team BeeBoBoop

We are incredibly excited to welcome BeeBoBoop to the Gwent Stream Team! Anyone who has been involved with Gwent on Twitch has likely seen BeeBoBoop’s stream pop up, or stopped in for a chat. If you haven’t, now is your chance: https://www.twitch.tv/beeboboop Get to know them more here: https://teamrankstar.com/beeboboop/

Team Rankstar September 18, 2019 1 Comment

Community

Welcome to the team Weissenberg

We are excited to welcome the newest member to the Gwent Content team: Weisseberg! Make sure to check out their Merchants of Novigrad podcast, as well as the other work they have already contributed on Team Rankstar! Get to know them more here: https://teamrankstar.com/weissenberg/

Team Rankstar September 16, 2019 No Comments

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 9/13

Mythgard Closed Beta came out this week and Team Rankstar was all over it! We are incredibly honored to be able to participate in the launch to the extent that we did, and have things in store for the Open Beta launch as well! Not to mention, our Arena Rumble event has been going off with a bang, and we are very excited for the finals coming up soon! We have a lot more events being announced in the coming

Team Rankstar September 13, 2019 No Comments

For Fun

Weekly Stream Recap: Purified Guardians of the Holy Shaelmaar

Hello and welcome to the Weekly Stream Recap with Weissenberg! In this segment your humble servant and the loyal subject to the Nilfgaardian Emperor provides a written testimony of his adventures in the realm of Gwent. Each week we will try our luck with a creative and non-competitive deck and each week we will design a set of rules we have to follow throughout the broadcasts. Purified Guardians of the Holy ShaelmaarAssimilate Nilfgaard is one the archetypes that I have

Weissenberg September 11, 2019 No Comments

Competitive

Fran-tic Pace: Hitting Pro Rank

There is a certain satisfaction that comes with taking the hard road to success. Blazing your own trail towards achieving your goals, rather than taking the path frequently traveled. This is not entirely that kind of discussion. This is more of an article that follows the first two steps of the instruction booklet, and soldiers on from there. This is about how you, too, can get to Pro Rank with Francesca. I’ve taken the hard road to Pro Rank before,

Flake September 10, 2019 No Comments

Community

Gwent News | A hectic week

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS! This is where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this week’s episode, we get together to take a look at a really cool artwork, a few observations, some memes regarding the patches, and so much more! GUEST Unfortunately this week things were a bit hectic and

drdenuz September 9, 2019 1 Comment

Community

This Week in Team Rankstar 9/6

Some really exciting things have been happening in the CCG world this past week! Aphelion and Magikarp had the pleasure of spending time with Direwolf Digital at PAX this weekend, getting some awesome info as well as spoilers for the upcoming set 7: “The Flame of Xulta”! Also, several new MTG sets were announced, cataloguing what we can expect next year, as well as plenty of spoilers for the upcoming “Throne of Eldraine” set! In MTG news, Stoneforge Mystic was

Team Rankstar September 6, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. BeeBoBoop & thehandofdown and Mercernn | MEME REVIEW?

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS! This is where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this weeks episode I will present to you Mercernn’s contest for the Most Charming Frog in Gwent, few ideas on how to improve Gwent’s visuals and I send one big thank you to CDPR. Oh,

drdenuz September 2, 2019 No Comments

For Fun

Weekly Stream Recap: Imperial Academy of Magic

Hello and welcome to the Weekly Stream Recap with Weissenberg! In this segment your humble servant and the loyal subject to the Nilfgaardian Emperor provides a written testimony of his adventures in the realm of Gwent. Each week we will try our luck with a creative deck and non-competitive and each week we will design a set of rules we have to follow throughout the broadcasts. Imperial Academy of MagicNilfgaard Mages is a deck idea that initially gained some recognition

Weissenberg September 1, 2019 1 Comment

Community

Custom Card Review #7 | GWENT

Hey, guys! It is time for another custom card review, and I’ve got some great ones for you today. In addition to the cards featured in my video, I’ve also got two exclusive cards for our lovely readers. Before we begin, I just want to remind you that if you want to share your own custom cards, you can do so via any of the links listed at the bottom of the article. Now, let’s proceed to the main event!

aceofplays August 31, 2019 No Comments

Community

DOUBLE FINISHER FRANCESCA | Deck Showdown

INTRO When I read the patch notes and saw the changes I immediately knew that Francesca is going to be really great in this update. As I woke up the next day I was impatiently waiting for the patch to download. Then I jumped to game and created this deck I have been making in my mind before sleep. So here is my creation which I’m really proud of and have a lot of fun playing! THE DECKGUIDE MULLIGANS In

drdenuz August 30, 2019 No Comments

Competitive

This Week In Team Rankstar 8/30

It has been a very nice end of the month here at Team Ransktar, with the announcement of our newest Hearthstone tournament: Brawlers of Uldum! On top of that, we have our Rankstar Arena Rumble just around the corner next month, and we could not be more excited for these events. Be sure to preregister as they will likely fill up! If you make it to PAX West this weekend, be sure to drop by the Inked Gaming booth for

Team Rankstar August 30, 2019 No Comments

Community

Fun Seasonal deck for your last (desperate?) push | Deck Showdown

Hellooo there! DrDenuz here once again with a banger of a deck for your Seasonal mode! This time I am bringing you a showdown for my Woodland Spirit “Hyperthin” deck with a surprising finisher! And the finisher is one and only beautiful Mourntart! So without further a due let’s get into the deck showdown! The Deck Mulligans The obvious mulligans are double Foglet and Wild Hunt Riders. You obviously don’t want to have both of them in hand. Other than

drdenuz August 29, 2019 No Comments

Community

Gwent Songs to cheer you up in the dark times!

Hey guys & gals it’s DrDenuz here and I have something new for you! I have decided that I will use my guitar (I would go as far as call them skills) to make some original Gwent Songs for you! Yes I know I may not have the voice of Priscilla and am not as charming as Dandelion but I have tried my best with these two songs to make your day at least a little bit better in these

drdenuz August 28, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. watchflake | What is it like to be a CDPR’s caster?

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS! This is where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this week’s episode we will take a look at a truly incredible cosplay on Queen Meve, look at some predictions for the future of Gwent, laugh at some memes, and much more! GUESTS I am

drdenuz August 26, 2019 No Comments

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 8/23

We are excited to be partnering with Inked Gaming and Akquire for our “Customize The Way You Play” giveaway! On top of that, we have a new Wild Meta Snapshot out this week, plus plenty of other articles to fill up your weekend. Community Eternal Gwent Hearthstone Magic: The Gathering Mythgard The Elder Scrolls: Legends Underlords Use the code “TRS12” to get 12% off your order on InkedGaming here: http://bit.ly/2WrjhR5 Make sure to follow us on our socials and check out

Aphelion August 23, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. BabyJosus | Renewed Gudrun Shupe

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this weeks episode we take a look at some suggestions from the players for cards and a skin for Emhyr, then we hop over to a fun little observation and also we have some MEMES as always!

drdenuz August 19, 2019 1 Comment

The ultimate hail mary

Competitive

Playing to your outs

What is “playing to my outs”? It’s a way of playing that might help you win some games that seem lost.

Johaggis August 19, 2019 1 Comment

For Fun

HOW TO MILL – DECK SHOWDOWN

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! Prologue The META of Gwent has developed and it came up with decks that thin to zero or only few cards left. And that made me start to play my deck child, Mill, again with great success. This Mill deck I’ve been playing from the start of Homecoming (obviously with some changes) has taken me to Rank 1 while devouring the likes

drdenuz August 17, 2019 No Comments

Community

This week in Team Rankstar 8/16

We have had several new content producers putting things out with Team Rankstar this week! Ace_of_plats, the113lift and others who are working on new projects. On top of that, we announced a new MTGA tournament series to look forward to! We are also very excited to post an updated TESL Meta Snapshot for the post Masters Series Meta! Eternal Gwent Hearthstone Magic: the Gathering Mythgard The Elder Scrolls: Legends Use the code “TRS12” to get 12% off your order on

Aphelion August 16, 2019 No Comments

episode 6 of custom card review by ace of plays

Gwent

Custom Card Review #6 | GWENT

Hello everyone! My name is Alex, AKA Ace of Plays, and I make content for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game on Youtube. I am very passionate about creating custom cards as a way to get creative with a CCG, and after having done a handful of custom cards videos on my channel it has become quite evident that a large part of the Gwent community share my passion. The custom cards featured in my video series are for the most

aceofplays August 15, 2019 1 Comment

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. Spyro_ZA |Current State of Gwent

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this weeks episode of GWENT NEWS we together explore some fine observations by the users on Gwent’s subreddit, a great new Gwent Card Predictor app, memes and more! Guests For this episode I welcome Spyro_ZA of Team

drdenuz August 12, 2019 1 Comment

Community

This Week In Team Rankstar 8/9

An exciting week for the CCG realm! Hearthstone got a new expansion, Gwent got a huge balance patch, several of our members received the opportunity to play the new CCG Causa. Top that off with MercurioBlue joining Team Rankstar and a Trail Stories with our very own Magikarp, there is a lot to sink your teeth into this week in Team Rankstar! Community Eternal Gwent Hearthstone Magic: the Gathering Mythgard The Elder Scrolls: Legends Use the code “TRS12” to get

Team Rankstar August 9, 2019 No Comments

Community

Welcome to the team MercurioBlue

We are pleased to announce the newest member of the Team Rankstar Stream Team: MercurioBlue! They play a variety of games, and you can always tune in to see some CCG action! Get to know them more here: https://teamrankstar.com/mercurioblue/

Team Rankstar August 6, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS w/ Freddybabes & Redrame

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this week’s episode I summarize the events connected to CDPR – the release of the Patch 3.1 and the cast for the upcoming Challenger. Then we go over some interesting observations by various Reddit users alongside some

drdenuz August 5, 2019 No Comments

Community

This week in Team Rankstar 8/2

This past weekend was an incredible weekend for the Team Rankstar competitive teams! Superthx made it to the top 4 of the TES:Legends Masters Series at QuakeCon, that Lazergician hosted. 3 members (Redrame, Trynet, and LordBushwook) were in the top 8 of the Novigrad Knockout Gwent tournament we hosted, with Redrame taking the whole thing down. Additionally 3 members (Magikarp, Doc28 and NotoriousGHP) made the top 4 of the Expedition Eternal event that The Great Parliament held., with Magikarp winning

Aphelion August 2, 2019 No Comments

Competitive

Northern Realms rise up! | deck guide

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! Prologue New update has arrived and so did the new beginning for the great Northern Realms! I myself was really looking forward for the patch and I certainly wasn’t disappointed as it breathed a new life to the faction. The Deck Guide The deck HOW TO PLAY MULLIGANS In your first hand you are looking for Roche: Merciless, Reinforcements, Blue Stripe Commandos

drdenuz August 2, 2019 No Comments

Gwent

6 Big Changes in 3.1 You Might Have Overlooked

We’re going to look at some of the easier to overlook changes from 3.1 that I’d expect to have a huge impact on Gwent over the coming months.

trynet123 August 1, 2019 1 Comment

Community

GWENT NEWS FT. WEISSENBERG | WHY TO RETURN TO GWENT?

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the fifth part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this weeks episode we take a look at a NEW WITCHER MOVIE about the Witcher Lambert – it’s a movie of a polsih production. You can find more in the article! Then I hint about the article

drdenuz July 29, 2019 No Comments

Community

This week in Team Rankstar 7/26

This week has been a quieter week for content, but there has been a lot happening behind the scenes! Our very own Superthx is competing at QuakeCon for the TESLMasters series on https://www.twitch.tv/teslegends! We are incredibly proud of him for making it to the event, and to Lazergician for hosting the event! Dota Underlords Several of our members have become more active in the Dota Underlords scene, so expect to see some content coming out for this game as well

Aphelion July 26, 2019 No Comments

Competitive

Are you tired of your engines getting removed? | Deck Guide

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! Prologue I am sure that many of you were, at least once, pissed that your engines didn’t last more than one turn. Well, this happened to me last night and while reconsidering my life choices and falling into despair because of the flooding of proactive cards in the Pro Rank, I came up with this abomination of a deck that disallows your

drdenuz July 23, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS ft. Ace of Plays & What’sUpWoody | NEW SHOWS

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! INTRO Hello guys & gals and welcome to the third part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! In this week’s episode we learn about new shows by What’sUpWoody & Ace of Plays and a big Gwent Tournament by the name of European Gwent Cup. Furthermore we have a look at some funny memes from the

drdenuz July 22, 2019 1 Comment

Community

This week in Team Rankstar 7/19

We have had a lot going on in the past few weeks! From formalizing our partnership with Aetherhub, to Popotito getting 2nd place in Eternal World Championship, to TypicalTyrant winning the Nerd Street Gamers Minor, we have had an exciting past few weeks! Eternal We are so proud of Popotito for getting 2nd place in Eternal Worlds! That is huge accomplishment for both them and Team Rankstar as a whole! The future of Eternal looks great, and seeing the excitement

Aphelion July 19, 2019 No Comments

Community

Welcome to the team Haiq

Welcome to the newest member of the Gwent team: Haiq! Get to know them more here: https://teamrankstar.com/haiq/

Team Rankstar July 18, 2019 No Comments

Gwent

What’s Up Gwent Podcast Ep1 – Who Is The Most Competitive Faction?

Episode 1 of the new Gwent podcast is here! Join me (Woody) as I chat with fellow members of Team RankStar, Babyjosus and Zane about the current state of Syndicate. We also discuss who we think the most competitive factions are – which we cant agree on, but hey, that’s where the fun comes in. Wrapping the show up is a fun bit of card trivia – which of course you’re welcome to join in with. If you have feedback

whatsupwoody July 16, 2019 No Comments

Community

GWENT NEWS FT. BabyJosus & Crozyr with MissLadyJay_ZA

Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece from DrDenuz and doesn’t necessarily reflect the beliefs of Team Rankstar! Intro Hello guys & gals and welcome to the third part of GWENT NEWS, where I bring you all the important stuff from Gwent in one place! This week was the craziest one for GWENT NEWS so far thanks to Pawel Burza and CDPR shouting out the show in TWIG*!Check it out here: https://youtu.be/-rR6K-1XAg0 *TWIG – This Week In Gwent – show hosted by Pawel

drdenuz July 15, 2019 No Comments

Gwent

Syndicate Archetype Overview

Syndicate was released with a few archetypes. Bounty rewards you for killing your opponent’s units. Firesworn goes wide, and swarms the board. Intimidate rewards you for playing the faction’s special cards. Tribute gives you more ways to spend coins, and Hoard breaks the linear conversion between coins and points.

trynet123 July 15, 2019 No Comments

© 2019 Team Rankstar | All Rights Reserved | Built By LICHEN