Category: Gwent

Gwent

Gwent Team Thoughts on April 2020 Patch Changes

Here at Team Rankstar, we’ve taken a little time to process and think about the changes coming with the new patch we should see on April 2nd. While we don’t know all of the changes, we heard about a number of them on the most recent episode of the Merchants of Novigrad podcast with Jason Slama, game director for Gwent. So without further adieu, here’s a collection of thoughts from some of our team members! TheaBeasty I’m very glad that

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Gwent

Cards for Humanity!

This event will bring 4 different communities from the world of CCG’s together in fundraising for the World Health Organization. The featured games for the event are Mythgard, Gwent, Legends of Runeterra and Magic the Gathering: Arena! Each game will have it’s own full swiss/top 16 tournament. These will take place on April 11th & 12th The top 8 matches from all the games will feature in a monster 16 hour production, which will air live on Twitch on Saturday,

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Community

The origins of: Matta Hu’uri

PROLOGUE Many of you know Matta Hu’uri from Gwent – a Tutor Card with following ability: Matta’s Card has been introduced in the most recent Expansion for Gwent called Merchants of Ofir – suggesting exotic roots of this card. Why exotic you ask? According to a scholar from Northern Kingdoms – Markus Hohlenberg, Ofir is a land of vast steppes, forbidding mountains, untouched wildernesses and crystal-clear lakes and it is populated by horses, camels, elephants, tigers and cobras. The climate is said to be much warmer

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Gwent

Deckbuilding Principles/How I learned to stop building trash and love the provision system

This articles was written by Johaggis and edited by Sevenzh. Hey Gwent Community, seeing as data gathering has become more difficult and the snapshots are on hiatus, I figured it might be helpful to share some advice on how to make a deck that doesn’t attempt to pull you to rank 31. I’ll be going over some general principles for making a deck, which will hopefully help you build your own! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m

Johaggis March 9, 2020 2 Comments

For Fun

Honest Deck Guide: No Fun Allowed

This guide was written by Weissenberg and edited by Sevenzh. Hello and welcome to the Honest Deck Guide 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 time we will present you a creative and off-meta deck to kill time with and each time we will try to also convey their flaws and shortcomings. No Fun Allowed Upon hearing the

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Community

Who doesn’t love Elves, right? | Deck Showdown

This deckguide was written by DrDenuz and edited by Sevenzh. Prologue When I opened the game after the recent patch – Merchants of Ofir – I was delighted to see that I can put together a really sweet deck out of Elves, a thing I have been trying to do for a while now. After some tweaking and an inspiration from my friend GwentyWeevil, who has recently started doing deck guides as well, I was able to make the deck

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Community

How to make Gwent even better?

Prologue After the much anticipated release of Roadmap* for Gwent and a surprising expansion Gwent is probably in one of it’s best times ever. But as always there is still room for improvement, so here one question comes up – How to make Gwent even better? *Plan of what is waiting for players in terms of competitive gameplay in 2020. 2019 was a one hell of a year for Gwent, as tons of new stuff was introduced into the game.

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Community

Merchants of Novigrad #8

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! Everything has an end and this episode marks the season finale of our podcast. While our plan was to sit together and reflect on this past year in Gwent, the developers treated us with the official 2020 roadmap and a new expansion! That’s a lot of ground to cover, so you

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For Fun

Honest Deck Guide: Noble Poisoning

Hello and welcome to the Honest Deck Guide 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 time we will present you with a creative and off-meta deck to kill time with and each time we will be completely honest about its flaws and shortcomings. Noble Poisoning With the Ofiri trade offensive taking everyone by surprise we woke up to

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Gwent

Let’s talk about the Gwent Roadmap for 2020

This article was written by SynergyGod3773 and edited by Sevenzh. Gwent’s 2020 roadmap was just released and it brought some people to tears while others rejoiced to hear some of CDPR’s 2020 vision (pun intended) for Gwent. The Gwent team, led by Pawel Burza and Jason Slama, recapped Gwent Homecoming’s first year and brought to the forefront their aspirations for the upcoming calendar year. These topics included all of the following: PS4/Xbox One – Support will be discontinued for consoles

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Community

Merchants of Novigrad #7

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! While Gwent goes through what sports casters call a silly season, the Merchants shift their focus from the esports scene and the overall balance to content creation. How does one start their career as a Gwent content creator? What motivates Gwent youtubers and streamers? We’ll discuss these and many more topics

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Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent – Part 5

Welcome to the fifth and last part of our Beginner’s Guide series! We hope you’ll enjoy reading through the rest of the guide! 8) ADVANCED GAMEPLAY ADVICE, RANKED PLAY AND PROGRESSION Advanced gameplay advice This section details out more advanced gameplay advice to help teach newcomers the finer aspects of Gwent. This kind of stuff can get complicated so buckle up! Topics include: mulligans, round progression, general player plans, etc. The importance of mulligans / redraws A mulligan in card

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Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent – Part 4

Welcome to the fourth part of our Beginner’s Guide series! We hope you’ll enjoy reading through the rest of the guide! 7) WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE FACTIONS? While each Faction doesn’t limit general deck archetypes (ex. Nothing is stopping you from playing cards based around buffs, no matter what faction, for example), some Faction specific cards and Leaders go better with some strategies than others. In addition, each Faction has general trends and keywords that feel ‘exclusive’ to

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Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent – Part 3

Welcome to the third part of our Beginner’s Guide series! We hope you’ll enjoy reading through the rest of the guide! 5) I’VE GOT A BUNCH OF NEW CARDS. WHAT SHOULD I DO? ALSO WHAT CARDS SHOULD I CRAFT FIRST? I highly recommend making small tweaks to the starter decks as soon as possible, as you likely don’t have enough resources to make a completely different deck. You can either edit the starter decks directly, or create a new deck

drdenuz November 25, 2019 No Comments

Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent – Part 2

Welcome to the second part of our Beginner’s Guide series! We hope you’ll enjoy reading through the rest of the guide! 3) OKAY, SO I’VE PLAYED SOME MATCHES. HOW DO RESOURCES WORK, AND HOW DO THEY ALLOW ME TO BUILD A DECK? Game currency / Resources The types of game currencies The reward system in Gwent is a little more larger in scope than most games. There are a few different resources you can see at the top right of

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Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent – Part 1

Welcome to the first part of our Beginner’s Guide series! We hope you’ll enjoy reading through the guide! So you want to play Gwent? Then you’ve come to the right place! The purpose of this guide is to act as a useful beginner’s guide to the poorly explained aspects of Gwent, some of which are quite important to game. It will also hopefully clear up any common hesitation / anxiety about the first steps of playing Gwent. If you have

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Guide

Beginner’s Guide to Gwent

This guide was originally created by YurdleTheTurtle, and has been updated by DrDenuz, Gulox2 and Sevenzh. So you want to play Gwent? Then you’ve come to the right place! The purpose of this guide is to act as a useful beginner’s guide to the poorly explained aspects of Gwent, some of which are quite important to game. It will also hopefully clear up any common hesitation / anxiety about the first steps of playing Gwent. If you have questions, for

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Community

Merchants of Novigrad #6

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! With the iOS release Gwent’s playerbase has increased dramatically, but does it mean that the game is finally in a good spot? And what does the influx of new players mean for content creators on platforms like YouTube and Twitch? There’s no better person to answer these and many more questions

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For Fun

Honest Deck Guide: Tactical Recruitment

Hello and welcome to the Honest Deck Guide 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 time we will present you with a creative and off-meta deck to kill time with and each time we will be completely honest about its flaws and shortcomings. Tactical Recruitment As we all know Enslave has been a fairly popular leader ability for

Weissenberg November 12, 2019 No Comments

Eternal

This Week In Team Rankstar 11/1

There is a plenty to see, this week in Team Rankstar! We just opened the door to a new title, God’s Unchained, and we are very excited for what the future holds for that game. Check out all of the content we had come out this week and stay tune for more coming up next week! Eternal God’s Unchained Gwent Magic: the Gathering Mythgard The Elder Scrolls: Legends Want to support our content? There’s many ways, best of which is

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Gwent

Teamrankstar Presents: Bushy’s Brawl

Teamrankstar is excited to announce our 4th Gwent tournament spearheaded by our team member lordbushwook: Bushy’s Brawl. The swiss stage will take place on November 23rd at 2PM CET and double elimination top 8 will take place on November 24th at 2PM CET. IMPORTANT NOTE: All games are expected to be streamed to twitch. (if your PC cannot stream Message lordbushwook#7545 on discord) How to install and use OBS to stream: https://youtu.be/9XfDuMLXCxM Prizes:1st: $502nd: $303rd: $20 The whole event will

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Community

Merchants of Novigrad #5

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! Throughout its history and presence on platforms like Twitch Gwent has seen content creators come and go. Most of those who left the game could count on nothing more than a cold welcome had they wished to come back. And our guest knows all about it. Within a month Jaggerous, who

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Community

Weekly Stream Recap: The Empire of Greed

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 achieve the peak of Gwent memery. The Empire of Greed My dear friends, it’s that time of the month again. No, I’m not talking

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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

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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

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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%

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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

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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

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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!

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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.

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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

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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

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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/

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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

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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

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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!

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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/

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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/

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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!

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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

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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

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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

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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

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