Witcher 3 Gwent: Beating High Stakes with the Nilfgaardian Empire deck! (Hard Gwent difficulty)

Whilst going through my most recent playthrough of Witcher 3 in order to make my Death March walkthrough, I made a manual save before taking on the 'High Stakes’ Gwent tournament.
This tournament is difficult and probably features the best Gwent opponents in Witcher 3, so I always relish the challenge.
This series of videos features me beating High Stakes with each of the 5 decks available. The play isn't perfect each time, but considering that the Gwent difficulty is set to 'Hard’, I think they're solid illustrations of how to use each deck. Interestingly you can see that the opponents don't always make perfect plays even with the Gwent difficulty set to Hard.
The first round of this tournament is missing, but it is just me playing Ciri versus the Northern Realms deck and then us playing and decoying spies back and forth!
I lost to the Northern Realms halfling when using my own Northern Realms, Monster and Skellige decks, although I have completed High Stakes with no losses using both the Northern Realms and Skellige decks on previous playthroughs.
This time round I won straight through on the Nilfgaardian and Scoia'tael deck tournament playthroughs.
I hope you enjoy the videos; please like, comment and subscribe for more Witcher 3 content!

[@alexmercer8852]

My favorite deck. Medic & spy all days

[@DPhoenix237]

Best deck Imho, although most people say Northern Realms because its easier to use.

[@alexmercer8852]

@@DPhoenix237 to be honest with u, I'm one of them too who love Northern realm until i fought sasha in high stake. Damn! She's nasty. Starting from that i start learning how to use nilfgaardian deck and i really2 love it. Thanks to sasha who make me change deck😁. Always play in high difficulty to spicy it up

[@TisRayInferno]

11:59 When you medic a spy card without checking that you have no cards left in your deck 😂

[@fiece4767]

11:54 fail hehe😁nice plays btw.

[@sherry356]

Why does your audio always cut out towards the final matches? Happens on all your videos...

[@DPhoenix237]

I'm not sure; could be because they're stitched together using the old Xbox Upload studio. It was the best I had, but was more functional than optimal.

[@adamday4283]

How the hell do you get the cards to show up in the deck the ones you win of other people.

[@adamday4283]

Worked it out.

[@DPhoenix237]

@@adamday4283 Good stuff!

[@sametekiz3709]

Nice vid.

[@DPhoenix237]

Thanks!