The cards on the thumbnail have nothing to do with our Balance Council recommendations. It's just a cool wallpaper my friend made from years ago to represent the triangle of greed in Gwent that I think fits the concept of Balance Council pretty well!
17:02 Roach is unplayable now. the problem is that the shield wall is the only NR leader combative against control/deploy decks. Engines cards in NR have trouble staying on the board against warriors, locks, constructs, dragons, pirates etc.
The elder bear nerf completely ruins my homebrew. I reached 2290 this season playing elder bear spam with megascope, idarran, operator, and syanna. And then triss golden shower for a huge 18 point finisher
Love that you're uploading this as a video as someone who don't watch streams much. Hopefully some more of your audience that isn't on Reddit to see Lerio's posts also get involved more by this :) Regarding Vanadain nerf, I really disagree with nerfing Vanadain and possibly also Angus just to avoid nerfing the card that is causing most of the issues with both of them. Vanadain, while you mentioned it being possible to bounce him with other cards than Heist, does becomes a lot less convenient, with Heist you just purify and bounce again. Decoy becomes a bit random, and you need a tutor if you want to play him again, which you also might need for the first play if you don't draw him. Telianyn also risks playing Simlas if you don't have him in hand, and again, you need another tutor to play Vana again. And Vanadain Simlas decks really are top-heavy in that they don't have multiple good plays, so bleeding Simlas out often just doom them in R3. And with Angus, nerfing his power does quite a bit of harm to wholesome elf-swarm by making a card you have to play early horrible tempo, as if 6 is not low enough. Without thinking about Heist, I think he should be 6/10, so that if he's more or less auto-include in elf swarm that elevates all the currently bad cards that spawn deadeyes without having to buff them all on their own. And there is not a single problematic part with Agnus, aside from Heist. I also want him cheap enough so that including a tutor specifically for him in non-trap decks is a solid option. I think if Heist a similar way you do about Elder Bear (which I also agree with btw). Sometimes some cards are intertwined with others in ways where you can't make both options perfect, so either both are in limbo where it's not quite right, or one needs to be made worse for the other to shine. Heist puts 2 cards in that predicament, and overall is just a toxic card.
I cant believe you actually acknowledge that NR is the least picked faction and then you go on nerfing three cards while buffing none. #makeNRgreatagain
NR is the 2nd least-played faction, but its playrate is pretty close to Monsters (next highest). NR has the highest winrate in top 500 pro rank. We are only nerfing two cards in NR and buffing 1. Vanilla Ciri buff is also likely going to find a home in Shieldwall for the protection.
It plays for 10 total coins with 4 being carryover, it’s worth easily 14-16 points. The card is unsustainable at 5p, it will always have a permanent top nerf spot for me any season it is at 5
I'm following your votes, except for Bearification and Redanian SS. I don't like bronze cards at 7 provisions. I don't like bear to become unplayable just to nerf a bit Bearification. The rest, I agree with. Thank you for doing a video about it, I think it's important for our region. Reddit is fine, but UA-cam exposition of your coalition is also important, imho.
This is pretty much just buffs for MO. The pros all 100% abused kiki queen, yet no one wants to nerf it either 😂 also no changes to MO again. Gwent the riptide isectoid card game
Can we please talk about how terrible the nilfgard changes are literally every single season. It’s actually ridiculous having cards in the game that are unplayable and instead we ping pong or buff nilfcard cards that nobody likes playing against anyways
didnt they remove veil from carapace, ironically specifically because of the other Ciri that gives card advantage lol I wonder if you can play both of them to get massive card adv lul I agree on all the changes except for keira, I just hate giving NR another answer or lose card .... too bad I didnt play this season to support this voting :( I'd like to see more witcher buffs aard, yerden and axii and lambert are like non existent, which is sad imo
Votes probably are going to be wasted on -1 power nauzica sergeant, +1 provision slave driver and perhaps even Jan Calveit & battle stations.... These cards are nearly auto-include since the introduction of this voting system. I haven't played NG much because this faction is really weak. I do enjoy playing NG soldiers sometimes. It would be nice if NG soldiers will get some buffs. Just some suggestions: -1 provision Affan, good card ability but pretty bad if you have to play it from hand. You also need to spend whole leader to trigger it. So 10p seems rather expensive given the downsides and spending full leader. -1 provision Baccala, I don't see why this should be 12p it's far too expensive. It spawns 2 weak bronzes the carry-over is good though but in comparison Mushy truffle is far better card. +1 power Art Feainn light cavalry, good ability but it's too easy to remove/stop. It's only a 5 on deploy which is low tempo for a 5p bronze. In typical matchups you always need to keep it active by spending leader charges which makes the card rather expensive overall. -1 provision Imperial marine in my opinion the weakest flanking card and it costs even 5 provisions. Bad card as it is now although it's ability is kinda useful
When I returned to casual Gwent late this year, I actually built a meme NG pure witcher deck. Absolutely awful, but even still Ciri under-performed. So the positives you said might be true, but in practice I never saw it. Any buff would be cool. A re-design of Ciri would be great, but that's no longer in the cards, pardon the pun. Love Anna as a character, hate her as card design. But I hate most things NG. Anyway, her power is completely dependent on enemy, which I don't like. Personally don't want to see her buffed. As to your other recommendations, I defer to your expertise. Half the time don't even know the cards being discussed, at least in their current form. And finally, pretty sure its pronounced Kee-rah, not Kay-rah 🤨
I don't like the suggestion that Keira Metz will join alumni right away and this deck is pretty toxic.I saw Mya-Mon try it, and it was disgusting to even watch, there was no loss.
Yeah agreed. If you dont have heatwave and access to answer her immidiately you lose the round 100%. Keira is one of those cards that doesn't see play, but she will be broken if she does, like yrden.
@@BiggusDingus325 For this deck, we will need more than one heatwave, which one should you answer first. The whole deck is terrible and someone is also putting a defender. I don't know, I hope it doesn't pass.
Don't being so scared of 12 (soon to be 11) prov card that literally can't use its effect for several turns, has no zeal option and needs additional protection to not die to some parasite. It trades down to things like Heatwave, Vilgefortz or Eskel too. And Mya-Mon having no losses should typically be atributed to him being Mya-Mon lol
"7 prov for a bronze" is really not a good way to look at it. You can't directly compare it to a 7prov card that you play from hand. It doesn't cost a turn to play. We should compare Redanian Secret Service to another self-thinning unit like Roach or Knickers.
Frankly speaking I don't think this changes will do a lot. I have not met a lot of decks with these cards, smh I am mostly playing against monsters Sabbath, kikimore queen insectoids, sy witch hunters, harmony, renfri handbuff, raids and occasional sk witchers. Have seen a really cool deck with drakennorg kimbolt tho
Why would eventide plunder ever be in the discussion of a provision nerf, it would become unplayable just like the open sesame nerf to 6 would make an entire deck unplayable that being vice. The argument of too many being played off vendor is not a valid one when the problem is the vendor itself. If you need the sesame people won’t play it all let alone two of them in the same deck but a nerf to vendor would make more sense if that’s what u see as the problem as people already play one off all the time
The cards on the thumbnail have nothing to do with our Balance Council recommendations. It's just a cool wallpaper my friend made from years ago to represent the triangle of greed in Gwent that I think fits the concept of Balance Council pretty well!
With the triangle being:
Engine
Pointslam
Control
For anyone who is new to Gwent/TCG in general..
17:02 Roach is unplayable now.
the problem is that the shield wall is the only NR leader combative against control/deploy decks.
Engines cards in NR have trouble staying on the board against warriors, locks, constructs, dragons, pirates etc.
The elder bear nerf completely ruins my homebrew. I reached 2290 this season playing elder bear spam with megascope, idarran, operator, and syanna. And then triss golden shower for a huge 18 point finisher
😂
Love that you're uploading this as a video as someone who don't watch streams much. Hopefully some more of your audience that isn't on Reddit to see Lerio's posts also get involved more by this :)
Regarding Vanadain nerf, I really disagree with nerfing Vanadain and possibly also Angus just to avoid nerfing the card that is causing most of the issues with both of them.
Vanadain, while you mentioned it being possible to bounce him with other cards than Heist, does becomes a lot less convenient, with Heist you just purify and bounce again. Decoy becomes a bit random, and you need a tutor if you want to play him again, which you also might need for the first play if you don't draw him. Telianyn also risks playing Simlas if you don't have him in hand, and again, you need another tutor to play Vana again. And Vanadain Simlas decks really are top-heavy in that they don't have multiple good plays, so bleeding Simlas out often just doom them in R3.
And with Angus, nerfing his power does quite a bit of harm to wholesome elf-swarm by making a card you have to play early horrible tempo, as if 6 is not low enough. Without thinking about Heist, I think he should be 6/10, so that if he's more or less auto-include in elf swarm that elevates all the currently bad cards that spawn deadeyes without having to buff them all on their own. And there is not a single problematic part with Agnus, aside from Heist. I also want him cheap enough so that including a tutor specifically for him in non-trap decks is a solid option.
I think if Heist a similar way you do about Elder Bear (which I also agree with btw). Sometimes some cards are intertwined with others in ways where you can't make both options perfect, so either both are in limbo where it's not quite right, or one needs to be made worse for the other to shine. Heist puts 2 cards in that predicament, and overall is just a toxic card.
Shinmiri - you're the man! Thanks for putting this together and your continued efforts
I cant believe you actually acknowledge that NR is the least picked faction and then you go on nerfing three cards while buffing none. #makeNRgreatagain
NR is the 2nd least-played faction, but its playrate is pretty close to Monsters (next highest). NR has the highest winrate in top 500 pro rank. We are only nerfing two cards in NR and buffing 1. Vanilla Ciri buff is also likely going to find a home in Shieldwall for the protection.
Nobody will play Open Sesame for 6 provision. This nerf is just killing card and decks, who use it. Sesame will be returned for 5 through the season
New ping-pong confirmed 😂😂😂
This card is completely busted, giving you basically infinite reach. It should never be 5p
It plays for 10 total coins with 4 being carryover, it’s worth easily 14-16 points. The card is unsustainable at 5p, it will always have a permanent top nerf spot for me any season it is at 5
@@ArchangelMJZ agree wholeheartedly with u, I mean nowadays it's hard to include graveyard hate like squirrel or lemmens.. need more points
I'm following your votes, except for Bearification and Redanian SS. I don't like bronze cards at 7 provisions. I don't like bear to become unplayable just to nerf a bit Bearification. The rest, I agree with.
Thank you for doing a video about it, I think it's important for our region. Reddit is fine, but UA-cam exposition of your coalition is also important, imho.
Not my Redanian secret service 😢
This is pretty much just buffs for MO. The pros all 100% abused kiki queen, yet no one wants to nerf it either 😂 also no changes to MO again. Gwent the riptide isectoid card game
Give some love to Johnny and Sarah with a powerbuff
I think that just nerfing Inspired Zeal is a better option than nerfing Radovid
Can we please talk about how terrible the nilfgard changes are literally every single season. It’s actually ridiculous having cards in the game that are unplayable and instead we ping pong or buff nilfcard cards that nobody likes playing against anyways
didnt they remove veil from carapace, ironically specifically because of the other Ciri that gives card advantage lol
I wonder if you can play both of them to get massive card adv lul
I agree on all the changes except for keira, I just hate giving NR another answer or lose card ....
too bad I didnt play this season to support this voting :(
I'd like to see more witcher buffs aard, yerden and axii and lambert are like non existent, which is sad imo
Votes probably are going to be wasted on -1 power nauzica sergeant, +1 provision slave driver and perhaps even Jan Calveit & battle stations.... These cards are nearly auto-include since the introduction of this voting system.
I haven't played NG much because this faction is really weak. I do enjoy playing NG soldiers sometimes. It would be nice if NG soldiers will get some buffs.
Just some suggestions:
-1 provision Affan, good card ability but pretty bad if you have to play it from hand. You also need to spend whole leader to trigger it. So 10p seems rather expensive given the downsides and spending full leader.
-1 provision Baccala, I don't see why this should be 12p it's far too expensive. It spawns 2 weak bronzes the carry-over is good though but in comparison Mushy truffle is far better card.
+1 power Art Feainn light cavalry, good ability but it's too easy to remove/stop. It's only a 5 on deploy which is low tempo for a 5p bronze. In typical matchups you always need to keep it active by spending leader charges which makes the card rather expensive overall.
-1 provision Imperial marine in my opinion the weakest flanking card and it costs even 5 provisions. Bad card as it is now although it's ability is kinda useful
NG is super strong whenever Slave driver and nauzicaa got reverted. I hit 2608 with spotter spam.
When I returned to casual Gwent late this year, I actually built a meme NG pure witcher deck. Absolutely awful, but even still Ciri under-performed. So the positives you said might be true, but in practice I never saw it. Any buff would be cool. A re-design of Ciri would be great, but that's no longer in the cards, pardon the pun.
Love Anna as a character, hate her as card design. But I hate most things NG. Anyway, her power is completely dependent on enemy, which I don't like. Personally don't want to see her buffed.
As to your other recommendations, I defer to your expertise. Half the time don't even know the cards being discussed, at least in their current form.
And finally, pretty sure its pronounced Kee-rah, not Kay-rah 🤨
Redanian should have been a Gold card.
I don't like the suggestion that Keira Metz will join alumni right away and this deck is pretty toxic.I saw Mya-Mon try it, and it was disgusting to even watch, there was no loss.
Yeah agreed. If you dont have heatwave and access to answer her immidiately you lose the round 100%. Keira is one of those cards that doesn't see play, but she will be broken if she does, like yrden.
@@BiggusDingus325 For this deck, we will need more than one heatwave, which one should you answer first. The whole deck is terrible and someone is also putting a defender. I don't know, I hope it doesn't pass.
Don't being so scared of 12 (soon to be 11) prov card that literally can't use its effect for several turns, has no zeal option and needs additional protection to not die to some parasite. It trades down to things like Heatwave, Vilgefortz or Eskel too. And Mya-Mon having no losses should typically be atributed to him being Mya-Mon lol
people in the chat defending Redanian Secret Service, wow. That card is busted on so many levels
7 prov for a bronze is crazy , do you really think it is on the same level with reavers?
"7 prov for a bronze" is really not a good way to look at it. You can't directly compare it to a 7prov card that you play from hand. It doesn't cost a turn to play. We should compare Redanian Secret Service to another self-thinning unit like Roach or Knickers.
Frankly speaking I don't think this changes will do a lot. I have not met a lot of decks with these cards, smh I am mostly playing against monsters Sabbath, kikimore queen insectoids, sy witch hunters, harmony, renfri handbuff, raids and occasional sk witchers. Have seen a really cool deck with drakennorg kimbolt tho
Do you remember the kimbolt deck?
@LouisBerandoria yes, I can theory craft it, but it is not that great
@@foxinbox8489 pass it bro
Awesome recommendations !
Why would eventide plunder ever be in the discussion of a provision nerf, it would become unplayable just like the open sesame nerf to 6 would make an entire deck unplayable that being vice. The argument of too many being played off vendor is not a valid one when the problem is the vendor itself. If you need the sesame people won’t play it all let alone two of them in the same deck but a nerf to vendor would make more sense if that’s what u see as the problem as people already play one off all the time
@@daniellenc5534 except vendor is fine... When it's not spamming sesame, which is a problem
@@LuzikArbuzik77that makes no sense when vendor is the literal reason you can spam sesame
Can we also talk about how terrible nilfgard changes are literally every season
I disagree with open sesame and redanian secret service it will be unplayable 7 prov plz don't destroy decks
@@georgechar6309 you disagree with a card that is worth roughly 13-14 points in immune carryover to be 6 p instead of 5?
@LuzikArbuzik77 I do because they already did this nerf before and came back now they will nerf again and they will boost it later no sense
@@georgechar6309 It's better to see a broken card being a little bit less broken for half of the season than all the time. 5p for sesame is ridiculous
@LuzikArbuzik77 I know but then also pulling the strings need nerf
@@georgechar6309 Sure, I wouldn't be against it.