Gwent Board Game Explained: Rules, Deckbuilding & Beginner’s Guide | Board Game Shortcut

Learn How to Play Gwent, the Legendary Card Game of The Witcher Universe

In this video I’ll walk you through the rules of Gwent: The Witcher Card Game – including unit types, special cards and effects, plus how to build your own deck.

Whether you already know Gwent from The Witcher 3 or you’re brand new to it: here you’ll learn everything you need to start playing right away.

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🧩 Video Chapters
00:00 Gwent, the Witcher Card Game
00:41 Setup
02:18 How to Play
03:23 Units and Heroes
04:51 Special Cards and Unique Effects
05:02 Special Cards: Weather Cards
05:48 Special Cards: Commander’s Horn
06:01 Special Cards: Decoy
06:42 Special Cards: Scorch
07:06 Unit effect: Spy
07:36 Unit effect: Summon
07:56 How to apply multiple Effects
08:31 Building Your Deck
10:21 Building Your Deck: Muster (effect)
11:27 Building Your Deck: Tight Bond (effect)
12:50 Building Your Deck: More Key Tips & Strategy

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