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The Monsters Gwent deck must be built from scratch by acquiring cards.
Overview
- Faction perk: One of your units in play is randomly carried over to the next round.
An interesting high-risk, high-gain deck, built around the Muster special ability. Monsters allows you to field a large, high score army with just a few cards, giving a solid advantage against the opponent.
Of course, the drawback is precisely that same Muster ability: It's possible to deplete your deck with just a few cards, crippling your long term ability to play. The deck is also extremely vulnerable to the Freezing Cold weather card, due to its reliance on Close Combat units, but does gain an advantage against other decks when using Ranged Combat and Siege Combat debuffs. Likewise, Scorch cards and units are a severe threat.
Cards
| Icon | Name | Type | Combat row | Strength | Special ability | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eredin: Commander of the Red Riders | Leader | Pick any weather card from your deck and play it instantly. | Part of the base deck | ||||
| Eredin: King of the Wild Hunt | Leader | Double the strength of all your Close Combat units (unless a Commander's Horn is also present on that row). | Purchased from Innkeep at the New Port Inn | ||||
| Eredin: Bringer of Death | Leader | Discard 2 cards and draw 1 card of your choice from your deck. | Gwent: Velen Players won for completing the quest | ||||
| Eredin: Destroyer of Worlds | Leader | Restore a card from your discard pile to your hand. | Gwent: High Stakes | ||||
| Botchling | Unit | Close combat | 4 | None | Purchased from Innkeep at the New Port Inn | ||
| Celaeno Harpy | Unit | Close combat, Ranged combat | 2 | Agile | Can be placed in either the Close combat or the Ranged combat row. Cannot be moved once placed | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Grave Hag | Unit | Ranged combat | 5 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Gargoyle | Unit | Ranged combat | 2 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Ghoul | Unit | Close combat | 1 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | (2 of 3) Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant (1 of 3) Purchased from Innkeep at the Harviken tavern | |
| Nekker | Unit | Close combat | 2 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | (1 of 3) during Following the Thread, looting Hammond's corpse (1 of 3) Purchased from Innkeep at the Harviken tavern (1 of 3) Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Arachas | Unit | Close combat | 4 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | (1 of 3) Purchased from Innkeep in Arinbjorn (1 of 3) Purchased from Innkeep in Urialla (1 of 3) Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag | |
| Vampire: Bruxa | Unit | Close combat | 4 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | during A Matter of Life and Death, winning a match at the Vegelbud Estate | |
| Vampire: Ekimmara | Unit | Close combat | 5 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag | |
| Crone: Weavess | Unit | Close combat | 6 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Gwent: Velen Players won from the Old Sage | |
| Crone: Whispess | Unit | Close combat | 6 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Purchased from Innkeep in Arinbjorn | |
| Crone: Brewess | Unit | Close combat | 6 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Draug | Unit | Close combat | 10 | Hero | Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities. | Gwent: Skellige Style won from Crach an Craite | |
| Cockatrice | Unit | Ranged combat | 2 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Arachas Behemoth | Unit | Siege | 6 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Earth Elemental | Unit | Siege | 6 | None | Purchased from Innkeep at the New Port Inn | ||
| Griffin | Unit | Close combat | 5 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Plague Maiden | Unit | Close combat | 5 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Forktail | Unit | Close combat | 5 | None | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
| Foglet | Unit | Close combat | 2 | Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag | |||
| Fiend | Unit | Close combat | 6 | Purchased from Innkeep in Arinbjorn | |||
| Fire Elemental | Unit | Siege | 6 | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |||
| Frightener | Unit | Close combat | 5 | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |||
| Harpy | Unit | Close combat, Ranged combat | 2 | Agile | Can be placed in either the Close combat or the Ranged combat row. Cannot be moved once placed | Purchased from Innkeep at the Harviken tavern | |
| Ice Giant | Unit | Siege | 5 | Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag | |||
| Imlerith | Unit | Close combat | 10 | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |||
| Kayran | Unit | Ranged combat | 8 | Morale | Immune to special cards | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Leshen | Unit | Ranged combat | 10 | Gwent: Skellige Style won from Ermion | |||
| Vampire: Katakan | Unit | Close combat | 5 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Gwent: Skellige Style won from Jarl Madman Lugos | |
| Vampire: Fleder | Unit | Close combat | 4 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Purchased from Innkeep at the Harviken tavern | |
| Vampire: Garkain | Unit | Close combat | 5 | Muster | Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck. | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |
| Werewolf | Unit | Close combat | 5 | Purchased from Innkeep in Urialla | |||
| Wyvern | Unit | Ranged combat | 2 | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | |||
| Endrega | Unit | Ranged combat | 2 | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant |
