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The Northern Realms deck is the default Gwent deck that Geralt starts with at the beginning of The Witcher 3.
Overview[]
- Faction perk: Draw a card if you win a round.
The Northern Realms deck is built around the idea of staying power and damage output. Each row has a unit card with the Tight Bond ability, allowing you to rapidly build up a score, while three separate Espionage cards help keep a large hand late into the game.
The weaknesses of the deck include great susceptibility to Weather cards, which negate the Tight Bond effectively, and Scorch cards. Losing 64 points is a deal-breaker, if the opponent plays the latter and knocks out two Catapults out of the game.
List of cards[]
Icon | Name (no. of cards) | Type | Combat row | Strength | Special ability | Description | Source |
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Foltest: King of Temeria | Leader | n/a | n/a | King of Temeria | Pick an Impenetrable Fog card from your deck and play it instantly. | Part of the base deck | |
Foltest: Lord Commander of the North | Leader | n/a | n/a | Lord Commander of the North | Clear any weather effects (resulting from Biting Frost, Torrential Rain or Impenetrable Fog cards) in play. | Purchased from Elsa, White Orchard village innkeep (or Bram) | |
Foltest: The Siegemaster | Leader | n/a | n/a | The Siegemaster | Doubles the strength of all your Siege units (unless a Commander's Horn is also present on that row). | Won from the "Nilfgaardian Nobleman" at the Royal Palace in Vizima | |
Foltest: The Steel-Forged | Leader | n/a | n/a | The Steel-Forged | Destroy your enemy's strongest Siege unit(s) if the combined strength of all his or her Siege units is 10 or more. | High Stakes | |
Foltest: Son of Medell | Leader | n/a | n/a | Son of Medell | Destroy your enemy's strongest Ranged Combat unit(s) if the combined strength of all his or her Ranged Combat units is 10 or more. | Hearts of Stone | |
Ballista | Unit | 6 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Blue Stripes Commando (3) | Unit | 4 | Place next to a card with the same name to double the strength of both cards. | 1 purchased from Elsa, White Orchard village innkeep (or Bram) 1 from the merchant in Midcopse 1 purchased from the Quartermaster in Crow's Perch | |||
Catapult (2) | Unit | 8 | Place next to a card with the same name to double the strength of both cards. | 1 purchased from Elsa, White Orchard village innkeep (or Bram) 1 purchased from Marquise Serenity at the Passiflora | |||
Crinfrid Reavers Dragon Hunter (3) | Unit | 5 | Place next to a card with the same name to double the strength of both cards. | 1 purchased from Elsa, White Orchard village innkeep (or Bram) 1 purchased from the merchant in Claywich (after rescuing him) 1 purchased from the merchant in Midcopse | |||
Dethmold | Unit | 6 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Dun Banner Medic | Unit | 5 | Choose one card from your discard pile and play it instantly (no Heroes or Special Cards). | Part of the base deck | |||
Esterad Thyssen | Hero | 10 | Hero | Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities. | Gwent: Big City Players, won from Dijkstra at the bathhouse | ||
John Natalis | Hero | 10 | Hero | Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities. | A Dangerous Game, won from Ravvy's captor at The Golden Sturgeon | ||
Kaedweni Siege Expert (3) | Unit | 1 | Adds +1 strength to all units in the row, excluding itself. | Part of the base deck | |||
Keira Metz | Unit | 5 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Philippa Eilhart | Hero | 10 | Hero | Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities. | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
Poor Fucking Infantry (4) | Unit | 1 | Place next to a card with the same name to double the strength of both cards. | 2 are part of the base deck 1 purchased from the trader in Lindenvale 1 from the merchant in Midcopse | |||
Prince Stennis | Unit | 5 | Place on your opponents battlefield (counts towards their total strength) then draw two new cards from your deck. | Part of the base deck | |||
Redanian Foot Soldier (2) | Unit | 1 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Sabrina Glevissig | Unit | 4 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Sheldon Skaggs | Unit | 4 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Siege Tower | Unit | 6 | None | n/a | Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant | ||
Siegfried of Denesle | Unit | 5 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Sigismund Dijkstra | Unit | 4 | Place on your opponents battlefield (counts towards their total strength) then draw two new cards from your deck. | Gwent: Velen Players, won from The Bloody Baron in Crow's Perch | |||
Síle de Tansarville | Unit | 5 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Thaler | Unit | 1 | Place on your opponents battlefield (counts towards their total strength) then draw two new cards from your deck. | Purchase from Innkeep in Arinbjorn | |||
Trebuchet (2) | Unit | 6 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Vernon Roche | Hero | 10 | Hero | Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities. | Gwent: Velen Players, won from Haddy in Midcopse | ||
Ves | Unit | 5 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck | ||
Yarpen Zigrin | Unit | 2 | None | n/a | Part of the base deck |