Gwent strategy is simple: exchange spies, bluff scorches, and play high-point cards. Every round is the same.
You gain unique cards only by defeating strong opponents, but not all of them are as useful. Nilfgaardian heroes are relatively easy to obtain, but those cannot be added to Northen Realms deck, but other easy-to-obtain Nilfgaardian cards are trash, rendering the newly obtained hero cards no where to use, making you to use the starter deck without improving it continuously against many opponents that use unique cards against you, before you to know where to get the unique cards. Winning a game against such an opponent with starter deck requires saving and loading, until you run into a possibility that your opponent happen to lack any spy cards and hero cards. Even a so-called unique card might end up to be a 6-point plain card. There are even multiple NPC in the game that use cards representing you against you, before you can get permission from a stupid NPC to use a card that represents yourself against them. I'm so tired with all of these. Just add Geralt to the merchants, I can afford it.
I just played through the Gwent tournament, My first playthrough agreed with the women to share the prize so I just lost 4500 coins for nothing good. I've also forgotten what's the reason she needs half of the prize to save her life, if she had ever explained. I load my save and played again, saying no to every proposal from the b***h, but I still lost 4500 coins for no reason at all. Dammit. Almost - if not just - all tournament opponents play both Geralt and Ciri against me, but I for now still don't know where to get them.
Who printed and published Gwent? Why is there a card representing you? Why do so many people have it? Where did they get it? Where to buy such a card? To whom I can sell these printed trash for gold and say goodbye to Gwent forever?
Some might love the house and the crows on it. I love the house but I hate the crows on it.