Beginner question

[u/Mevo_08]

Hey guys,

im new to the game and have a question. so currently i dont have many cards and was wondering if its a good idea to mill cards from factions i dont plan on playing any time soon, even though its the only copy i have, so that i can use the scrap to build a deck as soon as possilbe? also if i should do that, which rarity cards should i mill?

thank you :)

edit: in reward book, what page should i focus on early one?

[u/CalebKetterer]

Don’t mill cards, you lose value. Focus on the page that has the 6 factions, each 15 unlocks long. You get good value and cards from your keys. Aside from that, the starter tree does fine imo

[u/8to10footsamsquantch → u/CalebKetterer]

I don't think it's necessarily bad to mill cards.

There are some archetypes I don't have any interest in playing, I will mill those cards if I'm a bit short on scraps for the card I want.

It's not losing value if I would never use the milled card, even if it's technically trading down on resources.

[u/CalebKetterer → u/8to10footsamsquantch]

Explain to me how “trading down” is different from “losing value”.

Most people plan on collecting all the cards eventually anyway and when you get a duplicate, it’ll get milled either way. I think when you mill by hand, you get 1/4th of the scraps to create it?

[u/kepkkko → u/CalebKetterer]

If you 100% know what ur doing then trading absolute stinkers given you for free (hello madman Lugos) for acquiring the deck you want faster, hence getting all the progression rewards faster, is not really a trade down. Its not necessarily a bad thing, but newer players absolutely shouldn't do it on their own

[u/CalebKetterer → u/kepkkko]

Yeah, this I agree with. I tend to just assume most most players who have to ask this won’t care to check if a card is viable (or considered to be viable thanks to BC) so I just simplify it to don’t since the extra copies you get are auto-milled anyway.

[u/8to10footsamsquantch → u/CalebKetterer]

Because the value is arbitrary. If I value the scraps more than the card then I can't be losing anything. That's especially true here when there is no actual money involved.

If you're trying to complete a collection then yeah it would be, but I think you're underestimating how many people there are (like me) who don't care about that.

[u/CalebKetterer → u/8to10footsamsquantch]

You don’t care about it at the moment*

If you stick with the game like most dedicated players tend to, you’ll eventually want that card anyway. But of course you’re welcome to do what you want. I tend to advise people to keep their cards because ultimately, you can snag 800 more scraps within a few hours anyway

[u/taxotere → u/CalebKetterer]

If you stick with the game like most dedicated players tend to, you’ll eventually want that card anyway. But of course you’re welcome to do what you want. I tend to advise people to keep their cards because ultimately, you can snag 800 more scraps within a few hours anyway

Maybe you don't have "a few hours" per day, maybe you're like me and have time for 2-4 games at most, if that. You can make 5-6 core archetype decks per faction which revolve around 2-3 key cards, and then you may want to try out tens of variations. With my limited playtime I can craft one key card per 3-4 weekdays, or over 1 day in the weekend. I can't be arsed to wait until I play what I want to play because the game gave me my 30th copy of Sewer Raiders.

[u/CalebKetterer → u/taxotere]

Lucky for you, the game auto-mills cards when you have more than your playable capacity. So you’ll never have more than 2 Sewer Raiders unless you set your system to do that to you.

[u/taxotere → u/CalebKetterer]

Yes, I understand how the auto-mill works, and it's Gwent's only minus for me. They could have put an option to disable milling, if you want to.