Monsters Gwent deck

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Special - One of your units in play is randomly carried over to the next round.

The Monster Gwent deck consists of a total of 38 available Gwent cards of monsters that can be encountered in the games. The deck contains only hero and unit cards, often with the Muster ability.

Overview

The Monsters are led by wild hunt characters who are the leaders of this deck. The Monsters faction ability is to keep one random unit card after each round on the battlefield, and they by far have the largest number of Muster cards. They also however have no Spy or Medic cards. Unlike the setup of your decks for the Northern Realms or Nilfgaardian Empire, where you usually want only the 22 best units you have for the deck, for Monsters you want to fill your deck with as many of the Muster cards as you can get your hands on; if you lay down one of them you get them all, even the undealt ones.

However, all of your Muster cards are Melee, so one Biting Frost card will obliterate you. Have plenty of Clear Weather cards handy to prevent this, and remember that the Muster swarming effect only happens once; when picking your two cards to swap at the initial setup try to get the most mixed set of Muster card types you can, so you can do Muster swarms several times and not get quickly burned out of your strength in the first round.

Cards

Icon	Name (no. of cards)	Type	Combat row	Strength	Special ability	Description	Source
File:Tw3 gwent card back monsters.png	Eredin: King of the Wild Hunt	Leader	n/a	n/a	King of the Wild Hunt	Pick any weather card from your deck and play it instantly.	Part of the base deck
File:Tw3 gwent card back monsters.png	Eredin: Commander of the Red Riders	Leader	n/a	n/a	Commander of the Red Riders	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
File:Tw3 gwent card back monsters.png	Eredin: Destroyer of Worlds	Leader	n/a	n/a	Destroyer of Worlds	Discard 2 cards and draw 1 card of your choice from your deck.	Gwent: Velen Players won for completing the quest
File:Tw3 gwent card back monsters.png	Eredin: Bringer of Death	Leader	n/a	n/a	Bringer of Death	Restore a card from your discard pile to your hand.	Count Tybalt during High Stakes
File:Tw3 gwent card back monsters.png	Eredin Bréacc Glas: The Treacherous	Leader	n/a	n/a	The Treacherous	Doubles strength of all spies.	Hearts of Stone: bought from Dulla kh'Amanni at Upper Mill
	Arachas (3)	Unit		4		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	1 purchased from the Arinbjorn innkeep 1 purchased from the Urialla harbor innkeep 1 purchased from the Svorlag innkeep
File:Tw3 gwent card siege monsters.png	Arachas Behemoth	Unit		6		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Botchling	Unit		4	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep at the New Port Inn
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Celaeno Harpy	Unit		2		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
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Cockatrice	Unit		2	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Crone: Brewess	Unit		6		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Crone: Weavess	Unit		6		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Gwent: Velen Players won from the Old Sage
	Crone: Whispess	Unit		6		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Purchased from Innkeep in Arinbjorn
	Draug	Hero		10	Hero	Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities.	Gwent: Skellige Style won from Crach an Craite
File:Tw3 gwent card siege monsters.png	Earth Elemental	Unit		6	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep at the New Port Inn
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Endrega	Unit		2	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Fiend	Unit		6	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep in Arinbjorn
File:Tw3 gwent card siege monsters.png	Fire Elemental	Unit		6	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Foglet	Unit		2	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag
	Forktail	Unit		5	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Frightener	Unit		5	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Gargoyle	Unit		2	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Ghoul (3)	Unit		1		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	2 are won randomly, from playing a craftsman or merchant 1 purchased from the Harviken innkeep
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Grave Hag	Unit		5	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Griffin	Unit		5	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Harpy	Unit		2		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
File:Tw3 gwent card siege monsters.png	Ice Giant	Unit		5	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag
	Imlerith	Hero		10	Hero	Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities.	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Kayran	Hero		8		Adds +1 strength to all units in the row, excluding itself. Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities.	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Leshen	Hero		10	Hero	Not affected by special cards, weather cards or abilities.	Gwent: Skellige Style won from Ermion
	Nekker (3)	Unit		2		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	1 during Following the Thread, looting Hammond's corpse 1 purchasedd from the Harviken innkeep 1 is won randomly, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Plague Maiden	Unit		5	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Vampire: Bruxa	Unit		4		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	A Matter of Life and Death, winning a match at the Vegelbud Estate
	Vampire: Ekimmara	Unit		4		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Purchased from Innkeep in Svorlag
	Vampire: Fleder	Unit		4		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Purchased from Innkeep at the Harviken tavern
	Vampire: Garkain	Unit		4		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
	Vampire: Katakan	Unit		5		Summon similarly named cards from hand and deck.	Gwent: Skellige Style won from Jarl Madman Lugos
	Werewolf	Unit		5	None	n/a	Purchased from Innkeep in Urialla harbor
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Wyvern	Unit		2	None	n/a	Random, from playing a craftsman or merchant
File:Tw3 gwent card ranged monsters.png	Toad	Unit		7		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: Win from Olgierd von Everec after Dead Man's Party