I must admit, I didn’t fully play Gwent until my third Witcher 3 playthrough. Gwent: Art of The Witcher Card Game is a beautiful 245 page art book that can be used as reference or companion to the stand alone Gwent card game. This book does NOT teach not play Gwent, but rather it gives you a brief description of the characters in the Gwent cards. In some occasions, it’s just a simple quote related to the card being demonstrated, while in others is a full concept explanation of the art; written by the artist themselves.

The book covers all four Gwent card decks: Monsters, Nothern Realms, Skellige, and Nilfgaard. The illustrations in this book are beautiful, some spanning through the entire page, while others being much smaller.

In a universe as vast and rich in lore as The Witcher, I was surprise to see new characters/cards be created just specifically for the card game.

I love the Witcher universe, and love seeing and reading new content of the Witcher universe that was never mentioned on any of the games, but played a major role in the Witcher novels.