No one should see this.: The Witcher Wands Suit

The wands suit is done!

Man, I fought with this suit. I'm trying very hard to balance including as many important characters as I can while also using my favorite pieces of art and all the while trying to associate things with tarot meanings. Which I realize is how ALL these decks work when I create them, but man, it's tiring.

So, quick recap, for the wands I am using the Monsters faction banner and the Agile row icon for all wands cards. I add extra ability icons as I feel it's appropriate, not every card gets one, I just go with my gut.

For all suits, Kings will get the Commander's Horn effect, Queens will get Morale Boost, Knights will get Muster and Pages will get Spy. Those are just the effects that seemed to match the royalty in my mind.

For my ace, I'm sure there's more significant sorceresses I could have put there than Sabrina, but look at all the firey wands energy she has there. And she's definitely about to unleash something big, if you know what happens here.

The 2 is Queen Meve from the Thronebreaker standalone Gwent game, also the queen that knighted Geralt, which does occur in that game interestingly enough. She was a great leader that refused to let her power be taken from her. While I'm not terribly interested in playing Thronebreaker for myself, I did see videos of all the story and I didn't want to just leave Meve out.

Foltest for the three, another leader not afraid to strike out. And Priscilla in the 4, clearly celebrating with her music in a tavern.

I like Kiera for the 5 because her whole story in the game is overcoming obstacles just to survive after the witch hunts that started in the second game. And Movran Vorhees for the 6 is sort of representing the pride of the whole Nilfgaardian empire, and their victories, because damn those guys did some damage whenever they invaded.

I wanted to use Hjalmar An Craite in the royalty here, but the poor guy suffers from a painful lack of art. There's a few things but nothing I super liked, except for his Gwent card that just shows his back, and I did not want the back of a character for a royalty card. So he got bumped to the 7 of wands, just so he's not missing, and Vesemir got added in. I'm not sad to have Vesemir in the royalty however.

God, there's so many characters it feels almost wasteful to put a character like Vesemir in twice, which, based on his importance, is INSANE.

Letho on the 8 is there because a: I couldn't ignore Letho, and b: He moves REAL FAST in this scene. Seriously. The opening scene of the second game is amazing.

I just love my 9 of wands, the Redanian soldier troll. He was such a hilarious little side quest, even if he's not really an important character or anything, I'm happy to have him there. He was determined to stay at his post no matter what! What a trooper.

The 10 is just a lovely image of Geralt looking worn out, only natural, the life he leads.

My page is Angouleme from the books, she's spunky and firey and deserves recognition. Ciri as my reckless and bold knight, although if you look at the original art you'll see I had to mirror the image, the artist put Ciri's scar on the wrong side of her face and it would have driven me CRAZY. Saskia was always the only choice for the queen of wands. And then of course, Vesemir as the king.

Anyways, here's what I did, continuing to lean on the massive amount of Gwent art out there: