Gwent is great. After 2 years of RNG grindfest that is hearthstone i found open beta gwent, which stole my heart and all of my time. Skill actually matters, the games are fun, the meta is diverse and the developers actually listen to the community,....mostly (*cough* Midwinter patch *cough*). Now there is homecoming. Its different than old gwent, that is true. I was also sceptical and didnt like the changes at first. But the more i played the more into it i got. They opened a lot more design space for them, the graphichs are better than ever and the game got back its lost complexity from before midwinter. For people that said the game is slow, they sped up the animations. All the bad reviews i see just say its different with no actual reasons why they dont like it. Give it a try and see for yourself. Trust me. If you dont like it after that, thats fine. Just dont listen to people with no actual constructive criticism.