Gwent does a fantastic job at getting players a strong deck quickly, with decent rewards and the scraps system helping players to open packs more frequently and also craft specific cards they want
They created the first full set titled College Football Cards, which featured 35 Ivy League players on tobacco cards done in a sepia tone
It landed during the short lived e-Reader era, so the cards carry those dot codes along the edge, and it handed collectors a genuine run of firsts, like the debut of an EX Rayquaza, the first Dragonite to appear in the EX Series, and the first Charizard Nintendo ever produced after taking the license from Wizards of the Coast (WotC)
It also has the same edge case as Fanatical Firebrand: if you need just a little more damage to win, this is a winning top deck
While more affordable than top tier Winner cards, it remains highly desirable