Issue #111

Mar 31, 2025

Announcing KeyChain

The following is a feature submitted by Dead-Sync, jtrussell, and quickdraw3457 from the KeyChain team.

Unlock your KeyForge organized play with KeyChain

Introducing KeyChain! KeyChain is an unofficial, community-made platform built to supplement and enhance KeyForge organized play through digital rewards, record keeping, local and global leaderboards, personalization, and a progression system designed to encourage players to come back for more.

Express yourself with playercards featuring customizable avatars and backgrounds, featuring 121 (and counting) customization options, totaling thousands of unique combinations.
Participate in KeyForge OP to earn Experience Points (XP) and level up, unlocking additional customization options for your playercard.
Earn Ranking Points (RP) from top placements in events, to compete in global and local leaderboards.
Organize with Playgroups: View event results and leaderboards from specifically within your playgroup’s own community.

We can’t wait to share KeyChain the entire KeyForge community, but we also want to make sure KeyChain is in a good state before a full release. With that in mind, we’re kicking things off with a beta period starting today.

If you’re interested in using KeyChain for your playgroup, please fill out this interest form.

We intend to support several playgroup types on release, but our beta will focus on LGS-based playgroups to start, allowing those communities to kick the tires, provide some focused feedback, and identify any particularly pesky bugs before we head into KeyChain’s public launch, estimated for late spring.

We’re incredibly proud of what we’ve started to build, but this is just the beginning. KeyChain is a platform we intend to grow and build upon over time, supported by content and player progression with the goal of keeping players engaged with KeyForge for years to come. Some additional features currently in KeyChain’s development roadmap for beta and beyond are:

Achievements
More detailed stats
Deck information in event results
Support for additional playgroup types beyond LGSes
And of course, ongoing releases of new unlockable playercard customizations

We hope you’re excited for this as we are, and that we’ll see you on KeyChain in the near future!

AS A REMINDER!

We’re still accepting submissions for KFC Community Cards here. If you manage a team, league, content channel, website/app, game variant, event series — we’d love to have you represented in this year’s project. If you don’t but know of someone else who does, be sure to pass the link along to them!

Ask a Judge

Q: My opponent has Master of the Grey in their battleline. How does this effect apply to cards with house bonus icons?

A: Unlike other bonus icons which resolve after the card with the bonus icon is played, a card with a house bonus icon gains the additional house during the deck generation process. Since house bonus icons don't resolve during play, they are not impacted by cards like Master of the Grey. You may play or use a card with a house bonus icon as normal, even when you opponent has Master of the Grey in their battleline.

Upcoming Official Events

Q2 2025: Prophetic Visions Pre-Release (LGS)
April - September: 2025 Vault Tour Season
April 25–27: Vault Tour 2025 Rochester (Rochester, NY)
May 16–18: Vault Tour 2025 Roseville (Roseville, MN)
June 20–22: Vault Tour 2025 Portland (Portland, OR)
July 11–22: Vault Tour 2025 Baltimore (Baltimore, MD)
July 31 – August 1: 2025 KeyForge Gen Con Bash (Indianapolis, IN)
September 19–21: Vault Tour 2025 Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
August - September: Summer Special Event (LGS)
September - October: 2025 National Championships
Q4 2025: Draconian Measures Pre-Release (LGS)
November 6-9: KeyForge Celebration 2025 / World Championships (Roseville, MN)

KeyForge Play Wrap-Up

=== Random Access Archives League ===

Season 6 of the Random Access Archives league has started in the Mines. Find out more information on the Miners 2.0 discord.

=== KAGI ===

CaptainGale is your KAGI 12.0 champion, defeating Crusader 2-0 in a DT vs AS battle. Congratulations to both players on a great season

Find out more information on the KAGI Discord.

=== March Madness - KAGI off the Chain ===

March Madness - KAGI off the Chain - an Adaptive BO1 tournament has concluded. Congratulations to architect_josh as the champion, beating not2night in an exciting final where each player played their own deck and no chains were bid!

Find out more information on the KAGI Discord.

=== The Final Refrain ===

The Final Refrain is an online invitational Archon single elimination tournament, held over the course of five weeks, and the finals are set! Harmed with deck Pastor „Ass“ Nimrod has beat Mikefuni and his deck Bandola, Archmage of the Spined Plateau while Lorenzo99 with deck Recordkeeper Lucida Litvitric has beat CatMarrow who was piloting E. Gregg, Miyawheel’s Unpopular Whip.

It will be an exciting European faceoff, with Harmed based in the Netherlands and Lorenzo99 in Germany, while the decks will pit sets Grim Reminders vs Tokens of Change. The final will be streamed, with date and time still to be determined. Please visit The Final Refrain Discord for the latest information.

=== ABR ===

ABR 12 has concluded. Congratulations to the Hungry Hobogriffs who have emerged victorious led by FlamingHobo!

More information can be found on the ABR Discord.

=== NKFL ===

Congratulations to siaka, the winner of NKFL Season 25 Diamond division! See the NKFL Discord for winners of all the divisions as the league is wrapping up.

Find more information on the NKFL Discord.

=== KTL ===

Season 4 of the KeyForge Team League has reached playoffs, and the playoff bracket is below.