Issue #147
Bad Penny Press will be taking a short break for the holidays.
The next full issue will be returning on Monday, January 12th 2026.
We wish you all a joyous holiday season and a Happy New Year!
Bad Penny Press Crucible Hero Awards
Introducing the Bad Penny Press Crucible Hero Awards. The Crucible Hero is an award to highlight normal everyday members of the community that have gone the extra mile to support KeyForgers everywhere. For these awards specifically, we wanted to recognize the herculean efforts of The Crucible Online (TCO) developers who have made it possible for casual and competitive online play to still exist, including many online leagues and community events.
nedmike is our first 2025 Crucible Hero. Without nedmike, we would not be able to play Grim Reminders, Æmber Skies, Tokens of Change, More Mutation, Discovery, Vault Masters 2025, Prophetic Visions, and Crucible Clash and more on TCO, not to mention the hundreds and hundreds of bug fixes and other quality of life improvements. nedmike has spent countless hours supporting the KeyForge world and their ability to play KeyForge online. Thank you nedmike and congratulations as our first 2025 Crucible Hero!
DMikalova is our second 2025 Crucible Hero. DMikalova has also supported many improvements to TCO, refactoring, and bug fixes, and helps to enable a smooth TCO playing environment. Thank you and congratulations!
Thank you to all the TCO developers out there who have all chipped in to support the game, including fionawhim, DKeatonDC, jtrussell, SteVader, dinobot333, and more! And a special shoutout to cryogen who continues to maintain and administer the TCO server to make this all possible.
REMINDER: One Week Left to Vote in the 2025 Community Card Awards
Voting for the 2025 Community Card Awards closes in less than one week on December 21st!
There are prizes for both participants who vote and enter the contest, as well as creators of the community card of the year. Every ballot submitted helps and is greatly appreciated!
Click here for more information and to cast your ballot!
See You Next Year!
As mentioned at the top of the issue, Bad Penny Press will be taking a short break for the holidays, with the next full issue returning on Monday, January 12th, 2026. We’d like to thank all of our readers for their support, as we head towards nearly three years of newsletters — we can hardly believe it! We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year, and gets the chance to relax with friends and family, and perhaps forge some keys too!
See you next year!
Ask a Judge
Q: I have Bottomless Depths in play. If I discard Immersioneer, how do the Scrap: ability of Immersioneer and the constant ability of Bottomless Depths interact?
A: Scrap: abilities and the constant ability of Bottomless Depths both resolve in the same timing window (the “after you discard a card” window) so the active player can choose the order of their resolution. If the active player chooses to resolve the ability of Bottomless Depths first, Immersioneer’s Scrap: ability will no longer resolve, as it is no longer in the discard pile.
Upcoming Official Events
Early 2026: 2026 Discovery Event
Spring 2026: Draconian Measures Release
Late Summer 2026: Story Event
Fall 2026: Shattered Reality Release
KeyForge Play Wrap-Up
=== Random Access Archives League ===
Season 7 of the Random Access Archives league is in progress. Find out more information on the Miners 2.0 discord.
=== KAGI ===
KAGI 14.0 has started. Find out more in the KAGI Discord.
=== B-League ===
Congratulations to magije, the champion of the first season of the Keyforge B-League!
Find out more information on the Swindle-Tournaments Discord.
=== ABR ===
ABR League 14 is underway.
More information can be found on the ABR Discord.
=== NKFL ===
NFKL Season 26 has started.
Find more information on the NKFL Discord.
=== KTL ===
The Deepwater Drakes win Season 5 of the KeyForge Team League.
Find more information on the KTL Discord.
Are you running an event you would like to see published here? Let us know!
Content Feature
VIDEO
KeyForge 2025: Sets, Power Cards, and More!! by Aembermedes
Master Vault Numbers
As of December 14, 2025, a total of 3.516,453 were registered in the Master Vault. This reflects an increase of 1,504 decks in the last week.
Love to see the heroes awards, huge thanks to TCO devs!!