Issue #31

Aug 21, 2023

From left to right: jk007, ewok_jr, futureself, flaminghobo (Archon Top 4). shadowmeld, justinlizza, the_noble_one, and scsteele (Alliance Top 4).

The second stop on the 2023 Vault Tour season saw KeyForge players meeting to forge keys at Gamezenter in Roseville, MN. This was the first official tournament that used the Playstile 2LO structure announced by Ghost Galaxy last week.

Archon tournament winner futureself and Alliance tournament winner the_noble_one each won $3,000 and earned invites to the 2023 World Championships. Congratulations to both winners!

More tournament results are listed in the KeyForge Play Wrap-Up section below. Three U.S. and two international Vault Tours remain for the 2023 season.

Additional U.S. National Championships Results

Ghost Galaxy released a video (above) and post full of detailed U.S. National Championships results at Gen Con 2023. The breakdown includes attendance, set and card usage, and links to Top 8 decks from both the Archon and Alliance tournaments.

Ask a Judge

I have a single creature in my battleline and play Tectonic Shift. How does this resolve on my battleline?

The active player will decide if the single creature is destroyed or not. An easy way to think of how Tectonic Shift resolves it to think of it drawing an imaginary line in the middle of the battleline. If that line runs through a card, the active player decides if that line goes to the left or right of that creature. Then the active player decides to destroy each creature on one side of the imaginary line or the other.

KeyForge Play Wrap-Up

=== Vault Tour 2023 — Roseville, MN ===

ARCHON

Winner: futureself*
Runner-Up: ewok_jr*
Top 4: flaminghobo, jk007
Top 8: rhhaeder, bastian12291, ryanchakajodda, big__z

ALLIANCE

Winner: the_noble_one*
Runner-Up: justinlizza*
Top 4: scsteele, shadowmeld
Top 8: b-hawk, zenbridger, phillyno1, trentenwarrior1,

* Receives invite to 2023 World Championships

=== Upcoming Official OP Events ===

August 25 – 27: Vault Tour in Seattle, WA

September 15 – 17: Vault Tour in Dallas, TX

September 15 – 17: Vault Tour in Shanghai, China

September 29 – October 1: Vault Tour in Las Vegas, NV

October 6 – 8: Vault Tour in Florence, Italy

November 10 – 12: World Championships in Roseville, MN

=== NKFL ===

NKFL Season 21 is underway. More information can be found on the NKFL discord and https://nkfl.online/.

The NKFL has also announced a series of upcoming Archon tournaments. Dates and signups are below:

Aug 27th - MM Max SAS 70 - Signup here

Sep 10th - DT Max SAS 70 - Signup here

=== KFPL ===

KFPL 5, which is played as 3 simultaneous 2 deck survival leagues, is in progress. The three Challonge brackets are linked here: A Bracket, B Bracket, C Bracket, and the decks for each participant are linked here.

Are you running an event you would like to see published here? Let us know!