Issue #66
Vault Tour 2024 Continues in Rochester
This past weekend, Millennium Games in Rochester, NY was host to the second Vault Tour of 2024. Players competed in tournaments featuring the three official formats: Sealed, Archon, and Alliance.
Three new players were added to the roster of Vault Warriors, with SJess winning in Sealed, CatMarrow winning in Alliance, and Asobi winning in Archon.
More detailed results for Top 8 placements is listed in the KeyForge Play Wrap-Up section below.
Ghost Galaxy continued their official livestream on the road, streaming all three days and featuring various community content creators. You can find their Vault Tour 2024 playlist on Ghost Galaxy's official YouTube channel.
GenCon Events Live
Gen Con 2024, host of the U.S. KeyForge National Championships have posted their event registration list for KeyForge events at the annual gaming convention. In addition to the Sealed, Archon, and Alliance national championship tournaments, additional casual events hosted by Ghost Galaxy are also included.
One in particular is a yet-to-be-announced casual mode called Vault Assault, a 3-4 player multiplayer format in which “three or four players all compete against each other in a free-for-all competition to unlock one special vault.”
While full details are still not known, this would be the first officially sanctioned play format for KeyForge larger than 2 players in the game’s history.
Last Call for Æmber Skies!
Get your pledge in there if you are able and willing as the end of the Gamefound campaign for Æmber Skies and Tokens of Change draws near with the campaign ending tonight, Monday, midnight Central time.
Æmber Skies Previews
A number of additional Æmber Skies previews were shared, by both Ghost Galaxy and community teams. Ghost Galaxy also released a Gamefound update which includes new pledge tier options which include decks from the newly announced Tokens of Change set as well as Æmber Skies.
Ghost Galaxy:
Community:
Menagerie Retail Release
Ghost Galaxy announced that Menagerie 2024 — the special set originally available for consumer and retailer backers of the Grim Reminders Gamefound campaign — will be receiving an official commercial retail release date of Friday, May 3rd internationally, and Friday May 10th in the United States.
Ask a Judge
Q: On my turn, I play Interdimensional Graft. On my opponent’s next turn, they don’t forge a key during their “forge a key” step, but they play Key Abduction later in their turn to forge a key for zero Æmber. Do I still get all of my opponent’s remaining Æmber?
A: Yes. The lasting effect created by Player One playing Interdimensional Graft resolves any time Player Two would forge a key during their next turn (including if they forge multiple keys during that turn). In this case, if Player Two plays Key Abduction and forges a key for zero Æmber, all of Player Two’s Æmber will be given to Player One.
KeyForge Play Wrap-Up
=== Upcoming Official OP Events ===
May 24–26: Vault Tour San Antonio (San Antonio, TX)
June 14–16: Vault Tour Baltimore (Glen Burnie, MD)
June (TBD): Summer Special Event (LGS)
July 12–15: Vault Tour Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)
August 1 – September 30: 2024 National Championships
August 1–4: 2024 US National Championships (Gen Con 2024)
September (TBD): Æmber Skies Pre-Release (LGS)
November 7–10: KeyForge Celebration 2024 / World Championships (Roseville, MN)
=== 2024 Vault Tour Rochester ===
SEALED
Champion: SJess*^
Runner-Up: Drazkor
Top 4: TheLv14, jtrussell
Top 8: JDG, metalzoah, nobi72, lazerith
ARCHON
Champion: Asobi*^
Runner-Up: Second Act
Top 4: mikefuni, SoutherlyElf
Top 8: Pfannchucken, Kymira, drazkor, Cpt Stupendous
ALLIANCE
Champion: CatMarrow*^
Runner-Up: june
Top 4: JDG, Lazarith
* Receives invite to 2024 World Championships of the same format.
^ Vault Warrior induction
=== ABR ===
ABR11 has started, and here are the standings after the first week has partially been reported.
More information can be found on the ABR Discord.
=== NKFL ===
NKFL Season 23 continues. After 4 weeks, dick_roland leads the Diamond division.
Find more information on the NKFL Discord.
=== KTL ===
The Keyforge Team League playoffs continues with two teams from Sloppy Labwork meeting in the final. Find more information on the KTL Discord.
=== KFPL 6 ===
The second, third, and fourth qualifiers are coming up on May 26th, June 23rd, and July 28th. Each qualifier will be a two deck survival tournament where each deck must be from a different set. not2night qualified from the first qualifier. Find more information here and sign up for a qualifier.
Are you running an event you would like to see published here? Let us know!
Content Feature
VIDEO
KeyForge: Vault Tour 2024 - Rochester, NY Day 1, 2, and 3 have been released by Ghost Galaxy and cover the sealed, archon, alliance tournaments, and their top cuts at the Rochester Vault Tour.
Master Vault Numbers
As of May 5, 2024, a total of 3255625 decks were registered in the Master Vault. This reflects an increase of 3370 decks in the last week.
