Category: KeyForge

STORE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2025

Saturday & Sunday, 22^nd-23^rd March 2025

Updated: 9^th March 2025

• Saturday, 22^nd March 2024
  • Æmber Skies – Sealed … from 11am
  • ??? – Archon … from 4pm*
• Saturday, 23^rd March 2024
  • ??? – Alliance … from 11am
• Find this event on Facebook

For more information on KeyForge at Clifton Road Games, Exeter:
https://cliftonroad.games/keyforge/

The full in-store event calendar is on the ‘About‘ page of this blog.
https://cliftonroad.games/about/

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KEYFORGE is the innovative card game where every deck you purchase is a completely unique combination of cards! No other player will ever wield the same KeyForge deck.

Wielding a unique 36-card deck, assuming the role of a powerful Archon, players seeks to maneuver creatures and artifacts from three allied houses to accumulate enough Æmber to forge the vital Vault Keys. The player to first forge three keys wins!

https://keyforging.com/

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Store Championship

The Store Championship kits have now arrived.

Per the Tournament Guidelines (link below), legal sets for Archon and Alliance are:

• Æmber Skies
• Age of Ascension
• Call of the Archons
• Dark Tidings
• Discovery
• Grim Reminders
• Mass Mutation
• More Mutation
• Tokens of Change
• Winds of Exchange
• Worlds Collide
• Vault Masters 2023
• Vault Masters 2024

Aember Skies will be the set for Sealed play. With Archon and Alliance open across the primary releases listed above.

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Master Rulebook (MRB) 18.0 & Tournament Rules & Guidelines (TRG) Update

The KeyForge Master Rulebook (MRB) is the comprehensive rules of play for the game of KeyForge.
https://keyforging.com/master-rulebook-18-0-trg-update/

MRB updates include: Card Errata, plus new/revised Glossary and FAQ entries.

TRG updates include: definitions for all Tournament Formats, an updated Restricted List, and a Tournament Legality section.

The page also links to:

• Learn to play and a video tutorial
• Tournament formats

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Event Structure

SEALED – Set … Æmber Skies
Saturday, 22^nd March 2025 (11:00am Start)

Provisional Schedule:

• 11:00 – 11:30 … Decks
• 11:45 – 12:30 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 12:45 – 13:30 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 13:45 – 14:30 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 14:45 – 15:30 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 15:45 – 16:30 … FINAL l

ARCHON – Set (or Sets) … see above
Saturday, 22^nd March 2025 (4:00pm Start)*
* Note: this event will (probably) not start until the after the Sealed Event has completed, and will NOT start before 3:00pm. If you are only attending the Archon event, be here for 3:00pm.

Provisional Schedule:

• 16:00 – 16:45 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 17:00 – 17:45 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 18:00 – 18:45 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 19:00 – 19:45 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 20:00 – 21:00 … FINAL

ALLIANCE – Set (or Sets) … see above
Saturday, 23^rd March 2025 (11:00am Start)

Provisional Schedule:

• 11:00 – 11:30 … Decks
• 11:45 – 12:30 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 12:45 – 13:30 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 13:45 – 14:30 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 14:45 – 15:30 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 15:45 – 16:30 … FINAL l

Tournament structure and tie-breaks will be confirmed at the start of each event, as everything is very much based on the number of players present.

Assumptions:

1. The total player count will be no more than 12 players.
2. The event will play at least a little quicker than the timetable above indicates.
3. The Final will (almost certainly) be best-of-3, and probably longer than 45 minutes.
4. There’s may be some overlap between the Sealed (Finals) and the Archon (1st Round) tournaments. Depending on attendance and progress, options included awarding a 1st round bye to the finalists of the Sealed event and/or moving the start of the Archon event forward/back in order to keep everything moving and everyone playing.

‘Expected Costs’

£45 for SEALED, includes 1x Prerelease Kit (containing 3 Archon decks) or 3 Archon decks [depending on the set(s) selected]. The price also covers entry into the later Archon (22^nd March, 4pm-ish), and Alliance (23^rd March, 11am), Store Championship 2025 events.

£15 to play in the Clifton Road Games KeyForge Store Championship Series 2024 (if you are not playing in the intial Sealed event).

Further information to follow …

—Steven @ Clifton Road Games, Exeter

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Venue Information

Clifton Road Games
16 Clifton Road
EXETER
EX1 2BR
Tel. 01392 259 988
www.cliftonroadgames.co.uk

Transport

Cars: The Triangle Car Park is at the end of Clifton Road. In addition, there are 30-minute parking bays just up the road near Newtown Stores convenience shop, as well as 2-hour bays in each of the side roads off of Clifton Road (Clifton Street, Chute Street, Sandford Walk, etc). If you have an electric vehicle, there are charging points in Belmont Road (along the front of Belmont Park), on the left from the end of Clifton Road.

Bus: The nearest bus stop is Lower Summerlands at the junction of Clifton Road and Heavitree Road. The new Exeter Bus Station is only a few yards further away, by St. Sidwell’s Point Leisure Centre and the VUE Cinema (walk down past the VUE cinema, across Western Way, between the Leonardo Hotel – formerly Jury’s Inn – and Belmont Chapel to the Triangle Car Park and then turn left past The Clifton Inn).

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FOOD & DRINK

Clifton Road Games do not provide or sell food and/or drinks on the premises, but customers are welcome to bring their own.

Newtown Stores is just up the road (on your left as you exit the shop), The Clifton Inn, and (across the Triangle Car Park) Dee Yi and Exe Coffee Roasters are a short distance to the right of the shop. Waitrose is at the top of the hill, directly opposite the shop entrance.

We generally advise that gamers take specific breaks for food and drinks, rather than snacking throughout. It’s safer for the games components.

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Customer toilets are available. Note that these are wheelchair accessible.

STORE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

Saturday, 16^th March 2024 (11am)

Updated: 11^th March 2024

• Saturday, 16th March 2024
• Winds of Exchange – Sealed … from 11am
• Winds of Exchange – Archon … from 4pm
• Find this event on Facebook

For more information on KeyForge at Clifton Road Games, Exeter:
https://cliftonroad.games/keyforge/

The full in-store event calendar is on the ‘About‘ page of this blog.
https://cliftonroad.games/about/

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KEYFORGE is the innovative card game where every deck you purchase is a completely unique combination of cards! No other player will ever wield the same KeyForge deck.

Wielding a unique 36-card deck, assuming the role of a powerful Archon, players seeks to maneuver creatures and artifacts from three allied houses to accumulate enough Æmber to forge the vital Vault Keys. The player to first forge three keys wins!

https://keyforging.com/

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Store Championship

The kits arrived on Monday, 11th March 2024, so we now have more information and can flesh things out a little:

• As expected, the guidelines allow for different pairing/cut structures (than 2LO) more suited to the likely smaller turn out for these in-store events.
• Each Store Championship Kit contains: 3 sets of 3 metal ‘Vault Key’ tokens, and 6 Store Championship decks, plus some ‘Haunted / Not Haunted’ indicator cards.
• I, personally, don’t think it is sensible to describe the Store Championship Kit as an 8-player kit. It would be better described as either a 3 event kit or a 6-player kit.
• Their intention is clearly for us to run one tournament for each of the Archon, Alliance, and Sealed formats.
• All rounds are 45 minutes, one game. Finals are Best of 3.
  Note: the current Ghost Galaxy end of game tie-break structure is very different from the original FFG KeyForge tie-breaking system.

Event Structure

SEALED – Winds of Exchange
Saturday, 16th March 2024 (11:00am Start)

• 11:00 – 11:30 … Decks
• 11:45 – 12:30 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 12:45 – 13:30 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 13:45 – 14:30 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 14:45 – 15:30 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 15:45 – 16:30 … FINAL

ARCHON – Winds of Exchange
Saturday, 16th March 2024 (4:00pm Start)

• 16:00 – 16:45 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 17:00 – 17:45 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 18:00 – 18:45 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 19:00 – 19:45 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 20:00 – 21:00 … FINAL

Tournament structure and tie-breaks will be confirmed at the start of each event, as everything is very much based on the number of players present.

Assumptions:

1. The total player count will be no more than 12 players.
2. The event will play at least a little quicker than the timetable above indicates.
3. The Final will (almost certainly) be best-of-3, and probably longer than 45 minutes.
4. There’s likley to be some overlap between the Sealed (Finals) and the Archon (1st Round) tournaments. Depending on how things play out, we may simply award a 1st round bye to the finalists of Sealed event, in order to keep everything moving and everyone playing.

We’re trying to squeeze as much as possible into one day, whilst limiting downtime for players as much as possible. In an ideal world these events would be much more spread out and attract far more players. As it is, I’ll be very happy to get into double-digits and suspect that smallish numbers will help to keep the event moving.

Costs

£30 for SEALED, includes 1x Prerelease ‘Winds of Exchange’ Kit (containing 3 Archon decks), and also covers entry into the later Archon (16th March, 4pm), Alliance (14th April, 11am), and ??? (14th April, 4pm) Store Championship series events.

£15 to play in the Clifton Road Games KeyForge Store Championship Series 2024 (if you are not playing in the intial Sealed event).

The first 12 players to sign-up (and play) will receive one of the KeyForge ‘Store Championship 2024’ decks. The metal Vault Keys will be prizes for 1st place in each of the events.

Additional Plans

ALLIANCE – Winds of Exchange / Grim Reminders (to be determined)
Sunday, 14th April 2024 (11:00am Start)

• 11:00 – 11:30 … Decks
• 11:45 – 12:30 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 12:45 – 13:30 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 13:45 – 14:30 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 14:45 – 15:30 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 15:45 – 16:30 … FINAL

ARCHON – Grim Reminders (or possibly a REVERSAL format event)
Saturday, 14th April 2024 (4:00pm Start)

• 16:00 – 16:45 … Round 1 – Swiss
• 17:00 – 17:45 … Round 2 – Swiss
• 18:00 – 18:45 … Round 3 – Swiss
• 19:00 – 19:45 … Semi-Final (Top-4)
• 20:00 – 21:00 … FINAL

NOTE: No hard and fast plans for the 14th April at the moment and it will depend very much on impressions/feedback from the Saturday, 16th March, event.

—Steven @ Clifton Road Games, Exeter

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Venue Information

Clifton Road Games
16 Clifton Road
EXETER
EX1 2BR
Tel. 01392 259 988
www.cliftonroadgames.co.uk

Transport

Cars: The Triangle Car Park is at the end of Clifton Road. In addition, there are 30-minute parking bays just up the road near Newtown Stores convenience shop, as well as 2-hour bays in each of the side roads off of Clifton Road (Clifton Street, Chute Street, Sandford Walk, etc). If you have an electric vehicle, there are charging points in Belmont Road (along the front of Belmont Park), on the left from the end of Clifton Road.

Bus: The nearest bus stop is Lower Summerlands at the junction of Clifton Road and Heavitree Road. The new Exeter Bus Station is only a few yards further away, by St. Sidwell’s Point Leisure Centre and the VUE Cinema (walk down past the VUE cinema, across Western Way, between the Leonardo Hotel – formerly Jury’s Inn – and Belmont Chapel to the Triangle Car Park and then turn left past The Clifton Inn).

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FOOD & DRINK

Clifton Road Games do not provide or sell food and/or drinks on the premises, but customers are welcome to bring their own.

Newtown Stores is just up the road (on your left as you exit the shop), The Clifton Inn, and (across the Triangle Car Park) Dee Yi and Exe Coffee Roasters are a short distance to the right of the shop. Waitrose is at the top of the hill, directly opposite the shop entrance.

We generally advise that gamers take specific breaks for food and drinks, rather than snacking throughout. It’s safer for the games components.

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Customer toilets are available. Note that these are wheelchair accessible.