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The unofficial, community-run subreddit for KeyForge: The unique deck game designed by Richard Garfield and published by Ghost Galaxy. Each deck is completely unique, and no two games are alike!

The unofficial, community-run subreddit for KeyForge: The unique card game designed by Richard Garfield and published by Ghost Galaxy. Each deck is completely unique, and no two games are alike!


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Reacting to the 2025 Organized Play announcements

A reading and discussion about the new organized play announcement for ghost galaxy in 2025! Let me know how your thoughts on the news!

0 Comments
2024/12/21
15:20 UTC

6

82 SAS AoA Deck - Seems strong but can it hold against GR etc.?

2 Comments
2024/12/20
00:04 UTC

34

2025 Organized Play Announcement

27 Comments
2024/12/19
21:20 UTC

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It is time once again to dive into (or perhaps fly through) the lore of another of the factions that make up the organizations of the Crucible! Let's see what secrets the masters of the Crucible's sky have to share with us!

1 Comment
2024/12/17
18:18 UTC

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Own rules

Hello Archonts, In my opinion Dark Tidings change a lot in game dynamics, especially in chains mechanics, so i trying to figure out how to introduce some rules to "older decks". Do you have some own/home rules in game? Do you use chains system in some additional way in older decks?

3 Comments
2024/12/16
10:25 UTC

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Selective Preservation

Hi Archonts, I have to select a card basen on their strenght. For example card have some upgrade giving +2 to strenght and default the same card have 4 strenght point. So now i should destroy this because it have 4 strenght (if i select another to save) or i cannot to do this because now it have 6 strenght (card + upgrade)?

3 Comments
2024/12/15
19:46 UTC

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Found these old sealed decks while cleaning my office, would these be able to play against new decks? Is there a lot of piwer creep in the game?

9 Comments
2024/12/14
22:14 UTC

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Format or communities only for og sets?

Hi,

I’m a player that only played with the first sets of KeyForge (from CotA to DT) and then fell out of the loop because I mainly didn’t like two things:

  • the power creep (I know that’s a natural thing in TCGs but I still don’t like it)
  • the style of distribution GG has

I only play casually and I’d like to know if there’s a format or group that only plays with these first sets. I am aware of tco and that I can have these games over there.

Thank you in advance.

6 Comments
2024/12/14
08:46 UTC

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NEKO presents: The first Northeast KeyForge Open!

1 Comment
2024/12/13
15:55 UTC

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Mourning the loss of an unregistered Archon | The tragedy of Khan McCann

TL;DR: Lost the Archon card of an unregistered deck five years ago, and still feel remorse over it.

This post is so stupid, but it must be written and posted because I need to just get this off my chest.

I love KeyForge. I have twenty-four decks (only twenty-three registered...), and I really do try to promote this game to people whenever I get a chance. I have not bought any product from Ghost Galaxy yet, but in 2019 during the Fantasy Flight years I bought a display case of Call of the Archons for around 40USD and would take around two boosters in my backpack to show the game to people.

One time before the pandemic was on anyone's minds, I went to another city and met a friend at a Starbucks near a bus terminal. I pulled out two KeyForge decks and a pack of clear sleeves, and had her crack open the pack and sleeve everything. We played a few games, everything was great, we tidied up, I hopped on a bus and went home.

Only when I got home and took out the decks again to register them again did I realize, with annoyance that slowly turned to horror, that the deck my friend was using was missing its Archon card. Gah! Every other card was there, though, so I did not think much of it. But it did bother me whenever I thought about it.

Today, I found out that replacement decks can now be ordered for decks so long as they are registered. This made me have a session of outright mourning for this deck that was so fun to play but that never got a fair shake.

I might post a list later just so you guys can tell me that it sucks and I did not really miss out on a tournament-winning list or anything, but just the idea that all my other decks can live on for as long as the digital data for the game survives, while this one deck shall have to depend on me to cherish and maintain, makes me feel almost like I have a sick pet. I feel physical pain, a terrible cringe, when I look at the deck. Khan McCann... Brobnar, Untamed, Shadows... no idea what SAS this deck would be (I am thinking of paying for Decks of KeyForge just to take a peek past the paywall), but it really did feel even like a deck that clicks with my playstyle. And the name, oh the name. What a shame!

I know that this is obviously an insanely obsessive overreaction, and that it is basically me creating a bout of pain for myself by dwelling on this. I have never even played in a KeyForge tournament and have no plans to, yet I really loved my experiences with this great game and it just feels so bad that the one card I am missing out of all twenty-four of my decks is the one card that can never be replaced.

Maybe one day, there will be a way to register KeyForge decks that do not have an Archon card. Maybe Khan McCann shall regain his soul. But I am not holding my breath. Rather, I just want to properly mourn the fact that if I lose a single card out of his playable thirty-six, that's it.

I even told my wife today, if I could only save one of my twenty-four decks from a fire, I would definitely choose Khan McCann. The other ones I can just order again from the site, but this one deck is now priceless to me. I love it.

Upon reflection, maybe my friend did me a favor by losing that Archon card. (Though, it really is my fault for not taking more care to make sure I had everything.) I do not think of any of my other KeyForge decks even half as much as I think about Khan McCann. I remember several of my decks by name, but this is the only one that makes my heart ache when it comes to mind.

This is a long post. Thank you for reading. To spark some discussion, I ask: What are your own KeyForge stories of losing cards or experiencing loss? What are your own tales of losing precious game pieces in this unique deck card game?

12 Comments
2024/12/13
04:51 UTC

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Reacting to the newly announced Keyforge Player Discovery Kit

0 Comments
2024/12/12
16:45 UTC

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what are some great card combo's to look for in decks? especially in Grim Reminders & Aember Skies?

I got back into Keyforge recently and love Grim Reminders and Amber Skies and was wondering when opponing and playing decks what kind of card combo's to look out for.
quick search on the internet are mostly old video's from many years ago.

5 Comments
2024/12/12
12:31 UTC

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Winds of Death and Memette = constant board wipe? nearly.

With Winds of Death and Memette can I:

  1. Nuke the board with Winds of Death.
  2. Archive creatures from discard
  3. clear the creature from the board and put them into discard in order of the controlling players choice.
  4. Winds of Death resolves and goes on top of discard
  5. Play Memette
  6. Archive Winds of Death.
  7. Memette is left on the field with a achieve loaded with the Winds of Death ready next turn

if Memette is on the field when i play winds of death again:

memette can no achieve the winds of death that destroyed him, correct?

  1. Nuke the board with Winds of Death.
  2. Archive creatures from discard
  3. clear the creature from the board and put them into discard in order of the controlling players choice. memette can archive any card just destroyed but the
  4. Winds of Death resolves after and goes on top of discard

right?

But it memette is in the discard when winds of death is played:

  1. Nuke the board with Winds of Death.
  2. Archive creatures from discard (including memette)
  3. clear the creature from the board and put them into discard in order of the controlling players choice.
  4. Winds of Death resolves and goes on top of discard
  5. he goes into archives, and so long as I don't play anything on top and my opponents doesn't make me discard anything on top of winds of death. (likly unable to because I just cleared his board), i can just keep doing this.

it's not unstopable. But so long as I play my cards right, i can just keep the board under my control.

Is that broken? or fine?

https://preview.redd.it/llo2om9u8a6e1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=2661394d2ae9a39102f8f4f2e75408fe95be6dff

https://preview.redd.it/m0kgw6gs8a6e1.png?width=300&format=png&auto=webp&s=5fb5f91cc224f25ccf4d1b3b108e007b272709dc

4 Comments
2024/12/11
21:10 UTC

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This deck any good?

This 84 is one of my high SAS deck. is that good? Or do i have bad luck?

https://decksofkeyforge.com/decks/05e371f1-0e76-4c31-ba8f-dced4e3674ed

I've played this a few times, I struggle to make this work

Ekwidon
De-escalation , Azuretooth , Gegrrŏkŭŭ Sapper are cards that seem to be better for my opponent more than me. Gegrrŏkŭŭ give's my opponent a hard to kill REAPer. And I can't scrap him because i generally has an artifact i want to keep.
Geistoid
There are things that befit a little from being haunted. But alot of my Gestoid mills my deck to no real benefit.
Unfathom
little creature power, and not really and focus in the actions to lean on.

Some one give me some pointers? is this a case the SAS is wrong? Is 84 not that good. The Ekwidon and Unfathom seem a bit unusable

2 Comments
2024/12/11
20:51 UTC

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Central Michigan KeyForge Christmas!

2 Comments
2024/12/11
17:13 UTC

8

What happened to chains on cards?

This mechanic was suppose to help balance more powerful effects and it just seems to have gone away. I think if the past 4 sets have had them or even made more use of the Alpha and Omega mechanics, it could have reigned them in a bit more so that older set decks could stand a chance. Thoughts on this?

11 Comments
2024/12/10
13:33 UTC

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How do you organize your decks?

In alot of other games this is easy: You keep 90% of the unused cards grouped with their color elements. While your half dozen of built decks are in a ready to go box.

but key forge is different. there's no cards in storage. every deck is ready. how do you group yours? how do your organize them so you can find the deck you want at the time?

https://preview.redd.it/x0nfllsuex5e1.jpg?width=3218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a0d41d1924c1e1aeb7b1da43457de8b222149d2

16 Comments
2024/12/09
07:14 UTC

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Aember Skies deck questions!?

Pulled these 3 decks out of Aember Skies. Have been really excited to get my hands on some of the new set but I get to play so sparcely these days that I really don't know how to evaluate these decks. Any thoughts or insight on the decks below would be awesome.

My quick scan of the best highest sas is that it's a shard deck which I've never had one of but wanted so that's cool and the Skyborn house seems to have some fun cards and light synergy around the red key so that seems fun. Mid deck I'm not really sure how to evaluate or what to look out for and the lowest deck seems pretty bad but logos appears to have a card that pulls others in?

What cards pull others in with this set besides treasure map? No skybeast is kinda a bummer. Again, thoughts on the decks would be awesome as well as what are the cards and combos to look for in this set.

Thanks everyone!

https://decksofkeyforge.com/decks/9a897d9d-5b04-437a-9ed9-7c833c2c1f2b

https://decksofkeyforge.com/decks/0000276b-b057-4657-a534-8a8b61776d36

https://decksofkeyforge.com/decks/138a1125-944e-43ea-964d-f9f24578a9df

3 Comments
2024/12/09
00:42 UTC

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KF Art Bot: Gameplay updates

I didn't plan on another update so soon, but I got a lot of helpful feedback on the last one, thanks everyone who hopped in!

What's new:

  • For some players tiny was too easy(!) so added micro and impossible.
  • You can now stay in the same thread the bot creates to play and keep starting new games there
  • Support for playing in DM with the bot

See the original post for more details on how to play, the Discord install and invite to KF Art Bot server.

0 Comments
2024/12/08
14:01 UTC

14

Really surprised no keyforge at pax

I remember how big this game was when it first dropped. It's a shame

7 Comments
2024/12/07
02:19 UTC

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Four days left in the Prophetic Visions Gamefound campaign!

Get your sweet, sweet KeyForge orders in before the campaign ends!

Gamefound Campaign

8 Comments
2024/12/06
02:43 UTC

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Last day for KAGI 12 Signups (Adaptive League)

Today is the LAST DAY to sign up for KAGI 12.0! This is the biggest KAGI ever by a good margin, so come join the fun! We have prizes available in our second aember event and there are prizes for the winner as well! Come join the largest adaptive league out there!!

https://forms.gle/ZmpKyUkEkvT4MPfF9

Signup deadline: EOD December 4th, 2024 [New York Time] KAGI 12.0 start date: Start of December 8th, 2024 [New York Time]

1 Comment
2024/12/04
20:12 UTC

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Weekly Online Sealed Tonight and Sunday, don't need to wait for Crucible Clash!

Weekly Online Keyforge hosted by Archon's Corner! Tonight is sponsored by Pink Bunny Games, 2x Home Base retailer.

What is that you say? It is OP Sealed Keyforge online using Discord and the TCO. I have decks for sale or provide your own!

All play levels are welcome!

Going live opening decks starts at 7:30 CDT and then will have play via TCO at 8pm CDT on both Sundays and Wednesdays.

Matches are coordinated via the Archon's Corner discord: https://discord.gg/Yt3yp7QACU

For Wednesday with the sponsor we have a prize wall and an entry fee, details below. Sunday is more casual with just simple bring or buy a sealed deck and play.

More details here Wednesday nights, including cost and the prize wall: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSHV3arDIy9xh4anaV1yDRphMCG5_MI3JN6-CgNciYeNREo9t-f4pvSaVbwKExbJJ7WSS6OzcYGnWAg/pubhtml

We have played close to 2,500 matches with Nearly 1,500 sealed decks at this point on Wednesdays. Players have redeemed for prizes worth more than 1,000$ !!!

Sundays have run for nearly 4 years now with even more decks and matches played!

0 Comments
2024/12/04
16:02 UTC

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Powercreep is real. Redline rotation is just one proof of it.

Redline rotation:
If your opponent has 7<A> or more, steal half of their <A> (rounding down). And it grants an <A> for playing it.
Compared to:
Burn their stockpile:
If your opponent has 7<A> or more, they lose 4<A>. And doesn't grant an <A> for playing it.

13 Comments
2024/12/02
20:22 UTC

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KF Art Bot: AS and ToC

Hi, the KF Art Bot now has Aember Skies and Tokens of Change cards!

See the original post for more details on how to play and the Discord install link.

1 Comment
2024/12/02
00:08 UTC

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