For the second of three Store Championship events we embrace the new Alliance Format!

ALLIANCE

The Alliance format challenges both a player’s gameplay skills and deck-construction strategy by allowing “Alliance” decks to be created from up to three different Archon decks from the same KeyForge set.

Players Must Bring:

One KeyForge Alliance deck consisting of three house pods from up to three different Archon decks from the same KeyForge set. Alternatively, a player may bring one unmodified Archon deck.

Alliance Deck Creation:

Prior to the start of an Alliance format tournament, each participating player must create an Alliance deck. An Alliance deck consists of three house pods from up to three different Archon decks from the same KeyForge set. Each selected house pod must be from a different house.

A house pod is the set of twelve cards dedicated to one house within a single Archon deck (each Archon deck always consists of three house pods from three different houses).

Additionally, each Alliance deck cannot contain more than one card by name from the Alliance Restricted List, and that card cannot appear in the Alliance deck in a greater quantity than specified in the Alliance Restricted List. If a player chooses to use a single unmodified Archon deck, that deck is not subject to the Alliance Restricted List.

Qualifying Rounds:

Alliance format tournaments use the Playstile 2LO structure and are played over a series of qualifying rounds, with each round featuring any number of two-player matches, and each match consisting of one game.

Players are eliminated after losing two matches, also known as “two loss out (2LO).”

Qualifying rounds continue until a predetermined number of players make the top cut (usually eight players). The size of the top cut and the number of qualifying rounds needed to reach it depend on the number of players at the beginning of the tournament.

Finals:

After concluding the qualifying rounds, the remaining players who have qualified for the top cut proceed to the finals. The finals consist of single-elimination matches until only two players remain.

The final match is played as a best-of-three series. In other words, for the match to be resolved, players continue to play games until one player has won two games.