Archon

The Archon format pits a player’s single Archon deck against their opponent’s chosen Archon deck.

Each Player Uses: One KeyForge Archon deck from any set deemed legal by the event organizer.

Registration: Each player must register themselves and their Archon deck at the event HQ. The Archon deck must be complete and unmodified.

Deck Lists: Decklists are open information. Players must allow their opponent time to review their decklist prior to the start of the match, and at any time during then match if requested.

Qualifying Rounds: Archon 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. The winner of each match is responsible for reporting the match result to the event HQ.

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. The event organizer will make these determinations prior to the start of the first tournament round.

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. The player who lost the previous game chooses which player will act as “first player” for the next game, if necessary.