Vault Tour
The Vault Tour is a series of top level KeyForge Organized Play tournaments held throughout Europe and North America. Vault Tours are open to all players and all decks, with no restrictions based on deck power level or set. Chains gained in Chainbound events do not apply in Vault Tour events.
Held throughout a weekend, Vault Tours attract hundreds of players to play in one or two main events and numerous side events. The main events are always two day tournaments: a Day 1 consisting of multiple Swiss rounds, with the best players progressing to a Day 2 single elimination top cut.
Formats and variants used for Vault Tours are Archon Solo, Archon Survival, Archon Triad and Sealed Solo. In Sealed Solo, players open three current set decks and choose one to play in the event.
Prizes
| Round | Æmbershards | Power level |
|---|---|---|
| Participation | 30 | 3 |
| Per win in Swiss | 15 | |
| Top 32 (only Day 2) | 50 | |
| Top 16 (only Day 2) | 75 | 5 |
| Top 8 | 100 | |
| Top 4 | 150 | 6 |
| Finalist | 300 | 7 |
| Winner | 500 | 8 |
The winner of each Vault Tour is awarded free flight and accommodation for a later Vault Tour. Unlike the upcoming VaultWarrior series, no cash prizes are awarded at Vault Tours.
Æmbershards and power levels are awarded to all participating players and decks. Æmbershards from all Vault Tours count towards the Vault Tour Leaderboard.
Invites to the 2020 KeyForge World Championship event will be awarded to the Top 100 players on the Vault Tour Leaderboard.
Each Vault Tour also features a Prize Wall where players can redeem Æmbershards for unique prizes. This is currently the only way to redeem Æmbershards gained by discovering decks in the Master Vault, as well as playing at Vault Tours and all other events within KeyForge Organized Play.
Results and schedule
2019
The first Vault Tours were held in March 2019 in Eindhoven (NL) and Seattle (WA). Vault Tours in the US were initially run by Cascade Games, but from September 2019 are run by Yeti Gaming. In adaptive finals, the winner's deck was not always the deck that won most games in the final.
| Date | Location | Format | Variant | Att. | Winner | Winner's deck | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 15-17 | Eindhoven | NL | Archon | Solo | 184 | Rachael Trimble | The Captain of Barrackslaunch | Final best-of-3 |
| Mar 14-17 | ECCC Seattle | WA | Sealed | Solo | 175 | Yaro Tkatchenko | B. Celerinius, the City Archbishop | Final adaptive |
| Mar 27-31 | AdeptiCon Chicago | IL | Archon | Survival | 122 | George Keagle | "Gasoline" Maximiliano, Dungeon Keeper | 3-deck survival, final adaptive |
| Apr 27-29 | Denver | CO | Archon | Survival | 131 | Nathan Westlake | Bahamut "Alp Larissa" Heifetz | 3-deck survival, final adaptive |
| May 25-27 | Atlanta | GA | Sealed | Solo | 128 | Kav Manickaraj | Ire "Flairkeeper" Karlvene | Final adaptive |
| May 31- Jun 02 | UKGE Birmingham | UK | Sealed | Solo | 388 | John Pickavance | Loreribius of the Packleader's Bastion | AOA launch, final best-of-3 |
| Jun 12-16 | Origins | OH | Sealed | Solo | 185 | Ben Wallace | Screaming Ximan of the Tower | Final adaptive |
| Jun 21-23 | Bologna | IT | Archon | Solo | 342 | Alessandro Storti | Honk the Beneficially Topaz | Final best-of-3 |
| Jul 19-21 | Nürnberg | DE | Archon | Survival | 151 | Jakub Nosal | Adm. Inslang, the Pink Fraud | Final best-of-3 |
| Aug 1-2 | Gen Con | IN | Sealed | Solo | 241 | Devin Chiriboga | Maxima, Hunter of the Eloquent Strand | Final adaptive |
| Aug 3-4 | Gen Con | IN | Archon | Solo | 203 | Trevor May | The Snappy Pariah | Final adaptive |
| Aug 22-23 | Krakow | PL | Sealed | Solo | 122 | Marc Zontek | Chortzard, Spawn of Ipsispace | Final best-of-3 |
| Aug 24-25 | Krakow | PL | Archon | Solo | 147 | Panagiotis Kyriakou | Litmus, the Stone Keeper of Joy | Final best-of-3 |
| Sep 6-8 | Collinsville | IL | Archon | Solo | 69 | George Keagle | "Gasoline" Maximiliano, Dungeon Keeper |
Top 4 best-of-3 |
| Sep 27-29 | Madrid | ES | Archon | Survival | 168 | Jakub Nosal | Adm. Inslang, the Pink Fraud |
Final best-of-3 |
| Oct 4-6 | Las Vegas | NV | Archon | Triad | 121 | Joe Huber | King Terentia Hopavicious | |
| Oct 18-20 | Richmond | VA | Sealed | Solo | 94 | Nathan Starwalt | Kantphage, the Lady General of the Keep | Top 4 best-of-3 |
| Nov 8-10 | Indianapolis | IN | Sealed | Solo | 166 | Nathan Westlake | X. Olivier, Farnate’s Long-winded Lord | WC launch, top 4 best-of-3 |
| Dec 6-7 | PAX Unplugged Phil. | PA | Archon | Solo | Top 4 best-of-3 | |||
| Dec 7-8 | PAX Unplugged Phil. | PA | Sealed | Solo | Top 4 best-of-3 | |||
At the Collinsville VT in September, George Keagle became the first two-time Vault Tour winner, winning for the second time with the same deck. Jakub Nosal was the second player to achieve this, just a few weeks later at the Madrid VT. In November, Nathan Westlake became the first player to win both an Archon and a Sealed Vault Tour (thus, winning with two different decks).
2020
| Date | Location | Format | Variant | Att. | Winner | Winner's deck | Comment | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 10-12 | Albany | NY | Archon | Survival | 2-deck survival, top 4 best-of-3 | |||
| May 15-17 | Paris | FR | ||||||