Winds of Exchange
Winds of Exchange is the sixth standard KeyForge set and introduced 262 new cards. It was announced by Fantasy Flight Games on September 10, 2021. However, due to the loss of the deck generation algorithm, a release date for the set was not initially included.
In June 2022 Ghost Galaxy (a new venture by Christian T. Petersen, founder of Fantasy Flight Games) acquired the KeyForge IP and publishing rights from Asmodee (parent company of Fantasy Flight Games) and in August 2022 announced that Winds of Exchange would be crowdfunded through Gamefound. The campaign launched on September 9, 2022, reached its funding goal in 27 minutes, and raised over $1.1M from more than 6000 backers. The set started to ship to backers in the United States in May 2023, ahead of a July 2023 retail release. Backers outside of the United States received pledges in late 2023.
Winds of Exchange features the largest house rotation so far, with Logos, Shadows, and Untamed all leaving the game for the first time. Mars and Brobnar are rotated back in, alongside the introduction of KeyForge's 11th house, the Compacts of Ekwidon. The remaining four houses featured in the set are Sanctum, Saurian, Star Alliance and Unfathomable. The set's primary new mechanic are token creatures. As an unlocked stretch goal in the crowdfunding campaign, the set will also feature the return of anomalies, rare cards from the next set.
House Rotation
- New: Ekwidon
- Returning: Brobnar, Mars
- Rotated Out: Logos, Shadows, Untamed
The Merchant Compacts of Ekwidon are a vast network of traders obsessed with making deals and new investments across the Crucible. They are masters of subtly gaining the upper hand in any situation. The most numerous species within House Ekwidon are the Getrookya: asymmetrical creatures whose anatomy has been adapted to complex discourse and negotiation.
In gameplay, House Ekwidon centers around "the art of the deal", although often a skewed one. You get something and in exchange your opponent may potentially get something as well, but careful exploitation and manipulation of how these are played can ensure the deal is better for you than it is for your opponent!
Mars returns for the first time since Age of Ascension (Set 2) and Brobnar returns for the first time since Worlds Collide (Set 3). Logos, Shadows, and Untamed all rotate out for the first time in KeyForge's history.
New Set Mechanics
Token Creatures
Winds of Exchange's "set mechanic" is Token Creatures. Each Winds of Exchange deck has a Token Creature from one of its three houses assigned to it. This token is represented in the deck's "38th card", which serves as a reference for what token creature the deck generates.
Some card abilities in Winds of Exchange will instruct players to "make a token creature", at which point a card from the top of the deck is put into play to represent a copy of that deck's token creature.
New Keyword: Splash-attack
The Splash-attack (X) keyword is introduced for the first time in cards from Winds of Exchange. The keyword simplifies and consolodates a mechanic featured in cards from previous sets in which an attacking creature deals additional damage to the attacked creature's neighbors.
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