Join these BGA Roots of Corruption tournaments for Woollybacks and digital prizes

The Roots of Corruption set will be going live on Board Game Arena beginning Aug. 17, and Altered Re:Union is planning three tournament events to celebrate our heroes facing the darkness! We’re excited to bring this set to online play, accomplishing one of our major goals from our recent Roadmap. Check our Events page for more information on how to register for these tournaments starting July 29 or look for news in our Discord server!

We’re excited to begin offering digital prizes for BGA tournaments! Participating in each of these three tournaments will get players a few ROC uniques for digital ownership, with more each time they advance past a cut. We’re still working on the details of providing the uniques to players, but we’ll have more information soon! Push for victory and show off your rewards!

Woollyback plushes are also up for rescue in the Seeds of Unity season finale! These small, fluffy friends come straight to the Altered Re:Union team from Equinox, and we’re thrilled that they’re helping us celebrate the end of the competitive season. If you missed getting a Woollyback plush during the earlier drives, don’t miss your chance now!

The top two players in the ROC Sealed Deck Tournament will also receive a physical signed Woollyback token from community artists like Sweorkie, GabrielBargiel or Karifur!

Players in the ROC Demo Deck Tournament have the chance to win the opportunity to help develop the starter decks for the three new heroes joining the fight as well! Make your mark by helping build the preconstructed decks for Gretel, Yeong-Gi and Sam.  

In addition, the Top 4 players from the Seeds of Unity season finale will receive an invite to the next Altered Worlds Championship event, along with the four winners from the Skybound Odyssey season finale! We’ll have more details on our plans for that in the future as well.

The update to BGA opens all cards from Roots of Corruption to be included in decks, including commons, rares, exalteds and uniques. Players can already build decklists in the Re:Union deckbuilder just to be ready for their first matches with the new set.

At the same time, we’re closing out the Seeds of Unity organized play season with a big finale. Check out the details below for these three events!

The first two events will be broadcast through our creator partners, so join in even if you aren’t participating to see who walks away with a rescued Woollyback!

These tournaments wouldn’t be possible without the tireless efforts of the Re:Union BGA dev team and playtesters. We’d like to give a special shout-out to Taum, Blazboy, Nyleirel and noobiwow as well as the playtesting team. We also want to call out GabrielBargiel, mtross, codeinepusheen, keldofus, fragileclick, gnomeschool and BamBamBam. Our community is always working hard to help us reach new heights!

Take your first chance to play the RoC decklists with a special tournament built around the starter decks meant to show off the set’s new mechanics and heroes. 

• Date: 2 August at 3 p.m. CET

• Open invite, cap 256 players

• Tournament format: Real-time

• Type: Group stage (8 pods with up to 32 players per pod. 5 rounds with the top 4 in each pod going through to top cut. Top cut of 32 as single elimination.)

• Game duration: 30 minutes

• Tournament rounds: 10 rounds (5 group stage and 5 single elimination)

• Tournament duration: 5 hours

• Deck format: Standard No Unique (RoC starter decks only)

• Heroes: RoC heroes only

• Prize support: Two random RoC digital uniques per player that plays at least three rounds; two additional random RoC digital uniques for reaching Top 32 and an additional two for every round passed; top four players will be invited to be part of the team developing the starter decks for the three new RoC heroes.

Show off the best deck you’ve built in the SDU season, taking on your opponents in our community-developed Frontier format.

• Date: 9 August at 3 p.m. CET 

• Open invite, cap 256 players

• Tournament format: Real-time

• Tournament type: Group stage (8 pods with up to 32 players per pod. 5 rounds with the top 4 in each pod going through to top cut. Top cut of 32 as single elimination.)

• Game duration: 30 minutes

• Tournament rounds: 10 rounds (5 group stage and 5 single elimination)

• Tournament duration: 5 hours

• Deck format: Frontier

• Heroes: All legal heroes

• Prize support: 1 Woollyback each for the top two players; three random RoC digital uniques per player that plays at least three rounds; three additional random RoC digital uniques for reaching Top 32 and an additional three for every round passed. Top 4 players will receive an invite to the next Altered Worlds Championship event.

Show your skill with a new Sealed play format, building the best deck you can with limited cards to celebrate the new set! We’ll have more details about this event coming up.

• Prize support: Two random RoC digital uniques per player that plays at least three rounds; two additional random RoC digital uniques for reaching Top 32 and an additional two for every round passed; signed Woollyback token promo for the top two players.

These tournaments will officially lead us into the start of the RoC organized play season. We’ll have additional news soon about what to expect, especially in relation to the opportunity for prizes. But even more than that, we’re proud to be showing off both Frontier and Living Legend formats, bringing the community’s designed formats to online play.

These tournaments and developing online organized play are all further steps along our Roadmap, and we’re doing our best to keep reaching new milestones as quickly as possible. As a fully volunteer team, Re:Union’s mission is to preserve the future of Altered’s gameplay, making it accessible and open to as many players as possible. Help us out by sharing your talents and volunteering! Join our Discord to connect with the community and show your support.