KeyForge: Grim Reminders

About this board game

KeyForge: Grim Reminders is a two-player KeyForge set released in 2024, with games lasting about 45 minutes. As the game’s seventh set, it introduces a new batch of cards and mechanisms, along with KeyForge’s eleventh house: Geistoid.

Each Geistoid minion is a fusion of discarded refuse, animated by the psychic energy of Æmber. Driven to wreak vengeance on a neglectful universe, these unusual minions transform the things cast aside by the living into potential reinforcements for their ranks.

Grim Reminders places special emphasis on the discard pile. Cards can return from the discard pile, creating a strong connection between what has been discarded and what may appear later. The set also makes it more likely that cards will reach the discard pile in the first place.

• New house: Discover Geistoid, KeyForge’s eleventh house.
• Discard-pile play: Return cards from the discard pile as part of the set’s new mechanisms.
• Scrap effects and discard costs: Send more cards to the discard pile while shaping future possibilities.

With scrap effects, discard costs, and refuse-born minions working together, the set gives discarded cards renewed significance. What leaves play is not necessarily forgotten; it may become part of a later push from the Geistoid ranks.

For players looking to explore how KeyForge can build strategy around cards that have already been discarded, Grim Reminders offers a distinctive theme and a focused set of mechanisms. Its central idea is simple and memorable: every scrap of detritus may help swell the Geistoid ranks.