Cyberpunk TCG Edgerunner Open: Dates, Tickets, 12 Promos

WeirdCo's Organized Play page says it will share the Edgerunner Open Regional schedule "in due course." As of today, 12 September 2026, it still says that — and it is wrong, because the schedule landed eight days ago somewhere else.

On 4 September 2026, in a blog post recapping its Welcome to Night City Digital Beta Celebration stream, WeirdCo named two cities, five ticket-sale dates and a backer lottery with a hard deadline. The structure page was never updated to match. If you have only read our breakdown of the Organized Play ladder — which correctly told you in August that no Regional date existed and to ignore any you saw quoted — that advice has now expired. Dates exist.

And there is a second story the announcement did not tell, which is sitting in WeirdCo's own card database: twelve cards already carry an Edgerunner Open Season 1 printing, stamped EOR01 - WNC, and they are not the list the stream named. WeirdCo showed eleven cards on 4 September, and only seven of those eleven are in this set.

Two cities, and the dates that exist

Chicago is three days, Warsaw is two. WeirdCo's wording for both: "side events, vendors, and lots of other fun and exciting activities." No venue has been named for either, no player cap, no round structure, no format beyond what the tier implies.

Two things worth noticing about the dates themselves. Chicago lands five weeks after the 6 November retail release of Welcome to Night City, which is an extremely short runway for a first large-scale constructed event in a game whose first sanctioned constructed events, the weekly Night City Brawls, do not start until after Pre-Release weekend on 30 October. And Chicago lands inside the Welcome to Night City set cycle, which is what the Organized Play page promised — EORs "set to begin during the Welcome to Night City set cycle." That part of the page has held up. Whether Warsaw in late January is still inside that cycle is not knowable today, because WeirdCo has published no Set 2 date.

The ticket calendar

This is the part with deadlines, so here it is in full. All times as WeirdCo published them.

Read the shape rather than the rows. Chicago gets three waves, Warsaw gets two, and WeirdCo gives a reason for the extra one: the Chicago Wave 2 on 4 November exists "to give players who discover Cyberpunk TCG at Retail Pre-release events the opportunity to secure regional tickets." Pre-Release weekend is 30 October. Wave 2 opens five days later. That is a publisher deliberately reserving inventory for people who do not own the game yet.

Warsaw's Wave 1 also sits after Chicago's Wave 2, despite Warsaw being the later event — so if you are in Europe, your general on-sale is 11 November and there is nothing to do before then except the lottery.

All sales run through Melee, the tournament platform WeirdCo named as its software partner on 18 August 2026. Wave 0 is lottery winners only; the other waves are open.

The backer lottery closes 20 September

Of everything above, one item has a deadline inside the next eight days.

If you backed the Kickstarter, you can enter a lottery for a limited number of Main Event Competitor tickets to either EOR. Entries opened at noon EST on 8 September and close at noon EST on 20 September 2026, with winners informed on 23 September. WeirdCo runs a separate entry link per city — cyberpunktcg.com/eor-chicago-interest and cyberpunktcg.com/eor-warsaw-interest, both linked from the Organized Play menu on the site.

Three details that decide whether this matters to you:

• It is a lottery, not a queue. Entering early and entering late are worth the same thing, so there is no advantage in waiting and no second chance after the 20th.
• It covers Main Event Competitor tickets specifically. WeirdCo says that in the general release "other ticket types will be available for those who wish to attend an EOR, but not participate in the Main Event," so a lottery loss is not an attendance loss. It has not said what those other types are.
• Backer status is the gate WeirdCo names. It has not published an allocation count, a per-person limit, or whether backing at any tier qualifies.

The prize set is already in the database

Here is where the public record runs ahead of the announcement. WeirdCo's card database, powered by Netdeck, carries a full printing history on every card entry. Page through all 151 cards in it and twelve of them turn out to have a printing in a set called Edgerunner Open S 1 (edgerunneropens1), stamped EOR01 - WNC on the card face. Every one of the twelve is the Nova Rare rarity WeirdCo uses for promos.

Twelve printings, eight Legends and four Programs. Note the collector numbers: they run to 053 with large gaps, so the set is numbered for considerably more cards than are currently live. Twelve is what the database shows today, not a published set size — WeirdCo says full prizing details arrive 18 September.

The colour spread is lopsided in a way that will matter. Four of the eight Legends are Blue. Red, Yellow and Green get one, one and two. Since constructed decks run exactly three uniquely named Legends and their RAM is the deckbuilding constraint, a prize pool weighted this heavily toward one colour is not a neutral cosmetic choice. Every one of the eight is RAM 2, which is what 26 of the 27 Legends in the database print — the twenty-seventh, the Rebecca: Having a Moment promo, is a borderless full-art card that prints no RAM value at all.

Every EOR Legend is serialized to 99

WeirdCo teased "Encrypted Legend" serialized prize cards on stream and named three of them: V: Corporate Exile, Alt Cunningham: Soulkiller Architect and Goro Takemura: Hands Unclean. Its exact framing was that "the best performing players at the end of each EOR will receive a serialized version of one of their chosen Legends."

Open the renders and there are not three. All eight Legends in the Edgerunner Open S 1 set carry a serial box, sitting in the bottom centre of the card to the left of the power value and outlined in the card's own colour — I checked each of the eight individually. The four Programs carry none. The V: Corporate Exile render at the top of this post is one of the eight; look at the box under the rules line.

Every serial box reads the same thing: 00 / 99.

The numerator is a placeholder — a database render has no serial to print, so it shows zeroes. The denominator is not a placeholder, and it says 99. Be precise about what that is worth: WeirdCo has not stated a print run in words, so 99 is what the card face says rather than a published figure. Treat it as evidence, not as an announcement.

What this does not tell you is the distribution. "The best performing players" is not a number, and whether a Top 8 finisher and a Top 64 finisher both leave with one is unpublished. Neither is whether the serialized pool at the event is these eight or a larger set that has not been added yet.

The Braindances are a one-per-colour cycle

The four Programs are the cleanest piece of design in the set, and the database makes the pattern exact rather than approximate.

WeirdCo described them on stream as "low-cost, highly playable Programs." Here is what that means in numbers. The database holds 13 BRAINDANCE Programs in total, at costs from 1 to 6. Exactly four of them cost 1, and those four are precisely the four in the Edgerunner Open set — one in each colour, each at RAM 1, each carrying the eddie sell icon.

Every one of the four is a one-Eddie Gig manipulator with a conditional cantrip bolted on, and every condition is a different Gig-state test: a high Gig, two differing Gigs, a matched pair, a minimum Gig. That is a deliberate cycle, not four cards that happen to share a cost.

Two of the four carry a faction tag alongside BRAINDANCE: Industrial Assembly is ARASAKA, Afterparty at Lizzie's is MOX. Peace Offering and Trust No One carry BRAINDANCE alone. Tag payoffs are a real deckbuilding axis in this game, so that is worth a second look rather than a shrug.

Six of the eight cannot be opened in a booster

Cross-reference the eight EOR Legends against every other printing in the database and a hard pattern falls out.

Six of the eight have no Welcome to Night City booster printing at all — not Beta, not Retail. They are starter-deck Legends: Goro Takemura: Hands Unclean, Saburo Arasaka: Stubborn Patriarch and Yorinobu Arasaka: Embracing Destruction from Embracing Power; Jackie Welles: Pour One Out For Me, V: Corporate Exile and Viktor Vektor: Sit Down and Relax from The Heist. All six are on the list of eleven cards you cannot pull from a booster, which I re-ran against the database today at 151 cards and which still stands at eleven.

The overlap goes further than that. WeirdCo's Box Toppers, unlocked at the $6M and $8M Kickstarter stretch goals, contain six cards in the Retail version and the same six in the Beta version. Every one of those six is also in the Edgerunner Open set. Not five of six — all six, which I checked by enumerating both sets.

So the premium treatment ladder for these six cards now runs: starter deck printing, demo deck printing, Box Topper printing, serialized EOR printing. Only two of the eight EOR Legends are cards you can open in a pack — Alt Cunningham: Soulkiller Architect and Evelyn Parker: Beautiful Enigma, both Blue.

That is consistent with WeirdCo's stated promo policy that promos are variants of cards you can already get, and it concentrates the scarcity on a small, already-identified group of cards rather than spreading it across the set.

What the stream showed that the database does not

WeirdCo also showcased four alternative art pieces destined for "some of our Edgerunner Regional Open prize cards and promos": Dexter DeShawn: Off the Grid, V: Streetkid, Muamar Reyes: El Capitán and Judy Álvarez: Braindance Maestro.

None of those four has an Edgerunner Open S 1 printing in the database. All four exist as cards, with printings in Welcome to Night City Retail and Beta — and Judy additionally in Pre-Release Beta — but nothing carrying the EOR set code. So the alt-art layer is announced art, not yet catalogued product, and the twelve live EOR entries do not include any of it.

That is the honest read on the whole set: the database is running ahead of the announcement on serialization and behind it on alt arts. Neither is a contradiction. It is a set being populated in pieces, six days before WeirdCo says it will explain the whole thing.

What is still unpublished

Being specific, because the volume of new detail makes it easy to assume more is settled than is:

• Venues. Two cities, no buildings, for either event.
• Player caps and ticket allocations. WeirdCo explicitly defers both to 18 September.
• Prizing structure. Which finishes earn a serialized Legend, how many, and what everyone else gets.
• The serialized print run, in words. The renders say 99. WeirdCo has not.
• Ticket prices, for any wave, at either event.
• Format, rounds and time limits. "Constructed" is implied by the tier and stated nowhere for these two events.
• Whether the twelve is the whole set. Collector numbers run to 053 with gaps.
• Everything above EOR. Black Sapphire Invitational qualification thresholds and the World Championship remain exactly as blank as they were in August.

One correction to carry forward: WeirdCo's Organized Play structure page has not been updated for any of this. As of today it still reads "We'll share our full Edgerunner Open Regional schedule with you in due course." The blog post is the current source; the structure page is stale.

Meanwhile, Beta Events are running right now — the window is 10 to 20 September 2026, so today is day three of eleven, and the sealed rules for them are unchanged.

Quick Action Checklist

• If you backed the Kickstarter, enter the lottery before noon EST on 20 September. It is a lottery, not a queue, so entering now costs nothing and forgetting costs the entry. Separate links per city; you are entering for Main Event Competitor tickets specifically.
• Put 23 September in your calendar twice. Lottery winners are notified that day, and Wave 0 opens the same day — 10AM EST for Warsaw, 7PM EST for Chicago.
• If you are not a backer, your date is 30 September (Chicago Wave 1) or 11 November (Warsaw Wave 1). There is nothing to do before then.
• Do not skip Chicago Wave 2 on 4 November if you miss Wave 1. WeirdCo created it specifically for players who find the game at Pre-Releases on 30 October.
• Check back on 18 September. WeirdCo has committed to full prizing, ticketing and event information that day. Anything you read filling those blanks before then is somebody guessing.
• Do not pay a secondary-market premium on a serialized Legend yet. No print run has been published; the /99 is a card-face detail on a database render. And six of the eight already carry five printings each before this one.