Cyberpunk TCG Edgerunner Open: $75 Tickets, 10 Prize Tiers

Our last post on the Edgerunner Open ended with a list of what WeirdCo hadn't said yet: venues, player caps, ticket prices, format, and how the "Encrypted Legend" serialized promos actually get distributed. It told readers to check back on 18 September.

I checked back on 21 September. Every item on that list is now live at cyberpunktcg.com/eor - not as a dated blog post, but as a standing page WeirdCo built out and populated directly. There's no announcement post to cite with a timestamp, so what follows is sourced to the page as it reads today.

The venues, finally

Edgerunner Open Regional - Chicago runs 11-13 December 2026 at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. General ticket sales begin 30 September 2026.

Edgerunner Open Regional - Warsaw runs 30-31 January 2027 at Warsaw EXPO XXI, Warsaw, Poland. General ticket sales begin 11 November 2026.

Both venue names are new information. As of 12 September, WeirdCo had named the two cities and nothing else - no building, no player cap, no confirmation either event would actually have a hard attendance ceiling. Now both do.

What a ticket actually buys you

Three badge types, and the two you can actually buy line up with what you get, not just what you pay:

The Buy-A-Box Voucher on both paid tiers is redeemable for a Welcome to Night City Booster Box at the WeirdCo Store Booth - a real box, on top of everything else, for showing up. Streetkid buyers get almost the same swag pile as Major Leagues buyers; the entire price difference is whether you can actually play in the tournament.

One promo repeats across the page and is worth flagging honestly: the Misty Olszewski Event Promo is named as Nova Rare on the ticket table. Her card database entry currently shows three printings - two Rare copies (Retail and Beta, art by ADIA) and a third printing tagged "Set 1 Promos" (#006, art by Bruno Ferreira/Bit Bot) that is already rarity Nova Rare, matching the ticket table's designation. None of the three carries an Edgerunner Open set stamp, though, so it isn't confirmed that #006 is literally the same printing bundled with tickets - just the closest rarity match in the database right now. Treat the hero image on this page as the closest catalogued match to the card you'll receive, not a confirmed render of it.

The wave calendar now has real numbers

The previous post had wave dates and times but no ticket counts. The page now breaks out exactly how many seats are in each wave, and the arithmetic checks out against the published player caps.

Chicago - 2,048-player Main Event (64 reserved for a Friday play-in):

661 + 661 + 662 = 1,984 Main Event seats across the three waves, plus the 64 held back for Friday's play-in side event, comes out to exactly 2,048.

Warsaw - 1,536-player Main Event:

512 + 1,024 also lands exactly on 1,536. Neither number is rounded or approximate - they're the literal allocation WeirdCo built the wave structure around.

The backer lottery itself has already run its course by the time you're reading this: entries closed 20 September, and winners are notified 23 September - the same day Wave 0 opens. If you entered, that's this week. If you didn't, Chicago's general Wave 1 (30 September) or Warsaw's only general wave (11 November) are your actual dates.

The Prize Wall: what Eddies buy

Both paid badge tiers hand out Prize Wall Eddies, and the page now lists what they're worth:

A Major Leagues or Streetkid badge starts you with 600 Eddies - enough for a Faction Sleeves set and a Booster Pack, or halfway to a Playmat, before you've played a single round. The Legend Art Playmats come in four named variants: V: Streetkid, Dexter DeShawn: Off the Grid, Judy Alvarez: Braindance Maestro and Muamar Reyes: El Capitán - the same four names that turn up again below.

How the Main Event actually runs

WeirdCo calls the format Constructed Best-of-Three and says the complete Tournament Rules are still coming - this page covers structure, not rules-adjacent minutiae like sideboarding or time limits.

Day one is 8 Swiss rounds. Standard match-point scoring: 3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss. Anyone finishing day one at 18 match points or higher - which a clean 6-2 record or better satisfies exactly - advances to day two, where they play 3 further Swiss rounds. After those, the top 16 by match points move into single elimination: 4 rounds to crown a champion.

That's 11 rounds of Swiss for a day-two qualifier who then has to win four straight elimination matches to take the whole thing - a long weekend, which tracks with Chicago's three-day allocation against Warsaw's two.

The full prizing ladder, tier by tier

Prizing is additive - every tier includes everything below it, not just its own row. Ten tiers, in order:

WeirdCo's own footnote matters here: Black Sapphire Invitational invites stop at exactly Top 64 and are not extended to players below it even if their record matches 64th place - every other Top 64 prize is extended to a matching record, but the tournament invite specifically isn't.

Notice which Legend sits at which tier: Muamar Reyes at Day 2 qualification, Dexter DeShawn at Top 64, V: Streetkid at Top 32, Judy Alvarez at Top 16. That's not four random names - it's the same four cards from the Prize Wall's playmat list, now doing double duty as the stamped-promo ladder, each one gating a specific finish.

One name in that table has no card page at all: Lucyna Kushinada, the Top 8 serialized promo. I checked all 151 cards in the database across every page and found no entry under that name in any form. She's a real character from Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, but as a Cyberpunk TCG card she exists only as a name on this prize table right now.

Encrypted Legends: the exact algorithm

The last post could only report WeirdCo's vague framing - "the best performing players... will receive a serialized version of one of their chosen Legends." The page now spells out the actual mechanic, and it's more specific than that sentence suggested.

When you submit your Main Event decklist through Melee, you rank your three Legends by priority. Starting with the champion and working down through final standings, each player receives a serialized Encrypted Legend promo of their highest-priority Legend that hasn't already been awarded to someone above them.

WeirdCo's own worked example, with four players who all ran the identical three Legends in the identical priority order (V: Streetkid, Judy Alvarez: Braindance Maestro, Dexter DeShawn: Off the Grid):

• 1st place gets their top pick, V: Streetkid - nothing's been claimed yet.
• 2nd place gets Judy Alvarez - their first choice, V: Streetkid, is already gone.
• 3rd place gets Dexter DeShawn - their first two choices are both gone.
• 4th place gets nothing - all three of their ranked Legends have already been claimed by the players above them.

That last line is the part worth sitting with if you're deciding what to play: running the same three Legends as the players above you in standings can cost you the promo outright, even with a Top 4 finish. Diversifying your Legend choices from the field isn't just a deckbuilding decision anymore - it's a direct lever on whether you walk away with a serialized card.

The four teased alt-arts are real cards now

Back in the Edgerunner Open Regionals post, WeirdCo's stream had shown off alt-art pieces for Dexter DeShawn: Off the Grid, V: Streetkid, Muamar Reyes: El Capitán and Judy Alvarez: Braindance Maestro - and as of 12 September, none of the four had an Edgerunner Open S 1 printing in the database. They were "announced art, not yet catalogued product."

That's no longer true for any of them. I checked all four individually today, and every one now carries multiple Edgerunner Open S 1 printings - not one each, several:

Line those numbers up and the pattern is exact: #012 through #027 cycle Dexter, V, Muamar, Judy in that order, four times through - sixteen printings, four apiece. The previous post noted the set's collector numbers ran to 053 "with large gaps." Most of the block between 012 and 027 is no longer a gap.

Worth being precise about what this confirms and what it doesn't: it confirms the four cards exist as real, database-catalogued printings with real artists attached. It does not confirm which of the four variants per card is the specific "stamped" prize copy handed out at Top 64/32/16 - the prizing table names the card, not a printing number, and multiple art variants of the same card muddy which one a winner actually receives.

What is still missing

Being specific, because there's now enough published detail that it's easy to assume more is settled than actually is:

• The complete Tournament Rules. WeirdCo says they're coming "soon" - sideboarding, time limits, deck-check procedure and tiebreakers beyond match points are all still unpublished.
• Lucyna Kushinada as an actual card. Named as the Top 8 prize with no database entry anywhere in the 151-card pool.
• The Top 4 "additional premium prize." Named only as "to be announced."
• Which specific EOR printing number a stamped promo pulls from, now that each of the named cards has four variants.
• A full side-event schedule. WeirdCo confirms Chicago's Friday Last Chance play-in exists for players without a Main Event ticket, and that premier side events will offer further Black Sapphire invites and serialized playmats - but says the full schedule comes "a little closer to the events."
• Whether the Organized Play structure page and the Edgerunner Open Regionals blog post have been reconciled with this. As of the last check, the structure page still lagged the blog post; I did not re-verify it against today's /eor page, and readers should treat cyberpunktcg.com/eor as the current source for tickets and prizing specifically.

Quick Action Checklist

• Major Leagues is $75/€75 and is the only badge that includes Main Event entry. Streetkid gets you in the door and most of the same swag, but not a tournament seat.
• If you're not a backer, your dates are 30 September (Chicago Wave 1) or 11 November (Warsaw's only general wave). The backer lottery already closed on 20 September.
• Rethink running the exact same three Legends as the players you expect to finish above you. The Encrypted Legends algorithm can leave a Top 4 finisher with zero serialized promos if everyone above them claimed all three first.
• Don't assume a "stamped" promo is a specific art variant. Four of the named prize cards now carry four different Edgerunner Open S 1 printings each; WeirdCo hasn't said which one ships as the prize copy.
• A 2,048-cap Chicago and a 1,536-cap Warsaw are hard numbers, not round estimates - they're built directly from the published wave allocations, which sum exactly to each cap.