Riftbound: The League of Legends TCG
Riot Games' League of Legends trading card game. Champions, runes and battlefields, deckbuilding, the 2026 set schedule (Spiritforged, Unleashed, Vendetta, Radiance), and competitive play.
September 2026
8 posts
Riftbound 2027 Organized Play: Regionals and Continentals
RQ Los Angeles was the final Regional Qualifier of 2026, and under Riot's 2027 plan the last event to carry that name. In 2027 the RQ becomes the Riftbound Regional, the Regional Championship becomes a once-per-set Continental with an open Day 1, and Summoner Skirmish is retired in favour of two new store programs. Here is the whole structure, the first three dated events, and what Riot has still not published.
Riftbound RQ Los Angeles Results and the Post-Ban Meta
RQ Los Angeles was the first Regional Qualifier played after Riot banned Stacked Deck to slow Kennen down. Riot's own table shows fewer players registering Kennen afterwards, not Kennen surviving Day 1 any worse - it converted to Day 2 at 38.2%, the best of any Legend with ten or more pilots, and still put nobody in the Top 8. Rengar won, undefeated.
Riftbound Radiance: Deploy, Show Off and Disarm Explained
Riot's 25 September Radiance Overview is the first time this vertical has had actual mechanics to report instead of a disclaimer. Three new keywords, a Legend who turns Gear into Units, a token that chain-detonates, and an Ultimate Rare Riot says is deliberately harder to pull than the last one.
Riftbound Radiance Preview Season: The Full Schedule
Riot quietly opened Radiance preview season on 18 September with a two-broadcast teaser, then published the real schedule: 115 confirmed creators, streamers and press outlets, each assigned a date between 25 September and 10 October to show off pieces of Set 5. Here is the full day-by-day list, plus the two official tools - the Card Gallery and the #RBRadiance hashtag - built to track all of it.
Riftbound Ban List Update: Ekko and Stacked Deck Banned
Riot published two new Standard and 2v2 bans on 15 September, effective 18 September: Ekko, Recurrent, for enabling an infinite combo in the Lux deck, and Stacked Deck, for overtuning the Kennen-led Chaos decks that topped the last two Regional Qualifiers. It is the third ban wave of the year, and the timing - a week before RQ Los Angeles, the same day Riftbound launches in Korea - is not an accident.
Riftbound RQ Los Angeles: Prizes, Schedule, Radiance Panel
Riot published the RQ Los Angeles details on 11 September. It is the final Regional Qualifier of the Vendetta season, 25-27 September at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and it carries two things worth planning around: the last Regional Qualifier route to a Regional Championship invite in 2026, and the panel that opens Radiance preview season.
Riftbound at PAX West 2026: Booth, Promo and Schedule
Riot published its PAX West plan on 28 August: Riftbound has a booth, a full weekend of programming, and a promo card you can only get one specific way. Booth 4221 runs Demos all four days, Pro-Play Games is running its own tournament slate elsewhere at the show, and only one of those hands out the Riven, Shattered card.
Riftbound Korea Launch Date and the Korean Standard Format
Riot announced on 2 September that Riftbound reaches South Korea on 18 September, starting from Origins while the rest of the world is five weeks from Radiance. The interesting part is not the date - it is that Korea gets its own constructed format, and a release schedule that has to fit seven sets into 2027 to catch up.
August 2026
11 posts
Riftbound Barcelona Meta: Who Actually Made Day 2
Riot published the full Legend breakdown from Regional Qualifier Barcelona - 2,130 players on Saturday, 379 on Sunday, 41 Legends, two columns of counts. Divide one column by the other and you get the number that actually says who showed up versus who survived, and the Legend that won the event is not near the top of it.
Riftbound Chains and Focus: The HOT FEPR Timing Rules
Riftbound's turn is always in one of four states, and the state - not the card - decides whether you are allowed to play anything. The Core Rules run the whole timing system on two separate permissions called priority and focus, a stack called the chain, and a five-step resolution loop the rulebook actually names in the text: HOT FEPR.
Riftbound Sealed and Draft: The Limited Format Rules
Riftbound Limited is not constructed on a budget - it switches off most of the deckbuilding rules you learned. Sealed hands you six packs and a 25-card minimum, Draft hands you three packs and a 20-card minimum, and both let you run ten copies of the same card, ignore Unique, and play cards that are banned in Standard.
Riftbound Domains Explained: All 6 Colors and Their Legends
Riftbound has six domains, and your Legend picks two of them for you. Here is what each color actually plays like - its strengths, its blind spots, its signature mechanics - plus the full grid of all 49 Legend cards by domain pairing, and the three rival pairings that did not exist until Vendetta.
Riftbound Tournament Rules Explained - What Actually Gets You a Game Loss
Riftbound has two rulebooks, and the one that decides tournaments is not the Core Rules. The Tournament Rules define three enforcement levels, a round-end procedure that hands out draws, a penalty ladder with hard upgrade thresholds, and - as of 24 July 2026 - a Disciplinary Code that can reach your Riot account.
Riftbound Vendetta Rules FAQ - The Rulings That Overrule the Rulebook
Riot published the Vendetta Rules FAQ on 14 August 2026, and it does something a FAQ is not supposed to do: it outranks the Core Rules Document. It also reverses a ruling Riot published in January, explains why Kayle can hold three copies of a status the rules call binary, and admits to a bug the Vendetta rules update introduced.
Riftbound Keywords Explained: All 25 in the Core Rules
Riftbound has exactly 25 keywords, and the reminder text printed on the card is a summary, not the rule. Here is the whole glossary sorted by what each keyword actually is - passive, triggered, activated, permissive, dependent, cost, or a deck-construction rule that never does anything at the table.
Riftbound Multiplayer Rules - How 2v2, Skirmish and War Actually Work
Riftbound has five sanctioned modes and almost everyone plays one of them. The team format is called Magma Chamber, it wants 11 points instead of 8, your partner cannot reinforce your battlefield, and it has a ban list of its own containing exactly one Legend that is legal everywhere else.
How to Play Riftbound — The League of Legends TCG Rules, Explained (2026)
Riftbound has no life total. You take objectives. Eight points ends it. Here is the whole rules set as Riot actually wrote it - runes, domains, battlefields, showdowns, deck construction, and the final-point rule that decides more games than any card does.
The Riftbound 2026 Set Schedule - Vendetta Just Landed, Radiance Is Next
Riftbound spent its first full year running two release calendars at once. Vendetta ended that on 31 July 2026. Here is the whole 2026 schedule, what each set actually added, why simultaneous English and Chinese release matters more than any card in the box, and what is worth buying two days after launch.
Riftbound Deckbuilding Basics - The Legal Rules, the Curve Math, and Fixing a Precon
A legal Riftbound deck is four separate stacks, and three of them are not the 40 cards you spent all your time on. Here is deck construction straight out of Riot's Core Rules and Tournament Rules, the rune math that decides your curve, the six mistakes new builders make, and how to upgrade a Showdown Deck without making it illegal.