Riftbound Radiance Legends Revealed, by Domain Pair

When Riot's Radiance Overview went up on 25 September, several of Radiance's nine Legend cards were still unseen. Riot had printed Ekko's in its August set lineup, and the Overview added Orianna, Lady of Clockwork, tucked into its section on Equipment Units. Over the following two weeks the rest arrived, and by 14 October Riot's Card Gallery held all nine, ending with Riven's Legend, The Exile.

That answers the question our domains guide left open in August: would Radiance put a second Legend on any of the three rival pairs Vendetta opened? Nine cards in, no. What Radiance does instead is quieter and more useful if you are choosing a pairing. Six of its nine Legends land on the six non-rival pairings Vendetta skipped, so no non-rival row of the Legend grid is left at three.

We first published this on 2 October, mid-preview, with eight of the nine Legends shown, and updated it on 10 October and again on 1 November once the gallery was complete. The 10 October update added Riot's 9 October rulings and errata for Neeko and the new numbers for the rules cited here. For Radiance's three new keywords - Deploy, Show Off and Disarm - and the Bomb token, see our Radiance mechanics breakdown, and for the reveal calendar itself, the preview season schedule.

How the Legends were revealed

Riot had named seven of the nine Legends by 25 September, and on 12 October its Pre-Rift announcement named Riven among the nine Legends seeded in Pre-Rift packs:

• 3 August, Products and Sets into 2027: Seraphine, Ziggs, Jarvan IV, Ekko and Evelynn, "And four more friends!" The same article printed Ekko's Legend card, Boy Who Shattered Time, in full.
• 25 September, The Radiance Overview: Orianna, via the line "With Orianna's Legend effect, equipment can now become Units as well," with her Legend card printed beside it.
• 25 September, Riot's Radiance press release: K'Sante, as "the newly revealed K'Sante, Pride of Nazumah."

Since then the Legend cards have arrived through three routes:

• Riot's Card Gallery. Riot updated it every day at 5pm PT during previews with the previous day's reveals. On 2 October it listed six base Legend cards: Ekko, Ziggs, Orianna, K'Sante, Seraphine and Jarvan IV. When we checked on 1 November it holds all nine, plus every Overnumber, and the base numbers 1 to 167 are complete.
• IGN, 1 October. IGN's exclusive showed Mordekaiser's Legend, Iron Revenant, numbered RAD 143/167, plus an Overnumber at 170/167, and described him as "a legend of Fury (red) and Order (yellow)." Both are now in the gallery.
• Evelynn, 1 October. Her Overnumber Legend surfaced first as a Chinese printing, numbered RAD 175/167, with Body and Chaos domain symbols and the title 痛苦之拥. Riot's own daily reveals video on X showed the English printing that evening: Agony's Embrace, the title Evelynn carries in League. The gallery now holds both her Overnumber and her base Legend card, Agony's Embrace at RAD 153/167.

Riven was the last to land. As of 2 October there was only Blade of the Exile, a Signature gear tagged Riven, and Riftbound Report - one of Riot's named reveal partners - was already listing Riven among the nine on 28 September. The gallery now lists her Legend as The Exile, RAD 149/167, a Rare Calm and Chaos Legend tagged Riven, with its Overnumber at RAD 173/167.

The nine slots at a glance

Riot numbered Unleashed's and Vendetta's Legends in one block, each followed by its own Signature card, and Radiance follows the same layout. Here is Radiance's block:

Every row is a card printed in Riot's Card Gallery. The Overnumber block runs one block later, from Ekko at 168 to Jarvan IV at 176, with Riven's The Exile at 173.

Riven, The Exile

In Unleashed and Vendetta, every Legend sits on an odd collector number with its own Signature card on the next number up. Vendetta runs from Akali at VEN 139, with her Signature Shuriken Flip at 140, to Kennen at 155, with Lightning Rush at 156. Radiance follows that layout for all nine Legend-and-Signature pairs: Ekko at 139 and 140, Ziggs at 141 and 142, Mordekaiser at 143 and 144, Orianna at 145 and 146, K'Sante at 147 and 148, Riven at 149 and 150, Seraphine at 151 and 152, Evelynn at 153 and 154, Jarvan IV at 155 and 156.

The Overnumbered Legends run in the same order one block later: Ekko at 168, Ziggs at 169, Mordekaiser at 170, Orianna at 171, K'Sante at 172, Riven at 173, Seraphine at 174, Evelynn at 175 and Jarvan IV at 176.

Slot 149 was the last hole in that block, and for a while it was an inference. Card 150, Blade of the Exile, is a Riven Signature gear on Calm and Chaos, and under Core Rule 103.2.d.2 (renumbered 103.3.d.2, with the same wording, in Riot's 9 October Core Rules, which took effect on 16 October) every Signature card in a deck "must have the Champion tag that corresponds to the Champion Legend of the deck," so a Riven Signature needed a Riven Legend. Riot's Card Gallery now confirms it: RAD 149/167 is The Exile, a Rare Legend on Calm and Chaos, tagged Riven, with the text "Units you play to battlefields you control enter ready." Riot's 12 October Pre-Rift announcement also names Riven among the nine seeded Legends. Her Legend rewards the movement game plan: units played to battlefields you control come in ready to act.

No rival pairs, and no thin rows

Riftbound has six domains and fifteen possible two-domain pairings. Three of them pair a domain with its opposite - Fury and Calm, Mind and Body, Chaos and Order - and Vendetta printed the first Legend on each: Akali, Jayce and Kennen.

Radiance adds nothing to those three. All nine Legend cards are on non-rival pairings, Riven's The Exile on Calm and Chaos included, so the rival rows stay one Legend deep through Radiance.

What Radiance does instead is fill in the grid. Vendetta's six non-rival Legends went on Fury and Body, Fury and Chaos, Calm and Mind, Calm and Order, Mind and Chaos, and Body and Order. Six of Radiance's nine go on exactly the six non-rival pairings Vendetta left out, Riven's among them. Counting main-set Legends from Origins onward, and leaving out the four Proving Grounds starters as the domains guide does:

The through-Vendetta column matches the grid in the domains guide, and I re-counted it against Riot's gallery rather than trusting it. Before Radiance, six non-rival pairings had three main-set Legends and six had four. After it, all twelve have at least four, and three of them - Fury and Chaos, Calm and Mind, Body and Order - have five. If you had been passing on a pairing because it offered only three Legends to choose from, Radiance is the set that evens that out.

What the revealed Legend cards do

Card text below is quoted from Riot's Card Gallery unless it says otherwise. Where a cost uses the rainbow rune symbol, I write it as "1 Power of any domain."

Ekko, Boy Who Shattered Time (Fury + Mind). An Empower Legend. Empowering him costs 1 Energy and exhausting him, and only works if he is not already Empowered. Once he is, you can disempower and exhaust him to make the next unit you play that turn cost 2 Energy and 1 Power of any domain less, and give it "Kill me at end of turn." Both abilities exhaust him, so on his own he charges on one turn and pays out on a later one; the keyword glossary covers how Empower works. His Signature, Chronobreak (2 Energy), takes any amount of Power as an additional cost, banishes that many units you control, and then has each owner play those units back "to the same location or to their base, ignoring its cost." The gallery holds two Radiance Ekko champion units. Ekko, Ingenious is 3 Energy, 4 Might, Mind, with Ganking and an additional cost of returning a friendly unit to its owner's hand; the other is a 5-Energy Fury Ekko that enters ready, has Assault, and can banish itself to replay itself to your base for free.

Ziggs, Hexplosives Expert (Fury + Chaos). The Legend is a Bomb factory: pay 1 Energy and 1 Power of any domain and exhaust him to "Play a Bomb gear token to a battlefield." Bombs carry Deploy and a Deathknell that deals 2 to an enemy there and kills your other Bombs there, which is the chain reaction our mechanics post walks through. His Signature, Hexplosive Minefield (2 Energy, 1 Power, Action), kills any number of your Bomb tokens and, at end of turn, plays that many new Bomb tokens to a single battlefield. His champion unit, Ziggs, Short-Fused (5 Energy, 1 Power, 5 Might, Fury), plays a Bomb when he enters, and "Abilities of friendly gear deal 1 Bonus Damage." Seven Radiance cards in the gallery make Bombs, and three of them are not Ziggs cards at all: Amateur Demolitionist, Explosimian and Satchel Charge.

Mordekaiser, Iron Revenant (Fury + Order). Text from Riot's Card Gallery, matching IGN's 1 October card image: "Reaction - Banish a unit or gear from your trash, exhaust: Add [1 Power of any domain]. Spend this Power only to play units or gear. (Abilities that add resources can't be reacted to.)" That last line is a rule our chain and focus guide covers - resource-adding abilities resolve immediately, with no window to respond - printed on the card as a reminder. The gallery also holds his Signature spell, Realm of Death, and his champion unit, Mordekaiser, Dominating: 9 Energy, 2 Power, 8 Might, Order, and "When you play me or when I attack, you may discard 1 to kill a unit or gear."

Orianna, Lady of Clockwork (Calm + Mind). The Equipment Units Legend, covered in full in our mechanics post. New since then is her champion unit, Orianna, Mechanical Marvel: 5 Energy, 5 Might, Mind, and "Once each turn, while I'm at a battlefield, you may pay [1 Energy and 1 Power of any domain] less to play a gear."

K'Sante, Pride of Nazumah (Calm + Body). Pay 1 Energy and exhaust him to give a friendly unit "I have Assault equal to my Shield" this turn. Shield adds Might only while a unit is defending, so the Legend turns a defensive number into an attacking one. All four K'Sante cards in the gallery read Shield. The Signature, Ntofo Strikes (2 Energy, 1 Power, Action), gives a friendly unit Shield 2 this turn and then deals damage equal to its Shield to an enemy unit. K'Sante, Dauntless (Calm, 4 Energy, 1 Power, 4 Might) has Shield and, when he attacks or defends, doubles the Shield of a unit you control there. K'Sante, Courageous (Body, 5 Energy, 4 Might) has Accelerate and Shield 2, and channels a rune when he holds.

Seraphine, Starry-Eyed Songstress (Mind + Order). "As an additional cost to play a spell, you may exhaust me and three friendly units to reduce the cost of that spell by 2." The reduction is 2 Energy. Her champion unit, Seraphine, Not Alone (5 Energy, 1 Power, 1 Might, Order), plays a 1-Might Recruit token to your base when you play her or when she becomes exhausted, and has +1 Might for each other exhausted unit you control, so the three units her Legend exhausts are exactly what Not Alone counts. Her Signature spell, Encore (RAD 152, 3 Energy), is in the gallery: choose two of deal 2 to a unit, play two 1-Might Recruit tokens, give up to two units +1 Might this turn, or look at the top 2 cards of your Main Deck, draw 1 and recycle the other. She leads one of the two Showdown Decks, per Riot's Overview.

Evelynn, Agony's Embrace (Body + Chaos). Card text from Riot's Card Gallery (RAD 153), matching the English Overnumber in Riot's 1 October reveals video on X: "Once each turn, when you play a card from face down, draw 1. Then, if it's not your turn, discard 1." The Chinese printing carries the same text, and her Signature spell is Last Caress (RAD 154). Playing a card from face down is how Hidden cards get played - our keyword glossary has the full Hidden rules. Her Radiance champion unit is in the gallery in English: Evelynn, Consuming (5 Energy, 1 Power, 5 Might, Body), with Ambush and "When you play a card from face down, ready me and give me +1 Might this turn." Other Radiance cards in the gallery carry Hidden, among them the units Elnuk Herd, Momentary Companion, Gutter Guardian and Bedeviling Stranger.

Jarvan IV, Exemplar of Demacia (Body + Order). "When you play a gear with Deploy, you may exhaust me and pay [1 Power of any domain] to move a friendly unit to that battlefield." Deploy gear can only be played to a battlefield and dies when an opponent holds there, so the Legend's job is to get a body standing next to it. His Signature, Demacian Standard (2 Energy, 1 Power), is Deploy gear itself: when one or more friendly units attack there, one of them gets +2 Might this turn, and when you hold there you may return it to its owner's hand. Deploy is printed on gear and units across the set, Demacian Standard included. Bomb tokens carry it as well; whether playing a token counts as playing a gear for his trigger is a question for Riot's rules documents. The gallery holds two Jarvan IV champion units: a Body unit that gives your Deploy gear Action, and a 7-Energy Order unit with Assault and Tank that can move a unit you control to its battlefield when it attacks.

Riven, The Exile (Calm + Chaos). "Units you play to battlefields you control enter ready." It is a Rare, RAD 149/167, with an Overnumber at RAD 173/167. Her Signature is Blade of the Exile (RAD 150), 3 Energy and 1 Power, its Power symbol split between Calm green and Chaos purple. It is Equipment with "Equip - [1 Power of any domain] or exhaust a friendly unit," and the card face gives the equipped unit Ganking and +3 Might.

Neeko, the champion with no domain

Card 167, the last numbered card in the base set, is the strangest thing Radiance has shown. Neeko, Blending In is a 6-Energy, 1-Power, 4-Might Champion Unit with no domain at all. Of the 1,273 entries in Riot's gallery across every set on 2 October, she is the only one without a domain that is not a battlefield, rune or token. Her text, in full:

(Neutral cards can go in decks of any Domain.) If Neeko is in your deck, choose 3 different legends in addition to your starting legend. (Different means none match names.) When you play me, choose one of those legends and add it to your Legend Zone while I'm on the board.

That is the printed text. Riot's Radiance errata of 9 October changes the second line to "choose up to 3 different legends."

The first line is reminder text, and it settles the obvious question: she fits in any Domain Identity. Riot's 9 October Core Rules, effective 16 October, also write it into rule 103.2.b.5: a card with no Domain "is permitted in decks of any Domain Identity." What she cannot be, in Constructed, is your Chosen Champion, because Core Rule 103.2.a.2 (103.3.a.2 from 16 October, same wording) requires "a champion unit with a champion tag that matches the tag on your Champion Legend," and no Legend card shown in any set so far carries the Neeko tag. So she is a Main Deck card that, for as long as she stays on the board, gives you a second Legend picked from the up-to-three you named while building the deck.

The card leaves a lot unsaid. Riot's Radiance patch notes, published on 9 October alongside new Core Rules and Tournament Rules that take effect on 16 October, answer most of it:

• You choose the extra Legends while building the deck, and one set of choices is shared by every Neeko in it. They must differ from each other and from your Champion Legend.
• At Competitive and Professional events, where the Tournament Rules require a registered decklist, the chosen Legends go on it, and Riot says you can store them with your sideboard. Tournament Rule 401.2.a in the 9 October edition adds that they can't be changed once the list is submitted.
• You can't add the same Legend to your Legend Zone twice. You don't have to reveal the chosen Legends to your opponent until they are added to your Legend Zone.
• The added Legend enters ready, so being exhausted won't stop you using an exhaust ability like Ziggs's or K'Sante's the turn Neeko lands.

The patch notes do not say whether the chosen Legends have to fit your Domain Identity or can be any Legends at all. Our Radiance rules update breakdown goes through the Neeko rulings and the errata in more detail.

On timing: Riot posted its Vendetta Core Rules patch notes alongside the 16 July Core Rules update, two weeks before Vendetta's 31 July release. Radiance's came the same way on 9 October, two weeks before its 23 October release. The new documents took effect on 16 October, replacing the 16 July Core Rules.

What happened after the previews

• 12 October: Riot's Pre-Rift announcement confirmed Pre-Rift events starting Friday 16 October, with a seeded pack for each of the nine Legends, Riven's included.
• 14 October: the gallery held all 167 base numbers, including the last Legend, Riven's The Exile.
• 16 October: Riot's 9 October Core Rules and Tournament Rules took effect.
• 23 October: release, in English, French and Chinese.

Quick reference

• The nine Legend cards: Ekko, Boy Who Shattered Time (Fury + Mind); Ziggs, Hexplosives Expert (Fury + Chaos); Mordekaiser, Iron Revenant (Fury + Order); Orianna, Lady of Clockwork (Calm + Mind); K'Sante, Pride of Nazumah (Calm + Body); Riven, The Exile (Calm + Chaos); Seraphine, Starry-Eyed Songstress (Mind + Order); Evelynn, Agony's Embrace (Body + Chaos); Jarvan IV, Exemplar of Demacia (Body + Order). All are in Riot's Card Gallery.
• Riven: The Exile, RAD 149/167 (Overnumber 173), a Rare Legend tagged Riven: "Units you play to battlefields you control enter ready." Her Signature is Blade of the Exile (150).
• Rival pairs: none in Radiance. Fury + Calm, Mind + Body and Chaos + Order each still have exactly one Legend.
• Grid effect: six of Radiance's nine Legends cover the six non-rival pairings Vendetta skipped. Every non-rival pairing ends Radiance with at least four main-set Legends.
• Signature cards: Chronobreak (Ekko), Hexplosive Minefield (Ziggs), Realm of Death (Mordekaiser), The Ball (Orianna), Ntofo Strikes (K'Sante), Blade of the Exile (Riven), Encore (Seraphine), Last Caress (Evelynn), Demacian Standard (Jarvan IV).
• Neeko, Blending In: a domainless Champion Unit that, while on the board, adds one of up to three Legends chosen while building the deck to your Legend Zone. Riot's 9 October errata changed the printed "choose 3" to "choose up to 3". The added Legend enters ready. In Constructed it cannot be your Chosen Champion.
• Release: 23 October 2026.