​

Save to say, I heard Boss music playing when he pulled out that Baron.

Today was my first ever pre-rift and I was pretty excited to open some packs and play. I thought I had an okay understanding of the game, like I did research and knew all the rules, basic interactions, how to play etc

There was ~35 people, and I was the only one without a mat or deckbox and I kinda expected to get rolled but there wasn't a single other brand new player there

Everyone just had so much knowledge about the entire set already and the best cards and combos and idk, its understandable since you win rewards but yeahh was kinda rough, I obviously lost every game and went last

I think I just hyped it up alot and when I got there it was pretty oveewhelming and cliquey already so im venting.. I pulled lulu in my last pack and shes my favourite champ so that made me happy!

None of my friends play and I was hoping this would be a good opportunity to find some people but I kinda failed at it, any recommendations to get better maybe online before going again, its hard to watch regional videos because I can't read the abilities xd

(PS not mine) it came from a Chinese pree release, I think this is the first time we’ve seen the physical card and it’s stunning 🤩

See https://riftbound.org/products/radiance-showdown-decks

What do you think of Seraphine and Evelynn here? Is this product worth picking up for the two decks? Is it a good starter deck or addition to your collection?

MSRP is $35. Will launch on October 23rd

I want to look for someone with more artistic skills to do this better, because I don’t have these skills.

Just got back from an early PreRift here in Eastern Europe. We have a competitive store with numerous prize wall farmers so I think our experiences will be generally true at your store too. Wanted to share and start discussion:

Tier 1
* K’Sante
* Jarvan IV

K’Sante was the only 4-0s and numerous 3-1s - this surprised us a bit. He could consistently make huge attacks with big Shield numbers. Like how Tools of the Empire in VEN made it impossible to hold, KSante + Ntofo can break most holds and then be a brick house on defense. Armored Tusker is turbo S-tier.

Jarvan was next and a bit easier to predict - movement good. Skystrike Squadron is a workhorse, able to bounce your Deploys and bounce around while being a 5 might deflect on defense.

Tier 2
* Mordekaiser
* Riven

Red Morde is a game changer on his own. As long as you aren’t way behind, he can grind out games by trading off Recruits for extra lives of Morde. You can play more big guys and power costs, which is generally good in Limited play

Riven is quite good, but without her Ganking blade the ability is a little less oppressive. She has good tricks and probably the highest skill cap of these top decks. Can draw lots of cards but struggles with the tempo of the top 2.

Tier 3
* the rest of them

The kits seem pretty well balanced. Very dependent on what rares / epics you open. You could also skip the legend and just draw extra cards in this tier.

Good Luck
* Orianna

Just doesn’t have the tools to compete, I think you would need to open The Ball. Even then, just play legend-less good stuff

——————-

Our general impression was units were lacking, it was hard to build a solid reliable curve. Many colors lack cheap interaction so play anything you can find at 1-2 cost that does anything. Lots of slow spells - anything Action or Reaction speed felt super premium. Hidden cards, especially Elnuk Herd and Momentary Companion were especially powerful.

How was your PreRift? Did it match this summary?

Seraphine is terrible. If you get her deck, kick out the Legend and the Champion. If you can pull a Heimerdinger card, perhaps you can cannibalize the deck parts and make a Mech strategy out of it. I stream on Twitch and I tried very hard to make the Seraphine pre-rift deck work on my last two streams. It was better when I stopped trying to carry her. twitch.tv/beforedawn_

Here I will explain some interactions, along with a combat trick + removal guide at the end. It is so much worse to have your units die during your own backfired attack compared to your units dying when your opponent swings into you, so this will help you assess how risky an attack might be.

• "Invigorating Bloom" and "Raving Witness" reward you for being Mighty, but it's a trap. There are a lot less Units with 5-Might in this set compared to past ones. A lot of mechanics in this set revolve around powering up 4-Might Units.
• Red/Purple decks making Bomb tokens punishes 2-Might Units. Green/Orange strategy in this set is "artificially strong" with low Might scores and strong Shields. (e.g. Staunch Survivor, Stalwart Goatheard, Stoic Ferryman)
• Green/Orange is also weak to burn damage because their Shields don't work outside of combat. Scorched Earth and Parallel Convergence are common cards that can easily kill would-be invincible holders or help blowing up battlefields booby-trapped with Hidden cards. (e.g. both KSante, Armored Tusker, Graves, Ekko Revolutionist, Ziggs Explosive)
• Avalanche is a strong Orange Uncommon that hits everything in the base for 3 damage. Be careful of keeping too many low-Might units in base vs. Orange.
• The new Disarm ability plays very similar to Assault but Disarm is a lot more flexible. Nerfing the enemy Unit is a lot more difficult for the opponent to play around and has more breathing room when cracking into a difficult board. When faced with the decision to include a Disarm or Assault ability, pick Disarm.
• Beware of the Purple card Siren's Song which can move your Units and Satchel Charge or Demon Shade which can move their own. Take this into consideration whether to move into or away from one Battlefield when you are planning to attack the second one later.
• There are a lot less efficient combat tricks in this set compared to previous sets. This set really encourages snowballing successful holds and challenges you to break into holds. Keep an eye out for Green holding up 1 or 2, Purple holding up 2, Yellow or Orange holding up 3.
• Purple has the most facedown cards (it is usually a vanilla Unit with 3 or 4 might). Orange has one Hidden card that can give +3. (Good counterplay to those burn cards.)
• Blue can shoot for 5 damage. Red can do 4 or 5 at Action Speed. Yellow can banish 3-Might Units.

RED:

Lost to the Sands (3p) -- 4 damage to a unit at BF
Scorched Earth (4p) -- 5 damage spread across units
-- comes with all three Red decks

ORANGE:

Elnuk Herd (HIDDEN) -- +3 Might
-- comes with K'Sante, Evelynn deck
Hold Em (3) -- +3 Might, potentially playable for 1, more likely to happen with Jarvan Martial Paragon
-- comes with all three Orange decks
Evelynn Consuming (5p) -- +5 Might, potentially +6 (epic card)

PURPLE:

Momentary Companion (HIDDEN) -- +4 Might
-- comes with Evelynn deck
Gurrier Guardian (HIDDEN) -- +3 Might
-- comes with Evelynn deck
Bedeviling Stranger (HIDDEN) -- +2 Might, bounces a Unit if there are 4 at the BF (rare card)
Demon Shade (HIDDEN) -- moves friendly unit
-- comes with Evelynn deck
Siren's Song (2) -- moves enemy attacking unit
-- comes with Evelynn deck
Satchel Charge (3p) -- moves friendly unit
-- comes with Ziggs deck

YELLOW:

Protector's Shield (2) -- +1 and Tank
-- comes with Jarvan deck
One-Two Punch (3) -- Buff and Stun
-- comes with Jarvan deck
For Demacia (3) -- +2 Shield on all Units
-- comes with Jarvan deck

GREEN:

Consult the Heavens (1) -- +2 Shield
-- comes with all three Green decks
Ki Burst (1 + self-exhaust) -- Stun
-- comes with Riven deck
Battle Preparations (2) -- +2 Might
-- comes with K'Sante deck

BLUE:

High Note (3) -- minus might for each exhausted unit
-- comes with Seraphine deck
Improvised Projectile (3p) -- variable damage (not consistent)
-- comes with Orianna deck

GREEN/ORANGE:

Ntofo Strikes (2) -- +2 Shield, 2 or more damage (epic card)

I was thinking about the upcoming updates and wanted to get your thoughts on K'Sante.

Do you think he’s going to be strong in the new meta? Do you feel he has the potential to be on par with champions like Master Yi in terms of power and overall impact?

Curious to hear what you guys think!

See if you can solve it. I'm really proud of this puzzle. I think you will see this interaction come up quite a few times for any aspiring Riven players.

K'sante is Holding to 8 next turn. He has a HUGE board. Break his board!

Scenario:

You held to 7

Heron with Blade of Exile attached on Hunter's Circle

Enemy holding

Fortified Position:

Mutated Mouser 5M on D with Nazuman Ntofo Attached (3 Shield)

Stalwart Poro 3M on D (1 Shield)

K'Sante Orange 6M on D

Lonely 2m on D

Astral Heron 9M

Green K'sante 5M

Green K'sante with Nazuman Ntofo Attached 7M

Mutated Mouser goes to 25M on D with 2 Green K'sante
13M on D if 1 Green K'sante

I have a video that shows the answer. Note there are 2 possible solves (My lazyness got the best of me)
https://www.instagram.com/p/DekG_fqCxUQ/

hi all! i’m going to my first prerift this weekend and i’m nervous… i’m not the best at deck building, are there any tips that would help? also, how do the kits work? are we allowed to pick a legend or are they just random? i’ve never played a game on my own or built a deck, but my lgs keeps telling me the prerifts are a good place to start! any and all tips would be helpful if you guys have any 😭

I'd love some insight on what I'm working on for this ekko deck, I'm calling it, Fast as Fuck Boi lol

Hey everyone ! Just wanted to share my ( first \o/ ) Riftbound video on this Jinx deck ! I just love playing low tier decks and this one is maybe my favorite so far. It’s not about winning, it’s about having fun !
I think radiance brings some interesting new cards, such as the new BF that gives you another discard trigger and Ekko that actually won me some games !
This list was highly inspired by a list I found month ago on Piltover, I don’t remember the name of the player, but cheers to them !
The video is in French, but the cards speaks for themselves !
Hope you enjoy !
https://youtu.be/yWlhzO9j_8w?is=XZ5u1P2Ez0tKF-bK

During my pre-rift event, I had different people tell me different things regarding deploy. In the rules, it says deploy is redundant. I understand multiple gears with the same name wouldn't stack. You can deploy multiple bombs to a battlefield without issue but can you put different deploy gears on the same battlefield?

Just looking for some clarification in the rules text if someone has it.

Hey everyone!

I’ve been playing Riftbound for just a few days and I’m already having a blast! I even went to my first Nexus Night, where I managed to win one Bo3 with a borrowed Shen deck :)

I’m planning to attend the Radiance prerelease and was wondering what I should bring with me.
Do I need to buy anything beforehand, like rune cards, or will everything I need be provided at the event?
Any tips for a complete beginner going to their first prerelease would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks! :)

8 Randomized Bingo Cards for Radiance Pre-Release Event.

The Riot one on twitter/X disappointed me, so I made my own!

Here’s link to play Online/edit/whatver

https://bingobaker.com/view/10992548

Hey for context this my first TCG. I used to play MTG arena and runnetera ( Nicol Bolas planeswalker deck and karma ezreal deck). Which both are control / control combo decks.
I was wandering if there’s any control decks like those two in this game.. or if it’s just pack ezreal ( which I’m playing now).
Also is there even environment for these types of decks?
Or is it just too early and there aren’t enough legends yet
What do you think?

Ive seen a couple of them on riftatlas recently doing the runeblade anvil shenanigans. I looked it up on YouTube and it seems to have some small hype. It doesn’t seem as oppressive as other miracle decks in the past like Kennan and Draven. But tbf i seldom played into them at locals anyways so that also may be untrue. I was wondering what yalls thoughts were on it?

Hey guys,

I played a little bit online when spiritforge came out, I played with Jax and Lucian mainly. It’s my first TCG I’ve played and I haven’t played in person.

Just dipped my toe back in on RiftAtlas and the decks on there seem wild now, felt like the game as advanced a lot and already being new to TCGs I’ve fallen behind a bit

Wanting to get back into it and looking for simple decks to pilot, like I said I mainly played Jax before they changed the re-equip stuff and Lucian, I played a small amount of Darius too but last I heard they changed how legion works too.

Appreciate any feedback guys! Thanks and good luck on pulls.

if i play tideturner and swap with a unit that has a move trigger does the move effect happen ?

Happy Radiance Pre-Rift everyone!!!

Im wondering if anyone draws and creates custom playmats. I know it’d be more expensive but I lowk want something more personal with actual artistic flair (in other words I don’t want generic ai slop)

I’m aware this would be more expensive but any suggestions would be nice ^^