The 39 Best & Coolest Riftbound Cards

Riftbound is Riot’s League of Legends TCG, and the thing that makes it fun to collect is that champions get several separate illustrations rather than one. The showcase printings are the ones marked Signature, Alternate Art, Overnumbered or Ultimate on the card.

Here’s our running list of the best and coolest Riftbound cards, sorted by champion!

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Baron Nashor

Baron Nashor is the neutral monster that sits in the middle of every League map and decides late games, so he’s the rare non-champion who gets a whole section to himself, with three treatments of the same monster.

The Ultimate is the one everyone wants, and it’s the hardest card in Unleashed to pull. The alternate art and base printing get you the art without that.

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Baron Nashor Riftbound Cards

Ahri

Ahri is the closest thing Riftbound has to a Charizard. She’s been one of League’s most recognizable champions since 2011, and she has the deepest run of any champion here: a Signature in Origins, a second Signature in Spiritforged, an Origins alternate art, and a Vendetta printing. If you’re building a single-champion run rather than chasing one card, she’s the one with the most to chase.

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Best Ahri Riftbound Cards

Darius

Darius is Noxus’s executioner, and his cards lean harder into armor and weight than anyone else’s here. He’s a champion designed around a single axe swing, drawn by people who clearly enjoyed the brief. He’s also the one champion who didn’t get a Signature in Origins. His arrived a set later in Spiritforged as Darius, Executioner, which is why that’s the card listed first.

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Darius Riftbound Cards

Lee Sin

Lee Sin is the blind monk who fights by sound, which gives illustrators an unusual brief: a champion whose whole identity is stillness and then sudden movement. Origins gave him three separate cards to work with, including the Blind Monk Signature plus alternate arts of Lee Sin, Centered and Lee Sin, Ascetic that split the difference between meditation and combat. Dragon’s Rage is his signature kick in card form, and it’s the one non-champion card in this section.

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Lee Sin Riftbound Cards

Leona

Leona is the Radiant Dawn, a Solari sun warrior whose whole kit is built on blinding light, and that makes her Signature one of the most legible cards in Origins from across a room. The Zealot alternate art leans into the religious-order side of her lore rather than the sunburst. If you like gold heavy cards, this is the champion to go after.

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Leona Riftbound Cards

Miss Fortune

Miss Fortune is Bilgewater’s bounty hunter captain, and her cards are the ones that carry the pirate port setting rather than a solo portrait, with ships, docks, and the whole color palette of the harbor. Origins gave her a Bounty Hunter Signature plus both an alternate art and a base printing of Miss Fortune, Captain, so you can get the same card three ways.

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Miss Fortune Riftbound Cards

Sett

Sett runs the fighting pits of Ionia, a half Vastayan brawler who became a crime boss, and the two names he carries across his cards track that arc directly. The Boss is his Origins Signature. Brawler is the earlier, scrappier version, and it shows up as both a Spiritforged Signature and an Origins alternate art. Collecting the pair gets you the before and after in one page of a binder.

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Sett Riftbound Cards

Teemo

Teemo has more cards here than any other champion, which will surprise nobody who has played League. The yordle scout picked up two Signatures and two separate Origins illustrations, but the one collectors actually talk about is the Organized Play promo with “GG EZ” printed on it. It’s a card that exists purely to be insufferable, handed out at events rather than sold in packs.

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Coolest Teemo Riftbound Cards

Volibear

Volibear is the Relentless Storm, a Freljordian demi-god worshipped as thunder itself, and his Origins Signature is the one card here where the weather is doing as much work as the champion. The storm takes up more of the frame than the bear does.

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Volibear Riftbound Cards

Jinx

Jinx got a second life with Arcane, and her Riftbound cards arrived into an audience that already knew her from the show rather than the game. The Origins Signature is the anchor, but the Vendetta Overnumbered card as Jinx, Demolitionist is the one that fits her better. Vendetta is the rivalry set, and Jinx blowing something up is the natural read. The Rebel promo rounds out the run.

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Jinx Riftbound Cards

Viktor

Viktor is Zaun’s Herald of the Arcane, the machine herald who replaced his own body piece by piece, and Arcane gave him the same profile boost Jinx got. His Origins Signature carries the full title, and the Leader promo is the shorter-name variant from the promotional set. Between the two you get both sides of him: the ideologue and the figurehead.

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Viktor Riftbound Cards

Kai’Sa

Kai’Sa is the Daughter of the Void, a girl who survived the Void as a child and now wears a living symbiote as armor, and the Void’s color palette is what makes her cards stand out on a page of Origins. Her Vendetta printing as Kai’Sa, Survivor is the cheaper way into the character.

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Kai'Sa Riftbound Cards

Connecting Arts (Vendetta)

Vendetta’s whole premise is rivalry, and its Connecting Art cards are built to be collected in pairs. Each half is one side of a diptych, and lining the two up continues the illustration across the seam. It’s the coolest idea in Riftbound so far, because a single half is an incomplete object in a way a normal card isn’t.

Zed & Shen

Zed and Shen are the rivalry Vendetta was built for: two students of the same Kinkou order who split over whether the balance was worth protecting, and the reason Shen’s father is dead. Zed, From the Shadows and Shen, Scourge of Shadows are both Overnumbered, and the shared “shadows” in the names is doing deliberate work.

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Zed & Shen Connecting Art Riftbound Cards

Riven & Draven

Riven and Draven put an exile against a showman: a Noxian soldier who broke her own sword and walked away from the empire, against the axe-throwing celebrity who never questioned it. Riven, Shattered and Draven, Showboat are both Overnumbered, and the names tell you which half you’re looking at before you see the art.

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Riven & Draven Riftbound Cards

How Riftbound Rarities Work

Overnumbered cards carry a collector number above the set’s base count, which is the signal that you’re holding a showcase printing rather than the standard one. In Unleashed the base set runs to 219, so Baron Nashor at 238/219 is an overnumber.

Signature cards are overnumbered printings with the illustrator’s signature printed into the art, and they’re the deepest chase tier in the game. Most of the cards on this list are Signatures.

Alternate Art is a separate illustration of the same card, marked with a letter after the number.

Ultimate is the newest tier, introduced in Unleashed, and it’s the scarcest thing in the game per card. There’s very little of it, and almost all of it is Baron Nashor.

Which Riftbound chase card are you going after first? Let us know in the comments!

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