Riot Games has revealed new Legends and mechanics for Riftbound: Radiance, the final 2026 set for the Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game.
Radiance celebrates brilliance and creativity across Runeterra, with new mechanics that reward players for finding creative solutions and making big plays. The set features nine new Legends, including the newly revealed K’Sante, Pride of Nazumah.
What’s New
Radiance is a set about performance: playing at your best under the brightest lights with everything on the line. Riftbound’s fifth set rewards ingenuity, with new mechanics built around creative solutions to the challenges players face.
New keywords reward players for creativity, embracing brilliance, and making big plays when it matters most:
- Deploy gives gear the ability to be played directly to a battlefield, including ones you don’t control, and grants an effect there until an opponent holds that battlefield. Ziggs, Hexplosive Expert, deploys Bomb tokens that, when killed, damage enemy units and set off every other Bomb in a chain reaction.
- Show Off enables an additional effect when you reveal a qualifying card from your hand while you play a card. It makes an early splash at the cost of telegraphing a powerful card.
- Disarm reduces the Might of an enemy unit on the same battlefield when a unit with Disarm attacks. Multiple instances stack, and Kai’Sa, Rebel pairs Disarm with giving your spells Reaction during a showdown.
New Legends
Radiance brings a few new faces to Riftbound:
- Orianna, Lady of Clockwork animates gear into Units, overrunning opponents with an army of machines, epic treasures, and even Gold tokens.
- Ekko, The Boy Who Shattered Time bends the timeline to play expensive units early, at the cost of losing them at the end of the turn.
- Neeko is Riftbound’s first neutral domain Champion Unit. She can be played in any deck regardless of its domains.
The set introduces nine new legends in total, including the three listed above, as well as Evelynn, Ziggs, Jarvan IV, Seraphine, K’Sante, and one final unannounced champion. They will appear as Overnumbered variants, alongside Heartsteel Overnumbers and Special Alt Art cards.
The set’s Ultimate Rare, the second in Riftbound history, appears in fewer than 0.025% of packs.
Join Your Local Pre-Rift Events
Pre-Rift events will run from October 16-22 at participating game stores. Pre-Rift Kits include five Radiance boosters and a seeded Pre-Rift pack for each of the nine new Legends, and players who attend can pick up a Heimerdinger, Academy Instructor promo card while supplies last.
Previews run September 25 through October 9, while Radiance releases October 23 in English, French, and Simplified Chinese, the first set to launch in all three languages at once. Summoner Skirmish events begin November 9 and December 14.
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