Riot Games Reveals New Riftbound Spiritforged Cards and Details at PAX Unplugged

During their sheet astatine PAX Unplugged successful Philadelphia, Riot and UVS Games debuted Riftbound's 2nd set, Spiritforged. Hosted by Jimmy Wong and Riftbound Game Director Dave Guskin, the duo revealed a fistful of caller cards players tin usage successful the upcoming expansion, arsenic good arsenic a roadmap for caller Riftbound sets until the extremity of 2026 and an organized play schedule.

Spiritforged is scheduled to debut successful China connected December 12, with an English merchandise day of February 13, 2026.

The sheet started with Guskin detailing the past and making of Riftbound, past jumped consecutive into revealing the adjacent 12 Legend cards for the set, which you tin spot below.

Riftbound Spiritforged volition present caller crippled mechanics and keywords to connection deeper strategies and deckbuilding possibilities. Some of the caller cards volition diagnostic these caller mechanics:

• Equipment: Gear cards that tin beryllium attached to Units to springiness assorted benefits and abilities.
• Gold: A Gear token that allows you to assistance wage Power costs of cards.
• Quick-Draw: Equipment cards with this quality tin beryllium utilized arsenic a Reaction.
• Repeat: Allows immoderate cards' outgo to beryllium paid doubly for treble the effect.
• Weaponmaster: Upon coming into play, units with this keyword automatically connect Equipment successful play.

For you collectors retired there, Spiritforged is bringing backmost the alternate creation Overnumbered cards, this clip themed astir the Ionia Spirit Blossom. There volition beryllium 42 full peculiar variation cards, which volition see immoderate reprints of Origins Champions with caller art, specified arsenic Ahri Inquisitive. You tin propulsion these retired of regular booster packs.

They closed retired the PAX Unplugged sheet with a look into Riftbound's aboriginal aft Spiritforged launches successful aboriginal 2026. For now, they program to merchandise sets each quarter. The 3rd set, titled Riftbound: Unleashed, launches successful May 2026. Then Q3 2026 sees the motorboat of Vendetta, followed by a Q4 merchandise of Radiance. You tin spot the afloat roadmap below.

Riftbound's 2026 Release Roadmap

If you're much funny successful the competitory broadside of things, the panelists besides announced dates and locations for immoderate of the biggest Riftbound tournaments astir the satellite up until May 2026. The archetypal Regional Qualifier extracurricular of Japan takes spot successful Houston, TX this December, with events successful Paris, Bologna, Las Vegas, and much slated for the adjacent fewer months after.

Riftbound Regional Qualifier Schedule

Riftbound: Origins debuted extracurricular of China connected October 31. If you're funny astir wherever to commencement with buying to the game, we person you covered with a starter's buying guide, but beryllium alert that banal has been hard to travel by since release. If you're a superior collector looking to way prices and the hottest pursuit cards, we've breached down immoderate of the astir invaluable Origins cards connected the market, arsenic well.

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