Which Riftbound cards are foil?

Many cards of Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game are printed with a foil finish, a shiny layer over the card that catches the light. Whether a card is foil depends first of all on its rarity. In a booster pack the higher rarities are always foil, while the cards of the lower rarities are plain and turn up in foil now and then.

Where a card comes from matters too, since the starter box, the promo packs and a few collector products follow rules of their own. In a game, a foil card plays exactly like a plain copy of the same card.

Which Riftbound cards are always foil?

Every Rare and every Epic in a booster pack is foil. Riot Games said so in its post on the rarities of Origins, the first set, and added that the foil of each Rare and Epic is made to bring out the art of that card. On its store, Riot describes the booster packs of all five main sets, from Origins to Radiance, with its release on 23 October 2026, as holding two foil Rares or better.

The showcase printings, the cards with the gold hexagonal Showcase gem, are foil as well.

• Alternate art cards show a card with new artwork and a more detailed foil than the standard printing. The special cards numbered SP count as alternate art too.
• Overnumbered cards, numbered past the end of their set, add UV treatments and texture to the foil.
• Signed cards are overnumbered cards that also carry the signature of the artist in foil.
• Ultimate Rares are overnumbered printings too, and the rarest card a set can hold.

The five cards below are all foil. Loose Cannon, the Legend of Jinx, is a Rare, and Jinx, Rebel is an Epic. After them come the alternate art printing of Jinx, Rebel, the signed overnumbered printing of Loose Cannon and the Ultimate Rare of Unleashed, Baron Nashor.

Can Commons and Uncommons be foil?

Yes, but only in one slot of a pack. The seven Commons and three Uncommons in their own slots are plain. Every booster pack also has a foil slot, and Riot says that most of the time it holds a foil Common or Uncommon, while now and then it upgrades to a Rare or an Epic. For Origins, Riot said in its guide to the preview season that every card of the set has a foil version that can be pulled from a booster pack, and its overviews of Unleashed, Vendetta and Radiance list the same foil slot.

A foil Common is the same card as the plain one, with the same name, art and number, so the shine is the only difference. Since a pack holds seven plain Commons and a single foil slot, the foil copy of a given Common turns up far less often than the plain copy. Each of the four Commons below, one from each of the first four main sets, comes in both finishes: Pouty Poro from Origins, Sea Monkey from Spiritforged, Loyal Poro from Unleashed and Ol' Poro from Vendetta. Today a plain copy of Pouty Poro sells for $0.11 and a foil copy for $0.32.

How many foil cards are in a booster pack?

A booster pack of any main set holds at least three foil cards: the two cards in the rare slots and the card in the foil slot. In Radiance, the fifth set, with its release on 23 October 2026, only one of the two rare slots can hold a showcase printing, but both are still foil. For Origins, Riot added that the last slot, which holds a rune or a token, occasionally holds a foil rune, so a pack can hold four.

Riot has not published the pull rates of the foil slot, that is, how often it upgrades to a Rare or an Epic, or how often a rune is foil.

Are runes and tokens foil?

Basic runes are usually plain, apart from the occasional foil rune in a booster pack. The Gift of the Rift Bundle, with its release set for 4 December 2026, holds 36 basic runes in foil, six of each domain.

Riot's descriptions of the booster packs say nothing about foil tokens. Riot does list foil tokens among the contents of the Radiance Vault, a storage box with six Radiance booster packs. The Vault is one of the products of Radiance, with its release on 23 October 2026. The tokens of every set are on the tokens page.

Are the cards in Proving Grounds and the ready-made decks foil?

The 24 cards that belong to the Proving Grounds starter box itself, with the set code OGS, are plain. Before the box came out, Riot said that these cards have no foil version, unlike the cards of Origins. Players asked for more ways to get them, and in the Spiritforged season of Nexus Night, from February to May 2026, the sixteen Rares and Epics among them came as foil promo printings in the Nexus Night packs. The Master Yi Legend Wuju Bladesman is one of them: the copy from the box is plain, and the promo printing is foil.

Riot has not described the finish of the cards in the Champion Decks and the Showdown Decks.

Which promo and collector cards are foil?

The promo cards that players get in Nexus Night packs at weekly store events are foil printings. Riot gave the packs of the Spiritforged season foil versions of the Proving Grounds cards, and for the Unleashed season it said in its announcement of the Unleashed packs that the cards in the packs now carry its Nexus Night foil treatment. The chase card of those Unleashed packs was a new Lee Sin, Centered.

A few collector products are foil from the first card to the last. The Arcane Box Set, with a launch price of $69.99, sells for $528.12 today and holds foil printings of six Champion Legends: Jinx, Vi, Heimerdinger, Caitlyn, Viktor and Warwick. The T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition holds five champion units with new art, gold foiled, and one card in each set carries a serial number.

Does a foil card play differently from a plain one?

No. Neither the Core Rules nor the Tournament Rules of Riftbound mention foil at all, so a foil card is the same card as its plain copy in every game. A main deck may hold up to three copies of a card with the same name (Core Rules 103.3.b), and a foil copy and a plain copy count toward that limit alike. At events where players use sleeves, every card in a deck has to sit in identical sleeves, and no card may be recognizable from its back (Tournament Rules 422.2, 423.1 and 423.2).

Every card page on this site says whether the card comes in foil, plain or both, and shows the price of each finish apart. The collection counts foil and plain copies separately. Because the rarity of a card decides most of its finish, the rarity guide shows every gem with examples, and the article on the rarities of Riftbound cards explains what each gem means.