What are signed cards?

Some cards of Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game carry the signature of the artist who painted them. Each of these signed cards is a second version of an overnumbered card, the collector's printing with new artwork and a number past the end of its set. The signed card has the same artwork as the overnumbered one, with the artist's signature added in foil across it and a star after its number. Riot calls these printings Signature Overnumbers.

A signed card is made for collectors. It plays exactly like the standard card, but it turns up in a booster pack far less often than the overnumbered card it is based on.

How do you recognize a signed card?

The collector number in the bottom left corner gives a signed card away, because it has a star right after the number. The overnumbered printing of Loose Cannon, the Legend of Jinx, is OGN · 301/298, and the signed printing is OGN · 301*/298. The second sign is on the art itself, where the artist's signature runs across the illustration in foil. The signature is part of the printing, so every copy of a signed card carries the same one.

The signature belongs to the artist of the overnumbered artwork, who is usually not the artist of the standard card. Wuju Master, the Legend of Master Yi in Unleashed, shows how this works. The standard Wuju Master, 191/219, has art by Envar Studio. The overnumbered Wuju Master, 231/219, and the signed Wuju Master, 231*/219, share a painting by Shawn Lee, whose name is printed at the foot of the card and signed across the art. Like every overnumbered card, the signed card carries the hexagonal Showcase gem instead of the gem of its rarity.

Which cards have a signed printing?

Only overnumbered cards come signed, and not every overnumbered card does. The Proving Grounds starter box has no overnumbered cards, so it has no signed cards either. Each of the first four main sets has signed one group of its overnumbered cards, 45 cards in all.

• Origins signed all 12 of its overnumbered cards: its Legends, numbered 299* to 310*, among them the signed Loose Cannon.
• Spiritforged has 30 overnumbered cards and signed 12 of them, its champion units, such as Ahri, Inquisitive at 227*/221 and Vayne, Hunter at 223*/221. Its overnumbered Legends and Seal gear have no signed printing.
• Unleashed signed its 12 overnumbered Legends, numbered 226* to 237*. Its six overnumbered poro units and its Ultimate Rare, Baron Nashor, are not signed.
• Vendetta signed its nine overnumbered Legends, numbered 189* to 197*, such as Master of Shadows, the Legend of Zed. None of its 22 overnumbered champion units, drawn in pairs of rivals, is signed.
• Radiance, the fifth set, with its release on 23 October 2026, has an overnumbered printing of each of its nine Legends. Riot's overview of the set says that these can be found with an artist's signature as well, without saying which ones, and Riot will update it on 16 October 2026. One signed card has been shown already: Starry-Eyed Songstress, the Legend of Seraphine, in a Simplified Chinese printing numbered 174a*/167 and signed by BlackVIII, which RiftboundCN posted on 10 October 2026.

How rare is a signed card?

Riot has published the odds of signed cards for Origins only. In its article on collecting Origins, Riot put an overnumbered card at about one per three booster displays and said that roughly one overnumbered card in ten is a Signature Overnumber. A display holds 24 packs, so a signed Origins card turns up in about one pack in 720, which is about once in 30 displays.

The one in ten is a share of the cards that come out of the packs, not of the card list. Every overnumbered Legend of Origins has a signed printing, yet about nine in ten overnumbered Legends opened are unsigned. For Spiritforged, Unleashed and Vendetta, Riot has not published a rate for signed cards. Since those sets sign only part of their overnumbered cards, the Origins figure is no sure guide to them.

One particular signed card takes far longer to find than any signed card. The 12 signed cards of Origins share the one in 720 rate, so if all twelve are equally common, which Riot has not said, a particular one such as the signed Loose Cannon turns up about once in 8,640 packs, or 360 displays, as the article on how many packs it takes to find an overnumbered card works out. For comparison, Riot put the Ultimate Rare of Unleashed at fewer than one pack in 1,000 and the Ultimate Rare of Radiance at about one pack in 4,000.

What a printing is worth is decided by collectors, and every printing of a card has a price of its own. Today the standard Loose Cannon sells for $0.32, the overnumbered Loose Cannon for $150.70 and the signed Loose Cannon for $1,355.35.

A collector who wants one particular signed card does better to get the single card than to open packs for it. Single cards come from local game stores, from Cardmarket in Europe, from TCGplayer in the United States and from CardTrader on both sides of the Atlantic.

Can you play a signed card in a deck?

Yes. A signed card has the same name and text as the standard card, and the same cost and Might where the card has them. The Core Rules, which Riot publishes on its Rules Hub, say that the illustration of a card conveys no gameplay information (rule 139.1). A signed Legend leads a deck exactly like the standard one.

A signed card also counts as a copy of the card it reprints. A main deck may hold at most three copies of a card with the same name (rule 103.3.b), so a deck can play a standard Ahri, Inquisitive from Origins, the overnumbered Ahri, Inquisitive and the signed Ahri, Inquisitive from Spiritforged, but no fourth copy of that name in any printing. At a tournament the high number does not change a card's legality either. The Tournament Rules say that a reprint numbered outside the normal numbering of its set does not affect the format legality of the card (rule 601.2.c), so the signed Ahri, Inquisitive from Spiritforged is legal wherever the Origins Ahri, Inquisitive is.

A card that someone signs by hand after printing is a different thing: the Tournament Rules call any official card that has been modified an alter (rule 419.3). An alter may be played as long as the change does not hide the card's name, cost or Might or make the art unrecognizable (rule 419.4.a).

Which cards are easy to mix up with signed cards?

Two other things in Riftbound carry the word signature, and neither of them is a signed card.

• Signature cards are a kind of card, not a printing. They are the spells, gear and units with the Signature supertype that belong to one champion, such as Super Mega Death Rocket! for Jinx, and only a deck led by that champion's Legend may play them. No signature card has an overnumbered printing, and no signed card is a signature card. The type line, the number and the gem tell the two apart, as the article on the difference between signed cards and signature cards shows on cards of Jinx.
• The T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition is a collector set of five champion units, each picked by a player of T1, the team that won the League of Legends World Championship in 2025. One card in each set is numbered from 1 to 2025 and carries the gold stamped signature of a T1 player rather than of an artist.

Where can you see every signed card?

The signed cards page lists every signed card by set, the newest first. Each card's own page shows the standard, overnumbered and signed printings together, with the current price of each, and the rarity guide puts all the showcase printings side by side. The chance of finding a signed card in a pack follows the pull rates of a booster pack, which set its odds beside those of every other printing.