Which Riftbound cards are the most expensive?

The cards that sell for the most in Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game are collector printings, not the cards that win games. The signed cards, overnumbered cards with the artist's signature in foil, sit at the top of the price lists. Below them come the one Ultimate Rare on the market, a single promo card and the other overnumbered cards. The standard printings that players put in their decks only turn up far down the list.

Prices move from week to week, so this article ranks the cards by the market of October 2026 and shows the price of the moment beside its examples. Open any card named here to see its current price.

Which Riftbound cards sold for the most in October 2026?

Four signed cards held the top four places on both TCGplayer in the United States and Cardmarket in Europe in October 2026. The order differed a little between the two marketplaces.

• The signed Nine-Tailed Fox, the Legend of Ahri from Origins, was first on TCGplayer and sells for $3,711.35 today.
• The signed Ahri, Inquisitive from Spiritforged was first on Cardmarket and sells for $3,334.49 today.
• The signed Daughter of the Void is the Legend of Kai'Sa from Origins and sells for $3,114.31 today.
• The signed Rogue Assassin is the Legend of Akali from Vendetta and sells for $3,229.71 today.

As a group, the signed cards sold for more than any other kind of card in October 2026. The first four main sets hold 45 signed cards. All 45 were among the 50 most expensive cards on Cardmarket, and 44 of them were in the top 50 on TCGplayer. Even the cheapest signed card sold for about five times as much as the most expensive standard printing.

Why do signed cards cost so much more than other printings?

A signed card is the scarcest printing of its card. In its article on collecting Origins, Riot Games put the overnumbered cards of Origins at roughly one per three booster displays of 24 packs, about one pack in 72, and said that roughly one in ten of them is signed. That makes a signed Origins card about one pack in 720. Origins has 12 signed cards, one for each Legend, so one particular signed Legend turns up about once in 8,640 packs if all 12 are printed equally often. Riot has published these rates for Origins only.

Nine-Tailed Fox shows the gap. It comes in three printings with the same text: the standard Rare, the overnumbered card and the signed card. Today the standard Nine-Tailed Fox sells for $1.28, the overnumbered Nine-Tailed Fox for $364.24 and the signed Nine-Tailed Fox for $3,711.35. Riot has also promised never to reprint an overnumbered card with the same art and frame.

Why is one signed card worth more than another?

The champion on the card matters most. Riot has published one rate for the 12 signed Legends of Origins and none for each of them, yet the signed Nine-Tailed Fox sells for $3,711.35 today, while the signed Hand of Noxus of Darius, the cheapest of the 12 in October 2026, sells for $545.66. In October 2026 Ahri held two of the top four places, and signed cards of Miss Fortune, Irelia and Diana were also in the top ten on both marketplaces: Bounty Hunter, Irelia, Fervent and Scorn of the Moon.

The same champions led the cheaper printings that month. The alternate art Kai'Sa, Survivor was the most expensive alternate art card, and the special Kai'Sa, Survivor and Ahri, Inquisitive were the two most expensive special cards of Vendetta. Among the overnumbered cards without a signature, the overnumbered Ahri, Inquisitive, Rogue Assassin and Irelia, Fervent sold for the most.

Is the Ultimate Rare the most expensive card?

Not in October 2026. The Ultimate Rare Baron Nashor from Unleashed was the most expensive card without a signature, fifth on TCGplayer and ninth on Cardmarket, but several signed cards sold for more. Today it sells for $1,828.46, against $21.70 for the standard Baron Nashor, an Epic. In its overview of Unleashed, Riot put Baron Nashor in fewer than one pack in 1,000.

A signed card is scarce in its own way. By Riot's figures, one particular signed Origins Legend, at about one pack in 8,640 if all 12 are equally common, is harder to pull than even the Ultimate Rare of Radiance, the fifth set, with its release on 23 October 2026.

That Ultimate Rare is the battlefield Packed Amphitheater, the overnumbered printing of the Uncommon Packed Amphitheater. In its overview of Radiance, Riot put it in about 0.025 percent of Radiance packs, or one pack in 4,000, and called it significantly harder to find than Baron Nashor. The card's page shows its market price once it has one.

Which promo card costs the most?

The most expensive promo in October 2026 was Teemo, Scout with new art by Alsie Lau, which shows Teemo in front of a wall of the words GG EZ. It was the chase card of the first Nexus Night promo packs, handed out at Nexus Night events while Origins was the newest set. That month it ranked ninth on TCGplayer and fourteenth on Cardmarket, above most signed cards. Today it sells for $1,430.38, while the standard Teemo, Scout from Origins packs, a Rare, sells for $0.39.

The pool of promos changes with every set, and the chase cards of later seasons ranked far lower in October 2026. Lee Sin, Centered from the Unleashed packs sells for $46.60 today and Mel, Newly Awakened from the Vendetta packs for $156.99.

Which cards that decks play cost the most?

Among the standard printings, the most expensive cards in October 2026 were Epics. Kai'Sa, Survivor, an Epic Fury champion unit from Origins, led them. The deck that won the last Regional Qualifier of 2026, in Los Angeles, played three copies of it in a deck led by Pridestalker, the Legend of Rengar, as Riot's report on the top decks of Los Angeles lists. The Epics Baited Hook, Astral Heron and Time Warp came next, in a different order on each marketplace.

Even so, 123 printings sold for more than Kai'Sa, Survivor in October 2026, and every one of them was a collector printing or a promo. Today it sells for $66.24, and the signed Nine-Tailed Fox, which plays exactly like the standard one, sells for $3,711.35. In October 2026 the standard printings of the whole deck that won in Los Angeles cost far less than that signed card. Most of the price of that deck sits in a few Epics and Rares like these, so a player who builds a deck on a budget adds them one at a time.

Will the same cards stay the most expensive?

Not necessarily. Radiance, the fifth set, with its release on 23 October 2026, has overnumbered printings of its nine Legends, and Riot says in its overview of the set that these can be found with an artist's signature as well. The price of a card that decks play follows the decks, so a new set, a ban or a new winning deck can raise one card and lower another. Riot also reprints booster sets to meet demand, as it said in its State of the Game of 3 August 2026, which brings more copies of their cards into stores.

The card list sorted by price shows the most expensive cards first, in US dollars or euros as you choose, and the signed cards and Ultimate Rares pages list the printings at the top. What a card is worth depends on more than its rarity, as the article on what decides the price of a Riftbound card shows, and the same card can cost a different amount in each marketplace, as the article on how TCGplayer and Cardmarket prices differ explains. Single cards, signed ones included, come from local game stores, from Cardmarket in Europe, from TCGplayer in the United States and from CardTrader on both sides of the Atlantic.