What is a Riftbound booster pack worth on average?
At market prices on 12 October 2026, an average Riftbound booster pack was worth more than its $4.99 launch price in Origins, Spiritforged and Unleashed, and about $4.99 in Vendetta. The average leans on rare showcase cards, though, so most packs were worth less than $4.99.
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- Updated Oct 13, 2026
The average value of a booster pack is what its cards come to at market prices, taken over a great many packs. In Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game, every booster pack of a main set has a launch price of $4.99 and holds 14 cards in fixed slots, but the cards in those slots change from pack to pack, and so does what they sell for.
The average is easy to misread, because a handful of very rare cards pull it up. The figures below were worked out at market prices on 12 October 2026 for the four booster sets that had them: Origins, Spiritforged, Unleashed and Vendetta. Market prices here are those of TCGplayer, the marketplace of the United States, which prices in dollars, and of Cardmarket, the marketplace of Europe, which prices in euros.
How do you work out the average value of a pack?
You multiply the chance of each kind of card in each slot by the average price of the cards of that kind, and add up the slots. The seven Commons count as seven average Commons. Riot Games' pull rates put an Epic in about one pack in four, an alternate art card in about one in 12 and an overnumbered card in about one in 72, so each pack adds a quarter of the price of an average Epic, a twelfth of an average alternate art card and one seventy-second of an average overnumbered card. Roughly one overnumbered card in ten that turns up is a signed one, and a signed card counts as a card of its own with its own price.
Riot gave these rates in its article on collecting Origins and has published new ones since only for the Ultimate Rares, so the later sets are worked out with the Origins rates. Riot has given no numbers for the foil slot or the rune or token slot, so those rest on estimates, but together they make up a tenth of the average or less. Every card of a rarity counts as equally likely, and Rares and Epics count at their foil price, since they are always foil.
Where does the value of an Origins pack come from?
Most of the value of an Origins pack comes from its two rare slots, and a large part from cards that most packs never hold.
| Cards | Share at TCGplayer | Share at Cardmarket |
|---|---|---|
| Seven Commons and three Uncommons | 15% | 12% |
| Foil slot and rune or token slot | 11% | 11% |
| Rares in the rare slots | 17% | 14% |
| Epics in the rare slots | 22% | 24% |
| Alternate art cards | 5% | 6% |
| Overnumbered cards, unsigned | 14% | 12% |
| Signed overnumbered cards | 16% | 22% |
The ten Commons and Uncommons are most of the cards but only about an eighth to a seventh of the value. The showcase printings, meaning the alternate art, overnumbered and signed cards, turn up in about one pack in ten and make up more than a third of the average. The 12 signed overnumbered Legends alone turn up in about one pack in 720, yet they make up about a sixth of the average at TCGplayer prices and about a fifth at Cardmarket prices.
The four printings below show those steps for one champion. Yasuo, Windrider as an Epic sells for $1.45 today and Yasuo, Windrider as an alternate art card for $2.93. The Yasuo Legend Unforgiven sells for $79.74 as an overnumbered card and Unforgiven for $887.54 as a signed one.
Why are most packs worth less than the average pack?
Most packs are worth less than the average because the average counts the rare pulls, and most packs hold none. The middle pack, the one that half of all packs beat, shows what a typical pack holds. At TCGplayer prices on 12 October 2026, the middle Origins pack was worth less than two fifths of the average Origins pack, and only about one pack in five beat the average. In Vendetta the middle pack was worth about a quarter to a third of the average, and only about one pack in ten beat it.
Is an average pack worth its $4.99 launch price?
For three of the four sets, yes. At TCGplayer prices on 12 October 2026, the average Origins pack came to about two and a half times its $4.99 launch price, and the averages of Spiritforged and Unleashed came to more than $4.99. The average Vendetta pack came to roughly its launch price, a little more or less depending on how often its signed cards turn up, which Riot has not said. Most single packs fell short, as the table shows, which also gives the share of booster displays, each of 24 packs, that beat their launch price of $119.99.
| Set | Packs worth more than $4.99 | Middle pack, as a share of $4.99 | Displays worth more than $119.99 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origins | 47% | 94% | 99% |
| Spiritforged | 22% | 50% | 45% |
| Unleashed | 26% | 49% | 58% |
| Vendetta | 10% | 30% | 35% |
A display of 24 packs evens out the luck a little, so in every set a larger share of displays than of single packs beats the launch price. Riot says that its rates are averages over the whole print run and not a promise for any pack or display, so a real display can do better or worse.
How much of the average rests on an Ultimate Rare?
An Ultimate Rare can carry a large share of a set's average. Riot puts Baron Nashor, the Ultimate Rare of Unleashed, in fewer than one pack in 1,000. Even at one pack in 1,000, the most that figure allows, this one card made up between a fifth and a quarter of the average value of an Unleashed pack in October 2026. The card sells for $1,828.46 today. In Unleashed and Vendetta, about half of the average or more sits in the showcase printings and, in Unleashed, the Ultimate Rare, because their Rares and Epics sold for less on average than those of Origins.
Radiance, the fifth set, with its release on 23 October 2026, will let only one of its two rare slots hold a showcase printing, and Riot puts its Ultimate Rare, the battlefield Packed Amphitheater, in about one pack in 4,000. Its average can be worked out the same way once its cards have market prices.
Is the average what you would get for the cards?
No, a seller usually gets less. A seller pays the marketplace's fees and has to pack and send every card, and Commons and Uncommons are rarely worth selling one at a time. The value of a pack to the person who opened it is closer to the price of its few best cards than to the full average.
The price paid for the pack matters just as much. A pack that costs more than its $4.99 launch price needs more value inside it to break even, and products can sell above their launch price when they are hard to find. Today the Origins Booster Pack sells for $12.70 and the Vendetta Booster Pack for $7.47. The average itself also moves with the marketplace, because TCGplayer and Cardmarket price the same cards differently, as the two columns of the table above show.
What does the average mean for opening packs?
An average above the launch price says that a great many packs together hold more than their launch price. It says little about the next pack, which is more likely to fall short. Open packs for the fun of it, for Sealed and Draft or to collect a set, with a budget you are happy to spend, and get the cards a deck needs as single cards. Single cards come from a local game store or from a marketplace: Cardmarket in Europe, TCGplayer in the United States and CardTrader on both sides.
The pack opener on this site shows what the last pack you opened there is worth at market prices, the rarity guide gives the odds of every printing, and the page of every card shows what it sells for now. Because one overnumbered card can carry so much of the average, it helps to know how many packs it takes to find an overnumbered card. Because the average is only as good as the prices under it, what decides the price of a card matters just as much.
Prices marked with a dot are live market prices.