Which languages is Riftbound printed in?

Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game is printed in five editions: English, Simplified Chinese, French, Traditional Chinese and Korean. A card plays the same way in every language, and only the words on it change. The editions did not start at the same time, though, and the newer ones are still catching up with the latest sets.

Which editions of Riftbound are there?

There are five editions of Riftbound, and each one began with Origins, the first set. In the order they started:

• Simplified Chinese. Riftbound came out first in mainland China, where Origins went on sale on 1 August 2025.
• English. The English edition followed on 31 October 2025. English is the edition sold in North America, Europe, Latin America and Oceania, and in Southeast Asia since 2026.
• French. French Origins boosters, the Origins Champion Decks and the Proving Grounds starter box came out on 29 May 2026. Spiritforged and Unleashed boosters followed in French on 31 July 2026.
• Traditional Chinese. Glorious Soul (HK) Limited publishes this edition for Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. The edition started on 7 August 2026 with Origins boosters, Proving Grounds and the Origins Champion Decks of Jinx, Viktor and Lee Sin.
• Korean. Riot brought Origins to Korea on 18 September 2026, with its boosters, its Champion Decks and Proving Grounds.

English is the most widely sold of the five. Stores in France can still get English products next to the French ones, and Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau receive English products next to the Traditional Chinese edition.

Do new sets come out in every language at the same time?

New sets do not come out in every language at once yet, but the gap is closing. Until Vendetta, each main set came out in Simplified Chinese first and in English a few months later: Origins was on sale in China three months before the English release. Vendetta was the first set released in English and Simplified Chinese on the same day, 31 July 2026, and Radiance follows the same way, with its release on 23 October 2026 in both editions and in French.

The other editions catch up at their own speed.

• French reaches the same schedule as English with Radiance, as Riot's French roadmap sets out. The Radiance Pre-Rift events, with their start on 16 October 2026, are the first with kits printed in French, and the French Vendetta boosters have the same release date as Radiance, 23 October 2026.
• Korean follows a plan Riot announced in September 2026: Spiritforged in December 2026, then seven sets during 2027, from Unleashed up to the ninth set. The aim is that new sets reach Korea at the same time as the rest of the world from the start of 2028.
• Traditional Chinese has Origins so far, and Riot has not yet named the dates of the later sets in that edition.

Can you mix cards of different languages in one deck?

Yes. The Tournament Rules allow official Riftbound cards of any language in a deck, and the Core Rules treat a card printed in two languages as one and the same card with the same name, even though the name printed on it reads differently. The Core Rules use Chemtech Enforcer as their example: the English card and its Chinese counterpart are the same card.

Because the name counts and not the language, the copy limit counts every language together. A main deck holds at most three copies of a card, so two English copies of Chemtech Enforcer and one Chinese copy already fill the limit.

A card you cannot read is not a problem at a tournament either. Any player may call a judge at any time and ask for the reference wording of a card, which the Tournament Rules call its Watcher wording, in the language they prefer. At a store event without a judge, it helps to have the English text at hand, for example on the card's page on this site.

Is every card printed in every language?

Almost every card is, but a few printings were made for one language or one region, and a few collector cards skip some editions. Most of them are promo cards from launch events and bundles or cards of a collector set, and only one of them is found in booster packs.

• A Korean overnumbered Ahri. Korean Origins packs hold a second overnumbered printing of Nine-Tailed Fox, the Legend of Ahri. Its art, by Allen Song, a Korean art director of Riftbound, nods to the Dynasty Ahri skin, and it turns up only in Korean packs, next to the regular overnumbered printing. Riot has said that it does not plan to put Korean-only cards in boosters often.
• The Korean launch promos. The Korean launch events from 18 September 2026 gave out two promos. Yasuo, Remorseful has new art by the South Korean artist Kim Star, and Riot gave it out only at select Origins launch events in Korea. Jinx, Demolitionist was the other, with her original art and a special launch stamp.
• The Lunar Revel Bundle 2026. The Lunar Revel Bundle 2026, a Lunar New Year bundle from Riot's merch store, is entirely in Simplified Chinese, and Riot made no English version of it. The bundle holds a Chinese alternate art promo of Blade Dancer, the Legend of Irelia, showing Mythmaker Irelia, and three Chinese Spiritforged booster packs.
• The Gift of the Rift Bundle. The Gift of the Rift Bundle, with its release on 4 December 2026, is planned in English and Chinese, with a different promo in each. The English bundle holds an alternate art promo of Rogue Assassin, the Legend of Akali, which Riot announced for the English edition alone. The Chinese bundle holds a Kennen promo of its own in its place.
• The T1 cards. The Riftbound x T1 2025 Worlds Champion Collection celebrates T1, the team that won the 2025 League of Legends World Championship, with new printings of five champion units that its players picked: Ambessa, The Wolf, Galio, Indefatigable, Miss Fortune, Buccaneer, Seraphine, Not Alone and Xin Zhao, Vigilant. Riot's announcement of the collection names three languages for its Signature Edition and its Player Bundle: English, Chinese and Korean. Riot made 10,125 copies of the Signature Edition in each of the three, sold the English ones through a drawing in its merch store and left the Chinese and Korean ones to be sold in their own regions.

Translations are also corrected now and then with errata, Riot's official corrections of card text. On 16 September 2026 Riot published an errata sheet for the Traditional Chinese edition that rewords six Origins cards. The first Chinese text of Ahri, Inquisitive let her weaken an enemy unit anywhere, while the English card weakens an enemy unit at her own battlefield, and the corrected Chinese text now says so too. Volibear, Imposing and the battlefield Void Gate were reworded on the same sheet. Riot's French site keeps a list of French translation errata as well, for cards of Origins, Spiritforged and Unleashed.

Which language should you play and collect in?

Play in the language of the people you play with. A player who joins the events of a local store, such as its weekly Nexus Night, does best with the edition its players read, since opponents read each other's cards all game long. In most of the world that edition is English. A French player can stay with French, which keeps pace with English from Radiance on. A player who reads Korean or Traditional Chinese has only the first sets in that language for a while, and gets the newest cards in another edition.

For a collection, keeping to one language per set makes a binder read the same from page to page. The same card can be worth a different amount in each edition, and the article on whether Chinese and French cards are worth more or less looks at that question.

Will Riftbound come out in more languages?

Riftbound will not add another language soon. In its State of the Game update of August 2026, Riot said that every new language brings new logistical and other complexities and that it would pause adding languages in the short term while the newest editions get going. There is no German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese or Japanese edition, and players in countries without an edition of their own, such as Germany, Spain, Italy or Brazil, play with English cards.

Every card in the card list is shown with its English name and text, and the products guide shows the boxed products of each set. The article on who makes Riftbound names the partner behind each edition, and the article on when Riftbound came out follows the game from Origins to Radiance.