Which Riftbound sets are there?

Riftbound: the League of Legends trading card game comes out in sets. A set is a group of new cards released on the same day, in booster packs and in ready-made decks. Each set has a name, a three-letter code printed on every card, a theme and usually a few mechanics that were not in the game before. The first set, Origins, came out in English in October 2025, and a new set has followed about every three months since.

A new set adds cards to the game and does not replace the older ones. This article lists the sets in order and says in a few lines what each one adds to the game.

Which sets are there so far?

Riftbound has five main sets, the newest of them Radiance with its release on 23 October 2026, and the Proving Grounds starter box has a small numbered set of its own. The table gives the English release date of each set, how many cards are numbered in it and how many new Legends it has.

The count of numbered cards is the number printed after the slash at the bottom of every card of a set, such as 251/298 in Origins. Showcase printings come on top of that number: an overnumbered card, for example, carries a number above it, so how many cards a set has depends on what you count.

The first three sets came out in China before they came out in English. Spiritforged was released in Chinese in December 2025, two months before the English edition, and Unleashed on 10 April 2026, four weeks before it. Since Vendetta, the English and Chinese editions of a set have the same release day, and Radiance, with its release on 23 October 2026, is the first set whose French edition comes out on that day too.

What did each set add to the game?

Every main set brings new Legends and champions, and each set after Origins adds mechanics of its own. Five cards, one from each set, show what it added: Loose Cannon from Origins, Long Sword from Spiritforged, Scorchclaw from Unleashed, Perfect Execution from Vendetta and Banner of Conquest from Radiance.

Origins is the base set of Riftbound. It brought the six domains, the runes, the first battlefields and the keywords that every later set builds on, such as Accelerate, Hidden and Shield. Its twelve Legends include Loose Cannon, the Legend of Jinx, and three Champion Decks for Jinx, Viktor and Lee Sin came out with it.

Spiritforged is about weapons. It brought Equipment, gear that you attach to one of your units with Equip, such as Long Sword. It also brought Gold, a gear token that you can kill to add one Power of any domain, and Repeat, an extra cost you may pay to have a spell's effect happen a second time. Its two Champion Decks are built around Fiora and Rumble.

Unleashed is about power that strikes from the shadows. It brought XP, a resource that you gain and spend during a game. Units with Hunt give you XP when they conquer or hold a battlefield, and abilities with Level switch on once you have enough XP, as on Scorchclaw. Ambush lets you play a unit as a Reaction to a battlefield where you already have units. Unleashed also started the Ultimate rarity with a single Ultimate Rare, Baron Nashor, and its Champion Decks are built around Vi and Vex.

Vendetta is about rivalry. It brought Flow, which lets you play a spell from your trash for its Flow cost and then banishes it, as on Perfect Execution. Burn puts the top cards of a Main Deck into the trash, and Empower is an ability with a cost: paying it makes a card Empowered, which switches on its Empowered abilities. Vendetta was also the first set with Showdown Decks, a box of two ready-made decks built to play against each other, in this case Shen against Zed.

Radiance, with its release on 23 October 2026, puts the bands of League of Legends on stage. It brings Seraphine to Riftbound for the first time and gives Ekko and Evelynn, who already had champion units, their first Legends. Its three new mechanics are Deploy, Show Off and Disarm. Deploy is gear that you play to a battlefield and that is killed when an opponent holds that battlefield, such as Banner of Conquest. Show Off lets you reveal a card from your hand, or pick one you control, to unlock an extra effect. Disarm gives an enemy unit at the same battlefield less Might for the turn when the unit with Disarm attacks. The Radiance Showdown Decks set Seraphine against Evelynn, and the set has the second Ultimate Rare, Packed Amphitheater.

Is Proving Grounds a set?

Proving Grounds is a starter box, but part of it is numbered as a small set of its own. The box came out with Origins on 31 October 2025 and holds four ready-to-play decks for Annie, Garen, Lux and Master Yi, for two to four players. Most cards in those decks are Origins cards. The other 24, among them the four Legends such as Dark Child for Annie, carry the code OGS and are numbered from 001/024 to 024/024.

The Tournament Rules call these cards the Origins supplemental set contained in Proving Grounds, and they are legal in Standard like the cards of every main set. A second edition of the box, Proving Grounds, 2nd Edition, is dated 19 February 2027, and Riot has said in its announcement of the sets into 2027 that it will hold no cards that you cannot also get from booster packs.

Are promo cards a set of their own?

No. A promo card, such as the cards handed out at Nexus Night events in stores, is a new printing of a card from one of the sets. It keeps the set code and the number of the card it reprints, with a letter after the number when its art is new, carries a small PROMO banner over its rarity gem and plays exactly like the regular card. The promo cards page lists them season by season. Players get the Nexus Night promo cards in small promo packs at those events.

How do you tell which set a card is from?

Every Riftbound card prints its set code and collector number in the bottom left corner, such as OGN · 251/298 on Loose Cannon. The codes so far are OGN for Origins, OGS for Proving Grounds, SFD for Spiritforged, UNL for Unleashed, VEN for Vendetta and RAD for Radiance, and players use these set codes as short names for the sets. Cards from Vendetta on also print a language code after the number, such as EN for English.

Can you still play cards from every set?

Yes. The Standard format in the Tournament Rules of 9 October 2026 includes every set so far, Proving Grounds included, and Radiance joins it on its release date of 23 October 2026. Riot has said on its Rules Hub that it intends to start rotation, when the oldest sets leave Standard, in 2028.

Which sets come next?

Riot has named the sets that come after Radiance in its announcement of 3 August 2026: four more sets for 2027. Legacy, the sixth set with the code LGC, is dated 29 January 2027 and is the first set Riot built for drafting. The Reckoning, the seventh set with the code REC, is dated 30 April 2027, and two more sets are planned for the third and fourth quarters of 2027. That keeps Riftbound at four new sets a year.

Every card of every set is in the card list, with a page for each set from Origins to Radiance. The Radiance previews page shows the cards of the newest set in the order they were revealed.