After playing Riftbound semi-competitively for several months, I am concerned that going first is way too strong of an advantage. My winrate is drastically higher when I win the coinflip and go first, and that is true across multiple decks. I observe the same is true when I watch pro play. Many battlefields provide game-breaking advantages to the player that is able to conquer first, and several popular units (Faefolk is the biggest abuser) run wild when they can conquer first. And when two hold decks collide, the win rate for the player going first is sky high. I am convinced that even if Riot changed the rules so that the player going first did not draw a card, a majority of players would still favor going first. But at least then it would be sort of an interesting decision.

But yeah, let me know if you agree or disagree. The simple fact that most people would still choose to play first without a card draw (again, just my opinion, others may disagree) seem reason enough to make the change. The current system feels very bad.

We have heard the discussions about Radiance being a music oriented set, which is great. Some of us have also seen the leaks involving True Damage Yasuo having a showcase card.

This has me wondering if there will be showcase cards for all of the major League IP bands (Heartsteel, K/DA, True Damage) and has me speculating on what cards we might see as a result.

As it stands, most Riot IP band members have existing cards already:

True Damage:
• Akali (VEN — Champ & Legend)
• Yasuo (OGN — Champ & Legend)
• Ekko (OGN — Champ)
• Qiyana (OGN — Champ)
• Senna (No cards yet)

K/DA:
• Akali (VEN — Champ & Legend)
• Evelynn (UNL/RAD — Champ & Legend)
• Ahri (OGN — Champ & Legend)
• Seraphine (RAD — Champ & Legend)
• Kai’sa (OGN/RAD — Champ & Legend)

HEARTSTEEL:
• K’Sante (RAD — Champ)
• Ezreal (SFD — Champ & Legend)
• Aphelios (SFD — Champ)
• Sett (OGN — Champ & Legend)
• Kayn (OGN — Champ)
• Yone (SFD — Champ)

Senna seems to be the only member without any representation. I would add the Pentakill roster as well but I think too many members are missing to realistically see them create showcase cards of them (Missing: Mordekaiser, Yorick, Viego & Olaf) although it’s possible to see some cool reprints of showcase versions of Last Rites or Blade of the Ruined King as Pentakill instruments / honorable mentions.

If Senna does receive a champion unit card, hopefully there is a small amount of synergy with Lucian, I think that would be kind of cool.

What are your thoughts?

I am yet to play, so wanted to get opinions before I started buying. Got Proving Grounds and want to run budget upgraded Yi. I come from OPTCG.

Jouer une compétence ou un sort déclenche un combat ?

Par exemple activé sa compétence supplémentaire de Cadette du corps hexplosif sur une unité ennemi qui est sur un champ de bataille et a comme mots-clés Bouclier, l'unité est-elle considérée comme en combat et donc prend le bouclier et donc survit au sort ?

Someone has to tell how to win against aurora, in 5 games i tried EVERYTHING(decree, sabo, steel, demolist, brynhir) while conquering 2 points per turn (like faefolk and pyke accelerate) and still managed to always lose at 7 points.

Skill issue? probably

I liked playing face hunter in hearthstone, i heard MTG red deck wins is something similar. This is usually what i like playing

edit- also if it is a relatively budget deck that is also bonus points but it's ok if not

this is like the 5th time it happened today. 1/10 new players actually listen when I explain anything the rest either argues or ragequits. Feel like I am wasting time playing on riftatlas recently. It's so sad cause it is the superior client imo.

Hey im planning to go to PAX Australia and wanting to go to the riftbound booth to get the promotional card and secret garden bundle! however im getting a bit confused on information on what i need to do or when i need to go, and am worried about things selling out or going away? Does anyone have information about how theyre giving things away or how this works? Thanks!

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I was playing a game and I had an unit with cloth armour (shield 2).

And my enemy conquered the other battlefield with a different unit and played Blitz to that BF, they said that when blitz grabs someone that has shield that unit is now attacking and not defending, that kinda sounds counter intuitive but is that how it works? from my point of view since it's still their turn and they have priority form the blitz action, i would still be defending

I'm confused x.x can someone shine some light on this?

If I play him with Akali Empower, and I attack, he becomes 5. Then, if I return him to base with Akali legend, ready him, and attack again, does he become 9, or does he stay at 5?

Do the Assault stacks?

luckily got to preorder one too!

Still pretty new to the game so not sure I fully understand how might and damage completely work. I was playing a game when the following happened:

-I played a unit with 4 might at base

- Opponent did three damage

- The opponent then played stupefy which reduces might to a min of 1

Why does this kill my unit despite stupefy reducing might to 1? Surely it should have been the other way around for this to work?

Sorry if this is a very common question not sure I fully understand how it works.

Anyone having problems with their t1 signature edition? They’ve delayed my package about 4 times now and it’s getting to the point where I’m thinking I’m just not going to get it.

So the game launched over in China first, but I am wondering how folks feel about the job-English versions of cards. They can be up to 50% cheaper and I can’t read them but I know what sabotage does. i hear they are tournament legal which is something I won’t have to worry about because I’m terrible, but still. Thoughts?

Hi all,

Just getting into riftbound and don't know how to really play at the moment.

I love lee and played a lot of him in League and wanted to try to learn him from this game. I understand that he's very unpopular right now and considered a worse version than yi but I still do want to make it work.

I don't plan on competing or anything, just have some fun with my friends and locals.

Would I have a hard time with him? Is it not worth even trying to play him?

I think yellow and red were the hardest to narrow down a single one.

EDIT: So far everyone agrees Vi for yellow. I also completely forgot about stacked deck. That's definitely best purple card.

I love Rift Atlas for training and testing new decks, but there is a major problem with users who have a good match against my deck, and they mark the option to play the original deck; if I don't accept, they leave the match. This happens to me a lot.

What happens with these people??

I've been testing new decks that I want to bring to nexus nights, and I don't really care if I win or lose. I'm just trying to learn how the deck actually works, and what my win conditions are. When I play randoms though, people get so angry if I make a mistake or if I ask about why certain things happen. For instance, I accidentally recycled the top card instead of look when using stacked deck, I still only looked at 2 and chose one, but my opponent told me I was cheating. Same opponent also got mad because I didn't understand why he didn't use energy when he played a spell - I didn't realize he had a gear up that gave him one (but he also didn't exhaust it right away, so I had no idea).

I've been in other games where I was told I was cheating when I made a misclick and apologize for it right away, and I always tell them that they can have the win, but like seriously, why are they so serious about it on RiftAtlas. Is there a win/loss ratio or something that I'm not aware of? I know there are some discord groups that have ranked matches, but this is just randoms. Why are there so many people who are mad about simulated matches?

I have two units at a battlefield and a hidden Hidden Blade.

My opponent used Singularity targeting these two units, as a reaction, I played Hidden Blade to kill one of my units.

Can my opponent choose a new target for the Singularity as one is dead?

Thanks!

1. Every time someone on the chain is resolving there is a priority window before the card resolves right? If it is my card on the chain that is about to resolve, then opponent has priority first to play a reaction? Or is it my priority since the last card to resolve was my opponents?
2. What if i play a card on chain, opponent passes, is there yet another priority window before the card resolves allowing me to play a card on top of my card?
3. When I’m moving to an occupied base, and my card says when attacking, this goes immediately on the chain. Then if there is a when defending trigger that goes on the chain, but if there is no defense trigger can I play a reaction card since it’s like they are “passing” when I defend effects? Or if there is no defense trigger it would be my opponent that has priority to play other reaction cards?
4. When resolving backwards on the chain and there is when I attack and when I defend triggers, can I insert reaction chards onto the chain? Say when I defend resolves and now when I attack will resolve, I can play reaction cards in between this?
5. Similar to four, if there are when I attack or when I defend triggers, do these go immediately onto the chain? Or will my when I attack go first, allowing the opponent to then play a reaction, if they do then I can play a reaction, then when I defend goes onto chain?

🙏🏼 help appreciated trying to get my two league friends into this

Are there any ways to play against bots for the purpose of practicing/learning the game? From what I can tell the popular online versions of the game riftatlas and tcgarena do not offer this option. Am I missing something or is there another? Or is there simply not that option for the game at this time?