Riftbound: The League Of Legends Trading Card Game

League of Legends has expanded off the Rift and into many mediums at this point: an auto-battler, a fighting game, an RPG, and a Netflix show, to name a few. With Riftbound, the publisher is stashing all of its factions and champions to line the shelves at your local game store.

Riftbound is a trading card game, complete with booster packs, starters, foils, and collectability. Players form a deck around a chosen Legend, represented by League champions like Yasuo or Jinx, and their color identities, and duke it out.

Rather than beating each other’s life totals down, though, players vie for control of battlefields chosen by the competitors. Conquering or holding these fields garners points, with the ultimate goal of scoring eight points. It’s a slightly different take than more direct slugfests, but as game director Dave Guskin tells me, it helps encourage a slightly different kind of play.