Riftbound Spiritforged Product Guide - Booster Boxes, Cases & What To Expect

After a stunning debut with Origins, the League of Legends TCG Riftbound has been going from strength to strength. With an active community and competitive scene, the only lingering Uestion was whether or not it could pull off its difficult second set.

Ender Spiritforged, the first expansion for Riftbound. With more champions, new mechanics, and more preconstucted decks, it proved that Riftbound is more than just a flash in the pan and is here to stay.

What Is Spiritforged - Riftbound’s Second Set

Like Magic: The Gathering’s Arabian Nights, Pokemon’s Fossil, or Lorcana’s Rise of the Floodborn, Spiritforged had the unenviable job of building on the basics introduced in Riftbound's Origins set and building on them.

It managed this by introducing over 200 cards to the game, and with them a few new mechanics. The first are Equipment, a new type of Gear. Equipment can use their Equip ability to become attached to a unit you control, and that unit will get the Equipment card’s bonus for as long as it remains in play. When that unit is killed, you’re then free to re-Equip the Equipment card on to another unit, to give it the bonuses instead.

Another cool new mechanic introduced with Spiritforged is the Repeat keyword. This is found on spell cards, and lets you pay an additional cost to have that spell effectively go off twice. For example, Bond of Strength can be played for two energy to give two friendly units +1 Might. Pay another two energy, though, and you could pick another two units to get another +1 Might as well.

Finally, we’ve got Gold tokens. These are a new type of Gear token that can be used to make an energy of any rune (similar to Magic: The Gathering’s Treasure tokens). Lots of cards in Spiritforged make Gold tokens, like Draven, Vanquisher, which gives you one every time he wins a combat. The only catch is that most of the cards that make a Gold make them exhausted, so you’ll need to wait a turn before you can use them.

On top of the new mechanics, Spiritforged introduced a whopping 12 new champions to Riftbound, which introduces a whole load of new colour combinations for you to build:

• Azir - Calm/Order
• Draven - Fury/Chaos
• Ezreal - Mind/Chaos
• Fiora - Body/Order
• Jax - Calm/Body
• Rumble - Mind/Fury
• Rek’Sai - Fury/Order
• Ornn - Calm/Mind
• Sivir - Body/Chaos
• Lucian - Fury/Body
• Renata Glasc - Calm/Order
• Irelia - Body/Chaos

Booster Packs & Booster Boxes – Core Spiritforged Products

Booster Packs

As mentioned, Spiritforged includes over 200 new cards. To be specific, it includes 221 cards, and over 60 alt-art variants. So how do you get your hands on them? With Riftbound still so new, there isn’t anything in the way of bundles for Spiritforged, but you can still get the humble booster pack.

Booster packs include 14 cards: seven commons, three uncommons, a foil card of any rarity, a token or a rune card, an informational non-game piece, and one card that is either rare, epic, or one of the overnumbered or alternate art treatment cards of one of Spiritforged’s 12 champions. This last slot is your biggest pull in the pack, and you may find an epic card in one in every four boosters.

One thing veteran TCG players may not be familiar with in that list are ‘overnumbered’ cards. These are cards whose numbers go beyond the listed collector number in the set, much like an illustration rare in Pokemon or an alt-art in Magic: The Gathering. However, this is also Riftbound’s way of including much-needed reprints in a set without impacting its legality - an overnumbered card isn’t technically part of Spiritforged in terms of playing, but it’s a great way of getting older cards in your boosters!

Booster Boxes & Cases

And, of course, you can go big and pick up a booster box of Spiritforged. Booster boxes include 24 packs of Spiritforged, giving you the chance to get up to 50 epics if you’re ridiculously lucky.

There are also cases, which is how game stores and hardcore collectors pick up their packs. A case includes multiple booster boxes (usually 12) for a slightly reduced cost than if you’d bought them all individually. These can be tough to hunt down, but if you’re really wanting to crack packs, host events, or start your own card shop, this is the way to go.

Preconstructed & Auxiliary Products to Watch

Boosters may be the only way to crack packs of Spiritforged, but it isn’t the only way you can get stuck in to the set.

Champion Decks

Champion decks are probably the best way to get started with Riftbound. Each Champion deck comes with a 56-card deck and a booklet on how to play, alongside a deckbox and paper playment. To help kickstart your collection, they even include an extra booster pack of Spiritforged as well!

Spiritforged’s two decks focus on two of the new champions in the set, as the Mind/Fury Rumble and the Body/Order Fiora get the limelight. It’s a good spread of runes, and each deck is playable straight out the box with no additional purchases required.

Accessories And Themed Items

Spiritforged also received plenty of accessories, if you wanted to jazz up your table. The set received four tie-in playmats, with Spirit Blossom Darius, Spirit Blossom Irelia, Spirit Blossom Ahri, and, my personal favourite, an adorable Spirit Blossom Teemo chilling in a hot spring.

Each playmat also received a set of art sleeves. These each come with 100 sleeves, which is more than enough to protect your deck, any tokens you may have, and still have some left over to protect some of your choices pulls fromyour boosters.

Why Spiritforged Products Are Worth Investing In

As only the second set, the main reason you’ll be wanting to invest in Spiritforged is getting in (almost) on the ground floor. As Riftbound grows, decks are going to use a wider number of cards from a wider number of sets. At the moment, you can pick up just Spiritforged and have enough to build a whole deck that is competitively viable.

The introduction of Equipment and Gold, and the champs the set introduced, had a big impact on the meta of the game, so laying down your foundations now ahead of upcoming sets like Unleashed and Vendetta is going to be the best possible way of getting into Riftbound and staying competitive going forward.

For collectors, Spiritforged is full of absolutely wild chase rares. The signed showcase version of Ahri, Inquisitive goes for over £1,000 on the secondary market, with plenty of other alt-art cards coming in at three figures as well. If you’re looking for high-value trades or just want to bling out your deck, this definitely isn’t a bad set to do it with.

But the biggest question is going to be about sealed product. Holding on to a box of Spiritforged could be a fantastic idea if the game has legs, as boxes from the early days of the game will likely be a lot more valuable than later ones. Just take a look at games like Lorcana, where sets like The First Chapter and Rise of the Floodborn are worth more than Winterspell, and you’ll have a rough idea of what is awaiting Spiritforged.

Who Spiritforged Is Best Suited For

Competitive Players

For competitive players, Spiritforged is currently 50% of the game’s entire cardpool, and so it’s no surprise that many of the top decks use cards from it. Draven, I(relia, and Ezreal are all considered the top of the meta, with Zivir, Azir, and Lucian coming in a close second. Other Spiritforged cards like Hard Bargain, Ferrous Forerunner, and Not So Fast also quickly became staples on the competitive scene.

Collectors

As mentioned, Spiritforged is bulging with value. There are so many alt-art cards here to collect, and anyone pulling that alt Ahri will be particularly happy with their pulls. Riftbound is still riding the wave of popularity it enjoyed at launch, making its most desirable cards worth a pretty penny.

New Players

Spiritforged really is a set for everyone. Especially thanks to the Champion decks, this is the best time to get into Riftrbound. The cardpool is small enough to manage, but the new mechanics and tweaks Spiritforged introduced made the game nore responsible and engaging than ever.

Get Ready For Spiritforged

Spiritforged is a banger of a set that plants Riftbound well and truly on the map. Equipment and gold are cool new mechanics, the alt-art is stunning, and the Champion decks are a great way to get started. But do you want to know the absolute best thing? Spiritforged is out right now, you don’t even need to wait.

The set launched in February, meaning you can buy your booster packs, boxes, decks, playmats, and sleeves through Magic Madhouse right now. Which champion are you wanting to build first?