Riftbound Rarities and Rarity Symbols Explained

Riftbound has four base rarities (Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic) plus Showcase cards. Learn each rarity gem, the foil rules and how Overnumbers work.

Checked Oct 28, 2026

Riftbound rarities and rarity symbols

Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game has four base rarities: Common, Uncommon, Rare and Epic. Above them sit Showcase cards, the group Riot uses for Alternate Art, Overnumbered, Signature, Special Alt Art and Ultimate Rare versions. The rarity symbol is the small gem at the bottom center of the card: a round gem for Common, a triangle for Uncommon, a square for Rare, a pentagon for Epic and a gold hexagon for Showcase.

The frame confirms what the gem says. Commons have a plain bronze frame, Uncommons a silver frame, Rares a gold full-art frame and Epics a minimalist gold frame that leaves more room for the art. The gem colors below match the icons in Riot's official card gallery.

Common (white round gem): Bronze frame. Every booster has seven Common slots. Commons are normally non-foil; foil copies come from the foil slot.
Uncommon (teal triangle): Silver frame. Three per pack. Battlefields are Uncommon in their regular printing.
Rare (pink square set on its point): Gold full-art frame and always foil. Every Champion Legend is Rare in its regular printing.
Epic (orange pentagon): Minimalist gold frame and always foil. In Origins, Epics were mostly Champion Units and Signature spells, and one turned up in about one pack in four, taking the place of a Rare.
Showcase (gold hexagon): Premium versions of regular cards. Riot's card gallery and most stores list all of them under this one rarity, so check the number to see which treatment you have.

Showcase cards: Alt Art, Overnumbered and Signature

Showcase cards are the chase cards of each set. They share their name and rules with a regular card, but the art, foil and number are different. These are the treatments that exist in the released sets.

Alternate Art: Keeps the regular card's number and adds the letter a, for example 066a/298. In Origins these were the Champion Units of the 12 core champions shown in a different League of Legends skin, with a more intricate foil. Riot put them at roughly two per booster box.
Overnumbered: Numbered above the size of the set, for example 299/298 in Origins, which has 298 cards. The art is made by Riot's own artists, with foil, UV and texture work. In Origins they were the 12 core Champion Legends, at roughly one per three boxes. Spiritforged added Overnumbered Champion Units and Gear, and Vendetta added 22 champion cards designed as two-card pairs showing famous League rivalries. Riot says an Overnumber will never be reprinted with the same art and frame.
Signature: An Overnumbered card with the artist's signature in foil. An asterisk follows the number, for example 299*/298. Riot's Origins estimate was about one in ten Overnumbers.
Special Alt Art: Themed alternate arts with their own SP numbers. Vendetta's six Crystal Rose cards use art from Wild Rift and run SP1/006 to SP6/006. Radiance has K/DA cards numbered SP1/005 to SP5/005. Riot says they turn up about as often as regular Alt Arts and are not Overnumbers.
Ultimate Rare: The rarest tier, added in Unleashed. So far there are two: Baron Nashor (238/219), found in less than 1% of Unleashed packs, and the Radiance Battlefield Packed Amphitheater (184/167), at about 0.025% of packs, or roughly 1 in 4,000. No pack, box or case is guaranteed to have one.
Alternate art Runes: Runes come from the Token and Rune slot, sometimes in foil. Very rarely that slot holds an alternate art basic Rune, numbered with an a, such as R04a in newer sets.

Riftbound foil treatments and pack contents

Foil follows rarity. Commons and Uncommons are normally non-foil. Every pack has one foil slot, which is usually a foil Common or Uncommon but can upgrade to a Rare or Epic. Every Rare and Epic in a booster is foil, so a shiny Rare is normal and not a special version. Showcase cards go further: Riot describes a more intricate foil on Alt Arts and foil, UV treatment and texturing on Overnumbers.

The pack layout has changed slightly between sets. An Origins booster held 7 Commons, 3 Uncommons, 2 Rare-or-better slots, 1 foil slot and 1 Token or Rune slot. In Vendetta, both upper slots could hold a Rare, Epic, Alt Art, Special Alt or Overnumber. In Radiance, one of them is a Rare or Epic and the other can be any of those or an Ultimate Rare.

Riftbound legends and Signature cards

Every Riftbound deck is built around one Champion Legend. It starts the game in the Legend Zone and sets your deck's domains. Your Chosen Champion, a Champion Unit that starts in the Champion Zone, must share the Legend's champion tag. On the card the champion appears as a tag (for example LEGEND • KAI'SA) and the name is a title, such as Daughter of the Void.

In their regular printing all Champion Legends are Rare, so the valuable Legend versions are the Overnumbered and Signature copies. Origins launched with 12 core champions, and Vendetta and Radiance each added nine new Legends with Overnumbered versions.

Do not confuse Signature cards with signed cards. In the game, Signature is a tag on certain cards tied to one champion, such as Signature spells. A deck may run at most three Signature cards in total, all matching its Legend's champion tag. The artist-signed Signature version is a collectible Showcase card, marked by the asterisk in its number.

How Riftbound card numbers work

The collector line sits at the bottom left of the card: set code, card number and the size of the main set, printed as OGN • 061/298. From Vendetta on, English cards also print a language code, as in VEN • 010/166 • EN. A number above the set size is an Overnumber, a trailing a marks an Alternate Art, an asterisk marks a Signature and SP marks a Special Alt Art. Newer sets number Runes R01 to R06 and tokens with a T.

Origins (OGN): English release October 31, 2025. 298 cards in the main set; Overnumbers run from 299 to 310.
Proving Grounds (OGS): The Origins: Proving Grounds box set of four ready-to-play decks. Its 24 cards are numbered separately under their own code.
Spiritforged (SFD): English release February 13, 2026. 221 cards; Overnumbers start at 222.
Unleashed (UNL): English release May 8, 2026. 219 cards; Overnumbers start at 220 and end with Baron Nashor at 238.
Vendetta (VEN): English release July 31, 2026. 166 cards, Overnumbers from 167, plus the Crystal Rose SP cards.
Radiance (RAD): English release October 23, 2026. 167 cards, Overnumbers from 168, plus the K/DA SP cards.

Riftbound card list and card gallery

Riot's official card gallery shows every card, lets you browse by set and sorts by rarity. On this site, every Riftbound set also has a full card list with collector numbers and rarities, and the sets page links to all of them.

Rarity is only a starting point for value. The regular printing of a card and each of its Showcase versions are priced separately, so match the collector number before you compare prices. Scanning a card with CardFrame identifies the printing and shows the price estimate for that version; where two versions share the same art, such as an Overnumber and its Signature copy, you pick yours from the card's variants.

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The facts above were checked against these pages on Oct 28, 2026.

Riftbound Rarities and Rarity Symbols Explained