I just wanted to cancel my order because it would be cheaper and easier for me to just go to my local card shop. Our boy Sora tells us in the least asshole way possible that the reason why we are getting our preorders late is because riot needs to rest their human hands, get it?
i played my first nexus night if set 3 last night. i decided to build lillia because i love her in league. i went against vex every single time- i even conceded my last game because there was nothing i could do. playing against vex seemed helpless, my sprites couldn’t do anything.
what are some suggestions for countering vex? as a newer tcg player, she seems impossible.
also i refuse to conform to what seemed like the vex meta at my store. 5 out of 8 people were playing vex lol.
It’s always funny when I play against a none aurora deck online it’s always a best of 3 but when it’s aurora they always win their first match and bounce. Always cracks me up
Game still feels in a really solid spot to me. It’s easy enough to get into and the meta feels pretty open, even if a few cards are everywhere.
Also gotta say the community has been great so far, lots of helpful people and good discussions. Curious how everyone else is feeling going into Set 3?
it's actually insane how many posts are people upset there gambling addiction isnt working. if u want a specific ON, buy the specific overnumbered. i for example want to play rengar, and i want his overnumbered. 3 epic rengars + his overnumbered is slightly more than the box, but without the RNG.
Leona, Unleashed Edition
Good Day Riftbound Community. With the release of Unleashed, there has been an assemble of new cards that synergize with stuns and cause stuns. I would like to begin a discussion of what new cards to look into, new cards that could be traps and general discourse around this legend.
In my opinion, there are new must haves for Leona:
Back Off – Incredible Stun that Draws when played from hand, or can be hidden.
Vex-Mocking – Moves to a battlefield where a stun happens, with Shield AND Tank to protect your units there.
Nami – Option Stun with a powerful hold effect to buff and ready a unit played.
And these are good new options:
Scuttle Crab
Honeyfruit
Vilemaw
Heroic Charge
Monch
Allay, Eager Admirer
Flurry of Feathers
Galio-Indefatigable
Vi-Peacekeeper
Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of you guys opening packs and pulling Legends left and right 😭😭😭 tho ik it’s part of playing TCGs, I’m honestly starting to think about just trading a card for it or buying the card I really wanted instead.
I’m curious… how much does this Poro card usually cost? I really like this one and I’m starting to realize it might actually be better for me to just buy this one instead of testing my luck on booster boxes lol
PLEASE BE NICE IM JUST NEW TO THIS. Thank you!
YAHOO!! (ФωФ) I was hoping the chinese new year Irelia preorder would be shipped together with this one but seems like they'll ship on the 31st
Got an email. Says 3 weeks….
East coast NA
Legitimate question - the prices for booster boxes seems to be falling fast since Unleashed launch, even below MSRP on TCGplayer. Considered cancelling the pre-order I got from RIOT as its $140 with shipping and won't arrive for probably two months like the previous set.
I'd save near $40 doing this and purchasing from TCGplayer with free shipping. My buddies said don't do it as the stock is from cases that got their pull and are selling the rest. Shouldn't each pack have the same chance at a hit or is that not how packs/boxes are seeded? This is my first TCG and I'm pretty new but would love some insight if anyone has any to share.
For two sets, I was only playing blue/yellow, so I thought it would be smart to buy multiple boxes of one or two colors for my card sleeves so I could easily swap cards around all of the different decks I had built. I chose DS Midnight Blue and Orchid.
When playing, I always fan my hand and place it face down on my mat so my opponent never has to ask me how many cards I have in my hand. During a match, after placing my hand down, it looked like I had two different types of sleeves. One was very obviously more textured than the other. I started fanning out my deck, and the entire deck was mixed with these two different sleeves.
When I got home, I double checked the boxes to make sure they were the same exact sleeve (matte vs. dual matte, for example). They were exactly the same. I thought it would be a one-off thing, but I just noticed the same issue with a second color (before it was Orchid, now Midnight Blue).
Has anyone else experienced this issue? I know that it's hard to tell the difference in the photos, but it's very obvious in person when fanning out a deck with a mix of the sleeves. It's obviously variation between two different boxes, but how normal/acceptable is this? I don't want it to look like I have marked cards or something. TIA!
If this resolves on a chain with other spells from the same controller that this lilting lullaby countered, will the other spells resolve?
This is a multi-faceted question, so I'll bring up a few points, and if you can think of more feel free to bring them up.
1- As a new player, how easy/difficult is it to get into Riftbound?
For me I think the answer to this is it's much easier, vaults (while the shape of the box is terrible), offer a good way to bulk up your collection, and the starter decks feel like they've found the sweet spot WOTC missed for ages, having actual playable staples in your decklist, without making it feel like a competitively constructed deck you don't want to tweak.
Honestly the only thing I'd really want now is a toolkit (IE a ~$20 box, with a few bulk runes, legends, a bit of bulk cards, and a few boosters), and with the upcoming duel decks, I feel the game is doing very good for new players. The one drawback being they are doing too many erratas I'd say. Most casuals won't know about or use those erratas.
2- How healthy is the meta? Are bans holding up and what problematic cards might need to be addressed?
Personally I see a lot of people playing all sorts of stuff, it's still early, but even the 'niche' legends got played this set just because I think a lot of people like the varied playstyles we got which is a good thing.
That said I think Aurora is becoming more and more of a problem, not because it's inherently op, but more so it's just a meta warping card for any body deck, and I think this card might need to catch a ban just to encourage these decks (especially Sivir and Miss Fortune), to actually play around their legends instead of just making good stuff piles that dig for Aurora. Aurora definitely feels like a big anti-diversity card because it seems to be auto-include for a lot of decks, and I think if they take it out, we'll see a lot more exciting builds.
And if banning it causes a major problem, that points out more about the color having a problem than Aurora itself.
Beyond that right now I think it's pretty healthy, varied and exciting to build decks.
3- What would you want to see in future sets/what other problems do you see in the games ecosystem right now?
I think the biggest issue here is all champions being rare+ and legends being in the rare slot instead of a token auto include at the back of a booster. Also a lot of the rare champions often feel stronger than the epic variants.
I think of those the biggest issue is obviously the legends problem. I was trading yesterday with a dude and looking through his unleashed stuff, and guy must've had like 100 or so of the new legends. It's just wild.
Beyond that I'm curious if they'd ever do like 'uncommon champions' like how Magic has uncommon legendries now. Making it easier to get something playable for a champion you like, and also broadening the pool without necessarily forcing mediocre effects into the rare slot. A good example of this in my opinion would be Xerath-Freed, who doesn't feel like he has a home an just feels like worse Caitlyn, because unlike Cait he doesn't have innate scaling AND he has a power cost to do flat damage. It's just an uncommon in the rare slot imo.
As for what I'd want to see in future sets, I'd honestly love if they release draft boxes with a few recent sets. It'd be really fun to just pull from like the past 4-5 sets and draft, rather than only having draft boxes for pre-release. I think drafting in riftbound is probably one of my favorite experiences with the game so far, so seeing draft boxes beyond just pre-rift kits would be nice. Maybe even put an variant art on the legend and champion in those kits to make them unique without mechanically changing them.
What do you all think? How are you feeling in set 3 right now?
20 legends :(
This is my first TCG and I’ve learned to never buy packs again, just singles lol
I was really hyped to play the azir leblanc list that won the shanghai city challenge but by the time i got the cards they changed the ruling so ill have to edit the decklist for this friday nexus night, i really liked it because it was more oriented on ramping runes and playing goodstuff units instead of going all in on deathknell and id like your opinion if it`s still worth to play something like that and swapping the 2 azir for something else or if i should stick with the standard lists, i was thinking about swapping one yellow rune for a blue one and adding 2 ruined rex replacing the 2 azir but i fear it will slow down the curve too much.
This is the list:
https://riftdecks.com/riftbound-metagame/deck-rang-hei-se-mei-gui-zai-ci-wei-da-132613
p.s (this rules change is temporary and it will be reverted as we all played it when vendetta is released)
I understand It's still a new game and it'll take time for things to settle but I swear there's more discussion here some days about pull rates and finance and people screenshotting their orders and yapping about shipping than the actual game itself, It's exhausting.
I see people talking about how they order CASES to pull ONs and I start to feel a certain way. I know collectors are an important part of any healthy TCG especially with such a strong IP behind it but please moderate yourselves, It only takes one influencer with too much money and zero impulse control to ruin the entire primary and secondary market for years, and we already had to deal with shortages twice.
TL;DR
Buy singles, support your LGS, control your gambling habits and stop posting about what came in the mail today, it's weird.
change da world my final message. Goodb ye