Riftbound card rarities & variants

The Riftbound rarity ladder

Riftbound uses six collectible rarity tiers, plus non-collectible tokens. Here is every card we have catalogued, by tier (as of 2026-08-09):

Note there is no "Legendary" tier — a common assumption carried over from other TCGs. The apex chase cards are Signatures, which live inside the Showcase rarity but are numbered differently (see below). You can browse and filter every card by rarity on the full card lists.

How to read a Riftbound card number

Every Riftbound card's collector number tells you which variant you're holding before you even check the rarity. The base format is number/setSize — but the suffixes and prefixes are where the value hides:

The numbers that signal money are the ones above the set size: we count 92 Overnumbered cards and 45 Signatures (plus 120 alternate-art printings) across the catalogue. An asterisk identifies the Signature treatment; it does not by itself establish a current value or pull probability.

Foil vs non-foil: the rule nobody states

Here is the single most useful identification rule, and it isn't printed anywhere on the packaging. Whether a Riftbound card can even exist as non-foil depends entirely on its rarity:

• Common & Uncommon — printed in non-foil, with a foil variant of most cards. A foil Common is a genuine variant worth more than its non-foil twin.
• Rare, Epic, Showcase & Promo — in booster packs these are foil-only. Of the 525 booster cards at these tiers, 524 exist only as foils — so if someone lists a "non-foil Rare" from a booster, it's mislabeled.
• The one exception — the Proving Grounds starter deck is precon and printed entirely non-foil, so its Rares and Epics are the only non-foil high-rarity cards in the game. That's why a Rare from a starter deck looks "wrong" next to a booster Rare.

So if you're holding a non-foil card from a pack, it's a Common or Uncommon — full stop. Every booster Rare-and-above in your binder is foil by definition.

Premium treatments within Showcase, decoded

"Showcase" is one catalog rarity, but it bundles three very different treatments — with different collector-number patterns. Identification and observed frequencies below reflect the current catalog and limited cited openings as of 2026-08-09:

Frequencies come from the cited community box openings on our per-set pull-rate pages — sample sizes stated there. Riot does not publish official odds.

Use the number to identify the printing. Spiritforged's Ahri – Inquisitive is catalogued as an Overnumbered 227/221 and a Signature 227★/221. The asterisk identifies which entry to price; current snapshot values appear in the tables above. See the full Signature cards list for every catalogued Signature across all sets.

For the full value ranking of any set — and what a box actually costs per pack against these chase cards — see our best cards to pull pages, or watch the latest price movers.

Rarity counts by set

Counts reflect the latest stored TCGplayer catalog snapshot. Rarity tells you what a card is; pull rates tell you how often you'll see it — see Origins, Spiritforged and Unleashed pull rates.

"Is my card valuable?" — a 30-second check

1. Identify the finish. Note whether it is foil or non-foil and whether it came from a booster or a fixed starter product.
2. Read the exact number. A plain number such as 123/298 identifies a standard catalog entry; confirm its rarity rather than guessing from foil alone.
3. An "a" suffix? Alternate-art Showcase — look it up, values vary widely.
4. A number above the set size? Overnumbered (secret rare). If it also has an asterisk, check the Signature catalog entry. Then use the exact printing's current snapshot price.