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Riftbound Radiance: Release Dates, Spoilers, and Your Launch Plan

By RiftStorm.gg5 minPublished Oct 8, 2026Updated Oct 8, 2026

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Radiance arrives on October 23, and the useful work starts before opening a box: read the revealed cards, decide what you want to test, and book a Pre-Rift event. Our Radiance hub brings the official spoilers and release details together, with a full-size card viewer and filters for Domains, card types, and showcase treatments.

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This is preview coverage. A new Legend is a reason to explore a mechanic; it is not evidence of a solved tournament deck. We will keep exact published lists separate from experiments.

Put These Dates on Your Calendar

Radiance previews run September 25–October 9. Pre-Rift follows October 16–22, with the English, French, and Chinese release on October 23. Participating stores use kits containing five boosters and a seeded pack for early Sealed play.

Find a local event through Riot's current event site. Confirm the start time and registration details with the organizer. The release schedule tracks where Radiance fits alongside the earlier sets.

Read the Card Before Building Around the Keyword

Deploy makes a Battlefield matter to your Gear plan. Show Off asks whether you can meet a qualifying-card requirement when you play the effect. Disarm changes attacking combat math. Those are three different testing questions, so start with one rather than mixing every new mechanic into the same list.

Use the Radiance card database to read the published wording. In a preview build, note whether your mechanic creates a useful action immediately, depends on another card, or requires a board you are struggling to establish. That observation is more useful than changing ten cards after every loss.

Equipment Units and Bombs also need careful reading. Check the complete effect and the object it creates, not just the keyword badge. The rules hub is the place to check construction and timing alongside Riot's current rules.

What the Spoiler Count Means

The gallery currently contains 177 published Radiance prints, including alternate treatments, landscape Battlefields, and runes. Riot advertises 180 cards plus 66 showcase cards. The numbered official collector codes use /167. These are different counts; the number of revealed prints is not a completion percentage for the advertised product total.

Riot's gallery can lag an individual reveal. Our hub refreshes the official feed and keeps a saved snapshot available when that feed is slow. The card database and builder use the checked-in revealed snapshot, so a fresh live-gallery addition may appear there before the next catalog update.

Seraphine vs. Evelynn

Radiance's Showdown product puts Seraphine opposite Evelynn. Riot schedules the exact decklists for October 16. Until the lists are published, preview cards give you material to explore, but not a verified preconstructed deck to copy.

For your own testing, open the deck builder, choose a revealed Legend, and build a functional curve before adding elaborate synergies. Keep the draft recognizable enough that you can compare the first few games. Check regional release legality and the latest event rules before registering it.

Choose a Collection Goal

Radiance's announced treatments include K/DA special alternate art, Heartsteel overnumbers, artist signatures, and an Ultimate Rare showcase Battlefield. Filter the spoiler gallery by print to separate the regular cards from the versions you want to collect.

Official preview records do not come with invented market prices. Pricing appears as supported market listings reach our existing price feed. For now, make a shortlist based on the artwork and cards you want to play.

Release and mechanic details come from Riot's Radiance overview. Product counts come from Riot's product roadmap. All spoiler artwork shown on RiftStorm comes from the official card gallery.

Common questions

Questions players ask about Riftbound

When does Radiance release?
Radiance releases October 23, 2026 in English, French, and Chinese. Pre-Rift events take place October 16–22.
Where can I see Radiance spoilers?
The RiftStorm Radiance hub gathers official published card images. Search by card or champion, filter by Domain, type, or print, and open cards at full size.
Are the official Radiance Showdown decklists available?
Riot schedules the Seraphine and Evelynn Showdown lists for October 16. The revealed cards are available for preview testing now.

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