Riftbound rulings
Every official card ruling
Riot's answers to questions about specific cards, from its FAQs and patch notes, quoted word for word. Rulings that later rules changed are left out.
Core Rules: Radiance Patch Notes (Effective October 16, 2026)
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- What happens when I play Ekko, Boy Who Shattered Time’s activated ability, play a unit, and then play Unlicensed Armoy’s activated ability? Will the unit be killed on my next turn?
- Can I show off a facedown card at a battlefield with the Show Off ability of Gutter Guardian?
- What’s up with the reminder text on Chronobreak? Do I get to choose the order?
- What happens when I play Transpositionist’s activated ability choosing an empowered Gangplank, Naval with 6
Might? Can I play Angler Wyrm? - What happens when I choose an attached Equipment with Orianna, Lady of Clockwork?
- What happens when I choose a gear with Deploy located at a battlefield with Orianna, Lady of Clockwork?
- What happens when I choose another gear with Orianna, Lady of Clockwork and the previous unit-gear stops being a unit? Will its attached Equipment fall off? If it’s a deploy gear in base, do I get to move it?
- So how does Neeko, Blending In actually work? When do I choose the legends, do I get three legends per Neeko in my deck, can I add multiple of the same legend to the Legend Zone, do the legends enter ready, and do I need to reveal them to my opponent?
- What happens when the unit on the board that I Showed Off with Primordial Roar is returned to my hand with Star-Crossed? Do I still deal damage? What about if I play Lunar Boon and discard the unit from hand?
- What counts as reducing a unit’s Might for Ahri, Confident? If I play Discipline on my 1 Might unit while it’s stunned and located at the same battlefield as an enemy Leona, Zealot, will I trigger their Ahri, Confident located at that battlefield?
Vendetta Rules FAQ and Clarifications
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- What happens when you play Abandon on a spell that was played for its Flow cost?
- What is the difference between Iascylla and Azir, Sovereign’s uses of “this battlefield”?
- What happens when I play Moonfall choosing an enemy unit while I control an empowered Mel, Newly Awakened?
- What about casting Stupefy while I have an empowered Mel, Newly Awakened?
- Speaking of Mel, can my opponent play Abandon on my spell while I control an empowered Mel, Newly Awakened? What happens?
- How does it work if I cast Abandon while having an empowered Mel, Newly Awakened but they Rebuttal my spell?
- What happens if I choose to copy an empowered unit when I equip an unempowered unit with Shady Spectacles?
- What happens when my opponent’s Akshan, Mischievous steals my equipped Shady Spectacles? What happens if they want to copy Aphelios?
Akshan, MischievousShady SpectaclesAphelios, ExaltedSvellsongur
- My Sand Soldier has Shady Spectacles equipped and is a copy of Azir, Ascendent. What happens if I activate the copied Azir’s activatedability before detaching the Shady Spectacles and then attach them to the same Sand Soldier as a copy of the same Azir, Ascendent? Can I use the activated ability again?
- What happens during combat damage assignment if my 4 Might unit has both Ki Barrier and Lotus Trap played on it this turn and my opponent has a 4 Might defender?
- What happens when I discard a Patched Porobot with Hwei, Brooding Painter’s move trigger?
- If my opponent plays two spells in succession, can I counter the first one with Crumbling Sands?
- When can I react to my opponent playing Fallen Feline to a battlefield? And how does naming a card work?
- If I disempower a Kayle, Justified who has been empowered 3 times, does she lose all of her empowered statuses?
- But can I activate Kayle’s empower ability even if she’s already empowered?
- What happens if my opponent plays Flash on their Akali, Silent that’s currently in combat after I play Star-Crossed targeting her?
- I have a Ravenbloom Student on the board and I haven’t played any spells this turn. What happens when I play Rebuttal targeting my opponent’s Stupefy and pay
Any Rune on resolution? After everything resolves, how much will Battering Ram cost? Will my opponent’s Legion abilities be active? - What happens when I conquer with Swain, Visionary, if I’ve only played a Patched Porobot and Stupefy this turn?
- What happens when my opponent plays Switcheroo on their 2 Might unit and my empowered Gangplank, Naval?
- What happens when my empowered Gangplank, Naval is moved by my opponent’s Blast Cone’s play effect and they exhaust Blast Cone to stun Gangplank? Will he be stunned? What happens if I then play Back Off choosing my Gangplank? Will he get +3 Might this turn?
- What happens if I play Stupefy on my 1 Might empowered Gangplank, Naval? Will he get +3 Might this turn?
- What happens when my opponent plays Hidden Blade targeting my Akali, Deadly Weapon in reaction to her move trigger? Will it still deal damage to the chosen unit?
- Can I activate an empowered Heimerdinger, Inventor to ready 2 gear if my Jayce, Defender of Tomorrow legend isn’t empowered? What about if my Heimerdinger isn’t empowered?
- What card does Astral Heron’s triggered ability discount?
- What happens when I play Temporal Breach targeting my Elder Dragon in base and pay Any RuneAny Rune for Dragon Roost while playing Elder Dragon? Will it be played to base or to Dragon Roost?
- What happens when I play Perched Grimwyrm while I haven’t conquered Dragon Roost this turn? Can I pay Any RuneAny Rune and play it to Dragon Roost? What if I’ve conquered another battlefield this turn?
- Can I disempower my Ambessa, Matriarch of War with Profiteer to empower my Kayle? Do I control my own legend?
- What happens if I play Dragon Form on a unit that has -1 Might from Stupefy applied to it? Will my Fiora, Grand Duelist trigger? Is there a moment where my unit becomes 5 Might before the -1 Might from Stupefy brings it down to 4 Might?
- What happens when I play Hostile Takeover gaining control of my opponent’s ready unit, move it to base, and then play Temporal Breach choosing it? Where will the unit go?
- My 11 Might Renekton, Brute is disempowered by my own Profiteer. What happens when my opponent plays Stupefy choosing him? Will his ability trigger? What happens if instead I activated his ability?
- What happens when I play Icathian Rain choosing a Recruit at Heisho, Shell of the World once and Irelia, Fervent in base five times? How many times do I pay for deflect?
Icathian Rain, Kai'SaHeisho, Shell of the WorldIrelia, Fervent
- What happens when I play Hextech Ray on an Elder Dragon while Imperial Decree’s delayed trigger is active and I have an Immortal Phoenix in the Trash? Can I play Immortal Phoenix from the Trash?
- If I play Ride the Wind targeting my unit at Vilemaw’s Lair and attempt to move them to base, what happens?
Unleashed Rules FAQ and Clarifications
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- What happens when you conquer Aspirant’s Climb with Green Father and Brush the battlefield when both players are at 8 points?
- What happens if you Brush a Brush? Can you swap back the original battlefield you Brushed?
- If I play Turn to Dust on an attached Equipment, will the Equipment die in the Beginning Phase?
- If Temporary is granted to an attached Spinning Axe, will it die at the start of my Beginning Phase?
- If I conquer a battlefield with Zilean, Time Mage, can I copy him with my Deceiver legend? Will I make infinite Zileans?
- If I play Counter Strike in response to my opponent’s Elder Dragon’s play effect, will the chosen unit still die?
- My opponent plays Elder Dragon and targets my two units at the two battlefields, as well as one of my units in base. If I play Flash in reaction, moving the two units at battlefields to base, will they be dealt damage?
- If I play Singularity and my opponent counters it, can I still play Jhin, Meticulous Killer for
Rune of this card's domain this turn? - I play Alpha Strike targeting my Master Yi, Unstoppable and splitting 12 damage among three of the four enemy units at battlefields. If my opponent plays Flash in reaction to my Alpha Strike, moving two of the targeted units to base, can they then play Repulse and counter my Alpha Strike?
- If I hold Reckoner’s Arena with Yone, Blademaster, will I place his triggered ability on the chain when the hold effect of Reckoner’s Arena resolves?
- What happens if I play Atakhan from my deck with Rek’Sai, Breacher on the board? Can I pay the Accelerate cost and kill Rek’Sai for the Atakhan additional cost? Will it enter ready?
Riftbound Spiritforged FAQ
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- Is the first friendly unit on Deathgrip a cost or a target? When do I kill it, and what happens if I don’t?
- Does Edge of Night’s auto-attach ability work?
- Can Janna’s play effect be used to heal my units without an enemy unit present?
- Can Kato the Arm give himself his own Might and keywords?
- Does Kato give keywords he’s gained during play? What about Might bonuses from various sources like Equipment?
- Can I still conquer and hold battlefields while my opponent has Tianna? Do I get conquer and hold triggers? What about drawing a card instead of getting the 8th point from conquering?
- Does Forgotten Monument work the same as Tianna? Will it receive similar errata?
- When and how does Yone trigger? If you conquer a battlefield, is it still open?
- What does it mean to win or lose a combat?
- If I win on the attack and conquer, does this happen before or after I score? Before or after conquer effects?
- Can Pickpocket kill a Gold token?
- Can Rumble, Hotheaded choose a Mech token to recycle? If he does, where does it go?
- Does Svellsongur copy text that the unit has gained from other sources, such as the Assault granted by Cleave? What about text it’s gained from other Equipment?
- I heard that cards that reduce Might will no longer say “to a minimum of 1” on them. Does that mean Origins cards like Stupefy will receive errata?
- Does this mean that units’ Might can go to 0 or below now?
- Does a unit with 0 or less Might automatically die?
- What costs does Ezreal, Prodigy reduce? Does he reduce Repeat costs? Accelerate costs? Equip costs?
- What about Deflect costs? Aren’t those optional now?
- What parts of a spell does the Repeat ability cause to be repeated? Is it the entire effect? If I use Temporal Portal to give Find Your Center Repeat and pay the cost while its cost reduction applies, does the cost reduction happen once or twice, and does the final spell cost 2 or 4?