Remember Project K? Riot Games has unveiled official updates to the game! Check out the news below!
TLDR:
- Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game will launch with its inaugural set called Origins with more than 300 different cards starting this Summer in China followed by many English-speaking countries in October 2025.
- Riftbound will launch with several champions from the League of Legends universe including Annie, Garen, Jinx, Lee Sin, Lux, Master Yi, Viktor, Volibear, Yasuo, and more.
Date: March 31, 2025
What you need to know:
- Project K is officially known as Riftbound: League of Legends Trading Card Game.
- Riftbound can be played in 1v1 and multiplayer formats including 2v2 and free-for-all.
- Riftbound will launch with its first set known as Origins. Origins will launch with over 300 different cards, including pre-constructed decks for the classic champions Viktor, Jinx, and Lee Sin.
- Riftbound: Origins Champion Decks are ready-to-play decks with 56 cards.
- Champion Decks feature a variety of card types including units, legends, champions, spells, gear, runes, and battlegrounds.
- For new or casual players, Proving Grounds is the perfect way to kick off your Riftbound collection including starter decks featuring Lux, Annie, Master Yi, and Garen.
- Riftbound: Proving Grounds is a boxed set designed to play with 2-4 players.
- For those looking to power up their decks, 14-card booster packs with a variety of rarities will be available at launch.
- Riftbound or 符文战场 in China will launch in Summer 2025 with Shining Soul. Riot Games and UVS Games will launch Riftbound in English-speaking countries in October 2025 and additional regional rollouts in 2026.
- Riot Games is partnering with UVS Games, an industry veteran with almost two decades of TCG experience, to ensure that players can find Riftbound in their local game stores and participate in organized play.
- Throughout the year, players will be able to demo and check out Riftbound decks at some of the upcoming Riot and tabletop events.
- Final card design and gameplay mechanics are still in development.
Quote from Chengran Chai, Executive Producer, Riot Games:
“We’ve been incredibly humbled by the excitement and interest from players around the world who can’t wait to play Riftbound. We’re grateful to the growing Riftbound community and the TCG players who’ve jumped in early to share their feedback including the call for more original art and refined UI. That feedback encouraged us to level up the game experience by revisiting some of our design decisions and conducting more playtests to ensure that we’re delivering a game that players will love.”
Quote from Dave Guskin, Game Director, Riot Games:
“We fell in love with the name Riftbound as it evokes Summoner’s Rift, captures a sense of playful action that we see in the game, and it’s extremely catchy and concise. As we moved to finalizing the name, we discovered that an indie studio in Australia, Barrel Smash Studios, had already released a game under the same title. They generously took the time to meet with us to hear our game vision, listened to why we loved the name of Riftbound so much, and agreed to transition the Riftbound name to us. We look forward to bringing Riftbound into the TCG and League of Legends community by getting decks into the hands of players later this year.”
Riot Games
Riot Games was founded in 2006 to develop, publish, and support the most player-focused games in the world. In 2009, Riot released its debut title, League of Legends, which has gone on to be one of the most-played PC games in the world. In the years that followed, Riot released VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and League of Legends: Wild Rift. Riot’s titles have led to the creation of some of the most-watched and widely recognized esports in the world, culminating in events like the League of Legends World Championship and VALORANT Champions Tour (VCT), which are watched by millions of fans each year. Riot has also expanded its IP through multimedia projects across music, comic books, board games, and Arcane, its Emmy-winning animated series.
UVS Games
UVS Games is a leading publisher of tabletop games, dedicated to bringing iconic franchises to life through innovative gameplay and immersive storytelling. Known for the long running CCG UniVersus, UVS Games blends fan-favorite properties with strategic mechanics, creating engaging experiences for both casual players and competitive enthusiasts in the tabletop gaming community.
