Riftbound launched last year and has built a strong following as the second League of Legends card game, following the underrated Legends of Runeterra.
Vendetta is the third set released in 2026 and the fourth set overall. It is slightly smaller than previous releases, but still features well-known Champions and other Runeterra characters. Riot has built the set around rivalry, with new mechanics adding fresh ways to play.
- Flow lets players play cards from the trash.
- Burn sends cards to the trash.
- Unit Gear combines the ideas of units and gear in a new card type.
- Empower gives cards additional buffs in exchange for a cost.
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10. Kai’Sa – Survivor
Kai’Sa remains one of League of Legends’ most recognisable Champions, helped by her role in K/DA, distinctive suit and popularity as a playable character. This four-cost reprint of her Origins card retains four Might and the Accelerate keyword.
When she conquers, players can draw a card, just as with the earlier version. The Crystal Rose alternative art version is around $120, driven by its rarity and detailed artwork.
9. Jayce – Man of Progress
Returning for the first time since Spiritforged, Jayce – Man of Progress has an overnumbered version valued at about $124. Overnumbered cards are rare alternative-art cards that sit outside a set’s usual numbering system.
Jayce keeps his earlier ability: when played, he can sacrifice a friendly gear card to play a gear card costing less than 7 from hand. The effect suits League’s 100th Champion.
8. Vi – Destructive
This overnumbered Origins reprint of Vi – Destructive was sitting at approximately $130.
Vi costs 2 Energy and 1 Power, and can recycle from the trash to increase her Might from 3. Her popularity is also likely to benefit from her starring role in Arcane. Jinx receives a reprint in Vendetta, but no value was available for her at the time of the ranking.
7. Viktor – Innovator
Viktor returns from Origins, where he had his own Champion deck, with a new visual treatment. The alternative-art Viktor – Innovator is around $130, despite being functionally identical to versions selling for only cents.
The artwork charts his shift from a more human appearance to an almost entirely mechanical form within a year.
6. Ambessa – Matriarch of War
Ambessa – Matriarch of War is a new Vendetta card with an overnumbered version priced at roughly $150.
Her ability can ready a unit so it can return to battle. Ambessa was the first canonically dead League of Legends Champion, but this version is anything but ineffective.
5. Kayle – Justified
The overnumbered Kayle – Justified is valued at about $160. Its large amount of rules text gives it an unusually dense appearance.
Kayle can receive Empower up to three times, gaining two Might with each improvement. At the third Empower, she gains Deflect 3 and Ganking, making it important for opponents to deal with her before she gathers momentum and moves around the board.
4. Ambessa – Respected and Feared
A second Ambessa appears among the set’s most valuable cards. The overnumbered Ambessa – Respected and Feared depicts her ready for combat and was selling for around $200.
This new Vendetta card can become Empowered to gain Assault 2, then cull a weaker enemy when she attacks. Its aggressive design matches Ambessa’s ruthless reputation on the Rift.
3. Akali – Rogue Assassin
Akali’s inclusion in Vendetta was known when the set was revealed, but the details of her card are now clear. The overnumbered Akali – Rogue Assassin shows her avoiding shuriken and can be exhausted to return a friendly unit to base, readying it in the process.
At approximately $220, Akali benefits from both her ninja identity and her prominent role in K/DA.
2. Ahri – Inquisitive
Returning from Origins, Ahri – Inquisitive receives Crystal Rose artwork from Wild Rift, the mobile version of League of Legends.
The standard card was selling for only a few dollars, while this version approached $300. Its value was already falling, although Ahri’s recognition beyond the main game remains a significant draw.
1. Nasus – Curator of the Sands
Nasus, a favourite from Legends of Runeterra, finally joins the Riftbound roster. His overnumbered Nasus – Curator of the Sands is the only card in this ranking to reach $300.
After playing a unit, gear card or activated ability costing 7 or more, Nasus can be exhausted to ready two runes. That ability keeps pressure on opponents in a way that echoes his endlessly stacking Siphoning Strike in League of Legends.
What makes these cards so valuable?
Vendetta combines popular Champions, scarce overnumbered treatments and alternate artwork tied to familiar League of Legends themes. The strongest prices are attached not only to competitive abilities, but also to characters such as Ahri, Akali, Vi and Kai’Sa with substantial recognition outside the card game.
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