Riftbound rarity guide
Riftbound has a simple base ladder — Common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic — and then a premium layer that does all the damage to your wallet: textured alt-arts, Overnumbered cards, autographed Signatures and a one-card Ultimate tier. This guide explains every tier with real counts from the card catalog and observed odds from cited box openings.
Inside a booster pack
A Riftbound booster contains 14 cards: 7 Commons, 3 Uncommons, 3 foil slots and 1 token or rune. Of the three foil slots, the first is a common/uncommon foil and the other two are rare-or-higher. Premium treatments replace cards in those back slots when they appear — and don't skip the rune slot: textured alt-art runes exist and count as premium pulls.
The tiers
The bulk of every pack — 7 of the 14 cards in a booster are Commons.
3 per pack. Plenty of playable staples live here; cheap to buy as singles.
Appears in the back foil slots (2 of the 3 foil slots are rare-or-higher).
The top of the base ladder — about 1 in 4 packs, ≈6 per box (verified across four cited box openings).
Not a pack slot but the catalog's umbrella tier for premium treatments: textured alt-arts, Overnumbered cards, Signatures and the Ultimate Rare.
Event and product promos (Nexus Nights, pre-release kits) — outside booster odds.
Premium treatments, decoded
| Treatment | How to identify | Observed frequency |
|---|---|---|
| Alt-art (textured) | 'A' suffix on the number + textured surface | ~2–4 per box (creator-stated; matches our cited openings) |
| Textured rune | Textured finish on a rune card | ~1 per box (three-for-three in our cited Origins openings) |
| Overnumbered | Number above set size (e.g. 238/219), gold etching | 4 in 384 cited packs (~1 per 4 boxes observed) |
| Signature | Overnumbered + printed artist autograph (hot stamp) | Rarer than Overnumbered — 0 in our 384 cited packs; check carefully, the stamp is easy to miss |
| Ultimate Rare | One card per set (Unleashed: Baron Nashor) | 0 in our cited packs — the set's single biggest chase |
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.
Rarity counts by set
| Set | Common | Uncommon | Rare | Epic | Showcase | Promo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unleashed | 68 | 61 | 60 | 36 | 67 | 6 |
| Spiritforged | 69 | 63 | 60 | 38 | 72 | 6 |
| Origins | 89 | 84 | 84 | 42 | 54 | — |
| Origins: Proving Grounds | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | — | — |
Counts sync daily from the TCGplayer catalog. For what these tiers are worth in dollars, see each set's best-cards and pull-rates pages, or watch the daily price movers.
FAQ
- What is the rarest card type in Riftbound?
- The Ultimate Rare, introduced in Unleashed — a single card in the entire set (Baron Nashor). Below it sit autographed Signature variants, then Overnumbered alt-arts (roughly one per 2–4 booster boxes based on cited community openings), then the textured alt-art cards.
- What does 'Overnumbered' mean?
- Overnumbered cards carry a collector number higher than the set's size — for example 238/219 in a 219-card set. They are premium alt-art foils with gold etching, equivalent to what other games call secret rares.
- How do I spot an alt-art card?
- Look for an 'A' suffix next to the collector number and a textured finish you can feel on the card surface. Alt-art runes also exist and count toward a box's premium pulls — check your rune slot before sleeving bulk.
- How many Epics are in a booster box?
- Six Epics per 24-pack box is the consistent observation — four independently tallied box openings in our citation set each produced exactly six.