07/21/2026
This Friday at The Gilded Table - 6PM - $45 Entry
League of Legends: Riftbound Vendetta Prerelease Event
A Pre-Rift event is your first opportunity to get your hands on a new set’s cards and play with them before the set is officially released. They’re a sneak peek of what’s to come, where you get to crack packs with your local game store (LGS) community, build a deck, and play it immediately.
Pre-Rift events are fun, social, and casual! The focus is on learning and lighthearted fun, so don’t worry about bumping into any extreme competition. Instead, have fun with the people around you, chat about the deck you’re gonna try out, and don’t hesitate to ask your fellow Riftbounders or the event judge for help while you’re building your deck or in the middle of a game.
The other great thing about Pre-Rifts is that they are Sealed events. This means all the cards you need to play will be provided to you as part of the event, and you’ll just need to build your deck from that limited card pool.
In Sealed, you'll open Booster Packs; for this event, they'll be Vendetta Booster Packs. You can use any of the cards you open from those packs when building your deck, but you can’t add outside cards from your collection to your deck.
Building a Sealed deck has similar rules to building a normal Constructed deck, but there are some key differences:
Sealed decks have a minimum Main Deck size of 25, but you can play more than that if you want to.
You can use as many copies of a card as you open, including going above the normal limit of 3 copies of a card.
Sealed decks can use up to three domains of cards and Runes. If you use a Legend or Signature card, that covers two of your domains.
You are not limited to Runes or tokens that you open in your packs. The event organizer will provide additional Runes, and you can use anything handy to represent tokens!
Your Chosen Champion and Signature cards must be within your three domains, but they don’t have to match the Champion on your Legend. For example, if you have Nasus, Ascended as your Chosen Champion with Lightning Rush in your deck, and Shen, Eye of Twilight as your Legend. Your three domains would be: Calm, Chaos, and Order.
You can use Battlefields that you open, or use a facedown card as a "blank" substitute Battlefield. These blank Battlefields have no abilities and are locations for players to conquer and hold.
You can change the starting configuration of your deck in between games and rounds. Don’t be afraid to alter your build as you go!
