Riftbound: Vendetta Card List, Decks, Promos and Errata

Updated November 11, 2026

The Riftbound Vendetta cards that Riot has named come from a set of official announcements: the Shen and Zed deck cards, the special card types, the promo cards and the errata. This guide pulls those pieces together for Riftbound: Vendetta, the fourth Riftbound set. Samurai Sword Tokyo does not carry Riftbound products, so this page is news coverage only.

What are the key facts about Riftbound Vendetta?

Riftbound: Vendetta is the fourth set in the Riftbound line, and Riot’s overview page gives its dates, pack layout and products. The table below summarizes it.

The sections below cover the cards and card types the official pages name.

When did the Riftbound Vendetta previews and release happen?

The Riftbound Vendetta previews ran July 6-18, 2026, and the set released on July 31 in English and Chinese. The preview season article, dated June 26, 2026, set the start for Monday, July 6.

The Dev Drop video and the Overview article went live on July 6 at 6pm Pacific. The Card Gallery was updated daily at 5pm Pacific, with newly revealed cards added in the afternoon. Readers were pointed to the Card Gallery and the #RBVendetta hashtag. The final preview day, July 18, covered the China Major event.

Pre-Rift was July 24, and the French release followed on October 23. Pre-Rift events and promo availability refer to participating local game stores (LGS).

What is in a Riftbound Vendetta booster pack?

A Riftbound Vendetta booster pack has a set slot layout, listed in the overview. The table shows each slot as published.

Riot states that appearance rates are print-run averages and are not guaranteed in any pack or display. Crystal Rose Special numbered cards are distributed like base Alt Art cards, not as Overnumbers.

Read the layout slot by slot. Ten slots are fixed by rarity: seven Commons and three Uncommons. The foil slot can be a Common, Uncommon, Rare or Epic. The two top-rarity slots are where Rare, Epic, Alt, Special Alt and Overnumber cards sit. The Token, Rune or Alt Rune slot is separate, so Alt Runes come from that slot rather than from the top-rarity slots. The Informational insert is listed on its own line.

Which cards are in the Riftbound Vendetta Shen deck?

The Riftbound Vendetta Shen Showdown Deck uses the Legend Eye of Twilight and lists a full main deck. The cards below come from the overview page.

• Champion options: 1 Shen, Leader of the Kinkou Order; 2 Shen, Scourge of Shadows; 1 Shen, Kinkou.
• Main deck: 1 Shadow Dash; 1 Steel Paws; 1 Kennen, Keeper of Balance; 2 Sacred Protector; 1 Resonating Strike; 1 Ki Barrier; 2 Discipline; 2 Noxian Emissary; 2 Pakaa Protector; 1 Lacerate; 3 Mournful Witness; 3 Disciple of Shen; 2 Hand Hammer; 1 Twilight Shroud; 2 Soulspinner; 2 Keeper of Law; 2 Field Musicians; 2 Charm; 2 Serene Ascetic; 2 Loyal Poro; 1 Dragon Form.
• Battlefields: Kinkou Temple; Grove of the God-Willow; Threshold of the Gray.
• Rune Pool: 6 Order Rune; 6 Calm Rune.
• Tokens: 5 Recruit // Empowered.

Adding up the listed copies, the Shen main deck holds 36 cards across 21 different card names, and the champion options add four copies across three Shen cards. The Rune Pool is 12 runes, split evenly between Order and Calm. Mournful Witness and Disciple of Shen are the two cards listed at three copies.

Which cards are in the Riftbound Vendetta Zed deck?

The Riftbound Vendetta Zed Showdown Deck uses the Legend Master of Shadows and also lists a full main deck. It is the second ready-to-play deck in the Vendetta Showdown Decks.

• Champion options: 2 Zed, Without a Sound; 1 Zed, From the Shadows.
• Main deck: 1 Mel, Defiant Soul; 1 Morgana, Vindictive; 1 Death Mark; 1 Twilight Reveler; 2 Twilight Step; 2 Perfect Execution; 1 Wind and Ghosts; 2 Gust Monk; 2 Shadow Fiend; 3 Shadow Assassin; 1 Ravenbloom Prefect; 2 Traveling Merchant; 3 Shadow Order Disciple; 3 Punching Poro; 3 Ruthless Strike; 3 Shadowcloaked Assassin; 3 Blade Twirler; 3 Kinkou Lifeblade.
• Battlefields: Zaun Warrens; Shadow Temple; Threshold of the Gray.
• Rune Pool: 6 Chaos Rune; 6 Fury Rune.
• Tokens: 4 Shadow Clone // Empowered.

Both decks share the battlefield Threshold of the Gray.

The Zed main deck adds up to 37 cards across 18 card names, and its champion options total three copies across two Zed cards. Seven card names are listed at three copies each: Shadow Assassin, Shadow Order Disciple, Punching Poro, Ruthless Strike, Shadowcloaked Assassin, Blade Twirler and Kinkou Lifeblade.

How do the Shen and Zed Showdown Decks compare?

The two Showdown Decks share the same overall shape: a Legend, champion options, a main deck, three battlefields, a 12-rune pool and tokens. The table sets the published numbers side by side.

The totals are our own sums of the copy counts printed on the overview page. The Shen list spreads its copies over more card names, with many one-ofs and two-ofs. The Zed list leans on three-of copies. Riot does not describe how either deck plays in the sources used here, so this guide does not either.

Which Vendetta deck cards also appear in promo packs or errata?

Several cards in the Shen and Zed decks also show up in the promo and errata lists. Five main-deck cards appear in the Nexus Nights promo list, one is in a Summoner Skirmish promo list, and one was changed by errata.

Mel also appears in more than one way. Mel, Defiant Soul is a one-of in the Zed main deck, Mel Newly Awakened is in the Nexus Nights promo list, and Mel is one of the three characters on the new Booster Display box art. The lists name these as separate entries, so read the exact card names when you compare them.

What special Riftbound Vendetta cards exist?

Riftbound Vendetta has Crystal Rose Alt Arts, Overnumbers and Rival Overnumbers as its named special card types. All three are described on the overview page.

• Crystal Rose Alt Arts celebrate Wild Rift’s returning skinline. They appear as often as other Alt Art cards and use “special” numbering.
• Overnumbers: the nine new Legends have Overnumbered variants, and some carry an artist signature.
• Rival Overnumbers: 22 champion Overnumbers depict rivalries and are designed as diptychs.

The Booster Display carries new box art showing Akali, Ambessa and Mel.

How does Crystal Rose numbering work?

Crystal Rose cards use “special” numbering, but Riot says they are distributed like base Alt Art cards, not like Overnumbers. That means they appear as often as other Alt Art cards.

What is a diptych Rival Overnumber?

A diptych is a two-part artwork. Riot says the 22 Rival Overnumbers are designed as diptychs that depict rivalries between champions. The Illaoi, Prophet of the Kraken card in the image-notes list below is one named Rival Overnumber.

Which products make up the Riftbound Vendetta line?

The Riftbound Vendetta line has four named products: the Booster Display, the Showdown Decks, the Vault and the Pre-Rift Kits. The table lists what the overview says about each.

The Pre-Rift Kit pairs ordinary boosters with seeded packs tied to the new Legends, which fits the nine new Legends described in the special-cards section. A separate Pre-Rift promo, Riven, Shattered, was available while supplies lasted at participating local game stores.

Which promo cards belong to Riftbound Vendetta?

Several promos tie to Riftbound Vendetta, including Riven, Shattered at Pre-Rift and new Vendetta cards in Nexus Nights promo packs. The table lists them as published.

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The Nexus Nights list names 19 cards plus Alternate Runes. Summoner Skirmish 1 lists three promo entries, and Summoner Skirmish 2 lists three. In both Skirmish lists one card is named twice, which the overview shows as two entries.

What errata and image issues affect Riftbound Vendetta cards?

Riot has confirmed a short list of Riftbound Vendetta image issues and issued three errata. The July 17 post A Note on Vendetta Card Images covers the image problems.

• Renekton, Butcher of Sands (Overnumber): an incomplete image shown in the first preview week was an outdated digital asset and did not reach print.
• Gangplank, Naval (normal and Overnumber): an errata issue with the Empowered ability, which appends “this turn”, made it to print.
• Gangplank, Naval (Overnumber): it is missing its Pirate tag, and this made it to print.
• Illaoi, Prophet of the Kraken (Rival Overnumber): the rules text “from Bilgewater” is missing from the token it creates, and this made it to print.

Partner UVS Games confirmed the Gangplank and Illaoi issues appear on English Riftbound cards. The correct rules text overrides printed rules text. A full audit of Vendetta card images against printed cards found no other graphical issues.

The errata post of July 23, 2026 made three changes:

The Gangplank, Naval fix connects the two posts. The image note of July 17 flagged the Empowered ability’s “this turn” wording as a print issue, and the July 23 errata set the effect to last “this turn.” Because the correct rules text overrides printed text, a player holding a printed copy follows the errata wording.

How does Riftbound Vendetta compare with earlier Riftbound sets?

Riftbound Vendetta follows Origins and Spiritforged in Riot’s release order and is the fourth set. Origins launched in English on October 31, 2025, and Spiritforged is called Riftbound’s second set in Riot’s precon article of February 13, 2026.

The Spiritforged Rumble deck lists cards such as 2 Ferrous Forerunner (SFD-021/221), 2 Rumble, Hotheaded (SFD-026/221), 3 Gem Jammer (SFD-007/221), 1 Rumble, Scrapper (SFD-089/221) and 7 Mech Token (SFD-T01). The Fiora deck lists 2 Fiora, Peerless (SFD-110/221), 1 Fiora, Worthy (SFD-180/221), 2 Lucian, Merciless (SFD-113/221), 1 Yone, Blademaster (SFD-116/221) and 5 Sand Soldier Token (SFD-T02), per the Spiritforged precons article. Origins details come from Riot’s how to buy Riftbound page.

The Spiritforged precon article prints card numbers for each card, while the Vendetta overview prints names and copy counts for the Shen and Zed decks without card numbers. For Vendetta, the official Card Gallery is the place to look up individual card images.

What comes after Riftbound Vendetta?

Radiance is Set 5 and follows Riftbound Vendetta, with Pre-Rift on October 16-22, 2026 and release on October 23, 2026, per the products and sets into 2027 post. Legacy (Set 6) has Pre-Rift January 22-28, 2027 and release January 29, 2027. The Reckoning (Set 7) releases April 30, 2027.

The Gift of the Rift Bundle is sold through local game stores and mass retailers. Riot also lists a Secret Garden product: three alt-art cards (Ivern, Lillia and Ultrasoft Poro), five alt-art double-sided tokens, two sleeve packs, two full-art postcards and three Unleashed boosters, at $70 for the English version.

Legacy changes the pack layout. A Common slot is replaced by a slot for either a Legend or a Battlefield, roughly 50/50, so Legacy packs have six Commons instead of seven. Vendetta packs, by contrast, keep seven Commons.

Where should you check Vendetta card details?

The Card Gallery on Riot’s Riftbound site is the place to check individual Vendetta cards, and the errata and image-note posts are the places to check rules text. The preview season article names the Card Gallery and the #RBVendetta hashtag as the places previews were collected.

For rules questions, remember the order of authority Riot states: the correct rules text overrides printed rules text. For the three errata cards, that means the July 23 wording governs. For Renekton, Butcher of Sands, the incomplete image from the first preview week should not be taken as the printed card.

More Riftbound guides

• Riftbound Card List: Origins 298 Cards, Sets and Dates
• Riftbound: Spiritforged Booster Box, Release and Cards
• Riftbound Origins Booster Box: 24 Packs, Slots and Rarities

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