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League of Legends TCG Riftbound is the best thing Riot’s done since Arcane, but I’m not convinced it has MTG’s staying power

League of Legends TCG Riftbound is the best thing Riot’s done since Arcane, but I’m not convinced it has MTG’s staying power

When Riot announced that its mysterious Project K was, in fact, a League of Legends card game known as Riftbound, I approached it with, to borrow game designer Jonathan Moormann’s words, “some trepidation.” I’ve been pretty open about my complex relationship with LoL: it’s the game I’ve sunk the most hours into and absolutely the one I love the most, but from around mid-2024 into 2025, it feels, in many ways, unrecognizable. Its characters and gameplay are the same, but having blitzed through a few games in a post-Worlds spree, it doesn’t quite elicit the same emotions that it used to. In many ways, we’ve grown apart (it’s not you, it’s me), and I was hoping that Riftbound would reignite that spark.

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