Riot Games has shared new information about
League of Legends Trading Card Gameās most recent expansion.
Riftboundās fourth set,
Vendetta, is set to release on
July 31st, 2026, and will be focused on the rivalries from LoLās most iconic champions. This new expansion will feature 166 new cards, nine new Legends, three new keywords, and two new card types.
However, these new additions can make cards with low play rate garner attention, or completely break them and shift the gameās meta around them. Cards from previous expansions that gain better effects are banned to prevent a possible power creep.
The full list of updates and bans will be revealed on July 16th at 6 PM PST, and these bans will take effect on July 24th, when Vendettaās Pre-Rifts begin.
List of confirmed banned cards for Vendetta:
Why are these cards banned in Riftbound?
With the introduction of Chaos and Order, a new domain pairing introduced in Vendetta, the first banned card was announced. On July 7th, Dave āDavetron" Guskin, Riftboundās Game and Design Director, posted on his social media that Stealthy Pursuer will be the first card banned, taking effect on July 24th. This card is a Four Might, Four-Energy, and 1-Power unit from the Chaos domain that follows moving friendly units.
Stealthy Pursuer was introduced in Origins.
Stealthy Pursuer can enable a 3-card infinite when played in tandem with Eye of the Herald and Renata Glasc Industrialist. The former is a One-Energy Gear that can be attached by recycling an order rune, allowing its controller to play a One-Might Recruit unit after the unit itās attached to moves. The latter, Renata Glasc, is a unit with Four-Might, Four-Energy, and One-Power that allows tokens to enter ready.
The combo happens when Renata has been played, and the Eye of Herald is attached to the Stealthy Pursuer. When Pursuer moves, she creates a token, readied by Renataās ability, at the battlefield she moved. You can then move the new Token and Pursuer from the battlefield to the base, create a new Token in the base, move the new Token with Pursuer to another battlefield, thus setting the infinite loop in motion.
