New League of Legends TCG Riftbound Has Posted Explosive Early Growth Since Launch, With Searches Surging Over 300%

Riftbound, the caller trading paper crippled (TCG) from Riot Games, released connected October 31, 2025, successful the West, and has since seen unthinkable growth, some successful presumption of wide involvement and paper listings astatine online storefronts.

According to caller information provided by TCGplayer.com, regular searches for the crippled person accrued by implicit 300% since launch, compared to the preorder play (about 2 weeks anterior to launch). Globally, the word "Riftbound" was searched implicit 6,300 times per hour, and that's conscionable by TCGplayer users.

TCGplayer CEO Rob Bigler besides provided remark to IGN connected the caller TCG's immense occurrence truthful far: "Riftbound’s aboriginal occurrence is simply a immense affirmative for the hobby and reinforces that fans are excited to prosecute with the worlds and characters they emotion successful caller ways. Trading paper games are a compelling and societal mode to widen instrumentality affinity erstwhile developed authentically and thoughtfully – and we spot this via the request connected our marketplace."

With a spot arsenic fashionable arsenic League of Legends, supplementary media specified arsenic Netflix's Arcane and the upcoming warring crippled 2XKO person garnered important wide appeal, with galore fans staying existent to their favourite characters from each mediums.

Per TCGplayer, the astir fashionable Riftbound paper searches betwixt October 17 and December 7 included immoderate of the astir iconic League characters. Jinx, the prima of Arcane, had implicit 65,000 searches, portion different fan-favorite quality Ahri had much than 54,900. Other fashionable searches included different League of Legends characters similar Sett, Teemo, and Darious, each with implicit 43,000 searches connected the site.

TCGplayer is the biggest online storefront for each things TCGs successful the world, and the motorboat of Riftbound exploded exponentially with related paper and sealed merchandise listings.

It's nary concealed that getting your hands connected sealed Riftbound merchandise was (and inactive is) a spot tough, but the marketplace saw a 750% summation successful listings a period aft launch; October 30 saw much than 68,600 listings, portion October 31 saw that fig astir double, with implicit 118,100 listings. As of November 30, the fig of listings was sitting astatine much than 585,000.

Riftbound's 2nd set, titled Spiritforged, is scheduled to motorboat successful the West connected February 13 aft launching successful China connected December 12. Preorders are present unfastened for Spiritforged products.

Myles Obenza is simply a freelance writer for IGN. Follow him connected Bluesky @mylesobenza.bsky.social.