Going to your first Riftbound Pre-Rift, or hoping for a better result this time? This complete Radiance guide takes you from booking a seat to building a stronger Sealed deck and making better decisions in your games.

What to bring, what happens on the day, round timings, best-of-one rules, changing your deck between rounds, card ratios, rune Power costs, mulligans, combat and ten Radiance cards to look out for — with real-card examples throughout.

First event? Start at the beginning. Already know the basics? Jump to deckbuilding at 11:17 or gameplay at 27:27.

Radiance Pre-Rifts: 16–22 October 2026. Check your store's ticket process, format and timings; these vary. Rules researched 11 October using the updates effective 16 October. The ten-card watchlist is my pre-event assessment, not a ranking based on completed Radiance events.

CHAPTERS
00:00 Win your Pre-Rift
00:44 Book your seat
01:44 What to bring
03:39 Your first event and the clock
05:16 Best of one: set up correctly
06:15 Build a legal Sealed deck
08:09 Rebuild between rounds
09:08 Why attend?
11:17 Choose a plan from your pool
13:44 Ratios and your curve
15:30 Evaluate cards in Sealed
16:57 Build the rune deck
17:38 Chosen champion, Legend and fields
18:45 Ten Radiance cards to look for
19:16 Reckless Innovator
19:59 One-Two Punch
20:48 Antagonistic Apparatus
21:26 Lost to the Sands
22:07 Scorched Earth
22:49 Riven, Broken Blade
23:42 The Empyrean
24:26 Riven, Deserter
25:29 Graves, Blasting Through
26:20 Mordekaiser, Dominating
27:27 Your opening hand
28:13 Spend runes with a plan
28:38 Win the fight that matters
29:28 Save answers for real threats
30:20 Two Radiance timing reminders
30:41 Improve between rounds
31:03 Your Pre-Rift checklist

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FIND AN EVENT / RULES / CARDS
Find your event and check the store's booking instructions:
https://playriftbound.com/
Official rules and tournament documents:
https://playriftbound.com/en-us/rules...
Radiance overview and Pre-Rift kit:
https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/...
Official card gallery:
https://playriftbound.com/en-us/card-...

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EVENT FOOTAGE & CREDITS
The event montage shows EARLIER Spiritforged and Vendetta Pre-Rifts, not Radiance. 75% is my own footage from February 2026; short supporting excerpts are credited on screen:
nack — Spiritforged Pre-Rift vlog (05:12–05:19, 08:45–08:54):
How I Went Undefeated at my Pre-Rift! (Wit...
Lizulani — FIRST ever Riftbound Pre-Rift Vlog! (02:49–02:57):
FIRST ever Riftbound Pre-Rift Vlog! ⊹˖𑣲⋆
VoidRush — SpiritForged Pre-Rift / Box Showcase (01:20–01:28):
I attended the SpiritForged Pre-Rift event...

Card art, product images and League of Legends ability footage: Riot Games and the credited artists. Mech token reference: https://openrift.app/cards/mech
Illustrative deckbox: https://www.gamegenic.com/product/dec...
Music: After Hours — BMUCasts background theme.
Independent fan project; not endorsed or sponsored by Riot Games.

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