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Legacy gets an Ultimate Rare, Riftbound's third ever

Legacy, the set releasing on January 29, 2027, will have its own Ultimate Rare, the rarest card in the game. Game director Dave Guskin said so in a video interview with creator LotharHS, according to a Riftbound Report summary posted this morning. It would be the third Ultimate Rare in Riftbound's history, after Unleashed's Baron Nashor and Radiance's Packed Amphitheater. Which card it is, and how hard it will be to pull, is still unknown.

by Riccardo Emanuele Eustor3 min readSource: Riftbound Report on X

Riftbound Legacy key art, the set that will include an Ultimate Rare
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The newsWhat Dave said

The interview went live Monday evening. LotharHS, a Polish creator and former Hearthstone pro, announced it on X, saying Guskin addresses the current metagame, talks about lessons learned on balance and reprints, and "leaks pretty significant info about Legacy". A thread with the same video quickly appeared on r/riftboundtcg.

This morning Riftbound Report, the community news account that tracks everything Riftbound, pulled out the headline: in the interview Dave confirms that Legacy will introduce Riftbound's third Ultimate Rare. We have not been able to watch the video ourselves, so for now this rests on Riftbound Report's summary; Riot has not yet put it in writing on the official site.

New to the game?What an Ultimate Rare is

It is the top rarity tier in Riftbound, above Overnumbers (special versions numbered beyond the set total). Not every set has one: so far there have been two.

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the first

Baron Nashor · Unleashed

Riot itself admitted that pulling one was exciting, but that it "wasn't as rare as we wanted".

the second

Packed Amphitheater · Radiance

A Battlefield with full-card iridescent foiling: according to Riot it appears in 0.025% of packs, roughly one in four thousand.

Radiance made the chase card far rarer, but collectors have not been thrilled. In a Reddit thread yesterday ranking the set's ten most expensive cards a week after release, u/MightySleever said they were surprised to see the Ultimate "so low", and several commenters blamed the art and foiling for not living up to the rarity. That is the backdrop for number three: collectors will want to know whether Riot changes course.

Still unknownThe open questions

The first is about packs. In the leaked Legacy pack breakdown from early November, with its new slot reserved for Legends and Battlefields, the Ultimate Rare did not appear; we flagged that as an open question in our article on Legacy packs. Dave's words say the card exists; which slot it comes from and at what rate is still to be confirmed.

The second is which card it will be. The first two were a neutral monster and a Battlefield, not a champion. There are no hints for Legacy yet: set previews are expected at Convergence Fest in mid-December, and Riot may well show it then or soon after, as it did with Radiance.

Why it matters to us. For anyone opening packs in Italy, the Ultimate Rare is the card that drives box prices in the first weeks. Before preordering Legacy sight unseen, it is worth waiting for Riot's official pull rate: with Radiance, one pack in four thousand meant the vast majority of boxes contained none. We will report the numbers as soon as Riot publishes them.

In short

  • According to Riftbound Report, Dave Guskin confirmed in an interview with LotharHS that Legacy will have an Ultimate Rare.
  • It would be the third, after Baron Nashor (Unleashed) and Packed Amphitheater (Radiance, one pack in four thousand).
  • The card and its pull rate are unknown; Riot has not yet confirmed it on the official site.
  • Legacy releases on January 29, 2027.

Source: Riftbound Report on X, summarising the interview announced by LotharHS; thread on r/riftboundtcg. Data on previous Ultimate Rares: Riot Games, official Radiance overview. Images: Riot Games (via Riftbound Report, pbs.twimg.com).

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