PCG grades on site in Stuttgart, from €25 to €60 a card

by Riccardo Emanuele Eustor·Riftbound Zone

Premier Card Grading is setting up a booth at the European Regional Championship in Stuttgart, November 6-8: hand your cards over at the show and get them back slabbed and graded, in two to four hours with the fastest service. Prices run from €25 to €60 per card, VAT included, and every card graded there can carry a Regional Championship 2026 label at no extra cost — one you cannot get anywhere else. There is a competitive angle too: the head judge has cleared slabbed Legends for the main event.

The serviceWhat grading actually means

Grading means handing a card to a specialist company that inspects it, scores it from 1 to 10 on four things — centering, corners, edges and surface — then seals it inside a rigid plastic case, the slab. From then on nobody touches the card again, but the grade stays printed on the label and the market reads it: that is why two identical copies can be worth twice as much as each other. Until now you had to mail a Riftbound card away and wait weeks. In Stuttgart you carry it over by hand and, at best, pick it up before dinner.

The pricesThree speeds, three numbers

Same-Day comes with a cap: five cards per person, per day, and once you have submitted that day you cannot come back with five more. Intake can also pause when the grading queue fills up and reopen later, so if a same-day grade matters to you, show up early. Anything left over goes to Next-Day or Standard.

The collector's pieceA label that only exists in Stuttgart

Eligible Riftbound cards submitted at the show can receive the Regional Championship 2026 label with the event logo, free of charge and on all three services. It is tied to the place and the date: after November 8 it is gone.

You pick one of three cases: the Standard / Collector slab, the traditional full-size one; the Player Slab, shorter and thicker, built to stack; and the Player Slab Slim, thin and easy to carry around.

Already own a PCG-graded Riftbound card? You can have it re-slabbed with the event label for half price: €30 same-day, €25 next-day, €12.50 standard. The card is not re-scored and keeps the grade it has.

RulesYou can play with a Legend in a slab

The part that matters even if you do not collect: in the official circuit's competitive events, playing a slabbed Legend is up to the head judge, and in Stuttgart the head judge has approved it. The approval covers Legends only: slabbed Battlefields and Champion Units stay off the table.

How it worksFour steps, and the form comes first

Submit online, prepare the cards the way PCG's guide explains, bring them to the show and check in at the booth. The booth opens with the hall: 8:30 AM with a Premium badge, 9:00 AM with a Standard one, all three days.

Source: Riftbound Organized Play – PCG x Riftbound. Images: Riot Games / UVS Games.