The photoWhat you are actually looking at
The thread went up at 4:13 in the morning UTC, posted by u/Waxoplax under the headline «Leaked Ultra rare for next Legacy set 6». The picture shows a card held in one hand over a wooden table, with an iridescent foil covering the whole background. The title printed on the card, though, is a single word: Keywords.
It is the reminder card. You do not play it, it has no cost, no Might and no colour. It exists for people who are learning the game, listing the recurring abilities with a one-line explanation of each. Every preconstructed deck in a Riftbound box comes with one, printed on ordinary cardstock. The one in the photo is that same card with a foil treatment on top.
©2025RGT
That is the line printed in the bottom right corner: the year is 2025, the year of Origins, not the 2027 a sixth set would carry.
11 out of 11 already known
Not one of the abilities listed is new: every one of them already appears on Origins cards, the game's first expansion.
The contentsThe eleven keywords, in plain words
Since the card is in any case the most compact summary of Riftbound's rules anywhere, it is worth reading. Below are the definitions printed on it. Might is a unit's strength in combat, Power is the resource you spend on abilities, and the Main Deck is the one you draw from during the game.
| Term | What it means |
|---|---|
| Accelerate | For an extra cost, the unit enters the board ready: it can act straight away, instead of waiting for your next turn. |
| Hidden | You play the card face down at a battlefield you control; on a later turn you reveal it and play it for free. One hidden card per battlefield. |
| Legion | Triggers an effect if you have already played another Main Deck card that same turn. |
| Assault | The unit has additional Might (its strength in combat) while attacking. |
| Shield | The unit has additional Might while defending. |
| Tank | The unit takes combat damage first, in place of the others alongside it. |
| Deathknell | When the unit dies, the effect written on the card goes off. |
| Deflect | Opponents have to pay additional Power to target this card. |
| Ganking | The unit can move straight from one battlefield to another. |
| Temporary | At the start of your turn the unit dies: it only sticks around for one go. |
| Vision | When you play the card, you look at the top card of your Main Deck and may recycle it. |
The checkWhy it does not hold up as a leak
Three things, all of them readable in the photo itself, point the opposite way from the thread's headline. The first is the 2025 copyright. The second is the list of abilities: material from a future set would be expected to carry at least one keyword nobody recognises, and instead every single one is already printed on cards in circulation. The third is what the card is: a rules reminder is not a collectible, and no game makes one the top rarity of an expansion.
It is also worth saying that nothing official is known about a sixth set at all. Riot has announced the fifth, Radiance, out worldwide on 23 October 2026, with preview season running since 25 September. Past that date the public calendar is empty. The two comments left under the thread — «Still better than set 5» and «Can't wait!!!!» — suggest the discussion took it as a joke too.
One quieter possibility remains open: that this is a foil print made by a third party, or a piece of merchandise, rather than a Riot product. Without an official source there is no way to check, and for now the photo is the only thing that exists.
Why it matters for us. We are in the middle of Radiance preview season: real cards are turning up every day on Reddit and on the official channels, and photos like this one travel in the same stream. Players here in Italy are deciding right now what to preorder and what to set aside, and a fake «set 6 ultra rare» risks moving money onto a card that does not exist. The practical rule never changes: look at the bottom corner of the card, where the copyright and the collector code tell you immediately which set you are holding.
In short
- The photo presented as a set 6 ultra rare shows the Keywords reminder card, not a playable card.
- The printed copyright is ©2025RGT and all eleven keywords listed already exist on Origins cards.
- Riot has announced no sixth set: the next one is Radiance, from 23 October 2026.
Source: u/Waxoplax's thread on r/riftboundtcg. Images: photo by the thread's author.
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