Stuttgart: Plated Legends will not leave the venue with winners

What changesThe card goes into an account, not your bag

Until now, winning a Plated Legend meant walking away with it. From today, at Stuttgart and at Convergence Fest in December, Best-Of winners and Overnumbered draft participants will need to create a Fanatics Collect account. Riot deposits the card there, and the winner decides what happens next. According to the post there are three options:

In short: if you win the card and ship it to yourself, it costs nothing; if you sell or gift it through the platform, the delivery fees are not on Riot.

WhyToo valuable to carry around a convention hall

Sherman frames the decision around player safety: as the value of these prizes climbed, leaving the venue with a metal card in your backpack became a real risk. “Player safety at Riot events is of paramount focus for us,” he writes. Best-Of winners will still get their photo, but it will be taken with media copies of the Plated Legends rather than the real ones. Riot acknowledges this is a new process and says it is working with Fanatics Collect to keep it smooth.

A number to clarify58 or 52 players?

One figure does not line up. The official prizing page from Riftbound Organized Play, last updated October 30, says the Overnumbered Foil Plated Legend draft is for the top 58 finishers, picking from 58 different Legends in order of placement. Sherman’s post this morning refers to the “Top 52” draft participants instead. The official page has not changed and remains the reference for now; if Riot corrects the number, we will update this article. The draft itself is explained in our Overnumbered Plated Legend article.

Source: Michael Sherman (Riot Games) on X; Riftbound Organized Play. Images: Riot Games.