Riftbound: Origins Card Errata

Rules and Releases2025-10-28T01:00:00.000Z

Hey Riftbounders! We’re sharing a recap of all the card errata for Riftbound: Origins. If you’re new to TCGs or Riftbound is your first TCG, card errata is any updates to card text usually for clarity and sometimes a goof like a typo. If you’re a seasoned TCG player, you might be already diving into the PDF above.

With Origins being our first set, it has more than its fair share of errata, most of it focused on rules clarity and consistency. We expect to issue very little “day zero” errata for future sets. Most of these card errata updates have already been shared through updates in our Core Rules FAQ, so there shouldn’t be too many surprises in there. A few cards that were in the FAQ have received slightly different wordings than previously announced, and there are three cards in this file that weren’t in the FAQ.

This is also a good time to reiterate our philosophy behind card errata. Changes from printed wordings add friction to your gameplay experience, and we don’t issue them lightly. And unlike a digital game, we don’t issue “patches” for game balance reasons. Where printed card wordings created unintended gameplay, were ambiguous about their function, or didn’t quite work in our updated rules, that’s where we’ve chosen to issue errata. The majority of the errata here doesn’t change how these cards work in regular gameplay situations; rather, it clarifies their function and shores it up against edge cases and rules oddities.

We’re heads down on the Riftbound: Origins English Launch (soonTM) and designing many sets to come, so give us some time as we work to update the Card Gallery or add another database resource to note the official language of the cards. Currently, card errata is not planned to be included on any future restocks of Riftbound: Origins or potential localizations of the cards. We’ll keep you all posted if that changes though!

With the recent update to Core Rules along with our Core Rules Patch Notes plus the final piece of the Trinity Force with the Card Errata, the Core Rules FAQ is now obsolete and will be retired on November 4, 2025.

Now, that we have that out of the way, let’s dive into the Riftbound: Origins Card Errata:

Ava Achiever

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When I attack, you may pay [C] to play a card with [Hidden] from your hand, ignoring its cost. If it’s a unit, play it here.

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When I attack, you may pay [C] to play a card with [Hidden] from your hand here, ignoring its cost.

Baited Hook

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[1][C], [E]: Kill a friendly unit. Look at the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. You may banish a unit from among them that has Might up to 1 more than the killed unit and play it, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

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[1][C], [E]: Kill a friendly unit. Look at the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. You may play a unit from among them that has Might up to 1 more than the killed unit, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

Blind Fury

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Each opponent reveals the top card of their Main Deck. Choose one and banish it, then play it, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Each opponent reveals the top card of their Main Deck. Choose one and play it, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

Clockwork Keeper

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You may pay [C] as an additional cost to play me.

When you play me, if you paid the additional cost, draw 1.

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As you play me, you may pay [C] as an additional cost. If you do, draw 1.

Convergent Mutation

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[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.)

Choose a friendly unit. This turn, increase its Might to the Might of another friendly unit.

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[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.)

Choose a friendly unit. Increase its Might until it equals the Might of another friendly unit.

Dark Child, Starter

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At the end of your turn, ready up to 2 runes.

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At the end of your turn, ready 2 runes.

Dazzling Aurora

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At the end of your turn, reveal cards from the top of your Main Deck until you reveal a unit and banish it. Play it, ignoring its cost, and recycle the rest.

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At the end of your turn, reveal cards from the top of your Main Deck until you reveal a unit. Play it, ignoring its cost, and recycle the rest.

Disintegrate

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Action (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Deal 3 to a unit at a battlefield. If this kills it, do this: draw 1.

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Deal 3 to a unit at a battlefield. If this kills it, draw 1.

Dragon's Rage

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Move an enemy unit. Then do this: Choose another enemy unit at its destination. They deal damage equal to their Mights to each other.

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Move an enemy unit. Then choose another enemy unit at its destination. They deal damage equal to their Mights to each other.

Dune Drake

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When I attack, give me +2 [M] this turn if there is a ready enemy unit here.

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When I attack, give me +2 [M] if there is a ready enemy unit here.

Highlander

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[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.)

Choose a friendly unit. The next time it would die this turn, heal it, exhaust it, and recall it instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

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[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.)

Choose a friendly unit. The next time it dies this turn, recall it exhausted instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

Karma, Channeler

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[Vision] (When you play me, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.)

When you recycle one or more cards to your Main Deck, buff a friendly unit. (If it doesn't have a buff, it gets a +1 [M] buff. Runes aren't cards.)

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[Vision] (When you play me, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.)

When you recycle one or more cards, buff a friendly unit. (If it doesn't have a buff, it gets a +1 [M] buff. Runes aren't cards.)

Kinkou Monk

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When you play me, buff up to two other friendly units. (Each one that doesn't have a buff gets a +1 [M] buff.)

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When you play me, buff two other friendly units. (Each one that doesn't have a buff gets a +1 [M] buff.)

Nocturne, Horrifying

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[Ganking] (I can move from battlefield to battlefield.)

As you look at or reveal me from the top of your deck, you may banish me. If you do, you may play me for [A].

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[Ganking] (I can move from battlefield to battlefield.)

When you look at cards from the top of your deck (and don't draw them) and see me, you may play me for [A].

Pack of Wonders

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[E]: Return another friendly gear, unit, or facedown card to its owner's hand.

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[E]: Return another friendly gear, unit, or [Hidden] card to its owner's hand.

Portal Rescue

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Banish a friendly unit, then its owner plays it to their base, ignoring its cost.

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

Banish a friendly unit, then play it to base, ignoring its cost.

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Promising Future

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Each player looks at the top 5 cards of their Main Deck, banishes one of them, then recycles the rest. Starting with the next player, each player plays those cards, ignoring Energy costs. (They must still pay Power costs.)

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Each player looks at the top 5 cards of their Main Deck, chooses one, then recycles the rest. Starting with the next player, each player plays those cards, ignoring Energy costs. (They must still pay Power costs.)

Ravenborn Tome

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[E]: The next spell you play this turn deals 1 Bonus Damage. (Each instance of damage the spell deals is increased by 1.)

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[E]: The next spell you play deals 1 Bonus Damage. (Each instance of damage the spell deals is increased by 1.)

Salvage

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

You may kill up to one gear. Draw 1.

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[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.)

You may kill a gear. Draw 1.

Sigil of the Storm

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When you conquer here, you must recycle one of your runes. (This doesn’t choose anything.)

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When you conquer here, recycle one of your runes.

Sona, Harmonious

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At the end of your turn, if I'm at a battlefield, ready up to 4 friendly runes.

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While I'm at a battlefield, ready 4 friendly runes at the end of your turn.

Targon's Peak

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When you conquer here, ready up to 2 runes at the end of this turn.

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When you conquer here, ready 2 runes at the end of this turn.

Teemo, Strategist

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

When I defend, choose an enemy unit here and reveal the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. Deal 1 to that unit for each card with [Hidden] revealed this way, then recycle the revealed cards.

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

When I defend or I'm played from [Hidden], reveal the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. Deal 1 to an enemy unit here for each card with [Hidden], then recycle them.

The Boss

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If a buffed unit you control would die, you may pay [C], exhaust me, and spend its buff to heal it, exhaust it, and recall it instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

When you conquer, ready me.

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When a buffed unit you control would die, you may pay [C] and exhaust me to spend its buff and recall it exhausted instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

When you conquer, ready me.

The Dreaming Tree

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When a player chooses a friendly unit here with a spell for the first time each turn, they draw 1.

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The first time you choose a friendly unit with a spell here each turn, draw 1.

The Syren

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[1], [E]: Move a friendly unit at a battlefield to its base.

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[1], [E]: Move a friendly unit at a battlefield to your base.

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Tideturner

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

When you play me, you may choose a unit you control at another location. Move me to its location and it to my original location.

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

When you play me, you may choose a friendly unit. Move me to its location and it to my original location.

Unforgiven

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[2], [E]: Move a friendly unit to or from its base.

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[2], [E]: Move a friendly unit to or from your base.

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Unlicensed Armory

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Discard 1, [E]: Choose a friendly unit. The next time it would die this turn, you may pay [C] to heal it, exhaust it, and recall it instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

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Discard 1, [E]: Choose a friendly unit. The next time it dies this turn, you may pay [C] to recall it exhausted instead. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

Void Gate

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Spells and abilities deal 1 Bonus Damage to units here. (Each instance of damage the spell deals to a unit here is increased by 1.)

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Spells and abilities affecting units here each deal 1 Bonus Damage. (Each instance of damage the spell deals is increased by 1.)

Zhonya's Hourglass

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

If a friendly unit would die, kill this instead. Heal that unit, exhaust it, and recall it. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)

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[Hidden] (Hide now for [A] to react with later for [0].)

The next time a friendly unit would die, kill this instead. Recall that unit exhausted. (Send it to base. This isn't a move.)