Riot IDs at the ready — the T1 x Riftbound Signature Edition draw is live.
There isn't even a Yordle in this box for my collection, which should probably make this easier for me to ignore. It hasn't. I'll be putting my name in.
Let's get the obvious bit out of the way: this is not a cheap product. It's a five-card serialized set tied to T1's 2025 Worlds win, and the entry price alone tells you it's aimed at people who take their collecting seriously. I'm one of them, apparently, because I'm entering anyway. No Yordle for my collection this time. Apparently that still wasn't enough to save me.
What is the T1 Signature Edition?
Riot opened registration for the Riftbound x T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition today, Friday 14 August, at 9am Pacific — 5pm here in the UK. It's a drawing, not a straightforward pre-order: you register for free, and if you're selected you get a window to actually buy the thing. Registering doesn't commit you to anything, and being drawn doesn't guarantee you'll want to go through with it once you see the price — but you won't get the option at all if you don't put your name in.
Each of the five members of T1's title-winning roster picked a champion card for this set: Doran's Ambessa, The Wolf; Faker's Galio, Indefatigable; Gumayusi's Miss Fortune, Buccaneer; Keria's Seraphine, Not Alone; and Oner's Xin Zhao, Vigilant. All five cards come in every box. The English-language Signature Edition is $360, with separate Chinese and Korean editions priced at ¥2,025 and ₩500,000 respectively — Riot hasn't listed a GBP price, so that's the figure to work with if you're entering from the UK.
What's in the box?
Every box contains all five champion cards on new artwork, using a foil treatment Riftbound hasn't used before. On top of that, one card in your box — randomly one of the five — is the special version: individually serialized from 1 to 2025, in a nod to T1's championship year, and gold-stamped with that player's printed signature (not a hand signature — Riot's own materials are clear it's a stamped treatment, not an autograph).
Do the maths and it clicks: five champions, each serialized 1 through 2025, is 10,125 numbered cards per language — which lines up exactly with Riot's confirmed production run of 10,125 units. So if you open your box and it's the Faker card, that's genuinely a coin-flip-times-five moment, and if the number staring back at you happens to be 1, you've got Faker #1/2025. I'm not going to pretend I wouldn't lose my mind a bit.
Jamie's take
Right, the honest bit. $360 for five cards is serious money, and I'm not going to sit here and tell you it's good value in the way a booster display is good value. It isn't trying to be. This is a collector product for people who want the story as much as the cardboard — a numbered, gold-stamped piece of Riftbound's first year tied to the team that actually won the thing.
What's pulling me in isn't the guaranteed five cards, it's the lottery-within-a-lottery of the serialized one. There's no Yordle character in this set for me to chase, which normally would be my easy out. And yet here I am, Riot ID at the ready, hoping for a number that starts with a 1. It's a bit daft, it's definitely expensive, and it's exactly the sort of thing that makes collecting this game more interesting than just cracking packs. I'm not expecting to win. I'd still like to see someone's Faker #1 land somewhere, even if it isn't mine.
Riot IDs at the ready
A few practical things before you register:
You'll need a Riot account and Riot ID to enter — make sure you can actually log into it, and that the email address on file is one you check regularly. Worth peeking in spam or junk around the notification date too, since a missed email here means a missed shot. Entering costs nothing and doesn't guarantee anything — it's an opportunity to be offered a purchase, not a giveaway, and there's no "Catch Up" pool, so entering on day one gives you the same odds as entering on the last day. Riot limits this to one entry per Riot ID and per print run, so don't create extra accounts to try and improve your odds — it's against the rules, and more likely to get an account flagged than favoured.
Registration runs from today, 14 August, through Monday 17 August at 6pm Pacific. If you're selected, Riot starts sending emails from 20 August, and you'll get a 24-hour window to complete the purchase — so that spam-folder check really does matter. Shipping is expected to begin 2 September.
One more thing: if you've already got the Riot Client open, you can jump into the draw straight from the homepage there — that's how I found it myself. It's not the only way in, just a genuinely convenient one if you're already logged in for League or Riftbound.
The Seraphine / Radiance quirk
Small detail worth flagging for anyone who plays as well as collects: Keria's card, Seraphine, Not Alone, is pulled from Riftbound's next set, Radiance, which hasn't released yet. Riot's own product information is explicit that this card isn't legal for play until Radiance itself launches. So if you pull it, it's a genuine early look at a Radiance card — just not one you can put in a deck on day one. A nice, unplanned bit of overlap between a T1 tribute product and the next set on the roadmap.
The Player Bundle is still coming
If $360 for five cards isn't the entry point you were looking for, there's a cheaper T1 option on the way. The Player Bundle features the same five champions on different artwork, for $70 in the English market (¥399 / ₩100,000 for Chinese and Korean), and adds a sleeves pack, a deck box, a binder, and a metal die — with roughly a one-in-ten chance of that die coming in black and gold instead of the standard finish. Riot has said this is coming "later in the year" via its own drawing process, but as of today it isn't open, so don't go looking for an entry link just yet. I'll flag it here when it is.
Where to enter
Registration is handled entirely through Riot — Yordle doesn't sell this product, doesn't run the drawing, and doesn't get a cut either way. If you want in, go straight to the source:
Enter the T1 Signature Edition draw →
I'm in. No Yordle to chase this time, but if somebody somehow opens Faker #1, I absolutely want to see the picture.
Jamie @ Yordle