I agree that called shot is a fucked card and needs to go, but I think the meta is bad, but tolerable and think if you ban called shot, it gets much worse because you only hit some of the busted purple decks.
Think its best to just deal with the rest of spiritforged, but ban it with set 3 release.
Don't mind the lack of riftbound bans, think its wise to keep that tool in the bag until completely necessary. Would probably precommit to banning Called shot upon the release of set 3. Buys some goodwill with a known end point, and I can't see it sticking around forever.
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Best of prizing is one of the best natural solutions to the ccg meta oroboros issue and the internet is mad about it.
I just think it should be a slightly flatter prizing with like 2nd place getting one of the prize wall versions. Maybe 3rd as well given the current prices
NGL the bean counters are not inspiring much confidence in me these days.
Can't help but be suspicious that the 2XKO announcement is the result of a bean counter over-correcting from the mistakes made on LoR.
Going to the Hunter Burton Memorial Open this year.
It's got events for Magic, Fab, Lorcana, and Riftbound this year and for some of those games it might be flying under the radar.
hunterburtonmemorialopen.com/2026-event-d...
I think there's a valid criticism about the frequency of day 0 errata, though I'd give them a pass for now because of how early on we are
Pretty different between making a decision to change how a card works and just being a bit sloppy on templating (e.g. forgetting end of turn)
Yes you can memorize how these interact with dreaming tree / responding to have no legal targets / sett / phoenix.
It's not impossible to learn them, but I don't think there's an upside to having them be weird and an unpleasant gotcha for people learning.
I like the falling star / rain change.
Particularly this early on, I don't see why you wouldn't take the opportunity to clear up a messy rules situation.
If something is messy because it has to be, that's part of card games, but these were messy for no real point.
Lost 2 games of competitive riftbound total so far, and they’re both to the same guy.
Much to think about
I played another skirmish and lost in the finals.
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Kai’sa and Viktor are the main ones.
Won a skirmish
Coming from Lor has put a gremlin in my skull that is extremely unhelpful in riftbound.
See this line that it HELPFULLY produced at 2 mana:
“We have lethal, thermo the deadbloom wanderer and take both battlefields”
Riftbound deck lists are so hard when you see stupify and your brain says heavy metal
Don’t see much reason it would shift dramatically in either direction.
I dunno if I would push to change anything with this in the rules, but I don't like having the inconvenience from it, but not doing anything with the design space created from that inconvenience.
Maybe let people sideboard G1? Since you see the legend.
Main, Side, Rune, Legend, Champion, Locations.
I really don't find the rune deck to be worth the hassle right now. 2 omni-color tokens would be mostly the same.
Your chosen champion must be the same as your maindeck, but that doesn't come up enough feel worthwhile.
Riftbound is a fun game, and most of my complaints are basically, they didn't nail stuff on the first set, which while valid, isn't really fair to complain about.
I have one complaint that I think is fair though - It is logistically annoying to manage 6 different "decks".
If there wasn't the supply issues going on I'd just bite the bullet and grumble. Feels so bad buying really expensive cards that I think won't stay good in further metas, while I think they're extremely inflated in price.
Kai'sa
A: Good deck
B: I think I'm more likely to play the expensive cards it wanted in the future.
I actually skipped on the stuff that I'm not convinced I'll use in the future thats pricey (like time warp)
Bought into riftbound for a skirmish next weekend. You win this one advertising team.
If I have a prowess creature (ravenbloom student in RB), cast a spell and say trigger, it is no longer possible for me to miss my trigger. My opponent is now obligated to remind me of it if I forget it during combat or something.
More pleasant to play that way, and honestly I think its better EV.
Riftbound trigger policy discourse reminds me of something from Magic.
I always found it weird that the "correct" angleshoot was to avoid mentioning your trigger to gotcha your opp. You could also mention the trigger immediately, and your opponent now is forced to help you remember it.
Got used in a riftbound promo video for a LGS where they went around and asked people what champion they were looking forward to the most.
Answered Fizz (Which is probably the honest answer) and I'm really hoping some LoR players get to have a laugh.
I have STRONG muscle memory with a lot of LOR cards. 100% confidence I will call them the LOR names.
"BMM"
Sir you just played a card called Traveling Merchant.
It is very funny to use slang terms that no longer make any sense at all with absolute confidence.
