Radiance Chase Card: Seraphine Signature 174*

Seraphine, Starry-Eyed Songstress 174*/167 is the Riftbound: Radiance card to chase. It is the signed overnumbered printing of the set's headline Legend: Anna Nikonova's art of Seraphine mid-song, with her signature in foil across it.

Why Seraphine

Radiance is Seraphine's set. She leads the Evelynn vs Seraphine Showdown Decks, she has a K/DA special, Seraphine, Not Alone SP5/005US$104.67, and she has nine Radiance printings of her own. Her Legend, Starry-Eyed SongstressUS$9.00, is the card the Signature is printed on:

As an additional cost to play a spell, you may exhaust me and three friendly units to reduce the cost of that spell by 2.

A Signature of the champion a set is built around is the card collectors remember the set by. That is why this one leads.

A card people will play, not only frame

Some chase cards are pure collecting: a battlefield, or a unit nobody puts in a deck. Seraphine's is a Legend, and Legends are the one card every deck is built around, so the signed printing is also the one a player can sit at the table with.

Her ability rewards going wide. Exhaust her and three of your own units as you cast a spell, and that spell costs 2 less. A Mind deck full of cheap units turns that into an extra spell a turn, and her signature spell, Encore, makes two Recruit tokens in one of its four modes, which is exactly the board her discount wants. The Showdown Decks pair her against Evelynn, so a lot of Radiance's first players will learn the set with her deck in their hands.

That matters for price. A card that is both the face of the set and a Legend people play keeps two kinds of buyers: collectors who want the signed copy, and players who want their favourite deck in its best version. The Seraphine post covers how the Legend plays in more depth.

What the asterisk means

Radiance's base run stops at 167. Every number above it is a chase printing, and the symbols tell you which kind:

• 174/167 is the overnumbered Legend: new art, foil, numbered above the set.
• 174*/167 is the Signature: the same overnumbered card with the artist's signature in foil. That is the one to chase.
• 174a*/167 is a signed alternate: the Chinese-exclusive Seraphine, sold in that market only.

When you buy, read the number in the listing's photos, not just the title. A seller can write "signature" on an unsigned 174.

What Radiance's chase cards cost on 16 October

Radiance singles started trading at the Pre-Rift events, a week before release. In our 16 October snapshot:

No store we track had the signed 174* listed yet. If the unsigned printing is already at AU$500, the signed one will open well above it.

The first listings of a new set are the dearest. The median Vendetta overnumbered unit cost $177 four days before release and $81 in launch week: Radiance chase cards: what Vendetta's prices say to expect has the numbers. Watching the card costs nothing, and the price alert emails you when it drops.

How to spot a real Signature in a listing

Signatures are where the money is, so they are where listings get careless. Four checks before you pay:

1. The number on the card, not in the title. Ask for a photo of the bottom-left corner. A Signature reads RAD • 174*/167 • EN: the asterisk is printed on the card. An unsigned overnumbered card reads 174/167 with nothing after the number.
2. The signature itself. It sits in foil across the art. On Seraphine it is Anna Nikonova's, in light blue, to the right of her face. On the HEARTSTEEL cards it is the band member's name. A photo taken straight on can hide foil, so ask for one at an angle.
3. The language code. EN is the English print. The Chinese-exclusive 174a* is a different card with its own number and its own price; a listing that mixes them up is pricing the wrong card.
4. Who took the photo. A real card photographed in a hand, a sleeve or a top loader beats a stock image every time. A seller who uses Riot's preview image for a Signature does not have the card in front of them.

Our card pages match listings on the number, asterisk included, so the signed and unsigned printings never share a price. That is also why the Seraphine Signature page is empty today: no store we track has listed the asterisk yet.

The Radiance Signatures, champion by champion

Every overnumbered Legend in Radiance has a signed twin, and so does every HEARTSTEEL card. What we knew about each on 17 October:

• Seraphine 174* and the Chinese-exclusive 174a*US$1,299.99: the chase. The signed alternate was listed on eBay from US$1,299.99 to US$4,555.55 on 16 October.
• Riven 173*: The Exile, art by Charles Liu. Her unsigned 173/167US$1,200.00 was the dearest Legend overnumber in our snapshot at US$1,200, which makes the signed one the likeliest to challenge Seraphine.
• Mordekaiser 170*: the only Radiance Signature with a live listing in our data on 16 October, at AU$1,499.95 on eBay Australia.
• Ekko 168*, Ziggs 169* and Orianna 171*: the first three Signatures Riot showed, in Preview Season's first week. No listings yet.
• K'Sante 172*, Evelynn 175* and Jarvan IV 176*: in the catalogue, waiting on a clear image and a first listing.
• HEARTSTEEL, 178* to 183*: K'Sante, Aphelios, Ezreal, Yone, Kayn and Sett, each signed with the member's name. Their unsigned overnumbers were already among the dearest Radiance cards: Kayn 182/167US$663.75 at US$663.75 and Yone 181/167US$642.02 at US$642.02.

Buy the single, or open boxes?

For one named card, buy the single. A Radiance booster display's TCGplayer market price was about US$143 on 17 October, Riot publishes no pull rates, and a Signature is a single printing among dozens of chase cards in the set. Opening boxes for one particular Signature means paying for a lot of boxes that do not contain it.

Opening is still the right call if you want the experience, or a binder of the set, and our pull tracker values what you open at today's store prices so you can see how your box did. If your box gave you the Seraphine, log it: its price on the day you pulled it is the best record of what it was worth.

Graded Signatures

Earlier sets show where Signatures end up: in a grading slab. Our eBay data already carries graded Signatures from Origins and Spiritforged, from a Leona, Radiant DawnUS$0.25 306*/298 in a PSA 10 to an Aphelios, ExaltedUS$0.20 224*/221 in a PCG 10 and a Soraka, WandererUS$0.24 239*/221 at TAG 10. Signed cards are foil, and foil shows every scratch and print line, so a high grade is never a given.

If you pull a Radiance Signature, sleeve it straight from the pack and put it in a top loader, as the Riven above is. Most damage to a chase card happens in the minute after it is pulled. A penny sleeve and a top loader cost less than a dollar together; a corner ding can cost a grade.

When to buy

Most of the time, not on the first day. New sets sell their chase cards dearest in their first week, because the people who want them most buy first and supply is still in packs. The median Vendetta overnumbered unit cost $177 four days before release, $81 in launch week and $73 by early October.

Radiance releases on 23 October 2026, and listings will multiply over the following fortnight. If you want the Seraphine Signature at a better price than its first listing, watch it: a free account emails you when a store lists it and again when the price drops. If you want it first, the card page shows every store's price side by side the moment it appears.

Every Radiance Signature

Riot's card gallery and TCGplayer list none of Radiance's Signatures, so we added them by hand: one for each of the nine overnumbered Legends (168* to 176*) and each of the six HEARTSTEEL cards (178* to 183*), plus Seraphine's 174a*. The images below are Riot's own or photos of real cards; the rest join as they are shown.

The HEARTSTEEL Signatures are signed in character: Aphelios, Kayn and Yone each carry the band member's name as a signature across the art. Every HEARTSTEEL card is in the HEARTSTEEL overnumbered post, and the K/DA specials are in the K/DA cards post.