Riftbound T1 Signature Edition Drawing: Dates and Prices

Riot has published the full timetable for the English T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition drawing. Registration opens at 9am Pacific on Friday 14 August 2026 and closes at 6pm Pacific on Monday 17 August. It is a lottery on the Riot Merch Store, not a sale — you sign up inside that window, and being early inside it changes nothing.

This is the most expensive Riftbound product Riot has ever made, at US$360, and the most limited: 10,125 copies per language. Here is every date, what you actually get, and the parts of the entry rules that are easy to miss.

Every date in the T1 Signature Edition drawing

Two small things worth knowing about that table. The waves are conditional — Riot will only run the second and third if the first does not fill the allocation, so no email on 20 August is not a rejection. And Riot has said it will post when each wave goes out, and when the drawing has formally concluded, on the official Riftbound account on X, which is the only place a "have I missed out?" answer will exist before your inbox has one.

One correction worth flagging, because it will confuse people reading the announcement: Riot's post labels the later waves "Friday, August 24" and "Monday, August 27". In 2026 the 24th is a Monday and the 27th is a Thursday. The dates themselves follow a sensible Thursday-Monday-Thursday cadence from the 20th, so we have treated the dates as correct and the weekday labels as a slip.

What time does the drawing open where you live?

The window is published in Pacific time, which is 5pm to 2am in the UK and lands overnight for Australia and New Zealand. Both ends of the window in the six markets we price:

If you are outside North America, the practical advice is to ignore the opening time entirely and enter at a civilised hour on the Saturday, Sunday or Monday. There is no queue and no advantage to being first.

How the drawing actually works

You register during the window; after it closes, Riot draws from everyone who entered and emails the people it selects with a link to buy. Nothing is reserved at the moment you sign up, and nothing is charged until you complete a purchase from that email.

The single most important rule, and the one most likely to change how people behave: there is no Catch Up pool. In some previous Riot Merch drawings, people who had missed out before were weighted more heavily next time. Riot has explicitly said that is not happening here — everyone who enters has the same chance, regardless of prior entries or purchases. If you have been losing drawings all year, that history is worth nothing on this one. If you have never entered one, you are not behind.

One thing nobody can tell you, us included: your odds. Riot has never published how many people enter a Merch Store drawing, so "10,125 copies" is a supply figure with no demand figure beside it. Anyone quoting you a percentage chance of winning is making it up.

Riot has also confirmed two things about the shipping side that matter at this price point. Orders get extra packaging specifically to protect them in transit. And because every serialised card is genuinely unique, a damaged one cannot be replaced with an identical copy — so the remedy is returning the complete set for a full refund, not a swap. If your box arrives damaged, that is a decision to make deliberately rather than a form to fill in.

What US$360 actually buys

The Signature Edition is a display piece: five cards with a foiling treatment made for this release, one of them serialised and signed, in packaging designed to be stood up rather than stored. The Player Bundle is the version aimed at people who want to sleeve these up and play them, and one in every ten of its metal dice is a black-and-gold variant.

Both are English-language Riot Merch Store drawings. The Chinese and Korean editions are handled separately in-region, and Riot has timed the English drawing to coincide with a T1 event for the Korean versions.

The five cards, and who picked them

Each card was chosen by the T1 player it represents. The card data below is read from Riot's own reveal renders and cross-checked against the existing retail printings of the same cards in our database — the collection uses new art and a new frame, but the rules text and stats are the cards you already know.

The Seraphine catch. Seraphine, Not Alone is from Radiance, the fifth Riftbound set, which does not release until 23 October 2026. Until then the card is not legal for sanctioned play — so a Player Bundle bought to actually play with contains one card you cannot yet use. That is a temporary problem, not a permanent one, but it is worth knowing before October.

The serialised card is the whole story

Every box contains exactly one card numbered from 1 to 2025 — the year of the title being commemorated — with a gold-stamped signature from the player who picked it. Riot's reveal render shows Faker's Galio in that slot, stamped 0001/2025.

If you have read our variant and finish glossary, this is a category Riftbound has not had before. Signature cards in normal sets carry the artist's stamp; this is a player's, on a card with a unique serial. In every other serialised collectible market, low numbers trade above high ones, and there is no obvious reason this one would behave differently. No Riftbound serial has ever changed hands, though, so that is a pattern from elsewhere rather than an observation about this card.

Riot has separately said it has no plans to put serialisation into booster packs, which is what makes this interesting rather than a preview of things to come: it is a deliberately walled-off collector release.

How rare is the T1 Signature Edition, exactly?

Rare enough that the number is worth doing properly, because "10,125" on its own understates it.

Each box contains one serialised card, numbered somewhere in 1–2025. There are five champions in the set, and 5 × 2,025 = 10,125 — exactly the print run Riot published for each language.

That is not a coincidence, and the arithmetic only closes one way. A single shared 1–2025 pool cannot cover 10,125 boxes when every box holds a uniquely numbered card: you would run out after 2,025 boxes. Five separate 1–2025 runs, one per champion, is the only arrangement that fits the two numbers Riot published.

So the thing collectors will actually chase — a gold-signed, serialised Galio picked and signed by Faker — exists in roughly 2,025 English copies, and 6,075 across all three languages. That is a fifth of the number most coverage is quoting, and it is the number that matters.

Two honest caveats. Riot has published the print run and the serial range but has not confirmed that the five champions are distributed evenly across boxes — the arithmetic implies it, Riot has not stated it, and which champion you get is not something you choose. And the four unserialised cards in your box are identical to everybody else's: the serial is what is scarce, not the set.

What actually makes these cards valuable

Four things, and only one of them is the price tag.

The print run is fixed and small, and there is no reprint lever. Riot capped this at 10,125 per language before a single copy shipped. A set that sells out is normally followed by a reprint, a second wave or a promo distribution of the same art. None of those exist here — the collection commemorates a specific championship, and the serial range is literally the year.

The serial number is a one-of-one. Every serialised card is unique: there is exactly one #0001 Galio in English and there will never be another. Be precise about what that means, because resellers will not be — the three language editions are numbered separately, so a #0001 Galio exists once in English, once in Chinese and once in Korean. Riot's own returns policy makes the point better than any analysis — a damaged serialised card cannot be replaced with an identical copy, so the remedy is a full refund of the whole set. That is a company saying, in a support policy, that it cannot manufacture a second one.

There is no retail channel at all. Every other Riftbound product we track has a shop price, which anchors resale: you can always see what a booster box costs at retail and judge a listing against it. This has no retail price after the drawing closes. The only public number is the US$360 you would have paid to Riot, and once the window shuts even that stops being obtainable. Price discovery happens entirely on the secondary market, starting from nothing. We will report what that produces; we are not going to guess at it in advance.

The category itself is walled off. In the same month, Riot said it has no plans to put serialisation into booster packs. Serialised Riftbound cards are therefore not a thing that will exist in the ordinary product line — they are a thing that exists in dedicated collector releases, of which this is the first.

And one thing that does not make them valuable: playability. These are the same five champions you can already buy as ordinary singles for cents apiece — and one of them, Seraphine, is not tournament-legal until Radiance releases in October. Nobody is paying US$360 for a 3-cost 6-might Galio. They are paying for the object.

What we won't tell you

We do not forecast prices, and this is exactly the product where the temptation is strongest.

These cards have a cost. They do not yet have a price. US$360 is what Riot charges a winner; a price is what two strangers agree on, and none has been agreed yet.

Here is the whole of what is actually known: the print run, the serial range, and one price — US$360 — that only winners of the drawing can pay. Every number beyond that is somebody's guess, including ours. Sealed collector products from a first-of-its-kind collaboration have gone both ways in other card games, and anyone quoting you a multiple in the first week is quoting a vibe.

What we will do instead is show you the number when it exists. All six printings have live pages on RiftCompare, and the moment a copy changes hands somewhere we can see it, that page shows the price and starts a history. Set a price alert if you would rather be told than check.

Is the Player Bundle the better buy?

For most people who just like the cards, yes — and it is not close on a per-dollar basis.

The gap is worth doing as arithmetic rather than as "a fifth of the price". US$360 minus US$70 is US$290, and that US$290 buys exactly three things: the serialisation, the gold-stamped signature and the foiling treatment made for this release. Everything else — the five champions, exclusive art, an object you can hold — is in both.

US$70 gets you the same five champions in their own exclusive art, plus sleeves, a deckbox, a binder and a metal die. If your reason for wanting this collection is "I want Faker's Galio on my shelf", the Player Bundle does that for a fifth of the price; if it is "I want a numbered card that only 2,025 people can own", it does not do that at all, and nothing else will.

Worth pricing the third option honestly too: the ordinary retail printings of four of these five champions are in our database right now and cost cents. If what you want is to play these cards, that is the entire cost.

What we're tracking on RiftCompare

All six printings — the five cards plus Faker's serialised Galio — are now in our card database, so they have real pages the moment secondary-market listings exist rather than weeks afterwards. Prices will appear on those pages automatically when they do.

On the sealed side, both the Signature Edition and the Player Bundle now have their own product types in our sealed comparison, each carrying Riot's published US price as its reference. That is the number that matters after the drawing closes: not "what is the cheapest listing", but "how far above US$360 is the cheapest listing". The deal finder applies the same logic across everything else we track.

If you would rather not watch any of this manually, set a price alert and we will email you when a listing appears.

The short version

Enter between 14 and 17 August, at any point in that window. Do not stay up for the opening if you are not in North America. Do not expect prior purchases to help you. And if you miss out, the Player Bundle drawing later this year gets you the same five champions, in different art, for a fifth of the price.

Sources: Riot Games' official announcements — the August Merch Store Updates post of 6 August 2026 (drawing dates, entry rules, shipping policy), The Riftbound x T1 2025 Worlds Champion Collection (contents, print run, prices) and the August 2026 Roadmap (the 14-17 August window). Dates, prices and print runs are Riot's; the timezone conversions, card data, analysis and resale commentary are ours. Card images are our own crops of Riot's reveal renders, re-hosted here. Riot's published schedule can change — check the official post before the window opens.