Riftbound Vendetta Chase Cards — Every Tier

Riftbound: Vendetta is out. Singles are trading, stores are listing, and the set's chase cards — the premium pulls that drive box prices — now have real prices instead of predictions.

This post breaks the chase down tier by tier, from the rarest pull down. Every tier has a live gallery of the real printings we've imported: tap any card to open its page and see its price compared across every store we track, in your own market's currency.

Prices move fastest in the weeks right after a launch. Before paying the first number you see, check the card's full comparison — and read why Riftbound prices change for what actually drives those moves.

Tier 1: Signature Legends

The top of the pyramid. A Signature card carries a "*" in its collector number (like Spiritforged's 223*/221) and the artist's stamped signature on the art — the rarest, most contested pulls in any Riftbound set, and the cards that headline box openings.

Vendetta's Signature Legends cover the set's marquee champions, including Akali, Zed, Shen, Mel, Jayce, Kennen and Renekton. These are consistently the most expensive singles in the set by a wide margin.

Tier 2: Overnumbered chases

An Overnumbered card carries a collector number beyond the set's total — Vendetta is a 166-card set, so anything numbered 167/166 or higher is printed at a much lower rate than the set proper. (New to Overnumbers? Read our full explainer.)

The set includes champion Overnumbers for Vi, Jinx, Jayce, Viktor, Rengar, Kha'Zix, Gangplank and Illaoi, a run of Overnumbered spell and gear reprints with premium treatments, and SP-numbered specials like Ahri, InquisitiveUS$6.36 that sit outside the main numbering entirely — plus the Overnumbered treatments for Swain, Irelia, Ambessa, Mel, Kennen, Akali and Nasus.

One demand note that still holds: rival pairs with connecting artwork get priced as a pair — the scarcer half sets the cost of completing the display piece.

Tier 3: Promo cards

Promos — prerelease stamps, Nexus Night packs and organized-play printings — are the wildcard tier: print runs are small, distribution is event-bound, and the best ones routinely outprice regular chase cards (Origins' OP promos are the precedent). The gallery below holds every Vendetta promo we've confirmed and imported, and grows as more are distributed through events.

Tier 4: Alternate-art chases

The broadest premium pool: alt-art printings of the set's champions and key spells, marked with a letter after the collector number (021a, 138a, …). Both faces of the Showdown Deck rivalry get one — Zed, From the ShadowsUS$0.40 and Shen, Leader of the Kinkou OrderUS$0.24 — alongside Akali, Renekton, Nasus, Jayce, Mel, Kennen and Ambessa.

Alt-arts are where art taste drives price more than playability: historically the champions with the biggest fanbases (and the cleanest full-art treatments) hold value even when the base card sees no play.

Tier 5: The Epic-rarity sleepers

The tier collectors overlook — and shouldn't. In Origins the pattern was set by Kai'Sa: an Epic that was both strong in play and genuinely beautiful, and it out-priced plenty of flashier pulls. The way to spot the Vendetta equivalent: an Epic champion that headlines a real deck and looks good enough that players want the exact copy they play with.

The champion Epics include Akali, Deadly WeaponUS$0.73 and Zed, From the Shadows (the aggro headliners), Shen, Leader of the Kinkou Order (the Showdown Deck's other face), Nasus, AscendedUS$0.46, Jayce, Brilliant InventorUS$0.40, Mel, Newly AwakenedUS$0.72 and Ambessa, Respected and FearedUS$0.35. If one of these defines the early meta, its base Epic print is the value pick against its alt-art.

Which chases are actually most expensive

Now that the set is out, you don't need anyone's prediction — you can just look:

• Vendetta set page — every card in the set with live prices, sortable by value.
• Most valuable Riftbound cards — the top of the whole market, generated from live prices.
• Price movers — which chases are climbing or cooling right now.

What demand structure tells you, and what the data can confirm as it accumulates:

1. Marquee-champion Signatures and Overnumbers — Jinx, Vi and Akali have the broadest collector bases from League and Arcane.
2. Completed Rival pairs — connecting art means the market prices the pair, and the scarcer half sets the cost of completion.
3. Showdown-deck rivals (Zed/Shen) — the faces of the set's headline product tend to see outsized demand in every tier they appear in.
4. The Kai'Sa-pattern Epic — whichever Epic champion ends up both meta-defining and pretty.

How to buy chase cards without overpaying

• Compare before you buy. The same chase card is often priced very differently between stores once postage is counted. Every card page lists stores cheapest first by item price, with the delivered total shown where the store publishes its postage.
• Expect launch-window volatility. The first weeks after release see the widest, fastest-moving prices a set will ever have — lots of product is being opened at once while the meta is still unsettled.
• Check stock depth, not just price. A low headline price at one shop with no stock elsewhere is a thinner market than it looks.
• Watch instead of guessing. Save a card to price watch and get told when it moves rather than refreshing manually.

See the full Vendetta card gallery, browse every card with live prices.

Two Vendetta cards have their own pieces: why Shen, Eye of Twilight's Signature is underrated and Astral Heron's climb from a US$4 Epic to a US$34 one.