# Jayce & Mel: Vendetta's New Champion Printings

_2026-07-16 (updated 2026-07-31) · RiftCompare_

Every confirmed Jayce and Mel printing in Riftbound, including two brand-new Vendetta cards — real stats, domains and rarities, not speculation.

Jayce and Mel are two of the most-searched Riftbound names right now, tied to **[Vendetta's Empower mechanic](/guides/riftbound-empower-explained)**. Here's exactly what's confirmed today across both champions — real card data pulled straight from our database, not speculation.

## Jayce: five printings and counting

Jayce now has confirmed printings across two sets:

- **Jayce, Man of Progress** (Spiritforged, SFD 084/221) — the original printing. Rare, **Mind** domain, 4 energy for 4 might. Also has a **Promo** variant of the same card.
- **Jayce, Man of Progress** (Vendetta, VEN 175/166) — a Vendetta reprint of the same card, same stats.
- **Jayce, Brilliant Inventor** (Vendetta, VEN 068/166) — a brand-new printing. **Epic**, **Mind** domain, 6 energy for 6 might.
- **Jayce, Hammer in Hand** (Vendetta, VEN 088/166) — a second brand-new printing, this time **Rare**, **Body** domain, 4 energy for 5 might.

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## Is either of these a Jayce Legend card?

Worth clearing up the confusion behind that search: in Riftbound, a **Legend** is the single card you build your whole deck around, chosen before the game starts — a distinct card type from a **Champion**, a powerful unit you play *during* the game. Every confirmed Jayce printing above — old and new — is card type **Unit** (a Champion), not Legend. Legend cards are also typically titled by an epithet rather than the champion's own name (Jinx's Legend, for instance, is printed as "Loose Cannon"), so we can't rule out a Jayce-aligned Legend under an unrelated title with total certainty — but nothing bearing his name is a Legend today.

## Why Jayce spans two domains

Jayce's two brand-new Vendetta printings split neatly across Empower's two home domains — Mind (Brilliant Inventor) and Body (Hammer in Hand) — see the **[full Empower guide](/guides/riftbound-empower-explained)** for why that pairing matters. That's a real, confirmed reason he keeps coming up in the same breath as the mechanic, even before we know which (if any) of his printings actually carries the Empower keyword.

## Mel, Newly Awakened — now confirmed

Mel's first confirmed printing is real: **Mel, Newly Awakened** (Vendetta, VEN 069/166) — **Epic**, **Mind** domain, 4 energy for 4 might, with an alternate-art variant too. She sits one collector number after Jayce's Brilliant Inventor printing (068/069), both Mind, both Epic — a strong sign the two are meant to be played together.

## When will these have prices?

Vendetta released on **31 July 2026**, so these printings now carry live prices — tap any card above for its full store-by-store comparison. The gallery above will show real prices the moment they do, the same as every card on RiftCompare.

## Keep track of both

Bookmark this page — it updates as new Jayce or Mel printings land in the database, with live prices across every store we track. For the rest of Vendetta's new mechanics, see **[Flow explained](/guides/riftbound-flow-explained)** and **[Burn explained](/guides/riftbound-burn-explained)**, and see **[every Vendetta card with live prices](/sets/vendetta)**.

Source: https://riftcompare.com/guides/jayce-mel-riftbound-empower-explained