Riftbound's Unleashed Pre-Rift is raring to go! From today, Friday 1st May, stores are starting to run their Pre-Rift events - our first look at the set's new cards in action. Let's explore what's new with Unleashed and what to look out for.
What happens at a Pre-Rift?
When you register for a Pre-Rift, you'll receive an Unleashed Pre-Rift Bundle. Each Bundle is random, and will contain the following:
- A Seeded Pack themed around one of the 6 new Champions
- Jhin, Vi, Master Yi, Ivern, Diana, or Kha’Zix
- 5 Riftbound Unleashed Booster Packs
- A Pre-Rift Promo Card, Ashe.
- Not usable for your Pre-Rift sealed deck, but still exclusive and super cool!
Using the booster packs you have to open, you can use any of the cards to build your deck. There are a few notable differences:
- Card / Deck Restrictions
- You can run as many copies of each card as you draft!
- Main Deck Size is 25-Card minimum, but you can run more if you'd like.
Enough dallying! Here are the cards I'll be looking out for during my Unleashed Pre-Rift.
Our Top Unleashed Pre-Rift Picks
Sprite Fountain
An overall great card - really great synergy with pre-existing champions like Lillia and Ornn. For Unleashed Pre-Rift, Sprite Fountain serves as a solid value engine to get stats on the board early.
Readied temporary units work really well for scoring consistently, or even providing a mini card draw engine with the Dusk Rose Lab battlefield.
Grim Resolve
The pool for orange isn't wonderful, but if you're locked in I'd look out for Grim Resolve. The XP synergy makes the card worth drafting, but playing alongside cards like Hunter's Machete or Kinkou's Initiate makes Body able to keep up with what looks like an Ivern Dominated Meta.
Mutated Mouser
Mutated Mouser is a great embodiment of Calm. Hold decks are looking really strong with the new Vex legend!
Having a Shield 2 Body on a first turn play is a great play for your curve, I'd place it as a staple green card for this sealed format.
Smite
Smite initially appears unassuming, but removal looks quite hard to come by this set. 3 Damage at action speed removes lots of popular matchups in the set.
With Diana looking like the most popular choice, removing the consistency the Diana champion unit is really valuable!
Star-Crossed
Yet another win for Chaos - this card is like a reaction speed Rebuke. It's no secret that consistency is key for Pre-Rifts, so having a reliable source of control is an automatic win.
