The 10 most expensive cards in Riftbound Vendetta

Riftbound Vendetta — the fourth set overall and third of 2026 for Riot's League of Legends trading card game — is out, and its chase cards are already fetching serious money on TCGplayer. A Nasus card is sitting at $300, an Ambessa at $200, and several other alt-art and overnumbered cards are clearing $100 with ease.

Vendetta introduces a handful of new mechanics alongside its reprints and fresh Champions. Flow lets you replay cards from the trash, Burn sends cards there in the first place, and Unit Gear is a new card type that merges units and gear into one slot. Empower functions as a paid buff system for your cards. The set's theme is rivalry, which fits the Runeterra lore well and gives Riot room to bring back some iconic Champions in new art treatments. The priciest cards right now are almost all alt-art or overnumbered versions — functionally identical to commons going for cents, but visually distinct enough that collectors are paying a heavy premium. Kai'Sa's Crystal Rose alt-art sits around $120, while Vi - Destructive and Viktor - Innovator overnumbered versions are both around $130. Kayle - Justified's overnumbered print is at $160. Ambessa - Matriarch of War, notable as the first canonically dead League of Legends Champion to get a card, is at $200 in her overnumbered form. Nasus tops the list at $300.

Riftbound launched in 2025 as Riot's entry into the physical trading card game space, building on the Runeterra universe already established by the digital card game Legends of Runeterra. The game uses a lane-based combat system tied closely to League of Legends champion abilities and lore. Vendetta being a slightly smaller set than its predecessors hasn't dampened the chase card market — if anything, a tighter card pool tends to concentrate collector demand on fewer high-rarity targets, which likely explains why the top cards are commanding higher prices than comparable slots in earlier sets.

Prices on newly released TCG sets typically spike at launch and settle over the following weeks as supply catches up with demand, so anyone eyeing these cards might want to wait before buying in. That said, overnumbered and alt-art cards with strong lore connections — Nasus, Ambessa, Kayle — tend to hold value better than standard reprints, so the window for a bargain may be shorter than usual.