Radiance Pre-Rift Tier List

By legend

Each legend has its own list, because a card's worth in sealed depends on the deck around it. The five bands are Challenger TCG's: Always Play Very Good Good Acceptable Don't Play. Cards inside a band keep the order from the original image, which is not a ranking. Their lists are shown exactly as published; nothing here changes them.

Only cards in the legend's two domains appear, plus the colourless ones. A card that one legend rates Always Play can sit in Don't Play for another; tap a card to see all nine ratings at once. Legends, signature cards and battlefields are not rated.

By domains

A sealed deck runs up to three domains, and Challenger TCG's lists only cover a legend's two. Pick the domains in your pool and this mode ranks every card you could run, including the third-colour cards no legend list covers, and names the legends whose two domains fit inside your three. The ranking uses this site's own generic rating, not a Challenger TCG list.

The generic rating is built like this: the anchor is Challenger TCG's average band across the three legends that rated the card (every one-domain card is rated by exactly three legends). A card moves off that anchor only with a written reason, mostly when the three legends disagree because the card needs a specific legend (Amateur Demolitionist with Ziggs, Jarvan IV with Jarvan) or when outside sealed reviews make a case. Tap a card to see the anchor, the final rating and the reason. The little coloured squares next to a name are the fitting legends' own bands, in legend order.

Pre-Rift sealed rules (from Riot's announcement)

• You open five Radiance boosters plus a seeded champion kit and build from only what you opened.
• Main deck of at least 25 cards, using up to three domains. If you play a legend, both of its domains must be among your three.
• Any champion unit can be your chosen champion, whatever your legend. You may also play with no legend or no champion and draw an extra card on turn one.
• You may run as many copies of a card as you opened; the usual limit of three does not apply. Runes and tokens are provided.

Reading on a phone

Cards view shows the art; tap one for a full-size, readable image with its text underneath. List view is a compact table of cost, name and type for quick scanning while you sort your pool. Your mode, legend, domains and view are remembered on this device, and the link in your address bar opens straight to what you picked.