Community cosmetics only show an artist credit when their artist is known.
The header's Membership button now includes a text label. Already subscribed? in the Customization membership banner is shown without an icon.
Champion+ members can equip MERC's playmat and sleeves in Customization, with a link to the MERC community on the Artists page. Playmat and sleeve pickers now group community designs under Communities.
Changelog
Week 43
Oct 19–25, 2026
Add & invite: Invite friends now has a friend code field. Enter a code to send a friend request and an invite together; if you are not friends yet, the invite arrives as soon as they accept.
Deck Stats: Deck stats in the Deck Builder, shared and community decks, Sealed, and the Simulator lobby were redesigned. The Energy Curve stacks Units, Spells, and Gear, shows every cost including empty ones, and marks your Champion's cost. Power & Runes compares the power your cards need from each domain with your runes, and Unit Might and Keywords are new. Select a column or keyword to list its cards and the chance to draw one in your opening hand.
The RiftAtlas membership window now shows your tier's emblem, revealed with a short animation when a new membership is confirmed. The star on the RiftAtlas membership button turns when you point at it, and once per visit for members.
Private deck now covers the deck you ticked it for. Playing a different deck makes that game public and turns Private deck off; swapping sideboard cards between games keeps it.
Your board lines no longer frame the opponent's hand button.
Your active RiftAtlas membership now shows Choose cosmetics and Connect Discord side by side, with Manage subscription in Link below them. Supporter, which has no cosmetics, shows only the Discord step.
Card text and in-game errata now use Riot's Vendetta errata wording for Astral Heron; Draven, Vanquisher; Emperor's Dais; Fizz, Trickster; Diana, Lunari; Stalking Wolf; Resonating Strike; and Gangplank, Naval.
A Metafy membership is now managed in your account under Profile → Connected accounts, where you can connect, refresh, or disconnect it. The header shows only the Rift Atlas membership button.
Week 42
Oct 12–18, 2026
Roll a die: Choose a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, or d20 from Actions, or hold Shift+R and select a die. Everyone sees it roll across the board, and the result appears in the game log.
Direct RiftAtlas members can connect Discord from their membership to get their tier role in the RiftAtlas Discord. Membership tiers now list the Discord role.
Started games now close after six hours without moves or chat, even if a tab is still open.
Improved Chinese, French, and Korean translations across card tools, game controls, customization, and game logs.
Blank battlefields now show their card backs in all three multiplayer battlefield columns, regardless of which player is viewing the board.
In multiplayer Pre-Rift games, the first player now receives the bonus card for a missing Legend or chosen Champion even when their normal first draw is skipped.
Energy symbols in card rules now use dark circles in light mode so the numbers are easier to read.
RiftAtlas membership: Subscribe to Supporter, Champion, Legend or Signature Legend directly on Rift Atlas, billed monthly with tax added at checkout, and cancel anytime. Compare tiers on the new membership page; Metafy memberships keep working.
Copy image: Copy a deck wallpaper to your clipboard and paste it into other apps without downloading it.
Sign-in and session refresh can now recover when your browser cannot connect securely to the separate sign-in host, using the website's secure connection instead.
Contact, Discord, and X shortcuts now sit beside the language and profile controls in the lobby.
Hovering over or focusing another card print now prepares its details before you open it, reducing loading placeholders when switching prints.
Champion+ members can equip Painted by Libby's Evelynn and Lulu playmats in Customization. Meet the artist and find her social links on the Artists page.
Pass Focus registers valid quick passes and the W shortcut with Caps Lock on AZERTY keyboards. Showdown controls remain clickable in narrow windows.
Match Settings stays fully visible after rotating the lobby.
You can choose whether to get occasional Rift Atlas update emails: when creating an account, under Update emails in Manage account, or once when asked.
Added seven Radiance Nexus Night promos, more official French and Chinese card images and text, and English rules for the signed Heartsteel showcases.
Sealed decks no longer count Neutral cards such as Neeko as an extra domain, so a three-domain deck with Neeko is accepted.
Legend members' names in Friends now show in purple and Signature Legend members' names in gold.
Seraphine’s new Radiance alternate art and signed alternate art are available with Chinese card images and English rules, with clearer artwork and text.
Release Radiance Pre-Rift: Open one of the nine Radiance starter kits, Battlefield included, plus five Radiance boosters, build your deck, and find other Radiance Pre-Rift players in Quick Match.
Sealed has a simpler format picker and pack opening. Sealed Quick Match now queues Radiance Pre-Rift; Vendetta Sealed stays available in private rooms and solo play.
The Sealed builder shows its deck requirements in one compact row, and both deck builders open decks with a Play in Simulator button.
Newly opened Sealed boosters never repeat a card, and their extra foil is usually a Common or Uncommon, so an Epic turns up in about one booster in four. New Radiance boosters also follow Riot's pack layout: Alt Art, Special Art, Overnumbered and Ultimate Rare cards share one slot, so a booster holds at most one; Special Arts turn up as often as Alt Arts, and the Ultimate Rare in about 1 in 4,000 boosters. Pools you opened before keep their cards.
Top judges: A new page ranks the 50 community judges with the most answered rules questions, all time and over the last 30 days, with a ranking for each month since September 2026.
Champion+ members can equip LootPixie artwork for the Bomb token in Customization. On phones, the Tokens picker shows more tokens on each row.
The Poro Pack's playmat and sleeves are now credited "Art by Loot Pixie for The Poro Pack" in Customization. The Artists page lists The Poro Pack as a community with art by Loot Pixie and also shows both pieces on Loot Pixie's profile.
The previously Chinese-only Radiance card Hunting Blind now has its English name, rules and card image.
When you're signed in, the Simulator lobby shows your player name as text; select the pen beside it to change the name.
Sign in and Sign up now open in a window over the page you are on, so your game, deck or lobby stays open while you sign in, enter an email code, reset your password or choose your player name. Signing in with Google, Discord or Twitch brings you back to the same page; if it does not finish, the window reopens with the reason.
When the Simulator lobby keeps failing to open, it now reopens without unfinished room joins, match searches or parties. If it still fails, the error page now offers Back to Lobby, which reopens it the same way; your decks, player name and settings are kept. A lobby panel that fails to load is now left out instead of blocking the whole lobby.
Rift Atlas accounts: Sign-in, sign-up and Manage account now run on Rift Atlas's own account system. Your decks, Game history, Friends and Metafy membership stay with your account; sign in again once with the same email, password, Google, Discord or Twitch.
Player name: Your account now keeps your player name, which the Simulator lobby, Friends and deck publishing use on every device. Choose it when you sign up and change it in Manage account; an account without one takes the name you already play under, or asks you for one.
Your Google, Discord or Twitch profile picture appears on your account button again the next time you sign in with that provider.
Metafy members linked before the switch to Rift Atlas accounts keep their benefits and can renew the link with Renew Metafy connection in the Membership window instead of being asked to disconnect. If you disconnected Metafy since the switch, Connect Metafy restores your membership. When connecting fails, the Membership window now says whether to try again later or that a different Metafy account was used.
During a match, the Simulator keeps your phone's screen on, so it no longer locks and disconnects you while you wait for your opponent.
When your turn starts while the Simulator is behind another tab or app, its tab title begins with "Your turn" until you come back. With the page open on an Android phone, a short vibration marks your turn instead; setting Sound effects to 0% turns it off.
On phones, tapping a text field (card labels, player reports, feedback, judge chat) no longer zooms the page on iPhone, double-tapping the board no longer zooms in, score points are easier to tap with the phone held sideways, and the bottoms of the post-game feedback form and Deck Library no longer hide behind Safari's toolbar. On iPhone, your opponent's moves and the turn sound are heard after any tap, not only after a tap that itself made a sound.
The Lobby downloads about 1 MB less on a first visit from a phone or a narrower screen, where its side banners are not shown.
24 Radiance prints now use Riot's official card images, most of them sharper, including both Seraphine, Inspiring prints, both Riven, The Exile prints, Angler Wyrm and Raucous Anthem. In English, Seraphic Wyvern and the Ekko, Revolutionary showcase now show English card images instead of Chinese ones.
Abilities: Card search, Advanced Search, the Deck Builder and the Sealed builder can filter cards by ability: Activated, Exhaust, Triggered, Passive, Replacement and Delayed, following the ability kinds in the Core Rules. In the search bar, type a:exhaust or a:triggered.
Points rails: Legend and Signature Legend members can equip a points rail that matches their nameplate. Every point sits in a faint square frame, and when your score lands on a point, its copper or gold frame is welded on with sparks and set with violet or sapphire. The winning point keeps its crest frame in view, and the points rail picker in Customize plays every rail's scoring animation.
Advanced Search is more compact, so it needs far less scrolling, especially on phones. It adds a Might filter, shows abilities and domains as one-click tiles (a selected domain takes its own colour), pairs Include with Exclude in one section, and writes cost and Might comparisons as =, <, ≤, > and ≥, so "greater than or equal" is no longer cut off to read "greater than".
The Cards page toolbar has a new look and more filters. Types can be combined, domains rest as a small stack that fans out into one-click toggles on hover or tap, and new Energy cost, Rarity and Set filters sit beside them on wider screens. Alt versions and Tokens become icons when space is tight, narrower screens keep the rest in All filters, and All filters shows how many more filters are active. It fits on one row in every language from tablet width up.
In the Deck Builder and Sealed filters, Energy, Power and Might now sit together under Cost & Might, each on one line, beside Domain, Type and Rarity.
Text typed while a page is still loading is no longer lost once it loads: the homepage and header card searches keep it and show their suggestions (the header's on larger screens), and the Contact form no longer clears it when you move to the next field.
The Lobby and other Simulator pages no longer shift down slightly when the Friends button appears after you sign in.
Pasting a deck list into Import Deck on an iPhone no longer turns it into encoded text that cannot be imported.
On phones, holding a card with many actions now shrinks its preview so every action stays on screen, even with longer translated labels.
The Reveal all hand cards button responds across its whole width again; its left part sat under the Rune Deck and ignored the pointer.
Dockside Lock-Up and Kharox can now play an opponent's unit. Dockside Lock-Up's Banish a unit links the unit it banishes, and Kill to play kills Dockside Lock-Up to play that unit to your base or a battlefield. An Empowered Kharox's Play from trash plays a unit from an opponent's trash. The unit keeps its owner and returns to their piles when it leaves play.
Unit tokens and duplicated units placed at a battlefield, such as a Sprite, now start a showdown there like any unit played there, so they can conquer and score.
Saved decks now keep promo prints such as Lillia's Secret Garden legend, which no longer switch back to the standard print in the Lobby or in later Best of 3 games.
On phones, holding an opponent's card now offers Ping.
Added ten Chinese showcase prints: the K'Sante, Pride of Nazumah, Riven, The Exile, Evelynn, Agony's Embrace and Jarvan IV, Exemplar of Demacia legends, and six Heartsteel units: K'Sante, Courageous, Aphelios, Exalted, Ezreal, Dashing, Yone, Blademaster, Kayn, Unleashed and Sett, Kingpin. In Chinese, 21 more Radiance prints now show their official names and rules. Six Chinese Radiance card images are clearer, and the signed Ekko, Boy Who Shattered Time now has its own Chinese image.
Typing in chat when your opponent leaves no longer closes the Player Left notice by accident. Notices and choices that open while you type in chat now leave your keys in chat instead of taking them.
On phones held sideways, the buttons down the right side of the board no longer run into Actions and Toggles or onto the board's edge.
On larger screens, the Collapse sidebar button at the top of the game sidebar is now as tall as Game settings and Enter fullscreen beside it.
Five previously Chinese-only Radiance cards now have English names, rules and card images: Incorrigible Construct, Whirling Twirligig, Battle Preparations, Explosimian and Pitiless Stalker.