Riftbound Spiritforged All Legends revealed and what we think so far!

 Renata Glasc the Chem-Baroness looks to sit on a battlefield and earn that sweet sweet Gold Gear Token, I will speak on it a bit another time but essentially the Gold Gear Token allows for you to tap and kill it for a power that turn. Renata Glasc can leverage this to play heavy yellow control, and blue damage spells like Singularity and Unchecked Power. The free power will also allow her to hide cards basically for free whenever she holds. Allowing her to play powerful hidden cards like Sprite Call and Blastcone Fae to further lock herself down in battlefields. Renata Glasc will also have access to Time Warp, and if she has enough Gold Gear Tokens in base it will essentially cost her 0 power. There will be a lot of playing potential with the Chem-Baroness!

Sivir, Battle Mistress, like Renata Glasc, Sivir will abuse the extra power from her Gold Gear Tokens to play as many powerful cards as she can. Her rune economy will rely on constant units to pick off, as this ability resets with every enemy unit that dies. I'm thinking some strong cards in her deck will be Sabotage, Ride the Wind, Deathbloom Predator, basically every card that is a 1 power cost becomes instantly more viable, and all strong 2 power cost cards weigh less on your rune tempo. Allowing Sivir to keep up while also dishing out powerful plays every turn. Sivir will be riding a fine line every game, having to ensure that with every rune she recycles she is able to maximize. As cards like Acceptable Losses, and Thermo Beam can punish her hard if her Gold Gear Tokens are sitting in base waiting to be used.Rumble, Mechanized Menace will give many decks headaches when trying to play aroundhis mechs. With many powerful mech cards to come, Rumble will have an arsenal that is beefy and hard to take down. The current mech cards in Origins being Mega Mech [7 energy] [8 might], Dangerous Duo [Legion] [+2 might to a unit], and Scrapyard Champion [Legion] [Discard 2 then draw 2], mech cards have just been waiting patiently to be used. Hopefully archetype decks like Mech - Rumble, that play on the type of unit that is played rather than just whatever is strong, become more common going forward. As more mech cards are revealed we will get a better idea of Rumble’s power level, as right now his legend ability is on the simpler side compared to others.Fiora, Grand Duelist will be a super fun character to play, with her ability really being a ‘win more’ stat. Whenever your units become mighty [>=5 Might] you may exhaust Fiora and channel a rune exhausted. This could mean that she is able to recover a cost from playing Kinkou Monk for example, or simply be up a rune when playing Pit Rookie. Fiora has a lot of potential with Sett Brawler as he instantly gets a buff when played going from 4 to 5 might and instantly becoming mighty, you negate his power cost completely. Other combos include playing Call to Glory expending a buff you might have given the turn before dropping a unit below the threshold, and then giving them +3 again making them mighty, and cycling Fiora for an extra rune. These sorts of combos will be very strong in this archetype.

If you love playing cheap spells and drawing cards Ezreal, Prodigal Explorer is the legend for you, just like in the video game where Ezreal excels at poking and constantly using abilities that lower cooldowns, Ezreal in riftbound will exploit cheap spells like Stupify, Gust, Acceptable Losses and Fight or Flight to draw cards. Allowing him to see as many cards as possible will allow him to curate his plays to be as close to perfect as possible. I expect him to fit an archetype similar to teemo, where you play a lot of cards and fill up your trash to then swing with Dr. Mundo for huge numbers late game.

Jax, Grandmaster at Arms specializes in pivoting the new Gear Equipment between his units, subverting the power costs to attach Gear Equipment. This allows him to get maximum use out of the gears in play, conquering one battlefield that has an equipped unit and then exhausting Jax to reattach to a unit in base to then use the Gear buff / effect again to conquer the other battlefield. Jax will have an excellent shot at becoming a top tier deck with the tools and units from green and orange, two very solid colors that have already found success in Yi and Sett decks. One thing to watch out for will be gear removal; Acceptable Losses and Thermo Beam, cards that are easy to side board in when facing strong gear decks.

Following Jax we have another gear loving legend, Ornn, Fire Below the Mountain, similar to Jax, Ornn allows the player to add one power to their pool to use on an equipment's cost to play. This allows for cheap equipment to play, whereas Jax’s power lies in his ability to pivot equipment and to tap one rune to attach. Ornn will avoid one power cost on the initial play and will simply pay whatever the cost is to attach the equipment, essentially offsetting any power cost by 1. Different niches when it comes to min maxing your decklists. Ornn likely would prefer his gears remain attached to his big units. Exciting to see what might be possible with equipment and big beefy units like Dr. Mundo, Whiteflame Protector, and Thousand-Tailed Watcher. Ornn will exploit the new equipment gear cards as much as he can!

 Rek'Sai, Void Burrower. Have you ever wanted to play cards but hate having to pick from the ones in your hand? Then Rek’Sai is the legend for you, her ability allowing you to play the top 2 cards from your deck whenever you conquer. This can lead into some crazy combos when drawing into cards that give bonuses and special effects when not played from hand. Hopefully Spiritforged reveals cards that synergize with this burrowing void monster. 

Lucian, Purifier, our last legend revealed in Spiritforged also plays off of equipment, giving any units with equipment [Assault] [+1 while attacking] Lucian will look to play strong combat units that can play off equipment bonuses for extra might while attacking. Units with the trait [Weaponsmasters][When you play me, you may [Equip] one of your Equipment to me for 1 rune less, even if it's already attached] will be excellent under this archetype and will allow Lucian to swing big numbers on offence, stacking buffs from Equipments and his passive [Assault +1].

Again as with all decks that rely on gears, Acceptable Losses and Thermo Beam will both be huge threats to their gameplan.

This concludes my brief Legend overview, we already have so much to talk about Spiritforged we couldn't fit it all into one post so keep your eyes out for our next Riftbound blog where we’ll be covering the powerful new Equipment Gear cards in detail.

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