Riftbound T1 Player Bundle, contents and draw date

If you read my post about missing the T1 Signature Edition twice, you know how that went. There is a second chance, and for most people it is the better product anyway: the T1 2025 Worlds Champion Player Bundle.

Here is what Riot has confirmed, and what is still unknown.

What it is

Riot announced two T1 products in July:

• The Signature Edition ($360), the collector's piece. Limited to 10,125 per language, gold-stamped player signatures, special foiling, and a serialized card numbered up to 2025. That was the drawing in August.
• The Player Bundle ($70), the one you can actually play with. The same five cards, with different artwork, plus accessories.

What is in the Player Bundle

• The five T1 cards, with artwork different from the Signature Edition
• A pack of sleeves
• A deckbox
• A binder
• A metal die, and roughly one in ten are a black and gold variant

The price is $70 in English, ¥399 in Chinese and ₩100K in Korean.

The five cards, and who picked them

Each member of T1's Worlds-winning roster chose a champion:

One thing to know if you play competitively: Seraphine is a card from the next set, Radiance. Riot said it is not tournament legal until Radiance releases, which is 23 October.

When and how you can get one

This is the part everyone is asking about, and the honest answer is that the exact dates are not out yet.

What Riot has said, in its August products post, is that the English Player Bundle drawing will be in October, on the Riot Merch Store. The Chinese and Korean versions are sold separately, in their own regions.

So, like the Signature Edition, it is a drawing, not a shop where the fastest click wins. As soon as Riot publishes the sign-up window I will update this post and the release calendar.

Should you enter?

If you missed the Signature Edition, yes, and I think this is the version most people should have wanted in the first place.

The Signature Edition is a sealed collectible. It was always going to be resold for thousands, which is exactly why bots swarmed the draw. The Player Bundle is something you open, sleeve and play with. At $70 there is far less reason for scalpers to fight over it, so a real player has a much better chance.

The five cards are also genuinely nice to own. Faker's Galio in particular is the card I will be trying for, for the obvious reason.

Get ready before the window opens

The T1 draw taught everyone the same lesson, and it applies here:

• Make sure you can log into your Riot account now, not on the day.
• Check that emails from riotgames.com are not going to spam. The winner email has a purchase link with a short time limit.
• Use one account. The anti-bot sweep in August cancelled some real players who looked suspicious. Do not give the system a reason to look twice at you.

I wrote a fuller checklist in my guide to how the Riftbound store drawings work.

Good luck. If we both win this one, I will consider the T1 saga closed.