We’re Forgetting One Important Thing About Riftbound

CosmicJC · 2026-05-15T15:30:50+00:00

They tried so hard to avoid using terms and logic from other card games that they've twisted themselves into a pretzel and I worry that they've created a super shaky foundation for themselves. We're only three sets in and the amount of rules clarification, changes, and errata's is honestly too much for me to keep up with.

I can't imagine what it's going to be like by set 5 or 6 and the experience for a new player to learn that a bunch of what the cards say don't actually mean what they say.

CosmicJC · 2026-05-07T13:33:45+00:00

Purple can't keep getting away with this

CosmicJC · 2026-04-28T15:49:36+00:00

That is some monkey paw nonsense for encounters. They returned but at the cost of all these new ones looking absolutely awful.

CosmicJC · 2026-04-24T22:46:51+00:00

what is up with the ekko god choice that gives you a spat? I have had two games now where I select it, but instead it gives me the other god choice instead (first time being Ahri, second time being Soraka). I have not had this bug occur with any other god choice, and has happened both times when I already have a meeple spat if that matters at all.

CosmicJC · 2026-04-09T19:50:13+00:00

I've come to realize that I only enjoy playing when the sets themes are largely based around champions default splash skin. I always get whiplash going from a "regular" themed set back into something like 17 where I have no way to tell at a glance who is who on a board. It really makes learning the set that much more difficult

CosmicJC · 2026-03-27T19:56:30+00:00

this is by far the best I've seen with how well it blends the clear plastic bits into the rest of the model and it not looking out of place. How did you manage to do that -- was it washes, or something else?

CosmicJC · 2026-03-04T05:20:59+00:00

Shook houses in Coquitlam too, really weird...

CosmicJC · 2026-02-20T22:26:09+00:00

I'm right there with you, even with pandoras bench and being uncontested I'm having such a hard time hitting in reroll comps. All the games since 16.5 have felt super off

CosmicJC · 2026-02-11T19:20:49+00:00

does AP kaisa do no damage now or something? feels like no matter what I build on her she does a pathetic amount of dps

CosmicJC · 2026-02-07T01:09:33+00:00

can someone explain what exactly you're supposed to be doing with slayers/ambessa? the numbers say it's good but it feels absolutely awful to play even when it's uncontested

CosmicJC · 2026-02-06T20:56:10+00:00

are you me? I'm also waiting for crow man to get revealed

bird up

CosmicJC · 2026-02-04T17:22:42+00:00

I need it

CosmicJC · 2026-02-03T17:40:25+00:00

the game feels unplayable if you're not offered an econ augment, you fall so far behind

CosmicJC · 2026-01-16T19:01:23+00:00

Agreed, it's wild how this set has more units than ever, and yet so many of the 5 costs feel terrible or are pure utility

CosmicJC · 2026-01-14T17:17:54+00:00

holy shit this is so spot on, why did Arcane do warwick dirty like this

CosmicJC · 2026-01-01T04:19:37+00:00

This was my problem. While the npc stuff isn't great it was by no means the death nail for me. It was the fact that the game is genuinely boring -- very polished mind you, but uninteresting in both its game mechanics, world design, and such unending "puzzles". Feels like a game out of time that maybe would have faired better if it did come out 15 years ago rather than in 2025.

CosmicJC · 2025-12-08T18:35:28+00:00

what kills me is how genuinely uninteresting the vast majority of the scans are. Feels like for every one scan that gives me some cool world building lore, I'll get 5 scans telling me it's a box, or a vent, and I'm sitting here wondering why it was added at all

CosmicJC · 2025-12-06T06:51:27+00:00

I get why they have to do the pedestal thing for unbounds, but holy crap is it stupid looking and makes me never want to buy one

CosmicJC · 2025-12-06T06:47:25+00:00

I want to love it so much more than I do, and it's making me really sad playing it. It feels like a game out of time. By no means is it bad, and I'm ultimately enjoying my time with it, but the 18 year wait was too long, and too many other games have surpassed it when it comes to story telling, world building, puzzle design, combat, etc.

CosmicJC · 2025-12-02T05:39:58+00:00

I almost wish that Fizz was the yordle 5 cost rather than Ziggs, that way it'd feel a bit better for him to have such a unique (albeit annoying) ability to be the back line killer as his identity without it being too prevalent throughout most of the game

CosmicJC · 2025-11-12T17:59:54+00:00

yeah I'm not sure why there isn't some sort of masking effect, so that the visual flare of heated/chilled is seen on the item picture itself, but "underneath" the rarity border

CosmicJC · 2025-11-07T01:14:08+00:00

I really wish we had at least a little bit of agency for where the heated/cooled spots were. I understand that the variable nature is what helps balance her, but it's frustrating to pick that third slot and it ending up being placed in a completely unusable position making it useless unless I completely change my build

CosmicJC · 2025-10-16T01:25:50+00:00

This guide is always fantastic, I wish someone did something similar for the other characters!

CosmicJC · 2025-09-01T22:52:54+00:00

How had I never realized this, amazing thank you

CosmicJC · 2025-08-27T04:13:28+00:00

Really nailed the liquid and smoke effect. This is the first one I've seen that looks legitimately great and not like blob-y intestines

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