How to Win More at Pre-Rift | Riftbound Radiance Guide

Going to your first Riftbound Pre-Rift, or hoping for a better result this time? This complete Radiance guide takes you from booking a seat to building a stronger Sealed deck and making better decisions in your games. What to bring, what happens on the day, round timings, best-of-one rules, changing your deck between rounds, card ratios, rune Power costs, mulligans, combat and ten Radiance cards to look out for — with real-card examples throughout. First event? Start at the beginning. Already know the basics? Jump to deckbuilding at 11:17 or gameplay at 27:27. Radiance Pre-Rifts: 16–22 October 2026. Check your store's ticket process, format and timings; these vary. Rules researched 11 October using the updates effective 16 October. The ten-card watchlist is my pre-event assessment, not a ranking based on completed Radiance events. CHAPTERS 00:00 Win your Pre-Rift 00:44 Book your seat 01:44 What to bring 03:39 Your first event and the clock 05:16 Best of one: set up correctly 06:15 Build a legal Sealed deck 08:09 Rebuild between rounds 09:08 Why attend? 11:17 Choose a plan from your pool 13:44 Ratios and your curve 15:30 Evaluate cards in Sealed 16:57 Build the rune deck 17:38 Chosen champion, Legend and fields 18:45 Ten Radiance cards to look for 19:16 Reckless Innovator 19:59 One-Two Punch 20:48 Antagonistic Apparatus 21:26 Lost to the Sands 22:07 Scorched Earth 22:49 Riven, Broken Blade 23:42 The Empyrean 24:26 Riven, Deserter 25:29 Graves, Blasting Through 26:20 Mordekaiser, Dominating 27:27 Your opening hand 28:13 Spend runes with a plan 28:38 Win the fight that matters 29:28 Save answers for real threats 30:20 Two Radiance timing reminders 30:41 Improve between rounds 31:03 Your Pre-Rift checklist Is this your first Pre-Rift, or what are you hoping to improve this time? Let me know below, and subscribe for more practical Riftbound guides. FIND AN EVENT / RULES / CARDS Find your event and check the store's booking instructions: https://playriftbound.com/ Official rules and tournament documents: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/rules... Radiance overview and Pre-Rift kit: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/... Official card gallery: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/card-... WATCH NEXT Radiance Rules You Need to Know:    • Radiance Rules You Need to Know | Riftbound   18 Riftbound Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner:    • 18 Riftbound Tips I Wish I Knew Sooner   Riven Rules You Need to Know:    • Riven Rules You Need to Know | Riftbound R...   EVENT FOOTAGE & CREDITS The event montage shows EARLIER Spiritforged and Vendetta Pre-Rifts, not Radiance. 75% is my own footage from February 2026; short supporting excerpts are credited on screen: nack — Spiritforged Pre-Rift vlog (05:12–05:19, 08:45–08:54):    • How I Went Undefeated at my Pre-Rift! (Wit...   Lizulani — FIRST ever Riftbound Pre-Rift Vlog! (02:49–02:57):    • FIRST ever Riftbound Pre-Rift Vlog! ⊹˖𑣲⋆   VoidRush — SpiritForged Pre-Rift / Box Showcase (01:20–01:28):    • I attended the SpiritForged Pre-Rift event...   Card art, product images and League of Legends ability footage: Riot Games and the credited artists. Mech token reference: https://openrift.app/cards/mech Illustrative deckbox: https://www.gamegenic.com/product/dec... Music: After Hours — BMUCasts background theme. Independent fan project; not endorsed or sponsored by Riot Games. Follow me on X: https://x.com/SCButterMeUp #Riftbound #PreRift #RiftboundRadiance