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Banned cards

Everything you may not register in sanctioned Riftbound, with the dates each ban took effect. Ten names in Standard, eleven in 2v2, and no restricted list at all.

Checked against the official Rules Hub on 28 Aug 2026.· Next scheduled check: the Radiance rules update, 8 Oct 2026.

Riftbound has had two ban announcements. The first, in March 2026, was the first in the game’s history. The second, in July 2026, added three more names to Standard and created a separate list for 2v2 at the same time.

Set and collector references on this page are our own annotation, resolved from the official card data we mirror. Riot’s Rules Hub publishes names only, so if a card here has several printings, all of them are banned.

Standard Constructed

Banned in the format the premier 1v1 events are played in. These ten are also banned in 2v2.

Cards

  • Called Shot
    Called ShotBanned 31 Mar 2026SFD · 122
  • Draven, Vanquisher
    Draven, VanquisherBanned 31 Mar 2026SFD · 20
  • Fight or Flight
    Fight or FlightBanned 31 Mar 2026OGN · 168
  • Scrapheap
    ScrapheapBanned 31 Mar 2026OGN · 182
  • Stealthy Pursuer
    BANNED
    Stealthy PursuerBanned 24 Jul 2026OGN · 177

Battlefields

  • The Dreaming Tree
    The Dreaming TreeBanned 31 Mar 2026OGN · 292
  • Obelisk of Power
    Obelisk of PowerBanned 31 Mar 2026OGN · 284
  • Reaver's Row
    Reaver's RowBanned 31 Mar 2026OGN · 285
  • The Arena's Greatest
    BANNED
    The Arena's GreatestBanned 24 Jul 2026OGN · 290
  • Aspirant's Climb
    BANNED
    Aspirant's ClimbBanned 24 Jul 2026OGN · 276

2v2 Constructed

Everything above, plus one more. 2v2 is supported as an event format and gets its own list because two decks can do things one deck cannot.

Legends

  • Master Yi, Wuju Bladesman
    BANNED
    Master Yi, Wuju BladesmanBanned 24 Jul 2026OGS · 19

There is no restricted list

Riot has said plainly that limiting a card to one copy is not a tool they plan to reach for: it sharpens a problem instead of solving it, and it is harder to communicate than a clean ban. So there is exactly one list, the one on this page, and a legal card is legal at three copies.

The two announcements

A ban is published first and takes effect a few days later, so a tournament in between is played on the old list. Both dates are here for exactly that reason.

  1. The first bansPublished 30 Mar 2026, effective 31 Mar 2026
  2. July ban list updatePublished 17 Jul 2026, effective 24 Jul 2026

Ban list from the official Riftbound Rules Hub. Unofficial fan content under the Legal Jibber Jabber policy of Riot Games.