RIFTThe First Edition
Every card is painted, none is for sale
Twelve per kingdom: six creatures, six spells, and three combos that belong to it alone. Every card is illustrated by hand for RIFT.
Three rarities
Common, uncommon, rare. And golden versions, rarer still: the same card, one notch above.
One golden card per kingdom
It can't be bought and isn't drawn at random: beat the sovereign, take it. No payment, ever, not for a card, not to go faster.
A collection you build
Every card in the game, gathered in a grimoire you leaf through. The golden ones take their place there as you win them.
One card
Everything on it, and nothing more
Six pieces of information, always in the same places. No sixth line to learn, no reminder text, no cross-reference to a manual.
5
The Sylves
Ancien chêne d’or
Garde, une forteresse vivante.
4
JOUER
7
The cost5 souls. They come back in full every turn, and you gain one more, up to six.The typeThe emblem says creature or spell. A creature stays on the table ; a spell acts and is gone.
The effectOne line, never two. Guard is the only keyword in the game : it intercepts the assault aimed at your hero.The attack4, what it takes away when it strikes.The life7, what it absorbs before it falls.Ancien chêne d’or. Rare, The Sylves. It is rendered here to the game's own standard : 272 × 408, a two-line border, and the same emblems as on screen.
A glimpse
Three per kingdom, and one that is never played
One common, one uncommon, one rare. The rest is earned kingdom by kingdom, and that is the point.
Card and character names stay in French, that's how they read in the game.
1
Les Sylves
Pousse d’ambre
Une petite pousse idéale pour préparer les combos de croissance.
1
JOUER
2
Commune
3
Les Sylves
Tisseuse de floraison
Arrivée : donne +1/+1 à une de tes créatures.
2
JOUER
3
Peu commune
5
Les Sylves
Ancien chêne d’or
Garde, une forteresse vivante.
4
JOUER
7
Rare
1
Les Cendrés
Étincelin
Dernier souffle : 1 dégât au héros adverse.
2
JOUER
1
Commune
2
Les Cendrés
Duelliste incandescent
Rapide, peut attaquer le tour où il arrive.
2
JOUER
2
Peu commune
5
Les Cendrés
Phénix de cuivre
Dernier souffle : invoque un Étincelin.
4
JOUER
4
Rare
1
Les Astraux
Apprenti prismatique
Un relais peu coûteux pour vos chaînes de sorts.
2
JOUER
2
Commune
2
Les Astraux
Voyante des marées
Arrivée : pioche 1 carte.
2
JOUER
3
Peu commune
4
Les Astraux
Dragon de l’astrolabe
Une conclusion simple et puissante.
5
JOUER
6
Rare
1
Les Faës
Reflet fugace
Illusion, fragile, mais utile à de nombreuses ruses.
1
JOUER
1
Commune
2
Les Faës
Farceur des lisières
Arrivée : invoque un Reflet fugace si possible.
2
JOUER
2
Peu commune
5
Les Faës
Reine des lucioles
Arrivée : invoque un Reflet fugace.
4
JOUER
5
Rare
Aucun royaume
La Première Pierre
Ver du enn. Kav gadr du oth.
Prophétie
The last one is neither played nor earned : it is deciphered. Twelve are hidden in the campaign, written in khron, the language from before the fracture.
In the works
The Rift awakens
The second edition will carry a theme, not a catalogue: the Rift stops being scenery, and each kingdom gets its own way of feeding it, or of profiting from it.
Twenty cards. And above all combos of another kind: one that outlasts the turn, one that fires on your opponent's side, one that asks for three ingredients and pays out with something people still talk about after the game.
None of it is playable yet, and no date is announced for that edition. It comes after launch.
The waiting list
Earn your first golden card on day one
One address, and you're told at launch, with early access.