Exclusive Riftbound Reveal – Ambessa’s Overnumbered Legend

League of Legends’ trading card game, Riftbound, is nearing the launch of its fourth official set, Vendetta. And true to its name, the set is embracing “enemy” color pairings; matching up both the color identities that are diametrically opposed, and corresponding Legends who love a good rivalry.

For our reveal during this preview season, Game Informer gets to show off another Overnumbered card, and it’s a doozy for those who love Arcane. Say hello to the Overnumbered variant for Ambessa’s Legend, Matriarch of War.

For those who need a refresher, Legends are the determining factor for the colors of your deck, and also add a persistent effect or presence  for you to utilize during the course of a Riftbound match. For Ambessa’s Legend, this means utilizing Empower, a new mechanic for the Vendetta set.

Ambessa’s Legend becomes Empowered when you Empower something else — usually for an additional cost described on the card — and you can then expend that Empowered state, along with recycling a Rune and exhausting her, to “ready” a unit. This means you can move creatures around the board quickly, make use of multiple exhaust effects, or any other number of potential combat tricks.

For this Overnumbered version, 196/166 in the set, we see Aliya Chen take up the pen to depict Ambessa in full battle gear. It’s a powerful visual, and I’m sure anyone running a beatdown deck with Ambessa at the helm will want this gorgeously ferocious art to match it.

Riftbound’s Vendetta set goes live on July 31 in English and Chinese. You can see the rest of the card gallery as preview season carries on here.