Riot has released a video showcasing what is coming to Legends of Runeterra in the next couple of months!
Expansions
- Every 2 months brings us new cards with a new region every 6 months.
- Landmarks are a new card type.
- They are cast with your regular mana.
- They take up a space on the board.
- They cannot attack or block.
- Some Call of the Mountain cards are having their texts updated to interact with Landmarks. These include Falling Comet and Singular Will.
New Event
- A new event is taking place in October.
- Quests, daily win bonuses, and the rewards are all being improved over Spirit Blossom due to community feedback.
Lightning Round
- Spectator Mode launches in November.
- WIll be updated in the future to support tournaments and esports.
- They continue to work on card cosmetics. The first type is called "Card Styles" (See preview below)
- More news on other card cosmetics at the start of 2021.
- A new Baby Infernal Drake guardian is coming. (Preview below)
Seasonal Tournaments
- There will be a tournament at the end of each season for the best of the best players.
- Over 1000 players from each region will qualify to enter.
- You'll need to be a top-ranked player on your server or one of the first players who complete "The Final Gauntlet" to enter.
- More info coming in a future video.
- There will be an update next year on the future of competitive Legends of Runeterra.
Important Dates
- October 14 - Monuments of Power Season Begins
- December 4 - Last Chance Gauntlet
- December 6 - Monuments of Power Tournament Begins
Card Styles
This is the first type of card cosmetics that Riot is working on for Runeterra. They can be earned for every card in Legends of Runeterra.
- Normal cards are silver-bordered with the leveled-up champions being golden.
Baby Infernal Drake - Charlie
Comments
Yes to changing up the game with a new card type
Lndmarks should be very good ... to waste a space on the board is a major disadvantage ...
Taking up a permanent card slot is actually a really big deal in LoR. HS has 7 slots (one more than LoR) and Eternal has 12 slots. Not sure how many MTG has. But I think presently, LoR has the smallest number of slots, so taking up one of them permanently is not trivial.
If you go back to the old-school TCGs you can find fewer slots. E.g. Yu-Gi-Oh only has 5, while Pokemon has 6 but only 1 of those is active at a time.
Of course both of those games have a mechanism to sacrifice/evolve monsters/Pokemon in the slots, so you don't get blocked off in quite the same way.
MTG has no limit.
Plenty of new stuff coming!
Im curious what will be the new event, I really enjoyed playing through spirit blossom.
Most likely it will be the harrowing or whatever, as for what that entails I expect some shadow isles stuff since it's their main gimmick
Not to mention it will be around Halloween, so more spooky stuff is expected imho :)
I like everything except the state of Card Styles, if those borders are it, then that is extremely low effort honestly. I hope they come up with something more interesting in this regard.
Yup, new card styles are mediocore.