Reported October 23, 2026 from Riot’s dated primary. No drawing entry, retail stock, checkout, card opening, language-edition contents beyond the stated source or delivery was independently tested. Card signatures and unspecified finish probabilities are not assumed. Originally drafted October 22; complete primary rechecked October 23 before publication review.
WHY IT MATTERS
Choose Gift by language and its fixed promo before counting the booster packs. Record T1 Player as an alternative-art product, and keep its selection, payment and mid-December fulfillment plans separate.
A retailer bundle is not another online drawing
Riot’s October 22 product announcement includes Gift of the Rift alongside three products with online drawings, but gives Gift a different purchase route: local game stores and other retailers, scheduled from December 4. The listed cost is $109. The announcement does not identify that dollar currency or provide a delivered quote. It also does not establish stock at a particular shop.
Gift contains 16 booster packs across the first five sets: three Origins, three Spiritforged, three Unleashed, three Vendetta and four Radiance. These are pack quantities, not a promise of 16 specific card identities or a completed set. The fixed components are 36 foil-treated Runes, six in each of Order, Chaos, Fury, Calm, Mind and Body, plus a collectible Legend promo, matching card sleeves and a storage box described as holding 2,000 cards.
The Gift promo changes with the edition
The English Gift bundle lists Rogue Assassin (Akali) as its Legend promo, with sleeves using that promo’s artwork. The language line separately lists a Chinese edition with an exclusive Kennen promo. Do not mark an Akali target completed by an order for the Chinese bundle merely because the overall Gift title matches.
The English-specific contents list should not be used to invent every component of the Chinese edition. Keep the actual edition’s itemized listing with the order and verify the card identifier and artwork when they are available. Riot does not give a complete collector-number identity for these promos in this announcement, and this report does not infer foil treatment for the Legend card from the explicitly foil-treated Runes.
T1 Player is a different art edition from T1 Signature
The new T1 2025 Worlds Champion Player Bundle lists five collectible Champion cards: Ambessa The Wolf, Xin Zhao The Vigilant, Galio Indefatigable, Miss Fortune Buccaneer and Seraphine Not Alone. Riot expressly says these are the same cards as the T1 2025 Worlds Champion Signature Edition with different alternative artworks. The Player title therefore should not be shortened to Signature in an inventory or seller comparison. It does not promise player autographs.
The listed Player bundle accessories are a deck box, card binder, card sleeves and a D12 die, with a chance of a gold die variant. No probability is given for that variant. Riot lists English, Chinese and Korean editions and a price of $70 plus shipping and handling, without explicitly identifying the dollar currency in this announcement.
Keep the drawing clock separate from the fulfillment plan
For online T1 Player orders, Riot schedules registration November 13 at 9:00 AM PT through November 16 at 9:00 AM PT, first selection emails November 17 and a 24-hour purchase window for selected entrants. Fulfillment is planned to begin in mid-December. The announcement also plans on-site sales at Worlds Quarterfinals, Semifinals and Fan Fest venues during November; none of those statements confirms a current allocation or completed checkout.
Before choosing, record product title, language, exact target artwork and purchase channel together. Gift’s retailer route, T1 Player’s drawing and the separately covered Worlds promo edition are different records. A collector interested in a specific fixed promo may prefer to wait for the exact edition’s card images instead of assuming that a shared champion name makes the printings interchangeable.
