The Piltover Archive at piltoverarchive.com is Riot's first-party Riftbound site. It bundles four jobs in one product: card gallery, deck builder, hand simulator, and a feed of tournament champion decklists.
What Piltover Archive does
- Card gallery: every card displayed at the highest available scan size. The fastest way to see new cards during reveal season.
- Deck builder: full deck construction with rules enforcement (Legend slot, Signature Spell pairing, main and rune deck limits, domain restrictions). Exports decks as plain text and shareable URLs.
- Hand simulator: goldfish your deck against an empty board to test openings and curves. No head-to-head play; useful for tuning.
- Tournament champion lists: top-cut decks from Riot-run events surface here directly, often before they make it to community aggregators.
- Budget variants: alongside competitive lists, the tool suggests cheaper substitutions for new players.
What Piltover Archive isn't built for
The tasks where a dedicated card database is faster:
- Rules-text search:finding every card with "Accelerate" or "Shatter" in its text requires clicking through pages rather than typing a query.
- Multi-filter combinations:"show me Fury/Mind Units with Might 5 or higher under 4 Energy" is a multi-step manual filter on Piltover Archive; one query on a card database.
- Price lookups:Riot doesn't list secondary-market prices. TCGplayer is the source for that.
- Tag/champion cross-references:Piltover Archive groups by champion but doesn't easily surface every card with the "Yordle" tag across champions.
How Riftbound.one fits alongside it
This site is built for the search side of the workflow: chip-based filters by Domain, Card Type, Energy Cost, Might, rarity, and keyword; text search across card names, IDs, tags, and effect text; and TCGplayer affiliate links on every card detail page. Most players use both: Piltover Archive when they want to see what a card looks like in detail or build a deck with rules enforcement, this database when they want to find every card that does a specific thing or compare prices.
Other Riftbound resources worth bookmarking
- Riftbound deck builders: Piltover Archive plus community alternatives
- Riftbound core rules: also on the official site
- Tournament Riftbound decks on this site, plus Mobalytics + TCGFan for external archives
- r/RiftboundTCG: community hub for decklists and meta talk
- TCGplayer: secondary market for singles and sealed product
Direct link to the database
If you came here looking for Piltover Archive and want a faster text-search alternative, the Riftbound card database indexes the same cards with chip filters and a search-by-text query. Card detail pages link out to TCGplayer for prices; cross-linking to each card's Piltover Archive entry is on the roadmap.