Yes. Riftbound has an official banned list as of Riot's April 2026 Tournament Rules update. Section 601.3 of the Tournament Rules states: "If a card is banned in a specific format, that card may not be included in a deck." The current list is maintained on Riot's official rules page.
Known banned cards
The Tournament Rules explicitly call out the following cards as examples of the banned list (all three ship in the Jinx Champion Deck preconstructed product):
- Fight or Flight
- Scrapheap
- Reaver's Row
This is not necessarily the complete list; Riot's official rules page is the source of truth, and the list can change between sets.
The preconstructed-deck exception
At low Organized Play Level (OPL), meaning Nexus Nights and similar local-event tiers, players using the exact preconstructed deck configuration from a Riftbound product may include the banned cards that ship in the box. The example Riot gives in the Tournament Rules: "At Nexus Nights, if a player is playing a deck matching the exact contents of the preconstructed Jinx Champion Deck, they are allowed to use the banned cards in the deck, such as Fight or Flight, Scrapheap, and Reaver's Row. If the player makes any changes or adds a sideboard, they can no longer include the banned cards."
Higher OPL competitions (Regional Qualifiers, Cash Showdowns, Championship-level events) do not grant this exception.
How copy limits interact with the ban list
Per-deck restrictions still apply on top of the banned list:
- Up to 3 copies of any named Main Deck card across Main Deck + sideboard combined.
- Up to 3 total Signature cards in your deck, all matching your Champion Legend's tag.
- Battlefields with the same name cannot be duplicated.
How this site reflects the banned list
The current implementation surfaces the banned list textually here in the FAQ. Per-card flags on the card database and decklist annotations are on the roadmap. Once they ship, banned cards will be filterable from the chip row and called out in the tournament decklist view.