September 20, 2026
Riftbound has put a real calendar around Radiance preview season. The next set takes the stage September 25 at the Los Angeles Regional Qualifier, followed by a multi-week reveal schedule that gives players a much clearer idea of when to watch for new cards.
Pokémon’s 30th Celebration is still expanding, too, with two newly surfaced product pages filling in more of the anniversary lineup for October and November.
Radiance preview season now has a full stage schedule
Los Angeles kickoff: September 25 · Creator previews: September 28–October 10 · Pre-Rift: October 16–22 · Release: October 23
Riot has published the preview plan for Riftbound: Radiance, and the first major stop is the Los Angeles Regional Qualifier on September 25. A developer panel is scheduled for 3 p.m. Pacific with game director Dave Guskin, lead designer Jon Moormann, creative director Brice Cox, and art director Michelle Mauk.
That matters because Radiance is still mostly an outline rather than a solved set. Riot has already established the set’s broad shape, but the September 25 panel is where the card-by-card picture starts to come together. After Los Angeles, previews spread across creator and media channels through early October.
For players who do not want to chase every reveal individually, Riot says its official Card Gallery will update daily at 5 p.m. Pacific with the previous day’s cards. The #RBRadiance tag is the faster option for following reveals as they happen.
The practical dates remain the ones worth circling: Pre-Rift events run October 16–22, followed by the worldwide Radiance release on October 23. Preview season starts this Friday, so the next few days are the quiet stretch before deckbuilding speculation gets a lot more concrete.
Read Riot Games’ Radiance Preview Season announcement
Pokémon’s 30th Celebration lineup adds Mini Tins and a Ditto collection
30th Celebration Mini Tins: October 2 · Ditto Premium Collection: November 6
The Pokémon Company has added two more products to the Pokémon TCG: 30th Celebration calendar. The Mini Tin lineup arrives October 2, while a larger Ditto Premium Collection follows on November 6.
The Mini Tins come in ten designs. Each contains two 30th Celebration booster packs, a sticker sheet, an art card, and a Pokémon TCG Live code card. The tin artwork is designed as two five-tin scenes, giving collectors something more deliberate to chase than ten unrelated wrappers.
The Ditto Premium Collection is the larger sealed option: eight 30th Celebration boosters, a Ditto promo card, an acrylic card display, and a TCG Live code card. The acrylic piece can display the included Ditto or another card, which gives the box a little more shelf utility after the packs are opened.
Neither product changes what is inside the anniversary set itself, but they do fill out the sealed-product calendar after this week’s initial 30th Celebration launch. For collectors trying to avoid buying every configuration at once, October 2 and November 6 are now the next two dates to evaluate.
View the official 30th Celebration Mini Tin page · View the official Ditto Premium Collection page
Around the Hearth
This week’s next meaningful checkpoints arrive quickly: Reality Fracture Prerelease begins September 25, and Radiance previews open the same day in Los Angeles. Friday should therefore be a much busier news day than this weekend’s quieter reset.
For Riftbound players, the useful move is to keep the official Card Gallery handy once previews begin. A scheduled reveal calendar is much easier to follow when there is one clean archive behind it.
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