Stacked Deck
Stacked Deck is an uncommon-rarity spell card from Riftbound's Origins set. It costs 1 Energy. It belongs to the Chaos domain. It has the Action keyword. It appears in 88% of tracked tournament decks whose legend can run it.
1 Energy | Spell | Chaos | uncommon | Origins
Rules Text
[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Look at the top 3 cards of your Main Deck. Put 1 into your hand and recycle the rest.
Keywords
Domain: Chaos
Banned
Banned in Standard Constructed from 2026-09-18. A low opportunity cost include that provides more consistency than intended, with cheap synergy alongside cards like Ravenbloom Student and battlefields like Abandoned Hall. The problem compounded with the Kennen legend: combined with Lightning Rush it let Kennen churn through the deck too efficiently, finding key cards like Nocturne while filling the trash for Rhasa the Sunderer and Last Rites. A targeted ban meant to bring Kennen in line with other top decks without removing the strategy.
Meta Statistics
Inclusion rate 87.6%. Win rate 52.0% across 1733 decks with results.
Price
Market price $7.74 on TCGPlayer, updated Sep 15, 2026.
Related FAQ (2)
So how exactly does this ability work?
The process starts as you look at or reveal cards from the top of your Main Deck due to an effect. Let's use Stacked Deck as an example. You play Stacked Deck and look at the top 3 cards of your deck. Nocturne is among them. You now get to choose whether to banish him or not. If you choose to banish him, you immediately begin the process of playing him from banishment, placing him on the chain as a pending item. Then you continue resolving Stacked Deck. There are only 2 cards left of the original 3; you'll choose one to put into your hand and recycle the other one. Then, since Stacked Deck has finished resolving, you'll finish the steps of putting Nocturne onto the chain from banishment, paying (A) (that's one power of any type) instead of his base cost. As usual for units, he'll resolve immediately and enter the board exhausted. If you weren't able to play him for any reason, he'll just stay banished.
If I reveal multiple Nocturnes, can I play more than one? What if all 3 of the cards I look at for Stacked Deck are Nocturnes and I play all of them?
Yes, you can play more than one Nocturne at a time this way. If there aren't any eligible cards left for the original effect you were resolving, any further instructions will be ignored. So if you reveal Stacked Deck, see 3 Nocturnes, and opt to banish and play all of them, you won't put any cards into your hand, nor will you recycle any cards. You will, however, have 3 Nocturnes.
Tournament Decks
- Ezreal — cameren kawamoto (11W-0L), Pittsburgh 2026 - Riftbound Showdown $10k-$25,000
- Draven — Jon Rosum (11W-0L), Riftbound $25,000 Cash Tournament @ Pro-Play Summit: Pittsburgh
- Miss Fortune — Ali Aintrazi (11W-1L), Saturday $10,000 Riftbound: Leage of Legends TCG Tournament
- Sivir — Ali Aintrazi (10W-1L), CCS $25,000 Riftbound Invitational Qualifier #3
- Irelia — Jiaxin Liu (10W-3L), Riftbound $25,000 Cash Tournament @ Pro-Play Summit: Pittsburgh
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