Radiance Showdown Decks: Evelynn vs Seraphine

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Choosing Your First Radiance Showdown Deck

• Both fixed decks come in the same box, so swap sides after your first game before deciding which style to build on.
• This is a first-games comparison of the published lists, not a tested claim that either deck wins the matchup.

The product

Radiance Showdown Decks Release Date, Price and Contents

• Radiance releases October 23, 2026; the Showdown lists were added to Riot’s overview in its October 16 update.
• The Riot US store lists $34.99, but it showed Out of Stock when checked October 18.
• That is a publisher price reference, not an available delivered offer or a complete singles-value comparison.

• Riot product contents and US store establish the package; the updated Radiance overview supplies the exact lists.

Counting the cards

How Each Advertised 56-Card Deck Is Counted

• The separate champion heading does not mean you should add those copies on top of a 40-card list.
• Keep the two decks separate for your first games, and use the rulebook to set aside your starting chosen champion.
• The three battlefields are a selection pool, not a direction to put all three into play by yourself.

Your first games

Seraphine Showdown Deck Strategy

• Build enough units to make Starry-Eyed Songstress useful before holding a spell solely for its discount.
• Concert Poster and Not Alone help replenish Recruits, while Encore can supply two more small units.
• The included Seraphine, Inspiring rewards exhausting three or more friendly units at once with an optional draw, once each turn.
• For example, using the Legend with three friendly units can meet Inspiring’s simultaneous-exhaust condition; exhausting three units in three separate actions does not.
• Spend the discount when the spell changes a fight or rebuilds your board, rather than exhausting units just because the option exists.

Seraphine cards

Seraphine, Not Alone: make the third unit easier to find

• Not Alone makes a 1 Might Recruit at your base when you play her and whenever she becomes exhausted.
• Her Might increases for each other exhausted unit you control, so a board built for the Legend's discount also helps her combat stats.
• For example, exhausting Not Alone with two other units pays the Legend's three-unit requirement and triggers another Recruit.

Seraphine cards

Concert Poster: build a crowd at a battlefield

• The deck includes three Posters, each with Deploy, so you play it to a battlefield rather than your base.
• When you play it or conquer there, you can pay 1 energy to make a 1 Might Recruit at your base.
• If an opponent holds that battlefield, the Poster is killed; it isn't a permanent source of free tokens.

Seraphine cards

Encore: choose the two effects the board needs

• Encore lets you choose two effects: deal 2 to a unit, make two Recruits, give up to two units +1 Might each this turn, or look at the top two cards, draw one and recycle the other.
• Making Recruits helps rebuild the group you need for Seraphine's next discount.
• Damage plus a Might boost is a different use when you already have enough units and need to win a fight.

Full fixed list

Seraphine Showdown Decklist

• The published list supplies 40 cards in the main-deck pool, including the champion options listed separately below.
• The Legend, 12 Runes and three battlefields bring the fixed total to 56; tokens are additional components.

Your first games

Evelynn Showdown Deck Strategy

• Plan where your hidden card will matter before you reveal it; the Legend’s draw is only one part of the payoff.
• In Control wants a face-down card to remain at her battlefield when she holds, while Consuming rewards playing cards from face down.
• Those rewards can pull in different directions: keeping the threat hidden can be worth more than immediately refreshing your hand.
• Your first face-down play on your turn draws without the opponent-turn discard; your first on their turn draws and discards.
• The supplied Entrancing can move an enemy from another location to her battlefield when played from face down on your turn; that timing condition matters.

Evelynn cards

Agony's Embrace: learn when to reveal a hidden card

• Evelynn's Legend draws a card the first time each turn you play a card from face down.
• On an opponent's turn, you then discard a card, so that trigger improves your hand choice without increasing its size.
• Further face-down plays that turn don't trigger another Legend draw, although other cards can still reward them.

Evelynn cards

Evelynn, Consuming: threaten another fight

• Consuming has Ambush, which lets you play her as a Reaction to a battlefield where you already have units.
• Each time you play a card from face down, she readies and gets +1 Might for the turn.
• A readying effect can give you another useful unit after a fight, but it doesn't protect her from removal while you're setting it up.

Evelynn cards

Evelynn, In Control: protect the hidden card that scores

• In Control has Disarm, giving an enemy unit at her battlefield -1 Might for the turn when she attacks.
• When she holds, she scores 1 point if you control a face-down card at that same battlefield.
• Revealing your only hidden card there can remove that extra-point condition, so don't flip it just to draw with the Legend.

Evelynn cards

Last Caress: send the next unit where you need it

• Last Caress is a Reaction that lets the next unit you play that turn be played to any battlefield, including a unit played from face down.
• When you play that unit, you Buff it if it doesn't already have a buff.
• The permission applies to one next unit; it doesn't relocate a unit already on the board or give every later unit that permission.

Full fixed list

Evelynn Showdown Decklist

• The published list supplies 40 cards in the main-deck pool, including the champion options listed separately below.
• The Legend, 12 Runes and three battlefields bring the fixed total to 56; tokens are additional components.

Printed text changes

Radiance Showdown Rules and Errata to Know

• Elnuk Herd’s October 9 errata changes “another friendly unit” to “a friendly unit,” so a normally played Herd can boost itself.
• A Herd played from face down recycles after giving its boost; choose another unit if you want that +3 Might to remain on the board.
• Last Caress’s updated punctuation confirms that its next-unit permission includes a unit played from face down.
• Use Riot’s errata notice when a printed card or gallery transcription still shows old text.
• Deploy belongs at a battlefield, and an opponent holding there kills that Gear; defending the location matters for Concert Poster.
• The October 16 rules update supports these mechanics; our Radiance rules guide explains Deploy and Disarm with examples.

Before you order

Who the Radiance Showdown Box Is For

• For two people learning together, the main appeal is having two complete opposing lists and play aids in one box.
• For a single-deck player, check how many cards you actually need before paying for both sides.
• The two randomized boosters do not establish that the box will pay for itself, and no full resale total is measured here.
• For an organized Pre-Rift event, use the Radiance Pre-Rift guide; its seeded Sealed kit and deckbuilding rules are different.
• For card browsing beyond these fixed lists, visit the Radiance card gallery before changing either deck.
• Try both fixed decks first, then change one problem at a time; these lists have not been presented as tournament upgrades.

Sources and scope

Radiance Showdown Deck Sources

• Riot’s Radiance overview, updated October 16: both complete fixed inventories and the October 23 release.
• Riot US product page, checked October 18: $34.99 reference, Out of Stock status and included play aids.
• Riot’s official English card gallery, checked October 18: exact card text and reference artwork for the interactions above.
• Riot’s Radiance errata: corrected Elnuk Herd and Last Caress wording.
• The gameplay advice is an interpretation of those texts and lists; it is not a playtest report, measured matchup percentage or current-price upgrade package.
• Download the dated inventories, source references and image provenance.