EXCLUSIVE: RQ Houston Champion Miss Fortune card sells for $100,000
In a Piltover Archive exclusive, the broker for the $100,000 Miss Fortune, Buccaneer card sale Robert Stanley shares the process of transacting high-end deals and how this sale legitimizes Riftbound.
Flavinger·April 9, 2026·5 min read
The 1/1 alternate art Miss Fortune, Buccaneer card awarded to Riftbound Regional Qualifier: Houston winner Dhawally sold for a whopping $100,000 last week.
The deal was brokered by Robert Stanley, who has transacted all but a couple of the Best Of metal prize card sales since the game’s launch. The cash sale of Miss Fortune, Buccaneer to a private collector is Stanley’s biggest sale to date.
According to Stanley, several prospective buyers were interested in the card at that price point, though most waited to see how the deal would shake out and decided not to pull the trigger.
“The number that the owner had in mind was always six figures,” Stanley, who advised both parties in the sale, said. “When you own the only copy ever you get to just name your price.”
As the Houston Regional Qualifier was the first — and only — English language regional event for Origins, the champion prize card is the only one of its kind in circulation today. Though Spiritforged events have awarded alternate art Blade of the Ruined King as new limited-edition tournament winner prizes, Miss Fortune remains the only League of Legends champion to appear on an English prize card thus far.
Miss Fortune Champion Prize Card
In the high-end market, Stanley manages to sidestep the common issues of trust between buyers and sellers in lower bands. He discloses that six-figure sales have been easier for him to transact than five-figure sales.
“The buyer just sends you the money however you ask for it, and then you give them their item. Everyone leaves happy.”
Regarding the way Stanley is able to safely transact amounts in the five or six figures range, he says, “Safe agreed-upon locations are important. [Going] to a very public place… can actually be more dangerous. If anyone overhears you, the item or your funds can be at risk. The last thing you’d want is to have someone follow you or the buyer home.
“Most in-person handoffs are very nonchalant with the funds already transferred electronically, so all I have to do is give them their card and walk away. If you have to count cash for any reason, it’s good to just bring a friend and meet somewhere privately.”
This sale marks the first of such a magnitude for Riftbound, immortalizing the trading card game and catapulting it to the heights of well-established, record-breaking card game empires, such as Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon TCG, and One Piece Card Game. The ultra-high-end trading card market for these IPs has seen patronage from celebrities and private collectors over the years.
In 2023, The One Ring, a one-of-a-kind Magic: The Gathering card, was sold at $2 million to rapper Post Malone. The PSA 10 Pokémon Pikachu Illustrator card was previously bought by Logan Paul in 2022 for $5.3 million and resold for a record-setting $16.5 million at auction in February 2026.
One Piece saw its highest public sale of the 2023 World Championship First Place Prize Monkey D. Luffy card at $315,600.
The Miss Fortune, Buccaneer sale legitimizes the global Riftbound market and elevates rare Riftbound cards to investment class assets.
“It’s no longer a question of: ‘Do people actually want these things?’ or ‘Are they ever going to get this much money?’” Stanley said. “The answer is just yes they are. This game is the real deal, and the collector market is beginning to reflect that.
“You will start to see graded signature cards creeping up, Best Ofs selling much faster and at asking [price]. The biggest thing that this sale accomplished for the game is it answered the question of, ‘Is the market really there?’”
The six-figure sale is unprecedented in Riot Games history. Other rare collectibles, such as League of Legends championship plaques and medals have sold for three- to low four- figure sums. Skins as unlimited and nontransferable digital cosmetics are sold more affordably by Riot Games, Epic Games, and other free-to-play game companies.
The exception to this would be rare Counter-Strike skins, such as the Karambit Blue Gem valued at six to seven figures. The rarity of these skins is determined by the compounding chance for a player to roll a certain item, condition, skin, and pattern in combination — with no other way to originally acquire them besides sheer luck.
Prize card sales have enabled strong competitors to continue playing. In a now taken down post, Dhawally, who won the Houston Regional with his Annie deck, says selling the card will enable him to coach Riftbound going forward.
For Stanley, brokering the sale “gives [me] a much stronger legitimacy amongst the community.
“Being trusted to handle this much money on either end… speaks volumes to people’s opinion of me.”
Information on sales can be difficult to come by. Riftbound news from Riot, such as tournament registration dates and card bans, are almost exclusively spread through the social media platform X. YouTubers Sam’s Pirated Stocks and Roboskillz state at least in One Piece Card Game sales are often differentiated between public and private, with very little information about either. Monumental sales such as the 2023 One Piece Championship BGS 10 Black Label Serial Monkey D. Luffy promo, which went for 2 BTC or around $90,000 at the time, have gone unnoticed by mainstream media.
The sale of Dhawally’s Miss Fortune Champion card marks a significant milestone for Riftbound, the TCG-playing community and the physical collectibles market. As iconic pieces and memorabilia, Riftbound cards are now being recognized by collectors for their rarity, story, and condition. It will be important for everyone following the gaming economy to continue to watch this scene.
