Riftbound Score Tracker

How to track a Riftbound game in TurnZero HQ

TurnZero HQ doesn't play Riftbound for you. You play with real cards at a real table, and the app keeps the score. A game lives inside a gathering, which is set up for one game, here Riftbound, and holds as many games as you play that night.

One device keeps score at a time. The host or a player seated at the table can keep score, and anyone else who opens the game watches it update live. The host or a seated player can tap Keep score here to take over from another device. Each seat shows its deck's Chosen Champion behind the score, picked in the Riftbound Deck Lab.

Modes and battlefields

The Riftbound card in game setup lists the five modes in Riot's rules, and the one you pick sets how many seats there are, how many battlefields are in play, and the score to win.

Battlefields are set on the board rather than in setup, because games 2 and 3 of a Match start from the end of the previous game. When a game starts, the host gets the Battlefields sheet: who goes first, then each seat in turn order. A seat with a deck sees that deck's three battlefields to pick from. Find a battlefield searches the whole catalog, and Brings none covers the first player in War and 2v2. For a guest with no deck, Name their Legend saves it for the table's later games. In a Match, battlefields a player used earlier are grayed out. Change battlefields in the Game Menu reopens the sheet at any time.

Scoring by Conquer, Hold and Ability

Tap a battlefield in the band and the score sheet opens for the player or team whose turn it is, with that battlefield first. Each battlefield has a Conquer and a Hold button, and Other sources has Ability +1 for a card that gives a point. The chips at the top switch to another side, which is how you mark a burn out point for an opponent. A long press on a seat's number opens the same sheet for that seat.

You don't have to say where a point came from. The plus and minus zones on each seat still add or take away a point, and you can tap the number to type one. A point added that way is recorded without a source. If you score a battlefield twice in one turn, the tracker adds the point and shows a note that each battlefield scores once per turn, so you can undo it if it was a slip.

The final point reminder and the win check

When you mark a conquer that would be the winning point and not every battlefield has scored this turn, the tracker stops to ask: Draw a card instead, or Score anyway. It names the battlefields that haven't scored. This is a reminder, never a block, because rulings belong to the table and the tracker can't see everything on it.

In 2v2 the rule doesn't count a battlefield your teammate held at the start of the turn. The board only knows teams, not which teammate controls what, so the prompt says the exception in words: if one of those battlefields is the only gap, score anyway.

The win check follows the rules too. A player or team wins only at or above the victory score and strictly ahead of everyone else. If two players are tied on 8 or more, nobody has won yet and the game carries on, which is why the tracker lets a score go past 8. More on the final point and ties.

XP, runes, energy and power

The Game Menu can show four counters on every seat: XP, Runes (0 to 12), and floating Energy and Power. Tap a counter to add one and hold it to take one away. Energy and Power empty when you pass the turn, as floating resources do. Since July 2026 Riot's Tournament Rules ask players to keep XP and floating Energy or Power clearly represented, and these counters are one way to do it. Turn them off if you use dice.

On a new game the board also shows a first-turn reminder you can dismiss: the last player in turn order channels 3 runes, and with three or more players the first player skips their first draw.

The round clock and calling time

Start the 60-minute round clock from the Game Menu, and the time left shows under the band's button next to the turn number. When the round ends, Call time follows Riot's End of Match Procedure: the current turn finishes, then three extra turns count down each time you pass. After the last one, a lead of 2 points or more wins. Anything closer is a draw, and the band offers Record a draw.

The clock is a convenience for casual and local play. At an event, the judge's call and the event's own round length are what count, and timed single elimination rounds use a different procedure that the tracker doesn't apply.

After the game: points by turn

The end-of-game screen draws Points by turn: a row per player or team and a column per turn, with a square for every point. Squares are colored by how the point was scored (Conquer, Hold, Ability, or Untold when you didn't say) and lettered by battlefield, with a key underneath. Tap a square to read that point. In a Match, the loser of the last game chooses who goes first, and Start game 2 begins the next one from here.

Every tracked game also feeds your own Riftbound stats: your record by deck version, on the play and on the draw, by battlefield and by the Legends you faced, and how your points split between conquering and holding. Only you see them. Your Riftbound stats and match log →

How scoring works in Riftbound

Every player starts on 0 points, and in a standard game the first to 8 wins. Nearly all of those points come from battlefields, the landscape cards in the middle of the table, and there are two ways a battlefield scores:

Each battlefield can score for you only once per turn, whichever way it happens. So on the turn you conquer a battlefield, it has already scored; it earns its hold point at the start of your next turn if your units are still there.

Two other things move the score. Some cards give points directly. And a player who has to draw or move a card from an empty deck burns out: they shuffle their trash back in as a new deck, and an opponent of their choice gains 1 point. Nobody loses for running out of cards in Riftbound, but the point it gives away can end the game.

The final point rule

If you would score your winning point by conquering, you get it only if you've already scored every battlefield that turn. If you haven't, you draw a card instead, and your score stays where it was.

Holding has no such restriction: a battlefield you control at the start of your turn can score your last point. Points from sources other than a conquer, such as a card that gives points, aren't held to this rule either. In practice, a player sitting on 7 in a Duel usually wins by holding at the start of their turn or by taking both battlefields in the same turn.

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