There’s no sunlight in this Leona. No warmth. The first thing you notice is how cold everything feels despite the blazing solar ring behind her.
Her pale hair glows like ivory under a dying star, but the rest of the palette is lava glass and blood iron.
This is not the Leona you remember. This is something forged—hardened. A Champion who’s already burned and now commands the ash.
Leona Illustration Breakdown
The framing locks her dead-center, upright and unflinching. Her armor doesn’t shimmer—it absorbs. Deep obsidian plates edged with hellish veins of molten orange.
The solar icon at her core is like a furnace, sealed but seething. Her spear glows like it’s not lit by light but by vengeance.
Her expression is blank, resolute, but not passive. You get the sense she’s staring down something far larger than her—and still not backing down. It’s defiance with no theatrics.
Even the eclipse-like ring behind her echoes this. It’s total. It’s final.
Dao Trong Le’s composition plays with minimalism in color but maximalism in presence. Leona owns the space.
Gameplay Integration
Mechanically, Leona is designed to be the embodiment of pressure. If your opponent is within 3 points of the Victory Score, she drops ready—a literal turning of the tide when you’re inches from defeat.
Her passive applies a -8 debuff to stunned enemy units (down to a floor of 1), which feels exactly right for what the art conveys: domination by presence alone.
She doesn’t need to fight you directly—just by standing there, she shuts everything else down. If you’re pairing her with cards that stun on entry or in combat, she becomes a one-sided gravity well.
It’s fitting that a figure this commanding creates silence across the board. Enemies stunned in her zone don’t just wait—they rot.
Collector Details / Value Mention
This version of Leona from Riftbound TCG is card 079a/298, meaning it’s the alternate art of her core Champion card. The presence of the ‘a’ tag marks it as part of the alternate art chase pool.
It’s unconfirmed whether this will receive overnumbered or serialized foils, but given her iconic status and the radical tone shift from the main art, it’s highly likely she’ll be sought after by both competitive players and full-art collectors.
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