Is Aurora Finally Dead? Annie: The New Premier Aggro Deck?

Welcome back to Battlefield Breakdown! Last week was MASSIVE for competitive Riftbound, with two major 10K events: one in Georgia and one at SCG CON Las Vegas. The results completely reshaped what we thought the early English-release meta would look like.

In this episode, Blevins breaks down:

🔥 Georgia 10K Top 8 — Annie & Sett explode onto the scene
Annie appears in three top-8 lists, marking her first major set of results in Western play.

🔥 Vegas 10K Top 8 — No Master Yi in sight
A dramatically different texture from the Chinese scene: Annie, Kai'Sa, Sett, and Teemo all make deep runs, with no Master Yi lists in the top eight.

🔥 Innovative decklists
• A Sett Kingpin list winning the Georgia event, including Primal Strength.
• A wild Kai’Sa build running Seal of Rage and Draven, flipping expectations in closed decklists.
• Prismat returns with a refined Teemo list full of hidden-card shenanigans and Ember Monks

🔥 Meta takeaways
• Annie becomes the premier aggro deck in NA.
• Aurora struggles — zero top-8 finishes across both events.
• The NA meta is more diverse than early Chinese events, with Sett, Kai'Sa, Annie, and Teemo all showing strong performance.

Whether you’re prepping for Houston Regionals or just theorycrafting the new format, this episode is PACKED with real tournament data to get you ahead of the curve.

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