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Dr. Mundo from Riftbound TCG

Dr. Mundo
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Dr. Mundo is the first purple bomb of Riftbound that genuinely earns the title “champion.” This card is a trash pile engine strapped to a 6-Might body with late-game inevitability baked in.

If you’re playing Zaun, Dr. Mundo might be your finisher—or at least the oversized psycho you drop to swing momentum so hard the opponent questions everything.

And let’s be real: this card screams Riftbound design. It’s not elegant. It’s not subtle. It’s brutal recursion and scaling threat, all wrapped in one very angry meat-sack.


Gameplay / Cool Mechanics

Dr. Mundo costs 8 and enters with 6 Might, but that’s just the start. His passive reads: “My Might is increased by the number of cards in your trash.”

That’s every cheap spell you cast, every trade you lost, every early body you pitched.

If you’ve been playing Riftbound like it’s a grind game, this guy shows up as an 8/10—or more.

And then there’s the recycle clause. Every Beginning Phase, Mundo recycles 3 cards from your trash.

Not optional. Not tied to abilities. Just raw, recursive churn. That means deck longevity, synergy triggers, and most importantly, the ability to loop value pieces like crazy if your list is tuned for it.

He’s not fast. He’s not flashy. But if you don’t kill him, the game turns into Mundo’s playground.


Visuals

Dr. Mundo looks unhinged in all the right ways. Purple skin lit by medical horror glow, eyes half-deranged, with syringes jutting from muscle like twisted ornaments.

His posture is lumbering, but there’s intelligence in the chaos—he knows exactly what he’s doing, and he enjoys it.

The art doesn’t romanticize the madness—it weaponizes it.

This is the first champion in Riftbound that feels truly unstable. And that’s a good thing.


Pull Rate & Value Speculation

Card Name: Dr. Mundo
Type: Champion Unit — Expert
Region: Zaun
Set: OGN
Collector Number: 109/298
Rarity: Likely Rare or higher
Foil Status: Unknown
Alt / Overnumbered: No known alt or collector version yet

Dr. Mundo is shaping up to be one of the higher-impact champions from early previews.

Not just because of gameplay strength, but because he embodies the Zaun identity so cleanly—chaotic recursion, overgrowth, and danger.

If Riftbound prints an alt-art or overnumbered version of Dr. Mundo with more grotesque visual detail, it’ll be one of the set’s true chase cards.

If your deck likes dying and coming back stronger, Dr. Mundo might be your new religion. Just be ready to live in the trash.

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