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For the removed Twisted Treeline icon Twisted Treeline variant, see Timeworn Spellthief's Edge Timeworn Spellthief's Edge.
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This article or section may contain obsolete information, but exists here for historical purposes.

  • This item has been removed on patch V14.1.

Spellthief's Edge was a starter item in League of Legends icon League of Legends. It was exclusive to Summoner's Rift icon Classic Summoner's Rift 5v5.

Cost Analysis

Gold efficiency
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  • Spellthief's Edge Spellthief's Edge becomes gold efficient in 6 minutes and 7 seconds without triggering Tribute, or after 5 charge consumptions of the effect.
  • Consuming 3 charges within every 30 seconds causes Tribute to grant 20 Gold 20 per 10 seconds.
    • Along with the 2 Gold 2 per 10 seconds stat, this increases to 22 Gold 22 per 10 seconds.

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Notes

  • Tribute can trigger even if the allied champion nearby is dead.
  • Quest's reward is only granted if the user has not been in combat within the last 5 seconds.
  • "Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills":
    • Before 5 minutes, increasing your creep score by 10 or more (from killing minions) in the last 5 minutes reduces gold Gold gold from minion kills by 80%.
      • After 5 minutes, the limit is increased to 20 creep score and gold Gold gold from minion kills is instead reduced by 50% − 80% (based on creep score).

Map-Specific Differences

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  • This item and its associated upgrades are disabled.

Strategy

Old icons

Trivia

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Sound Effects

Quest Complete

Patch History

V14.1 - Removed
V13.20
  • Ability power increased to 10 from 8.
  • Health increased to 25 from 10.
V13.4
  • Mana regeneration reduced to 25% from 50%.
  • Tribute recharge timer increased to 12 seconds from 10.
V12.4
  • New Effect: For the first 5 minutes of the game, the minion farming penalty is increased: Farming more than 10 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 80%. After 5:00, the minion farming penalty remains at: Farming more than 20 CS per 5 minutes reduces gold from minions by 50% − 80% (based on CS).
    • This farming penalty is applied before the 10 flat reduced gold from mid lane siege minions before 14:00.
V11.7
  • Bug Fix: Fixed a bug where abilities with periodic damage (like Brand's Brand's Blaze Blaze) would not trigger Tribute.
V11.3
V10.24
  • Updated icon.
V10.23
  • Updated icon.
  • Tribute gold generated increased to 20 Gold 20 from 15 Gold 15.
  • Limited to 1 Support or Jungle item.
V10.15
  • Mana regeneration increased to 50% from 25%.
V10.5
  • New Effect: Now requires an ally champion (alive or dead) within 2000 units in order to trigger Tribute.
V10.1
  • New Effect: Now grants 25% base mana regeneration.
V9.23 - Rework
  • New item icon.
  • New Effects:
    • Cost: 400 Gold 400.
    • Stats: 8 ability power, 10 health, 2 Gold 2 per 10 seconds.
    • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging abilities and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge grants 15 Gold 15. Receive diminishing gold from excessive minion kills.
    • Quest: Earn 500 Gold 500 using this item to upgrade to Frostfang Frostfang, gaining the Warding active with 3 wards in stock.
    • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item. (Even if you consume the Jungle item.)
  • Old Effects:
    • Cost: 400 Gold 400.
    • Stats: 10 ability power, 25% base mana regeneration, 2 Gold 2 per 10 seconds.
    • Unique Passive - Tribute: Grants a charge every 10 seconds, up to 3 charges. Damaging spells and attacks against champions and buildings consume a charge, up to one per attack or cast. Consuming a charge deals them 13 bonus magic damage, and if an allied champion is nearby, also grants 11 Gold 11. Before quest completion, killing a minion or non-epic monster pauses Tribute generation and the passive gold generation for 12 seconds per unit slain.
    • Unique Passive - Quest: Earn 500 Gold 500 using this item and upgrade to Frostfang Frostfang. Reward: Permanently upgrades Frostfang Frostfang to Eye of Frost Eye of Frost and Remnant of the Watchers Remnant of the Watchers to Eye of the Watchers Eye of the Watchers, giving them the Warding active with respectively 3 and 4 wards in stock.
    • Limitations: Limited to 1 Jungle or Gold Income item.
    • Builds Into: Frostfang Frostfang.
V9.6 - March 21st Hotfix
  • Bug Fix: Tribute gold is no longer paused when minions are killed if the owner has completed the quest.
V9.3 - February 12th Hotfix
  • New Effect: Now requires an ally champion within 2000 units in order to earn gold.
  • Tribute gold generated increased to 11 Gold 11 from 10 Gold 10.
V8.15
  • Cost increased to 400 Gold 400 from 350 Gold 350.
V8.10
  • Now limited to (1 Jungle or Gold Income item) from (1 Gold Income item).
V8.6
  • Bug Fix: Pinging the item now displays the correct amount of gold needed to finish its quest.
V8.5 - March 8th Hotfix
  • New Effect: Before quest completion, killing minions and non-epic monsters pauses Tribute stack generation and the passive gold generation.
  • Removed: Granting Bandit mastery 2016 Bandit.
V8.2
  • Quest gold value reduced to 500 Gold 500 from 750 Gold 750. Still requires to upgrade to Frostfang Frostfang.
  • New Effect: Tribute recharge pause now also applies on non-epic monster kill.
  • Tribute pause duration for minion and non-epic monster kill increased to 12 seconds from 8.
  • Removed Quest Reward: Tribute is upgraded to Queen's Tribute, giving you 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration) for each charge consumed.
  • New Effect: Quest reward now grants the active Warding with 3 wards in stock.
    • Unique Active - Warding: Consumes a charge to place a Stealth Ward icon Stealth Ward at the target location (600 range), which reveals the surrounding area for 150 seconds. Holds up to 3 charges which refill upon visiting the shop.
  • Removed from Twisted Treeline.
V7.23
  • Bug Fix: The Bandit mastery 2016 Bandit passive no longer incorrectly grants gold for nearby minion deaths while you're dead.
V7.22
  • New Effect: Grants Bandit mastery 2016 Bandit.
  • New Effect: Bandit mastery 2016 Bandit counts toward the quest goal.
  • Quest gold required to upgrade increased to 750 Gold 750 from 650 Gold 650.
  • Tribute bonus damage increased to 13 from 10.
  • Tribute bonus gold increased to 10 Gold 10 from 8 Gold 8.
V7.20
  • Ability power increased to 10 from 5.
V7.18
  • Tribute charge generation pause upon killing a minion increased to 8 seconds from 6.
V7.12
  • Quest progression VFX displays every third of the way from every fifth of the way toward completion.
V7.10
  • New Effect: Killing a minion now only pauses Tribute generation for 6 seconds per minion slain instead of disabling it for 6 seconds per minion slain.
V7.9
  • New Effect: Can only trigger Tribute once every 1.25 seconds.
  • Removed: Killing a minion disables Tribute for 12 seconds.
  • New Effect: Killing a minion stops you from triggering Tribune for 6 seconds per minion slain.
  • New Effect: Quest.
    • Quest: Earn 650 Gold 650 using this item and upgrade to Frostfang Frostfang.
    • Reward: Tribute is upgraded into Queen's Tribute.
      • Queen's Tribute: Spells and basic attacks against champions or buildings deal 15 additional damage, grant 15 Gold 15 and 50% bonus movement speed for 1 second (additional stacks extend duration). This can occur up to 3 times every 30 seconds.
V7.8
V6.13
  • Killing non-lane minions no longer deactivates Spellthief's Edge's passive. e.g. Zyra's Plants Zyra's Plants.
V5.22
  • Cost reduced to 350 Gold 350 from 365 Gold 365
  • Tribute gold increased to 8 from 5.
  • Cooldown changed to "3 times every 30 seconds" from "1 charge every 10 seconds, up to 3".
V4.20
  • Mana regeneration changed to 25% of base mana regeneration from 2 per 5 seconds.
V4.3
  • Ability power reduced to 5 from 10.
  • Mana regeneration reduced to 2 from 3.
  • Unique Passive - Tribute:
    • Gold per hit increased to 5g from 4g.
    • Now triggers on abilities as well as autoattacks.
    • Now triggers up to three times every 30 seconds, from once per 10 seconds per enemy.
    • Now affects enemy structures.
    • Now deals 10 additional damage on abilities and autoattacks. Damage matches the attack's damage type.
V3.14 Added
  • Recipe: 365g
  • +10 Ability power
  • +3 Mana regeneration
  • Unique Passive - Tribute: Autoattacks against enemy champions grant 4 gold, up to once every 10 seconds per enemy. Killing a minion disables this passive for 10 seconds.
  • Unique Passive - Gold Income: You may only be in possession of 1 Gold Income item.

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