Combo · ENGINE

Akshan takes their gear and equips yours for free — and 056.2 is why the stolen card still dies to its owner's trash

2 cards · body · verified

Pieces

• Akshan, Mischievous ×1 SFD-109 · engine · body

  [Weaponmaster] You may pay 2 Body Power as an additional cost to play me. When you play me, if you paid the additional cost, move an enemy gear to your base. You control it until I leave the board. If it's an Equipment, attach it to me.

• Hexdrinker ×1 SFD-102 · payoff · body

  [Equip] 1 Body Power (1 Body Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)

  [Deflect] (Opponents must pay 1 Power of any domain to choose me with a spell or ability.)

Payoff

Deck

• Any legend with Body among its two domains (103.1.b.3) — 17 names: Relentless Storm (OGN-249), Blind Monk (OGN-257), Bounty Hunter (OGN-267), The Boss (OGN-269), Wuju Bladesman - Starter (OGS-019), Might of Demacia - Starter (OGS-023), Purifier (SFD-183), Grandmaster at Arms (SFD-193), Battle Mistress (SFD-203), Grand Duelist (SFD-205), Pridestalker (UNL-183), Wuju Master (UNL-191), Voidreaver (UNL-201), Keeper of the Hammer (UNL-203), Butcher of the Sands (VEN-141), Defender of Tomorrow (VEN-149), Matriarch of War (VEN-153).
• 2 Body Power spare when Akshan is played, for the optional additional cost that carries the steal — the [Weaponmaster] equip is free either way.

Prerequisites

• [Weaponmaster] EQUIPS 'TO ME', SO IT ONLY EVER PAYS FOR CARRIER-INDEPENDENT GEAR — AND THE HEXDRINKER IS EXACTLY THAT. The keyword is 'When you play me, you may [Equip] one of your Equipment to me for :rb_rune_rainbow: less, even if it's already attached', and 818.1 makes [Equip] an Activated Ability with a cost. The Hexdrinker's cost is a single Body rune, so the discount takes it to nothing (356.6 floors at zero) and Akshan lands wearing it: +1 Might (434.1.d) and [Deflect] (434.1.c appends the Effect Text). An Equipment whose text depends on its carrier — one that copies the unit, or reads 'my hold effects' — gains nothing from being attached to the Weaponmaster himself.
• THE STEAL IS A CONTROL CHANGE AND IT IS NOT PERMANENT OWNERSHIP. 191.1 establishes a Controller when a player plays, hides or creates an object; here Akshan's trigger grants control by effect, 'until I leave the board' — so removal aimed at Akshan hands the gear straight back. And 056 is the rule that keeps the card theirs whatever happens to it: 'Cards a player owns may never be placed into a non-Board zone belonging to another player', with 056.2 sending it 'to its owner's corresponding zone instead'. Destroy the stolen gear and it goes to THEIR trash, where their own recursion can find it.
• AN EQUIPMENT STOLEN THIS WAY ATTACHES WITHOUT PAYING ITS [Equip] COST. 'If it's an Equipment, attach it to me' is effect text on the trigger, not an activation, so 818.1's cost never comes up — the same distinction that separates `SFD-024 Rell, Magnetic` from a [Weaponmaster] body. Akshan can therefore end the turn wearing both his own Hexdrinker and their best Equipment.
• 355.10.d does not apply and 809.1.c might: 'move an enemy gear' is a choice, so a gear with [Deflect] costs an extra Power to take (809.1.c, 809.1.c.1: any domain). That is the one place the steal can be taxed.
• The Hexdrinker's [Deflect] is a TAX and not a shield — 809.1.c charges the opponent one extra Power per choice, and a programmatically selected effect (355.10.d) ignores it entirely. Against `OGN-022 Thermo Beam` ('Kill all gear') both the Hexdrinker and the stolen gear die at once.
• Priced whole: 4 Energy + 2 Body Power for a 5-Might [Deflect] body that also carries away the opponent's best gear. Three copies (103.2.b), and each steal lasts only as long as its Akshan.

Steps

1. Play Hexdrinker (2 Energy) and leave it unattached at your base.
2. Play Akshan, Mischievous (4 Energy) and pay the optional additional cost of 2 Body Power.
3. [Weaponmaster] fires on the play: [Equip] the Hexdrinker to him for one rainbow less — its whole cost — so he is 5 Might with [Deflect] (434.1.c, 434.1.d).
4. His paid-cost trigger fires: move an enemy gear to your base. You control it while he lives (191.1).
5. If it is an Equipment, it attaches to him with no [Equip] cost paid (818.1 never applies to effect text).
6. Remember 056.2: if the stolen card ever leaves the board it goes to its OWNER's zone, not yours.

Per iteration

-2 cards, -4 Energy -2 Body Power, +1 body at 5 Might with [Deflect], one enemy gear under your control

How it ends

engine — a 5-Might [Deflect] body carrying a free Hexdrinker and the opponent's best gear, for 4 Energy and 2 Body Power; the steal ends when Akshan does. Nothing here scores.

Sources

Published elsewhere

• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-07, issue #173 — the uncatalogued Fury / Body / Chaos cards 2026-09-07 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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