Combo · ENGINE
Altar to Unity with Renata Glasc, Industrialist — a free READY body every Beginning Phase, forever
Pieces
- Altar to Unity ×1
OGN-275 · engine
When you hold here, play a 1 Might Recruit unit token in your base.
- Renata Glasc, Industrialist ×1
SFD-171 · enabler · order
Your tokens enter ready.
- Reluctant Leader ×1
VEN-121 · payoff · order
When you play another unit, give me +2 Might this turn.
Payoff
Deck
- Legend's Domain Identity includes Order (103.1.b.1, 103.1.b.2) — Renata and Reluctant Leader are both mono-Order and Altar to Unity is Colorless, so mono-Order works.
- A body on the Altar so you control it at your Beginning Phase.
Prerequisites
- The battlefield must be the one in play, and a deck may not carry two of it (Core Rules 103.4.c, Tournament Rules 402.1): random 1 of 3 in Duel (485.5) and Skirmish (487.5), chosen in Match (486.5). And 190.1 plus 190.6.d's second sentence mean the Altar produces nothing until you have conquered it: 'If the battlefield has no Controller, "you" refers to no one, and all such instructions are ignored.'
- THE PRODUCT IS THE BODY, NOT THE MIGHT — AND THAT IS THIS ENTRY'S CORRECTION TO ISSUE #102. #48 established that the bottleneck of every token line in this game is walking a token from the base to a battlefield. This is the only card-free, per-turn body faucet in the pool, and Renata is what makes the body usable the turn it appears rather than the turn after (143.4, R25 = A).
- THE COMPLETE PAYOFF TABLE FOR THE HOLD'S PLAY EVENT, AND WHY MOST OF IT IS DEAD. Fires, free: VEN-121 Reluctant Leader (+2 Might this turn, Order), UNL-183 Pridestalker (+1, a Fury/Body legend) and UNL-058 Lillia, Protector of Dreams (+1 on herself, Calm, 'when you play a token unit'). Fires ONCE and never again: OGN-139 Cithria of Cloudfield, because 702.3 says 'There can only be one Buff on a Unit at a time' and 702.3.a does not place the second — the same rule that refutes Navori Fighting Pit. Never fires: UNL-109 Blood Rose (its 1 Energy cannot be paid — 315.3 has not run and 167 emptied the pool), UNL-011 Fresh Beans (needs a showdown), VEN-145 Curator of the Sands (needs a printed Energy cost of 7+, and 206 reads the printed cost; a token has none), SFD-166 Rally the Troops (155 confines it to your Main Phase and its 'this turn' is gone by the next Beginning Phase), and OGN-027 Darius, Trifarian and VEN-044 Astral Heron, both of which count CARDS — 185, 'Tokens are not cards.'
- #102's OWN SHELL CANNOT HOLD BOTH HALVES. Pridestalker is a Fury/Body legend and Renata Glasc, Industrialist is Order, so 103.1.b.1 / 103.1.b.2 keep them out of each other's decks. The Pridestalker shell gets +1 Might and a body that arrives a turn late; the Order shell gets the ready body and the bigger payoff. This entry is the Order shell and the choice is deliberate.
- IT IS NOT guards-industrialist-ready-soldiers. That entry is 3 copies of a spell, capped by 103.2.b, spent one body at a time. This one is a battlefield that never runs out and costs no card at all. It is not zed-clone-eye-recruits either: SFD-153 Eye of the Herald makes its Recruit 'here' and needs a move to fire; the Altar makes it at the base and needs nothing.
- IT SCORES NOTHING ON ITS OWN. One 1-Might body a turn, no points, no [Temporary] (816.1.b never touches the Recruit), no loop. ENGINE, and there is no reading of it that is more.
- THE RECRUIT IS BORN AT YOUR BASE BECAUSE THE CARD SAYS SO, not by 355.2.a's default, and it is a Recruit unit token with no other printed text — the same body zed-clone-eye-recruits and pursuer-herald-recruits use.
Steps
- Conquer the Altar to Unity and keep a body there; have Renata Glasc, Industrialist on the board.
- Your Beginning Phase, Scoring Step (315.2.b.2): you Hold the Altar (469.2, 471.1, 1 point) and its trigger plays a 1 Might Recruit token in your base.
- 350.2 / 185.2.a make that a played unit, so Reluctant Leader's 'when you play another unit' fires: +2 Might on her for the turn, paid for with nothing.
- Renata's 'Your tokens enter ready' overrides 143.4, so the Recruit is ready now, not at your next Awaken.
- In your Main Phase the Recruit can Standard-Move to a battlefield (144.4.a, cost 420.3.a) — the walk-in that #48 says every token line lacks.
- Repeat every turn you hold the Altar; nothing is spent, so nothing runs out.
Per iteration
one ready 1-Might body at your base per turn, plus one free 'you played a unit' trigger, for 0 Energy, 0 Power and 0 cards
How it ends
engine — one body a turn for as long as you hold the Altar; it produces no points of its own and does not compound
Sources
Published elsewhere
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- Battlefield lens — issue #102 (GitHub) 2026-09-06
Walked here, in this project
- Hand walk 2026-09-06 2026-09-06 record
How this entry was audited
REFUTE = a refutation pass, with its date and verdict · WOUNDED = the pass found a flaw and the entry was rewritten · BUDGETED = the pass checked the recycle-and-draw ledger · lens = the hunt that proposed it.
HAND-WALKED 2026-09-06 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-battlefield-lens-candidates.md), issue #102 candidate 2, REWRITTEN with a different partner. #102's mechanics are right — 350.2 makes the Hold's token a played unit, and its reason for rejecting Blood Rose (the Rune Pool is empty in the Beginning Phase, since 315.3 runs after 315.2.b and 167 emptied it) is correct and is preserved here. What the walk changes: (1) #102 picked the SMALLEST of the three free payoffs; the complete grep over the pool gives VEN-121 Reluctant Leader at +2 and UNL-058 Lillia beside Pridestalker's +1, and six more that cannot fire, each for its own rule. (2) The product is the BODY, not the Might: with SFD-171 the Recruit is born ready (R25 = A over the 143.4 default) and can walk to a battlefield the same turn, which is exactly the bottleneck #48 identified for every token line. (3) #102's own two halves cannot share a deck — Pridestalker is a Fury/Body legend, Renata is Order, 103.1.b.1 — so the shell is a real choice and this entry states it. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Citations opened and read: 103.1.b.1, 103.1.b.2, 103.2.b, 103.4.c, 143.4, 144.4.a, 155, 167, 185, 185.2.a, 190.1, 190.6.d, 206, 315.2.b.2, 315.3, 316.3, 350.2, 355.2.a, 420.3.a, 469.2, 471.1, 485.4.a, 485.5, 486.5, 487.5, 702, 702.3, 702.3.a, 703, 816.1.b. Ban check: OGN-275, SFD-171, VEN-121, UNL-183, UNL-058, OGN-139, UNL-109, UNL-011, VEN-145, SFD-166, OGN-027 and VEN-044 carry no [BANNED marker in the corpus. Arithmetic against its own declared quantities: 1 Altar, 1 Renata, 1 Reluctant Leader; one 1-Might body and one +2 Might per turn; zero points. Trap check: no attack; no Energy banked across 167/316.3 (that is the reason Blood Rose is out); no [Repeat]; the Recruit is NOT [Temporary], so 816.1.b never touches it; no token is recycled (185, 186.1, 416.1); the battlefield starts uncontrolled (190.1). Depends on no unruled reading beyond R25, which was ruled A on 2026-09-04.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16