Combo · ENGINE
Skyfall of Areion turns the Boneshiver's conquer into a hold — a rune every scoring event
Pieces
- Boneshiver ×1
SFD-118 · engine · body
[Equip] 1 Energy + 1 Body Power (1 Energy + 1 Body Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)
When I conquer, channel 1 rune exhausted.
- Skyfall of Areion ×1
SFD-030 · engine · fury
[Equip] 1 Energy + 1 Fury Power (1 Energy + 1 Fury Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)
My hold effects are also conquer effects, and vice versa.
Payoff
Deck
- Legend domains are Fury and Body: SFD-183 Purifier (Lucian). Boneshiver is Body and Skyfall is Fury, so no other pair of domains works.
Prerequisites
- IT FIRES ONCE PER SCORING EVENT, NOT TWICE ON A CONQUER. Skyfall makes the unit's conquer effects also hold effects and vice versa, so the Boneshiver's trigger now has both categories - but a Conquer resolves it once and a Hold resolves it once. The doubling shape that DOES exist is Reckoner's Arena over an ability worded 'When I conquer or hold' (823.1.b, 823.1.c.1), and there is no Arena here. What this pair buys is the turns you hold, which the Boneshiver alone throws away.
- BOTH EQUIPMENT ON ONE UNIT, AND 434.1.c IS WHY THAT WORKS. The Top-Most Card gets all the Effect Text of all attached cards, and 053.1 then reads every 'I' and 'My' as that unit. Split them across two units and Skyfall converts nothing.
- The channeled rune enters EXHAUSTED, so it is next turn's Energy, not this turn's - the same shape as a Gold token made on a Hold.
- Bill: 3 + 3 Energy for the two gears plus 2 Energy and two Power for the two [Equip] costs, and the source itself says the Boneshiver 'cost is a little steep, that's why we play it at two'.
Bodies no card supplies
Equip both Boneshiver and Skyfall of Areion to the same unit (1 Energy + 1 Body, then 1 Energy + 1 Fury)
Steps
- Equip both Boneshiver and Skyfall of Areion to the same unit (1 Energy + 1 Body, then 1 Energy + 1 Fury).
- Conquer a battlefield: the Boneshiver's conquer effect channels 1 rune exhausted, as it always did.
- Survive the opponent's turn.
- Your Beginning Phase Holds it (315.2.b.2). Skyfall has made the Boneshiver's conquer effect a hold effect too, so it fires again: another rune, exhausted.
- Repeat every turn the unit holds.
Per iteration
+1 rune channelled exhausted per scoring event instead of per conquer only
How it ends
engine only - one extra rune a turn while the unit holds; the rune arrives exhausted, so it pays next turn
Sources
Published elsewhere
- YouTube — Legendori, "This Lucian Deck BREAKS the Draven Meta — Spiritforged Riftbound Deck Profile" 2026-03-10
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- Minería por leyenda — issue #62 (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-issue62-table-of-fourteen.md), issue #62 section 2.6. SCOPED DOWN FROM THE OBVIOUS OVERCLAIM: it would be easy to read Skyfall as making the trigger fire twice on a conquer, since the ability is now in both categories. It does not - a Conquer resolves it once. The catalogue already has the shape where a two-category ability IS paid twice, ivern-arena-sentinel-hold under 823.1.b, and it needs Reckoner's Arena to do it. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Trap check: no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no token; no recall; the channelled rune is exhausted, so 167 never comes into it. Depends on no unruled reading.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16