Combo · ENGINE

Forgotten Signpost is a free second move every turn — an Empowered Covert Informant turns it into a card

2 cards · mind + calm · verified

Pieces

• Covert Informant ×1 VEN-057 · payoff · mind

  [Empower] 3 Energy (3 Energy: Empower me. Use only if not Empowered.) [Empowered][>] When I move, draw 1.

• Forgotten Signpost ×1 UNL-045 · engine · calm

  [Action][>] Exhaust a unit you control, Exhaust: Move a different unit you control to the location of the unit you exhausted to pay for this ability.

Payoff

Deck

• Domain Identity is Mind + Calm (103.1.b). Exactly four legends cover it — OGN-255 Nine-Tailed Fox, SFD-189 Fire Below the Mountain, UNL-189 Bashful Bloom, VEN-145 Curator of the Sands — and none is banned.
• One friendly unit parked at a battlefield you control, ready at the start of your Main Phase. It is the Signpost's cost and its destination at the same time.

Prerequisites

• THE SIGNPOST IS WORTH EXACTLY +1 CARD A TURN, NOT THE WHOLE ENGINE, AND #150 SAID OTHERWISE. A unit needs nothing to move: 144 gives every unit the Standard Move as an Inherent Ability and 144.2 / 420.3.a price it at its own exhaust, so an Empowered Covert Informant already draws one card a turn for zero Energy, alone, by walking base to battlefield and back on alternate turns. What the Signpost adds is a SECOND move in the same turn. Two cards a turn total, 0 Energy and 0 Power marginal.
• THE FUEL UNIT MUST BE SOMEWHERE SHE IS NOT. 420.1: 'Moving is the act of a Game Object moving between two Locations on The Board.' The Signpost's destination is the exhausted unit's location, so pointing it at a body standing where she already stands is not a move and draws nothing. #150 wrote the requirement as 'any second friendly unit'; it is narrower, and it is the same correction conscription-signpost-empty-garrison already applied to issue #61. 447.2.a and 447.2.b are the Invalid Destination list and both open with a player count a Duel does not have, so nothing else blocks it.
• PARK THE FUEL AT A BATTLEFIELD YOU CONTROL. 190.3.a.1: 'Units moving to or being played to a battlefield apply Contested status if that battlefield is not already Contested and that Unit's controller does not already control that battlefield.' Send her onto a battlefield you do not control and you have started a fight, not drawn a card. Keeping the parked unit there also means her leaving never strips your control (323.6).
• SFD-048 STELLACORN HERDER PRINTS THE SAME TRIGGER WITH NO EMPOWER GATE, IN CALM. 'When I move, draw 1', 4 Energy flat, inside this very identity — against 3 Energy + 1 Power plus a 3 Energy Empower for the Informant, who buys 1 Might and a Mind body for the difference. The honest line is to run both: a second mover brings its own free Standard Move, so Informant + Herder + Signpost is THREE cards a turn (Signpost moves one of them and leaves it ready, then each spends its own exhaust). Rider, deliberately not in uses. A grep of 'when i move' returns 28 cards; only two carry [Empower] (VEN-021 Akali, Deadly Weapon is the other, in Fury), and SFD-048 is the only other unconditional draw — SFD-041 and VEN-033 draw only on a hit and UNL-080 Hwei draws then discards.
• THE EFFECT MOVE IS A MOVE. 420.2 / 420.2.a make Moving a Limited Action performed 'when instructed to do so by Game Effects or costs', and 359.3.f.3's own worked example is a move trigger firing off one ('Lillia, Fae Fawn reads "when I move from a location…"'). The project already stands on this in ride-the-wind-move-triggers, relentless-pursuit-move-triggers and windswept-hillock-move-triggers. It is not a Recall, so 455 / 456 never carve it out.
• SETUP IS 8 ENERGY + 1 POWER, ONCE: Informant 3 Energy + 1 Power, her Empower 3 Energy, Signpost 2 Energy. Against the project's own ledger (#21 / #44), where Renata Glasc, Mastermind's extra card costs 1 Energy + 1 Mind Power, about 10 Energy, it pays for itself on the first turn it runs.
• BURN OUT IS THE CEILING AND IT IS NOT THE LOOP WALL. 431.1.a makes drawing past the Main Deck a Burn Out; 431.2.b recycles your trash back in and 431.2.c gives an opponent a point (194.1.d). Two extra cards a turn on top of the Draw Phase empties the 39 cards you shuffle (103.2 counts the Chosen Champion inside the 40, 103.2.a.1 removes it) in roughly a dozen turns. This entry is NOT inside a loop shell: the '0 spare draws' wall of lux-infinite-energy (#21 / #59) is a per-pass measurement with the deck already empty, and nothing here runs that way.
• 143.4 delays the start by a turn: she enters exhausted and cannot pay 144.2 for her own move until the following Awakening. Her Empower can be paid the turn she lands — it carries no exhaust.
• Overlap declared: UNL-045 is already in signpost-corina-two-battlefields (a second landing for Corina's Recruits) and conscription-signpost-empty-garrison (reinforcement after a steal), both different payoffs. VEN-057 appears in no entry.

Bodies no card supplies

From the next turn on, with the Informant at your base and everything ready after the Awakening (415.3.a): activate the Signpost — exhaust the parked unit at that battlefield, exhaust the Signpost — and move the Informant to its location

Steps

1. Play Covert Informant (3 Energy + 1 Power) and pay her [Empower] for 3 Energy. 441.2 keeps her Empowered for the rest of the game. Play Forgotten Signpost (2 Energy). Park any friendly unit at a battlefield you control.
2. From the next turn on, with the Informant at your base and everything ready after the Awakening (415.3.a): activate the Signpost — exhaust the parked unit at that battlefield, exhaust the Signpost — and move the Informant to its location. She moved: draw 1. She is still ready, because 420.3.a charges an exhaust only for a Standard Move.
3. Now take her own Standard Move back: exhaust her, battlefield to base (144.4.b). She moved: draw 1.
4. Everything readies at the next Awakening. Repeat, forever, for no Energy and no Power.

Per iteration

two cards a turn — one from the Signpost's move, one from her own Standard Move — for 0 Energy and 0 Power

How it ends

engine — two cards a turn, capped at two by the Signpost's own exhaust and by the Informant's own exhaust on her Standard Move, both readied only at the next Awakening (415.3.a); the real ceiling is the Main Deck, where 431.1.a costs a point and 431.2.b refills from the trash

Sources

Published elsewhere

• Combo hunt: uncatalogued mind units — issue #150 (GitHub) 2026-09-06
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16

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• Hand walk 2026-09-06 2026-09-06 record

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