Combo · ENGINE

Daisy! — a Signature card that names its own legend, ready and swinging at 5 Energy

5 cards · calm + order · verified

Pieces

• Daisy! ×1 UNL-196 · payoff · calm/order

  I enter ready. Reduce my cost by 1 Energy for each of the following tags among your units — Bird, Cat, Dog, and Poro. When I attack while your units have all 4 tags, [Stun] an enemy unit here. (It doesn't deal combat damage this turn.)

• Soaring Scout ×1 OGN-216 · engine · order

  [Deathknell] — Channel 1 rune exhausted. (When I die, get the effect.)

• Fallen Feline ×1 VEN-132 · engine · order

  When you play me, name a spell. While I'm at a battlefield, opponents can't play spells with that name.

• Trusty Ramhound ×1 SFD-159 · engine · order

  While you have another unit here, I have +1 Might.

• Daring Poro ×1 OGN-210 · engine · order

  [Assault] (+1 Might while I'm an attacker.)

Payoff

Deck

• UNL-196 Daisy! is a SIGNATURE card tagged Ivern/Ionia, so 103.2.d.2 forces an Ivern legend: UNL-195 / UNL-233 Green Father (one name, two base codes), Calm/Order — the only one. The other six Calm/Order legend base codes (Radiant Dawn, Emperor of the Sands, Eye of Twilight) are domain-legal and Signature-illegal, and three Daisy spend the whole Signature budget (103.2.d.1). (#167 cross-audit, 2026-09-07: an earlier line said "a Calm/Order legend", which admitted six illegal ones.)

Prerequisites

• THE LEGEND IS NOT A CHOICE. Daisy is a Signature card, and 103.2.d.2 says 'All of the Signature cards must have the Champion tag that corresponds to the Champion Legend of the deck.' Her tags are Ivern and Ionia, and a sweep of every legend BASE code for the Ivern tag returns two — UNL-195 and UNL-233, three printings counting UNL-233*, all named Green Father, all Calm/Order, all the same text. 103.2.d.2 keys on the TAG, so either hosts her and the conclusion is the same: a Daisy list is a Green Father list. (Counted by base code, not by grep rows: 104 of the pool's 935 names carry 2 or more base codes.) So a list that plays Daisy plays Green Father, and 103.2.d.1 ('a deck may only contain a sum total of 3 Signature cards') means three Daisy is the deck's entire Signature budget. 103.2.d.3 also forbids her being the Chosen Champion.
• Her discount reads 'tags among your units', not 'units here', so the four cheap bodies can sit at your base while she attacks somewhere else. Four E2 bodies is E8 + 1 Power of setup that also builds the board Ivern, Friend to All wants.
• She beats 143.4 on her own — 'I enter ready' — so she moves to an enemy battlefield the turn she is played (144.2 takes her exhaust as the move's cost) and attacks on that same turn.
• The stun does NOT make the defender free to kill. 423.1.b only removes its Might from the combat damage step; 423.1.c read with 710 keeps its full CURRENT Might as the damage needed to kill it (the #89 correction to #61's coverage). So a stunned M8 defender still costs Daisy's whole M8. What the stun buys is that YOUR side takes nothing back.
• No engine can be built out of the stun: 423.1.a.1 ('A Stunned Unit can not be Stunned again') and 423.1.a.2 (cleared at end-of-turn cleanup step 3d) cap it at one enemy body per turn.
• GREEN FATHER'S BRUSH, resolved from the rules text (no reading needed; #161, 2026-09-06). 438.1: "Replacing is the act of Creating a token in the place of another card or token without playing it while inheriting all effects or statuses of the game object it replaced"; 438.1.a's worked example IS Green Father conquering Navori Fighting Pit, and says the Brush "inherited all statuses and conditions" — Control is a status, so it carries across (and back: 438.7.b), 190.6.a hands the Brush's text to its Controller, and 438.5.a keeps the replaced battlefield Replaced rather than Banished. The Brush token (UNL-T03) prints "When you score here, you may replace this with the battlefield it replaced", so it is Held and Conquered like any battlefield. What it buys here: a static +1 Might for Bird/Cat/Dog/Poro/Ivern at that battlefield — a continuous modifier 702.3 never caps, and the only Might bonus in the pool that reaches Daisy (tagged Ivern) as well as the four tags. What it costs: the replaced battlefield's own text plus the legend's exhaust each time. It is a token, so it can never be a uses[] row, and nothing converts Might into points except OGN-034's Fury threshold, so its ceiling here is ENGINE.
• GREEN FATHER AS DENIAL: "that battlefield" may be the OPPONENT'S. 438.5 banishes theirs, 438.1 puts a Brush you control in its place, and only the Brush's controller can swap it back (438.7; the Brush keys on "when you score here"). If they retake the location they get +1 Might for tags they probably do not run in place of their own battlefield's ability — a permanent, one-sided strip of an opponent's battlefield text for one legend exhaust. No entry states it (#161, 2026-09-06).
• HISTORY OF THE BRUSH QUESTION, kept so the deferral is not re-opened: this entry was written on 2026-09-06 for issue #153 with Green Father's Brush swap DEFERRED, on the ground that 438 Replace against 190.x Control was unsettled. It was settled the same night in issue #161 by reading 438 itself — the two notables above are that result. The original deferral text was removed rather than left standing, because an entry that says a question is open beside two notables answering it is a contradiction, not a record.

Steps

1. Build the four tags out with the four E2 Order bodies — Bird, Cat, Dog, Poro — anywhere on the board.
2. Play Daisy for E5 + 2 Power (printed E9 P2, minus E1 per tag). Her own text overrides 143.4 and she enters ready.
3. Standard-move her to an occupied enemy battlefield the same turn: 144.4.a allows it, 144.2 exhausts her. 190.3.a.1 applies Contested and 464.2.c.1 makes you the Attacker.
4. Her attack trigger checks the four tags at the Attacker designation (464.2.c.3, 383.2.a.1) and stuns one enemy unit here.
5. 465.2.c has each side assign damage equal to its summed Might. The stunned defender contributes none (423.1.b) but still absorbs its full Might (423.1.c, 710), so pick the stun to blank the biggest hitter, not the biggest body.
6. 466.5 establishes Control and 466.5.d makes it a Conquer.

How it ends

engine only — one conquer with no damage taken from the stunned defender, once per turn (423.1.a.1 / 423.1.a.2 forbid an engine on the stun). Nothing here scores; UNL-177 Ivern, Friend to All is the payoff that would, on the same four tags.

Sources

Published elsewhere

• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
• Issue #153 (GitHub) 2026-09-06

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-06, issue #153 — the 55 synergy rules no catalogued entry stands on 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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