Combo · ENGINE

812.1.b ends the Legion Ability at the CLAUSE, so Darius's aura is unconditional - a permanent mono-Order Might floor nobody had catalogued

4 cards · order · verified

Pieces

• Darius, Executioner ×1 OGN-243 · payoff · order

  [Legion] — When you play me, ready me. (Get the effect if you've played another card this turn) Other friendly units have +1 Might here.

• Vanguard Captain ×3 OGN-218 · engine · order

  [Legion] — When you play me, play two 1 Might Recruit unit tokens here. (Get the effect if you've played another card this turn.)

Payoff

Deck

• Both cards are mono-Order, so 103.1.b.1 is satisfied by any legend carrying Order - the census gives seventeen names, among them Hand of Noxus (OGN-253), Radiant Dawn (OGN-261), Herald of the Arcane (OGN-265), The Boss (OGN-269) and Matriarch of War (VEN-153).
• Neither card is Signature (checked against the signature flag in data/cards.json), so 103.2.d.2 narrows nothing, and neither appears in data/legality.json in either format.
• Any one other card played earlier in the turn. 812.1.c asks only that it be FINALIZED, not that it resolve.

Run play

• Darius goes down first, the Captain's Recruits are born 2s, and Charm with Flurry still takes them for two runes

Prerequisites

• 812.1.b WAS THE MISSING PARAGRAPH AND IT DRAWS A LINE THROUGH THE CARD: 'Starting from the Keyword to the end of the clause, the entire statement is the Legion Ability.' Darius prints TWO sentences. The first - 'When you play me, ready me.' - ends at its period, and that is where the Legion Ability ends. 'Other friendly units have +1 :rb_might: here' is a separate clause and is therefore ACTIVE WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAYED ANOTHER CARD. 812.1.a gives the format ('[Legion][>] [Text]'), 812.1.b.1 the expansion ('If you have played another card this turn, this card gains [Text]') and 812.1.b.2 names the second half the Dependent Ability.
• THE COUNTED SET, WITH ITS MEMBERS AND ITS DATE. Ten cards in the pool print [Legion] (measured 2026-09-09 over data/corpus_flat.txt): OGN-012 Noxus Hopeful, OGN-016 Dangerous Duo, OGN-020 Scrapyard Champion, OGN-021 Sun Disc, OGN-217 Trifarian Gloryseeker, OGN-218 Vanguard Captain, OGN-243 Darius Executioner, OGN-253 Hand of Noxus, OGN-254 Noxian Guillotine, UNL-025 Undying Legion. Exactly TWO carry rules text outside the Legion clause: Darius, whose aura follows it, and OGN-254 Noxian Guillotine, whose base effect PRECEDES it ('Choose a unit. Kill it the next time it takes damage this turn. [Legion] - Kill it now instead.'). On the other eight the keyword governs the whole card.
• A CORRECTION TO A LOAD-BEARING CLAIM IN THIS PROJECT'S OWN NOTES. It is recorded here that UNL-077 Soul Shepherd is 'the only PERMANENT fix' for 1-Might tokens dying to OGN-133 Flurry of Blades, and that this narrows a swarm shell to Mind. Swept 2026-09-09 for a static, non-'this turn' +N Might granted to friendly units, the pool has SEVEN: OGN-151 Lee Sin Centered (Body, +2, other BUFFED units at my battlefield), OGN-243 Darius Executioner (Order, +1, here), OGS-013 Garen Commander (Order, +1, here - the identical sentence), UNL-077 Soul Shepherd (Mind, +1, your TOKEN units, board-wide), UNL-147 Baron Nashor (Chaos, +2, other friendly units, board-wide), UNL-191 Wuju Master (Calm/Body legend, +1 at [Level 6]) and VEN-018 Rage Amplifier (Fury gear, +1, rising to +2 while Empowered). Soul Shepherd is the only board-wide TOKEN-scoped one; it is not the only permanent one, and an Order swarm has two of its own.
• WHY THE FIRST SWEEP OF THAT SET MISSED DARIUS, WHICH IS 812.1.b AGAIN. A grep for the aura that filtered out any line containing 'this turn' dropped him - because his line carries 'this turn' inside the LEGION REMINDER, not inside the aura. The clause boundary the rule draws is the same boundary the grep needed, and reading the rule is what caught the bad filter.
• ONE CARD TURNS BOTH LEGIONS ON. 812.2: 'All instances of Legion on cards a player controls are satisfied by that player playing a single card', with Riot's example being one card carrying three Legion Abilities. 812.1.c is stricter than it looks in the other direction: 'As long as a card different than the one with the Legion ability has been Finalized by you on the same turn' - FINALIZED, so a countered spell still switches Legion on.
• THE LEGEND CASE IS NOT AN ANOMALY. OGN-253 Hand of Noxus is the only Legion card whose reminder reads 'if you've played a card this turn' rather than 'ANOTHER card'. That is correct rather than an errata: 812.1.c requires a card 'different than the one with the Legion ability', and a legend is never played, so every card qualifies. Do not put this in data/errata.json.
• THE ARITHMETIC. Play any cheap card, then Vanguard Captain (3 Energy + 1 Power) for two 1-Might Recruits at a battlefield, then Darius (6 Energy + 1 Power) to the same battlefield: his Legion half readies him, and his aura - unconditional - makes both Recruits 2 Might and every other body there +1. 812.3 closes the keyword: 'Legion, and whether or not a card has Legion, is a characteristic of the card and may be checked or referenced by other Game Effects', though no card in the pool reads it today.
• THE PARAGRAPH THAT MAKES A LEGION PLAY-TRIGGER FIRE AT ALL WAS UNCITED (upgrade 2026-09-12, #191 batch 24). 812.1.b.1: *"Legion is functionally short for `If you have played another card this turn, this card gains [Text].`"* So a card printed `[Legion] - When you play me` GAINS that trigger at the very instant the trigger`s own condition occurs, and 721.2 (*"Inactive Abilities do not trigger"*) would say it missed. The carve-out is 725.4 - *"If a Dependent Ability is a Triggered Ability whose condition occurs at the same time as the Dependent Keyword`s condition being fulfilled, that text exists and can be processed as it is fulfilled"* - with 727.1.c.1.a alongside it. **725.4 was cited by NOTHING in this project.** Five cards are Legion play triggers (`OGN-016`, `OGN-020`, `OGN-217`, `OGN-218`, `OGN-243`).
• NO ANSWER WAS NAMED - ADDED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md). These are from the walked Calm/Body census (UNL-191 Wuju Master, 253 cards), not every deck's answers. The cheapest is two runes and two cards: OGN-043 Charm ('Move an enemy unit.', Calm, E1 P1) takes Darius off the battlefield and OGN-133 Flurry of Blades ('[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Deal 1 to all units at battlefields.', Body, E1) kills every Recruit there, the Recruits being 1s again (143.2.a). Charm has no [Action] or [Reaction], so it waits for their own Main Phase. Of the 253, only these two at E1 or less deal damage or move an enemy unit. OGN-127 Cannon Barrage (Body, E2 P1, '[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Deal 2 to all enemy units in combat.') is the same two runes and kills 2-Might Recruits outright, but it needs a combat at that battlefield, so a ready body of theirs has to walk in from their base. The free answer is to leave the battlefield alone: nothing here scores.

Steps

1. Play any other card first. 812.1.c needs it only FINALIZED, so even a countered spell arms every Legion you control that turn (812.2). CORRECTED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md): Darius can be that card. 812.1.c: 'As long as a card different than the one with the Legion ability has been Finalized by you on the same turn then the Dependent Ability is Active on the card with Legion.' Darius is a card different from the Captain, so Darius played first, from the Champion Zone, turns on the Captain's Legion, and OGN-253 Hand of Noxus's too, whose reminder asks only that 'you've played a card this turn'. His own Legion is then off and he stays exhausted (359.2.c: 'If it is a Unit, it enters the Board exhausted at the Location that was chosen.'), and his aura is on anyway (step 4). Walked going first under Hand of Noxus, the order Darius, legend, Captain completed the board on T4 for eight runes, two of them recycled, and the legend's one Energy. The order this step gives needs a third card in front of both: with OGN-245 Seal of Unity (Order gear, E0 P1, ':rb_exhaust:: [Reaction] — [Add] :rb_rune_order:. (Abilities that add resources can't be reacted to.)') it also fits on T4, for the same eight runes and two recycled plus the Seal itself; with the walked list's cheapest other card, an E2, it is T5.
2. Play Vanguard Captain to a battlefield you control (3 Energy + 1 Order Power). Its Legion half is now Active and plays two 1-Might Recruit unit tokens there.
3. Play Darius, Executioner to the same battlefield (6 Energy + 1 Order Power). His Legion half readies him - effectively [Accelerate] for the turn. CORRECTED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md): the ready is not [Accelerate] here. A ready unit spends it on a Standard Move, and 144.4.b reads 'Units may move from a Battlefield to their Base.': played to the battlefield he guards, Darius can use the ready only to walk home, off the Recruits. It buys an attack only if he is played to your base and walks into theirs (144.4.a: 'Units may move from their Base to a Battlefield.'), and then his aura, which reads 'here', goes with him, away from the Recruits. When Darius is the other card (step 1) there is no ready at all, and the line loses nothing by it.
4. 812.1.b ends the Legion Ability at that period. The second sentence, 'Other friendly units have +1 :rb_might: here', is a separate clause and applies regardless: the two Recruits are 2 Might and every other friendly body there is +1.
5. On any later turn the aura still applies with no card played, because it was never Legion-gated - which is what takes the garrison out of range of a 1-damage sweeper such as OGN-133 Flurry of Blades (143.2.a needs marked damage equal to Might). CORRECTED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md): true of the sweeper alone, and only while Darius stays there. 'here' is wherever Darius is, so the floor lasts as long as he is at that battlefield, not as long as he lives. OGN-043 Charm (Calm, E1 P1, 'Move an enemy unit.') takes him off: 355.4.a lets a Move effect choose any location other than the current one where the unit may be, and 449.1 reads 'The source of the Move will provide details on any restrictions on legality for Destination.', and Charm states none. OGN-133 Flurry of Blades ('[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Deal 1 to all units at battlefields.') then kills every Recruit there, which is two runes and two cards. Moved into their battlefield, Darius contests it (450) and dies in that combat too; the walk's did, as a 6 against 19. What the aura does guarantee is that the exposure is a turn boundary. Inside your own turn the opponent never holds Priority while a Recruit at that battlefield is a 1: 312.2.a gives it to the player whose Main Phase is in a Neutral Open State, a played unit does not wait on the Chain (359.2: 'A Permanent leaves the Chain and becomes a Game Object.'), and 446.3.c reads 'Moving does not use the Chain, nor is it able to be Reacted to.' The Captain's trigger does give them Priority (312.2.d), but before its Recruits exist. A Captain played a turn before Darius leaves its two Recruits as 1s across their turn, and in the walk's control one Flurry killed both for one rune.

Per iteration

two Recruit tokens per Vanguard Captain, all of them and every other body at the battlefield standing one Might above a one-damage sweeper for as long as Darius lives CORRECTED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md): for as long as Darius is at that battlefield, not as long as he lives (see step 5).

How it ends

engine - two 2-Might Recruits per Captain and a permanent +1 to every other friendly body at that battlefield, for one enabling card and two plays; nothing here scores CORRECTED 2026-10-24 (#457, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-darius-goes-down-first-the-captains-recruits-are-born-twos-and-charm-with-flurry-still-takes-them-for-two-runes.md): the +1 covers every other friendly unit at that battlefield, so Recruits from other cards are 2s there too: OGN-211 Faithful Manufactor and OGN-222 Noxian Drummer play theirs 'here', and OGN-212 Forge of the Future's, born at your base, walks in. In the walk five Recruits stood at the battlefield after T4, two from the Captain and one each from the Forge, the Manufactor and the Drummer, and the score was 3 to 3 after their T4.

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 2026-09-09, issue #191 - uncited Core Rules sub-rules 500-899 2026-09-09 record
• Run play 2026-10-24, issue #449 2026-10-24 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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