Combo · ENGINE
Death from Below buys itself back for one Power — repeatable removal and a sacrifice outlet
Pieces
- Death from Below ×1
UNL-186 · engine · fury/chaos
Kill a unit at a battlefield. Then, if it had 3 Might or less, do this: You may play this from your trash for 1 Power of any domain.
- Immortal Phoenix ×1
OGN-037 · payoff · fury
[Assault 2] (+2 Might while I'm an attacker.) When you kill a unit with a spell, you may pay 1 Energy + 1 Fury Power to play me from your trash.
Payoff
Deck
- UNL-186 Death from Below is a SIGNATURE card tagged Pyke, so 103.2.d.2 forces a Pyke legend that also covers fury + chaos: UNL-185 Bloodharbor Ripper — the only one. Domain-legal legends without the Pyke tag cannot run the list. (Rebuilt from the census by test/legend-lines.test.ts, 2026-09-07; an earlier line named legends that cannot hold a Pyke Signature card.)
Run play
Prerequisites
- The timing is printed, not read in. 'Do this:' is a Reflexive Trigger (387.1) and 388.1 puts it on the chain as a NEW pending item, while 359.3.d finishes the spell by executing its text 'and then place the card in the Trash of the owning player'. By the time the reflexive item resolves the card is in the trash, which is where 'play this from your trash' looks. This is the same shape the project already ruled as R26 = B.
- One rainbow Power per repetition, with no per-event cap, as long as each target had 3 Might or less. The ceiling is the 12-card Rune Deck (103.3.a) — the same bound that makes zed-clone-eye-recruits an ENGINE rather than an INFINITE.
- It may kill your OWN Immortal Phoenix, and this needed no filed reading: 383.2.c.1's worked example is that card by name — 'This ability triggers if Immortal Phoenix is in your trash immediately after you kill a unit with a spell, even if the unit you killed with a spell was that Immortal Phoenix.' The issue avoided this on 141.1.b.2 grounds; Riot answers it directly.
- DOMAIN WALL, and it splits the whole death-and-return lens in two: this is Fury/Chaos and OGN-236 Karthus, Eternal is Order. A legend has exactly two domains (103.1.b), so the Karthus multiplier and this outlet can never share a deck.
- Not an INFINITE even next to lux-infinite-power, for the same reason: that engine is Mind/Order.
Steps
- Play Death from Below for 4 Energy + 1 Power. Kill a unit at a battlefield — yours or theirs.
- If it had 3 Might or less, the reflexive trigger goes on the chain (387.1, 388.1) while the spell finishes resolving into the trash (359.3.d).
- The trigger resolves: replay Death from Below out of the trash for 1 rainbow Power. It kills again.
- Repeat while runes and legal targets last. Each kill also satisfies Immortal Phoenix's trigger (428.5.b), so one Fury Power and one Energy returns him from the trash.
Per iteration
one kill per 1 rainbow Power after the first cast, plus one Immortal Phoenix return per time he is in the trash
How it ends
engine — one kill per rainbow Power, bounded by the 12-rune deck (103.3.a) and by targets of 3 Might or less; never unbounded
Sources
Published elsewhere
- Hunt lens — issue #36 (GitHub) 2026-09-05
- 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 2026-09-05 2026-09-05 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 2026-09-05 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-05-death-and-return-candidates.md), issue #36. REWRITTEN UPWARD: the issue said it had deliberately avoided the reading of Death from Below killing the Phoenix itself, because 141.1.b.2 says a unit in the trash 'cannot take actions'. There is nothing to avoid — 383.2.c.1's worked example is that exact card and that exact case, so the entry uses it and no reading is filed. The second repeatable sacrifice outlet in the pool alongside SFD-178 Blade of the Ruined King, and the only one that is a spell. Trap check: no attack designation is needed, so 807.1.d/383.4.e/461 cannot bite; no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no recall; no rune recycled for Power; all costs are Main Phase costs, so 167 does not bite.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16