RIFTCOMBO

Combo · ENGINE

826.4.b is the uncited mirror of 815.1.c.2 and the two say OPPOSITE things about a second body - a second [Tank] grows the toll booth, a second [Backline] hands the attacker a choice, so the Promoter must be the only one behind the wall he builds

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Pieces

Payoff

Board protectionRepeatable [Temporary] bodies

Deck

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Play UNL-048 Trevor Snoozebottom (3 Energy) and UNL-043 Enthusiastic Promoter (3 Energy) to the same battlefield. 143.4 has both enter exhausted; neither needs to be ready for anything here.
  2. Take and keep that battlefield. At your next Beginning Phase, 315.2.b.2 Holds it and both Hold triggers fire at once.
  3. Place the Promoter's trigger on the Chain first and Trevor's second (383.3.d). 340.1 resolves the newest first: Trevor's Sprite - ready, 3 Might, [Temporary] - is played here, and only then does the Promoter's '[Buff] all units here' resolve and catch it.
  4. On the opponent's turn the garrison defends as Trevor 5 (M3 + [Shield] 1 + buff), Sprite 4 (M3 + buff), Promoter 3 (M2 + buff). 826.4.b makes the Promoter an invalid assignment until Trevor and the Sprite have both been assigned lethal - nine damage.
  5. At your next 315.2.a the Sprite dies to 816.1.b, and one step later Trevor's Hold mints its replacement. Repeat every turn.
  6. Do not add a second [Backline] body at this battlefield: 826.4.b would let the attacker choose which of the two to kill after the wall falls, which is the whole protection given away.

Per iteration

one fresh 3-Might [Temporary] Sprite and one new buff per turn, keeping a nine-damage wall in front of a body the attacker is forbidden to touch until the wall is dead

How it ends

engine only - nothing here scores; the Sprite is replaced rather than accumulated (816.1.b kills it every Beginning Phase) and 702.3 caps each body at one buff, so the wall is steady-state at nine damage rather than growing

Sources

Published elsewhere

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 2026-09-09 (issue #191, uncited sub-rules 500-829, batch 4). 826.4, 826.4.a and 826.4.b were cited by nothing in combos.json or synergies.json; 826.3 and 826.5 were each cited twice. The finding is the ASYMMETRY: this project quotes 815.1.c.2 in dozens of places and had never opened its Backline twin, which inverts the second sentence and therefore inverts what a second body is worth. Companion, and a limit on 826.4.b's own reach: it says 'unit with Backline', while OGN-068 Caitlyn, Patrolling and SFD-173 Soraka, Wanderer print the SENTENCE without the keyword (measured 2026-09-09: grep -ci backline over data/corpus_flat.txt returns 4 - UNL-043, UNL-090, UNL-141, UNL-145 - while six cards carry the effect), so a Caitlyn beside a Promoter is governed by 465.2.c.6's ordering and 465.2.c.8's exclusionary-requirement clause rather than by 826.4.b - a different paragraph, the same verdict, and the same advice: run one.

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