Combo · ENGINE
Friendship across the Mighty line — one Energy buys an untap, once per body
Pieces
- Friendship ×3
UNL-046 · engine · calm
[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Choose a unit. Give it +1 Might this turn for each of the following tags among your units — Bird, Cat, Dog, and Poro.
- Fiora, Worthy ×1
SFD-180 · payoff · order
When a unit you control becomes [Mighty], you may pay 1 Order Power to ready it. (A unit is Mighty while it has 5+ Might.)
- Daring Poro ×1
OGN-210 · resource · order
[Assault] (+1 Might while I'm an attacker.)
- Trusty Ramhound ×1
SFD-159 · resource · order
While you have another unit here, I have +1 Might.
Payoff
Deck
- Calm + Order: OGN-261 Radiant Dawn, UNL-195 Green Father, VEN-147 Eye of Twilight and SFD-247 Emperor of the Sands all hold it (103.1.b.2).
- Enough of the four tags on the board that Friendship's bonus can carry a body from under 5 Might to 5 or more.
Prerequisites
- 709 IS AN EVENT AND THAT IS THE WHOLE CAP. 'A Unit "becomes Mighty" at the moment its Might changes from being less than 5 to being 5 or greater', and its second worked example is explicit: 'A Unit with Might 5 that gets +1 does not become Mighty, because it was already Mighty.' So three Friendships in one turn must cross three DIFFERENT sub-5 bodies; pointing two at the same body is one ready, not two.
- The arithmetic against the declared board: with all four tags out, Friendship is +4, so any body at Might 1 to 4 crosses. Two tags is +2, which only carries a Might 3 or 4 body. The entry declares two tag bodies and therefore claims +2, not +4 — the four-tag version is the same line at a wider ceiling and is left to the reader.
- Friendship is a [Reaction], so 813.1.c.1 lets it be played 'during Closed States on any player's turn' — the ready can be bought inside the opponent's combat, after you have seen what needs to move.
- What a ready is worth: 144.2 prices the Standard Move at the unit's own exhaust, so a readied body moves a second time, and any exhaust ability on it activates a second time. It does NOT let an exhausted body defend better — 464.2.c.3 and 465.2.b do not filter by state (#61).
- The +Might is 'this turn', a plain continuous modifier and not a 702 buff counter, so 702.3's one-per-unit cap never applies and it does not feed a 'buffed friends' count. Same distinction #102 drew for Lee Sin, Centered.
- Neighbouring payoffs on the same event, not used here because they need other identities: SFD-205 Grand Duelist (Body/Order legend) and OGN-249 Relentless Storm (Fury/Body legend) both channel a rune exhausted when one of your units becomes Mighty.
Steps
- Get Fiora, Worthy and at least two of the four tag bodies onto the board.
- Move a sub-5 Might body — a Standard Move exhausts it (144.2).
- Cast Friendship for E1 choosing that body: +1 Might this turn for each of the four tags among your units.
- Its Might crosses from under 5 to 5 or more, which is 709's event. Fiora's trigger fires; pay 1 Order Power and ready it.
- Move it again, or activate its exhaust ability a second time. Repeat with the second and third Friendship on DIFFERENT bodies — 709's second example forbids re-crossing a body that is already Mighty.
How it ends
engine only — up to three readies a turn at [Reaction] speed for E1 + 1 Order Power each, one per sub-5 body crossed, bounded by three copies of Friendship (103.2.b). Nothing here scores.
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
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 2026-09-06 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-orphan-synergy-rules.md §23), issue #153, from the orphan rule friendship-four-tags. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Citations opened: 103.1.b.2, 103.2.b, 144.2, 464.2.c.3, 465.2.b, 702.3, 709, 813.1.c.1. The entry's contribution is the cap: 709 is an event, so the ceiling is the number of DIFFERENT sub-5 bodies, not the number of Friendships. Trap check: no attack of the entry's own; no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no token; no recall; 167 is not touched, since the Order Power is paid in the same phase it is added; 'enters ready' is not involved — this is a real 415.1 ready of a unit already on the board, which is what #56 found only sixteen cards do.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16