Combo · ENGINE

Gemcraft Seer × Karma — every body that lands arrives buffed

3 cards · mind + order · verified

Pieces

• Gemcraft Seer ×1 OGN-100 · engine · mind

  [Vision] (When you play me, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.) Other friendly units have [Vision].

• Karma, Channeler ×1 OGN-235 · payoff · order

  [Vision] (When you play me, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.) When you recycle one or more cards to your Main Deck, buff a friendly unit. (If it doesn't have a buff, it gets a +1 Might buff. Runes aren't cards.)

• Herald of the Arcane ×1 OGN-265 · engine · mind/order

  1 Energy, Exhaust: Play a 1 Might Recruit unit token.

Payoff

Deck

• Mind + Order + a Mind/Order legend: 103.1.b.2 is satisfied by Herald of the Arcane exactly.
• No battlefield of yours is needed, so nothing here is a 1-in-3 draw (485.5).

Prerequisites

• The cap that normally kills a repeatable buffer does not bite here. 702.3 ('There can only be one Buff on a Unit at a time') means a buffer yields min(triggers, new unbuffed bodies) — the #106 finding. In this line supply and demand arrive together: the unit that enters is both the trigger (its own [Vision] recycle) and the fresh unbuffed body, so every entering body arrives at +1 Might.
• 436.4.a: 'The Player will not perform a Burn Out as a result of Predicting with too few cards in their [deck]' — the faucet is safe with the Main Deck empty, which matters because recycling the looked-at card is optional and the deck never shrinks.
• The Recruits are born at the base (355.2.a), so #48's walk-to-the-battlefield bottleneck is untouched; this line supplies bodies, it does not place them.
• Sibling: karma-lux-recycle-buff-army runs Karma off the Lux loop's recycles and reaches an unbounded army. This one needs no loop at all — one Energy a turn — and is therefore the version a fair deck can run, at one body a turn rather than one a pass.

Steps

1. Play Gemcraft Seer. Its own [Vision] looks at the top card; recycling it is already one Karma trigger if Karma is out.
2. Play Karma, Channeler. From here every friendly unit that ENTERS the board carries [Vision] (817.1.c: 'The trigger is the permanent entering the Board'), including tokens.
3. Each turn, pay E1 and exhaust Herald of the Arcane for a 1 Might Recruit token. It enters, predicts (817.1.b), and you recycle the looked-at card to the Main Deck (416.1.a).
4. Karma's trigger fires and buffs a friendly unit — put the buff on the Recruit that just landed, which is guaranteed unbuffed, so 702.3 never refuses it. The Recruit is a 2 Might body (703).
5. 315.1.b readies the legend at the next Awaken and the cycle repeats for one Energy a turn.

How it ends

engine only — one 2 Might body a turn for 1 Energy, plus a buff on every other unit you play. Nothing here scores; the points still come from whatever walks the bodies to a battlefield.

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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