Combo · ENGINE
Heimerdinger carries Renata's score ability — she stays in base, he stands at the battlefield
Pieces
- Heimerdinger, Inventor ×1
OGN-111 · payoff · mind
I have all Exhaust abilities of all friendly legends, units, and gear.
- Renata Glasc, Mastermind ×1
SFD-088 · engine · mind
1 Energy + 1 Mind Power: Draw 1. 4 Energy + 4 Mind Power, Exhaust: Score 1 point. Use my abilities only while I'm at a battlefield.
- Acceleration Gate ×3
VEN-150 · ready · mind/body
Ready up to 4 units, gear, and/or runes.
Payoff
Deck
- Legend domains are Mind and Body, and the pool holds exactly ONE such legend: VEN-149 Defender of Tomorrow — which is also a piece of the engine this entry needs (platewyrm-egg-defender-gate).
Prerequisites
- R30 = B, ruled by the user on 2026-09-06. Renata's 'Use my abilities only while I'm at a battlefield' TRAVELS with the granted ability (377.2.b, whose own worked example is this exact wording on Ultrasoft Poro), and 053.1 rereads the 'I' as whoever has it — so HEIMERDINGER must be at a battlefield. Renata does not. The community reads it as A (Heimerdinger scores from base); the catalogue follows B.
- WHY IT IS A NEW ROUTE AND NOT A FOURTH COPY OF AN OLD ONE. The catalogue's three Renata routes (renata-mastermind-points, renata-bubble-bot-ready, jayce-mesmerize-renata) all say 'Only while at a battlefield' in their own uses, and all three put RENATA on the battlefield. Here she never leaves base and the exposed body is a 3-Energy, 3-Might unit instead of a 5-Energy, 4-Might one. That is the whole trade.
- R2 = A IS LOAD-BEARING. The card says 'Score 1 point', which 194.1.c makes a point Gain by ability rather than a 469 Score, so 470's 'only Score once per Battlefield per turn' does not cap it and repeated activations in one turn each give a point.
- THE PUBLISHED OTK NUMBER IS NOT REACHABLE IN THIS SHELL, and it is worth writing down. The community figure is 36 Energy and 36 Power for eight activations; eight activations really are 32 Energy + 32 Mind Power. 103.3.a fixes the Rune Deck at 12 Rune Cards; 164.2.b makes a rune recycle worth exactly 1 Power and 161.2.b returns it to the Rune Deck, with 315.3.b channelling 2 back per turn. A single turn therefore tops out around 12 Power, not 32. Reaching 32 needs an unbounded Power engine, and the catalogue's (lux-infinite-power) is Mind/Order — which cannot hold Acceleration Gate, a Mind/Body card, under 103.1.b.
- THE REAL CEILING PER TURN. Heimerdinger starts ready for one activation and each Acceleration Gate buys one more, so three Gates give four activations: 16 Energy + 16 Mind Power for the points plus 9 Energy + 3 Power for the Gates. The Power runs out first. Two or three points a turn is the honest figure, which is why this is ENGINE and not BURST or CHAIN.
- IT CAN ALSO SUBSTITUTE INTO THE MIND/ORDER LOOPS. Under a Mind/Order legend with an unbounded engine running, anything that readies Renata in the three existing routes readies Heimerdinger instead, and the line inherits their class. In that shape it competes for the SAME spare recycle slot those three share, so it is a fourth alternative, not a fourth stackable payoff.
- SFD-060 Tianna Crownguard switches it off exactly as she switches off the other three: scoring by ability is a gain (194.1.c) and she reads 'opponents can't gain points'. She is catalogued as tianna-wildclaw-point-lock.
Steps
- Renata Glasc, Mastermind on the board — base is fine and base is better.
- Heimerdinger, Inventor at a battlefield (R30 = B). He now has her '4 Energy + 4 Mind Power, exhaust: Score 1 point'.
- Pay 4 Energy + 4 Mind Power and exhaust HEIMERDINGER: 1 point (194.1.c, not capped by 470).
- Acceleration Gate (3 Energy + 1 Power): ready Heimerdinger and three exhausted runes. Activate again.
- Repeat until the Power runs out — three Gates, four activations.
Per iteration
1 point per activation, at 4 Energy + 4 Mind Power, plus 3 Energy + 1 Power for each Acceleration Gate that buys the next one
How it ends
engine only — two or three points a turn in the Mind/Body shell, bounded by Power; wired into an unbounded Mind/Order engine instead, it inherits that loop's class as a fourth alternative to the three existing Renata routes
Sources
Published elsewhere
- YouTube - Moore Than Moost, "Riftbound Jayce OTK" - the community reading (A), which the catalogue does not follow 2026-07-15
- YouTube - Moore Than Moost, "How To Loop With Jayce" - the published OTK figure this entry measures and rejects 2026-07-21
- YouTube - Office Raccoon, "Ornn Infinite Loop Infinite Energy Infinite power OTK" - a third independent statement of reading A 2026-02-28
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- Internet mining lens — issue #46 (GitHub) 2026-09-06
Walked here, in this project
- Hand walk 2026-09-06 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-issue46-mining-walk.md), issue #46 section 1, WRITTEN IN FORM B. OGN-111 Heimerdinger, Inventor appeared in none of the catalogue's first 99 entries and the community calls this pairing 'the now classic Renata Heimer combo'; six independent sources state reading A (he scores from base) and the user ruled B on 2026-09-06 (377.2.b's worked example is this exact wording), so the entry is written with Heimerdinger at a battlefield and Renata safe in base, and the community reading is cited with a note saying the catalogue does not follow it. TWO THINGS THE WALK MEASURED AGAINST THE SOURCES. The class is ENGINE, not the INFINITE the candidate declared: the shell that can hold Acceleration Gate is Mind/Body, its only legend is VEN-149 Defender of Tomorrow, and its resource engine (platewyrm-egg-defender-gate) is explicitly bounded. And the published '36 energy and 36 power' is not reachable there — eight activations need 32 Mind Power, while 103.3.a caps the Rune Deck at 12 and 164.2.b makes each recycle worth exactly 1 Power. That is the kind of published figure CLAUDE.md already warns about after two '18 Energy' claims that had counted neither the Equip costs nor the Power. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16