Combo · ENGINE

[Weaponmaster] DISCOUNTS an Equip cost by one rainbow, [Quick-Draw] never DETERMINES one at all - so a granted Quick-Draw is the pool's only way to delete the non-resource half of an Equip cost, and Last Rites is the card that has one

6 cards · calm + chaos · verified

Pieces

• Jax, Unmatched ×3 SFD-054 · enabler · calm

  [Deflect] (Opponents must pay 1 Power of any domain to choose me with a spell or ability.) Your Equipment everywhere have [Quick-Draw]. (Each gains [Reaction]. When you play it, attach it to a unit you control.)

• Last Rites ×3 SFD-150 · payoff · chaos

  [Equip] — 1 Chaos Power, Recycle 2 cards from your trash (Pay the cost: Attach this to a unit you control.)

  When I conquer or hold, you may play a unit from your trash. (You still pay its costs.)

Payoff

Deck

• SFD-054 Jax, Unmatched is mono-Calm and SFD-150 Last Rites is mono-Chaos (both checked against data/cards.json), so 103.1.b needs a legend carrying BOTH domains. Measured over data/cards.json there are exactly three such names: Unforgiven (OGN-259 / OGN-305), Blade Dancer (SFD-195 / SFD-246) and Gloomist (UNL-193 / UNL-232).
• Neither card is a Signature card (data/cards.json, signature=false on both), so 103.2.d.2 imposes no legend beyond those three, and neither appears in data/legality.json.
• The line wants a trash to reanimate from, so it wants the Chaos discard package - but nothing here forces one: Last Rites' own [Effect] is the only trash reader in the two cards.

Prerequisites

• THE TWO FREE-ATTACH KEYWORDS ARE NOT THE SAME TOOL AND THE DIFFERENCE IS IN THEIR SHORTHANDS. 821.1.c makes [Weaponmaster] short for 'Pay the cost of its Equip ability, reduced by [A], to attach it to this unit.' (the tail of 821.1.c, quoted from its second sentence on) - it ACTIVATES the Equip ability and DISCOUNTS its cost by one rainbow. 819.1.d makes [Quick-Draw] short for '“[Reaction]” and “When you play this, attach it to a Unit you control.”' - a triggered attach on the play, in which no Equip ability is activated and no Equip cost is ever determined. A discount can only reduce a resource; a cost that is never determined is not paid at all.
• AND LAST RITES IS THE CARD WHERE THAT DIFFERENCE IS THE WHOLE CARD. Its [Equip] is ':rb_rune_chaos:, Recycle 2 cards from your trash' - a resource half and a NON-RESOURCE half. [Weaponmaster]'s rainbow reaches the rune and can never reach the recycle, which is why this project already records Last Rites as self-limiting and un-freeable by that keyword. A granted [Quick-Draw] frees both halves at once, and the recycle is the half worth more: 416.1 puts recycled cards on the bottom of the deck, so paying it feeds the trash back into the library - the exact resource the Equipment's own [Effect] ('When I conquer or hold, you may play a unit from your trash') is trying to spend. Paying the cost damages the payoff; deleting it does not.
• 819.2 IS THE CAP AND IT IS PRINTED. 'Multiple instances of Quick-Draw do not trigger separately and have no effect beyond the first.' So Jax's grant is worth exactly ZERO on the Equipment that already print the keyword. Measured 2026-09-09 over data/corpus_flat.txt: 40 Equipment-tagged printings, of which FOUR print [Quick-Draw] - SFD-022 Long Sword, SFD-056 Sterak's Gage, SFD-064 Cloth Armor, SFD-186 Spinning Axe. Build the list from the other thirty-six or Jax is a 5-Energy blank.
• 819.1.a IS WHY THE GRANT IS WELL FORMED HERE: 'Quick-Draw is present on Gear with Equip abilities.' Last Rites has one. And 819.1.b - 'Cards with Quick-Draw have Reaction inherently' - is the second half of the gift: the Equipment becomes a [Reaction] card, so 813.1.c.1 lets it be played in any Closed State on either player's turn, and it arrives attached. 819.3 makes Quick-Draw itself a referenceable characteristic, though no card in the pool reads it.
• THE GRANT REACHES YOUR HAND BECAUSE JAX SAYS 'EVERYWHERE', AND 801.3.a.3 IS WHY IT DOES NOT EXPIRE. 'If an effect that grants a Keyword does not specify a duration, the duration is as long as that Game Object remains on the Board or in its current Non-Board Zone.' Jax names no duration, so every Equipment you hold keeps the keyword until it is played - and a granted keyword on a card in hand is exactly what a play-trigger needs.
• WHAT IT IS NOT: free damage prevention for Jax himself. 809.1.c prices his [Deflect] as an additional cost the OPPONENT pays per choice, which they may simply pay; it is a tax, not the prohibition that SFD-105 Ruin Runner prints. And killing Jax does not detach anything - 718.5.b keeps an attached card a legal choice, but the Equipment stays where it is; what the opponent buys by removing him is the price of the NEXT attach, back to a Chaos rune plus two recycles.
• CROSS-REFERENCES, so the family is readable as one: aphelios-jax-quickdraw-attach and ornns-forge-jax-free-equipment are the other two Jax lines and both spend the grant on the PLAY cost or on a 'when you attach' trigger; azir-ascendant-steraks-gage-equipped-state-survives-inactive, walked in this same batch, is what the resulting Equipped STATE is then readable by; and last-rites-sentinel-trash-holds, last-rites-mill-reanimate, last-rites-stack-arena-reanimator and last-rites-lunar-boon-trash-recursion are the four entries that pay the Equip cost the hard way.

Steps

1. Play SFD-054 Jax, Unmatched (5 Energy + 1 Power). From that moment 'Your Equipment everywhere have [Quick-Draw]', which by 801.3.a.3 lasts as long as each card stays where it is, your hand included.
2. Play SFD-150 Last Rites for its printed 3 Energy. 819.1.b has given it [Reaction], so this can happen in any Closed State on either player's turn (813.1.c.1) - in response to removal, or inside a Showdown.
3. 819.1.d's granted trigger attaches it to a unit you control as it is played. No Equip ability is activated (818.1), so neither the Chaos rune nor the 'Recycle 2 cards from your trash' is ever paid, and your trash is intact.
4. The carrier is now +2 Might (137.3, 718.4) and carries the appended [Effect] (718.3): 'When I conquer or hold, you may play a unit from your trash.'
5. Conquer or Hold with that body. 383.4.c.1 / 383.4.d.1 put the trigger on the Chain; play a unit from your trash, paying its costs. Repeat every turn the carrier scores.
6. If the opponent kills the carrier, 719.5 detaches Last Rites and 457.1 recalls it to base at the next Cleanup, where its printed text is Active again - so a re-attach costs the printed Equip cost unless you replay it under Jax, which you cannot, because it is already on the board rather than in a zone you can play it from.

Per iteration

one unit replayed from the trash per Conquer or Hold of the carrier, with the Equipment's own Equip cost - one Chaos rune and two recycles - deleted rather than discounted

How it ends

engine only - nothing here scores by itself; the ceiling is the carrier's scoring events, which 470 caps at one Score per battlefield per turn and 485.4 caps at two battlefields in a Duel, and each replayed unit still pays its own costs

Sources

Published elsewhere

• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt), 819.1.a and 819.1.b and 819.1.d 2026-07-16
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt), 819.2 and 819.3 2026-07-16
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt), 821.1.c, the [Weaponmaster] shorthand it is being contrasted with 2026-07-16
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt), 818.1 and 818.1.b 2026-07-16
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt), 801.3.a.3 2026-07-16
• Card text, data/corpus_flat.txt (Riot gallery API, errata applied) 2026-09-04
• Card text, data/corpus_flat.txt (Riot gallery API, errata applied) 2026-09-04

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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