Combo · ENGINE
Divine Judgment is one Karma trigger, not two — 416.1.c sends the opponent's cards to the opponent's deck
Pieces
- 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.)
- Divine Judgment ×1
OGN-244 · engine · order
Each player chooses 2 units, 2 gear, 2 runes, and 2 cards in their hands. Recycle the rest.
Payoff
Deck
- Any legend with Order among its two domains (103.1.b.3) — 17 names: Hand of Noxus (OGN-253), Radiant Dawn (OGN-261), Herald of the Arcane (OGN-265), The Boss (OGN-269), Lady of Luminosity - Starter (OGS-021), Might of Demacia - Starter (OGS-023), Void Burrower (SFD-187), Emperor of the Sands (SFD-197), Chem-Baroness (SFD-201), Grand Duelist (SFD-205), Piltover Enforcer (UNL-187), Green Father (UNL-195), Deceiver (UNL-199), Keeper of the Hammer (UNL-203), Eye of Twilight (VEN-147), Matriarch of War (VEN-153), Heart of the Tempest (VEN-155).
- Karma must be one of the TWO units you keep, or she is recycled with the rest and never buffs anything.
- Seven Energy and 2 Order Power — the most expensive card in Karma's whole partner row.
Prerequisites
- IT IS ONE TRIGGER, AND THE RULE THAT DECIDES IT IS EASY TO READ THE WRONG WAY. 416.1.c: 'Each player Recycles cards to their own Main Deck and Rune Deck, regardless of which player is instructed to perform the Recycle action.' Karma watches 'when you recycle one or more cards to your Main Deck' — the opponent's cards go to the opponent's Main Deck, so their half of the wipe is invisible to her. A symmetric instruction is not a symmetric trigger.
- THE SAME PARAGRAPH REFUSES THE OTHER 'RECYCLE THE OPPONENT' CARDS IN HER ROW OUTRIGHT. `UNL-103 Disposal Order` ('Choose up to 3 cards from opponents' trashes. Their owners recycle them') recycles nothing to YOUR Main Deck and therefore never fires Karma at all. `OGN-212 Forge of the Future` ('Kill this: Recycle up to 4 cards from trashes') fires her only if at least one of the four is your own card.
- KEEP HER, OR THE CARD DOES NOTHING FOR THIS ENTRY. The wipe recycles every unit beyond the two each player chooses; Karma is a unit. She has to be one of your two, which means the wipe costs you your board down to Karma plus one — and the buff lands on that one survivor. One buff is the whole payoff, so 702.3's cap is not even reached here.
- The rune half is a red herring for her: 161.2.b sends recycled runes to the Rune Deck, and Karma's own printed reminder says 'Runes aren't cards'. Her trigger comes from the Main Deck cards — the excess gear and the excess hand — and 416.5 puts them on the bottom 'in a random order', so this is not deck-stacking either.
- WHAT THE ENTRY IS ACTUALLY FOR. Divine Judgment is a symmetric reset that leaves you a 6-Might Karma, one other unit, two gear, two runes and two cards; the Karma buff is a consolation on top, not a reason to play it. Priced honestly: 7 Energy + 2 Order Power for a wipe you survive marginally better than the opponent because your survivor comes out buffed, and because you knew it was coming and they did not.
- Mono-Order, which is the widest identity either card admits and the reason the wipe is buildable at all: 103.1.b.3 puts a single-domain card in every identity containing that domain, so seventeen legend names can hold this pair.
Steps
- Play Karma, Channeler (6 Energy + 1 Order Power) and let the board develop.
- Cast Divine Judgment (7 Energy + 2 Order Power).
- Choose your two units — Karma must be one of them — plus two gear, two runes and two cards in hand.
- Recycle the rest. 416.1.c sends your cards to your Main Deck and the opponent's to theirs; 416.5 puts them on the bottom in a random order, and 161.2.b routes the runes to the Rune Deck.
- Karma's trigger fires ONCE, for your own recycle only.
- Buff your surviving friendly unit (702.3): it is the one body on the board that comes out of the reset bigger.
Per iteration
-1 card, -7 Energy -2 Order Power, both boards cut to two units and two gear, one +1 Might buff on your survivor
How it ends
engine — a symmetric board reset that leaves your survivor with a +1 Might buff; one Karma trigger, never two. 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
Walked here, in this project
- Hand walk 2026-09-07, issue #169 — matrix families rows 6-18, second pass 2026-09-07 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.
AUTHORED 2026-09-07, issue #169, second pass over matrix row 18, and the last entry of the slice. OGN-244 Divine Judgment was in ZERO entries. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt; 103.1.b.3, 103.2.b, 161.2.b, 416.1.a, 416.1.c, 416.5, 702.3 opened in the Core Rules file. Both cards legal in both formats; neither is Signature. Card set OGN-235 + OGN-244 is not an existing uses[] set. No unruled reading. 416.1.c is the reusable finding and it cuts two ways: it is why a symmetric wipe is one trigger, and why UNL-103 Disposal Order — which the matrix lists as a Karma partner — is a false positive that fires her never.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16