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Glasc Mixologist reanimates three times for one Power

4 cards · order · verified

Pieces

Payoff

Repeatable card advantage

Deck

Run play

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Board: two Karthus, Blade of the Ruined King, and Glasc Mixologist (5 Energy + 1 Power). Trash holds units costing at most 3 Energy and 1 Power. CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#465, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-the-blade-and-the-mixologist-land-on-the-same-turn-the-three-come-out-of-a-trash-their-attack-filled-and-one-rune-on-a-karthus-makes-it-two.md): when the pieces arrive matters. Played on the turn of the kill, the Blade and the Mixologist are never on the board in one of the opponent's Main Phases: on your turn they get Priority only on a chain, where 309.1.a reads 'Only cards and abilities with the Reaction keyword can be played or activated in a Closed State.', and once the Mixologist leaves the chain (359.2) you pay the [Equip] at once. Played a turn early, the Blade dies to OGN-179 Acceptable Losses (Chaos, E1: '[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Each player kills one of their gear.') and the Mixologist returns to hand from VEN-107 Decree of Discord (one rune). Together they cost E8 and two Order Power, and the [Equip] a third, so in the walk (Hand of Noxus going first, a Karthus on T2 and T3, the Vanguard Captain alone on T4) T5 was the first turn with eight Energy. HOW THE TRASH FILLS: the entry did not say. In the walk only the opponent's attack filled it. The Blade can fill it too, at one Order Power and one friendly unit per use, and a dead Karthus is eligible fuel (E3, 1 Power).
  2. Activate the Blade's [Equip] for 1 Order Power, attaching elsewhere and killing the Mixologist as the cost. CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#465, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-the-blade-and-the-mixologist-land-on-the-same-turn-the-three-come-out-of-a-trash-their-attack-filled-and-one-rune-on-a-karthus-makes-it-two.md): the Blade is the TIMING, not the trigger. Any death of the Mixologist fires his Deathknell, 808.1.d.2: 'The trigger will be added to the chain as a Pending Item before the card with an ability that triggers on its own death is moved to the trash due to a Kill instruction or a Cleanup.' The opponent killing him gives the same three bodies; what the Blade adds is that you choose the turn.
  3. His Deathknell goes on the chain before he reaches the trash (428.1.a.1.b) and runs three times (Karthus ×2).
  4. Each instance plays one qualifying unit out of the trash ignoring its cost, to your base or to a battlefield you control (355.2.a). All three enter exhausted (143.4). CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#465, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-the-blade-and-the-mixologist-land-on-the-same-turn-the-three-come-out-of-a-trash-their-attack-filled-and-one-rune-on-a-karthus-makes-it-two.md): and a [Legion] card comes back with its Legion on whenever you have finalized another card that turn, 812.1.c: 'As long as a card different than the one with the Legion ability has been Finalized by you on the same turn then the Dependent Ability is Active on the card with Legion.' On the turn you play the Mixologist that is always true; in the walk OGN-217 Trifarian Gloryseeker came back a 3. The three plays happen while each instance resolves on the chain, and units have no [Reaction]: the same 358.4 reading settled on rell-magnetic-recurve-bow-per-attack covers them (419.3.a, 410.2.b, 312.1.b.1, and the 358.3.a worked example).

Per iteration

three free units out of the trash for 1 Order Power, once per Mixologist

How it ends

engine — three bodies per Mixologist, nine across the three copies; it is a burst of bodies, not a loop

Sources

Published elsewhere

Walked here, in this project

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 2026-09-05 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-05-death-and-return-candidates.md), issue #36. One correction to the issue (the bodies are not confined to your base, 355.2.a) and one confirmation (they do enter exhausted, 143.4, and Renata does not reach them). Shares the Karthus + Blade skeleton with karthus-honest-broker-blade-gold, karthus-sacred-shears-blade-draw and karthus-machine-evangel-renata-plaza; this one pays in bodies. Trap check: no attack; no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no recall; no rune recycled for Power; the Power is spent in the Main Phase so 167 does not bite. No new rules reading — the stack is R1 = A. REVISED 2026-10-26 (#465, from the run play docs/plays/2026-10-24-the-blade-and-the-mixologist-land-on-the-same-turn-the-three-come-out-of-a-trash-their-attack-filled-and-one-rune-on-a-karthus-makes-it-two.md): its Leads applied as dated notes on steps 1, 2 and 4 and the first notable, plus two ADDED notables: where the Karthus stand, and the answers. Re-checked against data/corpus_flat.txt and the 2026-07-16 Core Rules (309.1.a, 359.2, 365.1, 808.1.d.2, 812.1.c, 419.3.c). The three plays from the trash are instructed plays on the chain, which the 358.4 reading settled on rell-magnetic-recurve-bow-per-attack covers. Each correction narrows a claim (when the pieces arrive, the Power per Mixologist, what the Blade adds) or adds one (Legion on); none removes the three bodies per Mixologist, so it stays verified. No unruled reading.

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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