Combo · ENGINE

The only card in the pool that puts an ENEMY unit into their own deck - removal with no death, no trash and no trigger

6 cards · body + order · verified

Pieces

• Keeper's Verdict ×3 UNL-204 · payoff · body/order

  [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Choose an enemy unit at a battlefield. Its owner places it on the top or bottom of their Main Deck.

• Poppy, Defender of the Meek ×3 UNL-178 · engine · order

  You may spend 3 XP as an additional cost to play me. If you do, I cost 3 Energy less. [Ambush] (You may play me as a [Reaction] to a battlefield where you have units.) [Tank] (I must be assigned combat damage first.)

Payoff

Deck

• UNL-204 Keeper's Verdict is a SIGNATURE card tagged Poppy, so 103.2.d.2 forces a Poppy legend whose two domains cover body + order - and the census prints exactly one such name: UNL-203 / UNL-237 Keeper of the Hammer. No other legend can hold this list.
• Neither card is banned or restricted in either format. The Verdict spends one of the three Signature slots 103.2.d.1 allows; UNL-178 is not a Signature card.
• The target must be AT A BATTLEFIELD - the clause says so, so a body at their base is out of reach.

Prerequisites

• IT IS THE ONLY ONE, AND THE SWEEP IS ONE LINE. `grep -inE "top or bottom of (their|your) Main Deck"` over the whole corpus returns TWO rows: SFD-169 Altar of Memories, which puts a card from YOUR OWN HAND back, and UNL-204 Keeper's Verdict. Nothing else in the pool sends an enemy PERMANENT to a deck.
• AND THAT MEANS NO DEATH EVENT AT ALL, WHICH ANSWERS THINGS A KILL CANNOT. There is no Trash, so 808.1.a's Deathknells never fire and no 'from your trash' payoff can ever reach the card; there is no damage, so 437.4's prevention and every 'prevent all spell and ability damage' answer are irrelevant; and there is no would-die event, so 808.1.d.1's heal/exhaust/recall shields - including OGS-020 Highlander in this same batch - cannot replace anything. It is the removal that the pool's protection suite is not built against.
• THE CHOICE OF TOP OR BOTTOM IS THEIRS, WHICH IS THE HONEST COST. 'Its OWNER places it' - so the opponent decides, and against a body they want back they will put it on top. That is still a tempo win of a full card: their next draw is a card they already had, and 431.1.a's Burn Out clock is unchanged. Against a body they do not want, they bury it. Read this as an answer that always works and never gets to choose how well.
• AND 355.10.e IS WHY IT PAYS NO TAX FOR THAT. An object 'chosen in whole or in part by other players' is not a target - and while the Verdict itself CHOOSES the unit (so 809.1.c's [Deflect] tax does apply to that choice), the placement decision is theirs and adds nothing. Do not confuse the two halves.
• IT IS [ACTION], WHICH IS WHERE THE VALUE IS. 806.1.c.1: 'This can be played during showdowns on any player's turn.' So it removes an attacker after 464.2.c.3 has designated it and before 465.2 assigns damage - and because the removal is not a kill, nothing the body carried triggers on the way out.
• THE PARTNER IS THE OTHER POPPY CARD, AND IT IS NOT A COINCIDENCE. UNL-178 Poppy, Defender of the Meek shares the champion the Signature card forces, and its [Ambush] (822.1.b: 'I may be played to a battlefield where you control Units' plus '[Reaction] as long as I'm being played to a battlefield where you control Units') plus [Tank] make it the body that walks into the space the Verdict just cleared - at Reaction speed, on the same turn, in the same combat.
• TWO BODY/ORDER SIGNATURE SPELLS THAT CAN NEVER SHARE A LIST. OGS-024 Decisive Strike is also Body/Order and also a Signature card, tagged Garen, which 103.2.d.2 forces to OGS-023 Might of Demacia - Starter. Two cards of the same domain pair, both walked in this batch, mutually exclusive by the Signature rule alone - which is the failure class test/legend-lines.test.ts exists for.
• WHAT IT IS NOT. Nothing here scores; 469 defines Scoring as Conquer or Hold. And it removes ONE body from a battlefield - it is an answer, not a sweeper.

Bodies no card supplies

Follow with Poppy, Defender of the Meek via [Ambush] (822.1.b) to occupy the space at Reaction speed, and 815.1.c.2 then makes her the only legal assignment while she lives

Steps

1. Hold Keeper's Verdict. Its [Action] permission (806.1.c.1) lets it land inside a combat on either player's turn.
2. When an enemy unit at a battlefield needs to be gone - especially one with a Deathknell, or one a kill would feed - play it (2 Energy + 2 Power).
3. Its owner places it on the top or bottom of their Main Deck. No Trash, no damage, no death event: nothing it carried triggers.
4. Expect them to choose the top if they want it back; that is still a full card of tempo and their next draw is spent.
5. Follow with Poppy, Defender of the Meek via [Ambush] (822.1.b) to occupy the space at Reaction speed, and 815.1.c.2 then makes her the only legal assignment while she lives.

Per iteration

one enemy unit removed from a battlefield with no death event, per casting

How it ends

engine only - three copies by 103.2.b, one body each, and the opponent chooses top or bottom; 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
• Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt (built from Riot's gallery content API) 2026-09-07

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-07 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-07-orphan-remainder.md, part 1) 2026-09-07 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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