Combo · ENGINE
Skyfall makes Trinity Force pay on a conquer — Lucian readies himself and takes the second battlefield too
Pieces
- Lucian, Merciless ×1
SFD-113 · engine · body
[Weaponmaster] (When you play me, you may [Equip] one of your Equipment to me for 1 Power of any domain less, even if it's already attached.) The first time I conquer each turn, ready me.
- Skyfall of Areion ×1
SFD-030 · engine · fury
[Equip] 1 Energy + 1 Fury Power (1 Energy + 1 Fury Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)
My hold effects are also conquer effects, and vice versa.
- Trinity Force ×1
SFD-115 · payoff · body
[Equip] 1 Body Power (1 Body Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)
When I hold, score 1 point.
- Relentless Pursuit ×1
SFD-184 · enabler · fury/body
[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Move a friendly unit. You may attach up to one Equipment with the same controller to it. This turn, that unit has "When I conquer, you may move me to my base."
Payoff
Deck
- Legend domains are Fury and Body: SFD-183 Purifier (Lucian), which the source takes as the Chosen Champion outright.
Prerequisites
- FOUR POINTS IN A TURN, WHICH IS NOT A BURST AND NOT A CHAIN. Each conquer pays twice - 1 by Score (469.1) and 1 by ability from Trinity Force (194.1.c, R2 = A) - and Lucian's self-ready buys a second battlefield, so a Duel's two battlefields (485.4) give 4. A BURST has to reach 8 in one scoring event and a CHAIN across several with no opponent turn in between; this reaches 8 in TWO turns, with the opponent's turn in the middle, which is what the source says in its own words.
- 'The first time I conquer each turn' IS THE CEILING. It is once a turn, not once per conquer, so there is no third battlefield even if one existed. #62's table quotes this line as '0 a 4 puntos en un turno'; the source itself says 'zero points to eight points in a matter of two turns'. Both are the same arithmetic seen over one turn and two.
- BOTH GEARS MUST END UP ON LUCIAN. 434.1.c appends Effect Text to the Top-Most Card only; Relentless Pursuit is what attaches the second one 'without expending a further power', in the source's words, because [Weaponmaster] has already paid for the first.
- The Weaponmaster discount is on PLAY: 'When you play me, you may [Equip] one of your Equipment to me for a rainbow less.' It cannot be re-used later in the turn.
- Bill: Skyfall 3 + Lucian 3 + Trinity Force 4 + Relentless Pursuit 2 Energy and 1 Power, plus the [Equip] costs the discounts do not cover - a four-card, two-turn assembly before the first point.
Steps
- Play Skyfall of Areion.
- Play Lucian, Merciless and use [Weaponmaster] to equip Skyfall to him for a rainbow less.
- Play Trinity Force and leave it unattached.
- Play Relentless Pursuit: move Lucian to a battlefield and attach the Trinity Force to him on the way, for no extra Power.
- Conquer: the Conquer Scores 1 (469.1), and Skyfall has made Trinity Force's hold effect a conquer effect, so it pays a second point by ability. Relentless Pursuit's grant moves him to base.
- 'The first time I conquer each turn, ready me' fires: Standard Move him to the second battlefield (144.4.a) and conquer it for 2 more points.
- Next turn, hold what you kept for another 2.
Per iteration
+4 points in one turn: two battlefields, two points each
How it ends
four points a turn - eight across two turns, with the opponent's turn in between, which is why it is not a CHAIN
Sources
Published elsewhere
- YouTube — Riftlab, "How to Play LUCIAN | Spiritforged Riftbound Legend Guide" 2026-02-15
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- Minería por leyenda — issue #62 (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-issue62-table-of-fourteen.md), issue #62 section 2.6. THE HIGHEST POINT RATE IN THE CATALOGUE THAT IS STILL AN ENGINE, and the class was checked rather than assumed: four points in a turn is enormous and is still not eight in one scoring event (BURST) nor eight before the opponent's next turn (CHAIN). #62's table and the source state the same figure over different windows and both are right. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Trap check: no attack designation is needed - a Conquer comes from Establishing Control (466.5.d) or from a Showdown (348.2.a.1); no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no token; the 'move me to my base' Relentless Pursuit grants IS a move, not a recall, so 456 never applies to it. Depends on R2 (ruled A).
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16