Combo · ENGINE
206 reads the PRINTED cost, so a discounted Singularity still pumps Lux — and 715.2 makes it two targets, individually
Pieces
- Lux, Illuminated ×1
OGS-006 · payoff · mind
When you play a spell that costs 5 Energy or more, give me +3 Might this turn.
- Singularity ×3
OGN-105 · engine · mind
Deal 6 to each of up to two units.
Payoff
Deck
- Both cards are mono-Mind, so 103.1.b.1 is satisfied by any legend with Mind as one of its two domains. Neither is Signature, so 103.2.d.2 imposes nothing.
Prerequisites
- 206 IS WHY A DISCOUNT NEVER SWITCHES THE TRIGGER OFF: 'Effects that need to determine a card's cost for any purpose always use its printed or copied cost, even if that cost has been altered.' So Singularity remains a 'spell that costs 6' after any reduction, and every Energy saved is Energy spent elsewhere on the same turn. Riot's own worked example for the paragraph is Lux, Illuminated.
- AND THAT IS THE HALF OF THE 'THIS TURN' LENS THAT SURVIVES DISCOUNTS. Its sibling family — 'if you SPENT N or more' — reads what actually left the Rune Pool (166.2, 203.1, 356.4.b) and is switched off by exactly the same discount. Do not mix the two when building the shell.
- 715.2 IS WHY SINGULARITY IS THE RIGHT SPELL AND NOT JUST AN EXPENSIVE ONE: 'If the Deal action has multiple targets, the amount of Damage dealt to each target is increased by Bonus Damage individually and separately', and the paragraph's example IS Singularity, dealing 7 to each under a Bonus Damage source. Even with no such source in Mind, the shape matters: it is 6 to each of two units for one card, and 143.2.a kills anything at Might 6 or less on both sides of the board.
- THE PUMP IS A MODIFIER AND NOT A BUFF. '+3 :rb_might: this turn' is applied at 477.3.e.1 and expires at 317.2.c's end-of-turn Cleanup, so 702.3's one-per-unit cap never touches it and two spells in one turn are +6 on a Might 5 body — Lux attacks at 11 on a two-spell turn.
- THE TRIGGER HAS NO 'ONCE EACH TURN' CLAUSE, so every qualifying spell pays. Mind prints eight spells at E5 or more (Falling Comet E5, Promising Future E5, Sprite Burst E5, Progress Day E6, Singularity E6, Unchecked Power E7, Moonlight Affliction E7, Clairvoyance E7, plus Time Warp at E10), so the density is real without warping the deck.
- THE REFUSAL WORTH RECORDING BESIDE IT: the attractive line is a [Hidden] spell, since 811.1.b plays it 'ignoring its base cost' while 206 still reads the printed cost — a free spell that still pumps. Swept: of the pool's [Hidden] spells exactly ONE is printed at E5 or more, `SFD-202 Hostile Takeover`, and it is a Signature card, so 103.2.d.2 forces its champion's legend. The mechanism is real and the pool has no card for it.
- IT DOES NOT SCORE. Mind converts no Might into points; what the pump buys is a combat, and what Singularity buys is two dead bodies.
Steps
- Play Lux, Illuminated (E6 + 1 Mind Power) and move her to a battlefield.
- In a later Main Phase, play Singularity (E6 + 2 Mind Power), discounted or not — 206 reads its printed 6 either way.
- Lux's trigger fires: +3 Might this turn, applied as a continuous modifier at 477.3.e.1.
- Singularity's effect deals 6 to each of up to two units. 715.2 treats the two targets individually, and 143.2.a kills each one whose Might the 6 equals or exceeds.
- Attack or defend with Lux at Might 8; 465.2.c reads the modified value when damage is assigned, and a second qualifying spell the same turn makes it 11.
- 317.2.c expires the pump at the end-of-turn Cleanup; the trigger is available again next turn with no cost and no cap.
How it ends
engine only — +3 Might per E5-or-more spell, with no once-a-turn clause, plus two bodies at Might 6 or less removed per Singularity (three a game, 103.2.b); 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
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- 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 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-07-rules-second-pass.md), issue #170 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.
HAND-WALKED 2026-09-07, issue #170, from the Core-Rules-named sweep; OGS-006 Lux, Illuminated and OGN-105 Singularity were both uncatalogued, and both are worked examples in the rules text (206 and 715.2 respectively). Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Trap check: the pump is stated as a continuous modifier and not a 702 Buff, with 317.2.c expiring it; the 'costs N' / 'spent N' split is named so the shell is not built on the wrong half; the [Hidden] line is recorded as a REFUSAL with the sweep behind it (one [Hidden] spell at E5+, and it is Signature) rather than left as an unexplored lead; the Mind spell density is counted rather than asserted.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16