Combo · ENGINE

One Poro read three times — a cantrip, a Deathknell and a body at a battlefield with no walk

5 cards · calm + order · verified

Pieces

• Lonely Poro ×3 SFD-036 · engine · calm

  [Deathknell] — If I died alone, draw 1. (When I die, get the effect. I'm alone if there are no other friendly units here.)

• Poro Herder ×1 OGN-061 · payoff · calm

  When you play me, if you control a Poro, buff me and draw 1. (If I don't have a buff, I get a +1 Might buff.)

• Stalking Wolf ×1 UNL-166 · payoff · order

  [Ambush] (You may play me as a [Reaction] to a battlefield where you have units.) As an additional cost to play me, kill a Bird, Cat, Dog, or Poro you control. You may [Ambush] me to its battlefield, even if you don't have other units there.

Payoff

Deck

• Calm + Order: OGN-261 Radiant Dawn, UNL-195 Green Father, VEN-147 Eye of Twilight and SFD-247 Emperor of the Sands all hold it (103.1.b.2).
• One Poro on the board, standing ALONE at a battlefield if you want the Deathknell half.

Prerequisites

• Three payoffs off one E2 body, and the entry states each with its own condition. Poro Herder reads 'if you control a Poro' — anywhere. Lonely Poro's Deathknell needs it to have died ALONE, and its own reminder text defines that as 'no other friendly units here', an own-side measurement (#116). Stalking Wolf needs it dead as an additional cost.
• 822.1.b is what makes the Wolf's last clause matter: [Ambush] is normally 'I may be played to a battlefield where you control Units', and the Wolf's own text overrides that for the battlefield of the body it just ate. So an M6 arrives at a battlefield where you have NOTHING — no Standard Move, no exhaust, no turn of telegraph. That is a genuine answer to #48's walk-to-the-battlefield bottleneck for a CARD rather than a token.
• The costs are paid before the unit enters (203.3 and the play steps), so the Poro is already dead when the Wolf arrives. Its Deathknell draws if it was alone; the Wolf is not 'here' yet at the moment it dies, so it does not spoil the alone test.
• 822.1.b also gives the Wolf [Reaction] while it is being played to a battlefield where you control units — which is NOT the case on the override line, since the point of the override is that you control nothing there. Played to its dead Poro's battlefield the Wolf is a Main Phase play, not a combat trick. The entry does not claim otherwise.
• The Poro is a CARD, not a token: 185 and 416.3 would refuse a token as the kill cost of a 'kill a Bird, Cat, Dog, or Poro you control'... except they would not, because 185.2.d makes a token unit a unit and killing is not recycling. The reason the entry uses a card anyway is the Deathknell — a token has none, and 186.1 means it never reaches the trash.
• Three copies each (103.2.b) and no recursion in this identity, so this is three Wolves a game. starhound-undying-loyalty-four-tag-recursion is the line that puts the Poros back.

Steps

1. Play a Lonely Poro (E2) and walk it to a battlefield where it stands alone.
2. Play Poro Herder (E3 + 1 Power). Her trigger sees a Poro you control, buffs her and draws 1.
3. Later, play Stalking Wolf (E4 + 1 Power). Pay the additional cost by killing the Lonely Poro.
4. The Poro's [Deathknell] sees that it died alone and draws 1.
5. [Ambush] the Wolf to that Poro's battlefield under its own override — 822.1.b's normal condition ('where you control Units') is exactly what the clause waives. An M6 body arrives with no move and no exhaust.

How it ends

engine only — two cards and an M6 body placed at a battlefield with no walk, per Poro spent, three times 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
• Issue #153 (GitHub) 2026-09-06

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-06, issue #153 — the 55 synergy rules no catalogued entry stands on 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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