Combo · ENGINE
718.2 makes an attached Equipment's [Equip] Inactive — so the only repeatable gear activation is one that is never attached, and the Gold token is it
Pieces
- Prize of Progress ×1
SFD-075 · payoff · mind
When you use an activated ability of a gear, give me +1 Might this turn.
- World Atlas ×1
SFD-086 · engine · mind
[Equip] 1 Mind Power (1 Mind Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)
When I hold, play two Gold gear tokens exhausted.
- Renata Glasc, Industrialist ×1
SFD-171 · enabler · order
Your tokens enter ready.
Payoff
Deck
- Prize of Progress and World Atlas are mono-Mind and Renata Glasc, Industrialist is mono-Order, so 103.1.b.1 needs a Mind/Order legend, and the census gives four names: OGN-265 / OGN-308 Herald of the Arcane, OGS-021 Lady of Luminosity - Starter, SFD-201 / SFD-249 Chem-Baroness, or UNL-199 / UNL-235 Deceiver. None of the three cards is Signature.
Prerequisites
- 718.2 IS THE PARAGRAPH THIS ENTRY EXISTS FOR: 'While in this state, the card's printed Rules Text is Inactive', with 721.2 — 'Inactive Abilities do not trigger, do not apply, and cannot be activated.' 818.1.a puts [Equip] on the gear's printed Rules Text, and 718.3 appends only the EFFECT text to the carrier. So an Equipment that is already attached CANNOT activate its own [Equip] to move to another unit: [Equip] is a one-way door, payable once, on the way in.
- WHICH IS WHY THE REPEATABLE ACTIVATION HAS TO COME FROM A GEAR THAT IS NEVER ATTACHED. 187.5 defines the Gold as 'a domainless gear token with "[Reaction][>] Kill this, [E]: [Add] [A]"' — a gear, an activated ability, and one that no card ever attaches. Every Gold you cash is exactly one use of an activated ability of a gear, so it is exactly one +1 Might on Prize of Progress, on top of the rainbow Power it was always going to give you.
- AND IT IS THE ONLY VERSION OF THIS PAYOFF THAT WORKS ON THE OPPONENT'S TURN. The Gold's ability carries [Reaction], which 813.1.c.2 admits in any Closed State on any player's turn; an [Equip] carries neither [Action] nor [Reaction], so no attach is ever payable inside a Showdown. Prize of Progress can therefore grow inside the opponent's combat, when 465.2.c is about to read Might.
- THE SUPPLY: two Golds per Hold from World Atlas, which is a Hold and therefore repeats every Beginning Phase you hold a battlefield (315.2.b.2). 434.1.d also puts the Atlas's printed M+2 on its carrier.
- DO NOT CASH THEM AT THE HOLD. 167 empties every player's Rune Pool 'at the start of each player's Main Phase', so Power added during the Beginning Phase is gone before you can spend it. Bank the Golds as gear tokens and cash them in your Main Phase or in a Closed State; nothing forces the Gold to be used the turn it appears.
- AND [WEAPONMASTER] IS THE PRINTED CARVE-OUT THAT PROVES THE RULE. Its reminder text reads '[Equip] one of your Equipment to me for one rainbow less, EVEN IF IT'S ALREADY ATTACHED' — Riot had to write that clause precisely because an attached Equipment cannot do it on its own. The other legal relocations are effects that ATTACH (SFD-193 Grandmaster at Arms, SFD-208 Forge of the Fluft, SFD-024 Rell, Magnetic), and none of them is 'an activated ability of a gear', so none of them feeds this trigger.
- THE MIGHT EXPIRES AND NOTHING SCORES. 317.2.c ends every 'this turn' effect at the end-of-turn Cleanup, and Mind converts no Might into points.
Steps
- Play Prize of Progress (E4 + 1 Mind Power) and Renata Glasc, Industrialist (E4 + 1 Order Power).
- Play World Atlas (E3) and pay its [Equip] of one Mind rune once, attaching it to a body you keep at a battlefield. 718.2 makes its printed text Inactive from now on; 718.3 keeps its [Effect] working on the carrier.
- At each Beginning Phase in which you hold that battlefield (315.2.b.2), the Atlas plays two Gold gear tokens. Renata's static overrides their printed 'exhausted', so they arrive ready.
- Do NOT cash them yet: 167 empties the Rune Pool at the start of your Main Phase, so Beginning-Phase Power is lost. Leave them on the board.
- In your Main Phase, or in any Closed State on either turn (813.1.c.2 admits the Gold's [Reaction]), kill a Gold and exhaust it for one rainbow Power.
- That is one use of an activated ability of a gear, so Prize of Progress gets +1 Might this turn. Repeat per Gold.
- 465.2.c reads the raised Might at assignment; 317.2.c expires it at the end-of-turn Cleanup and the next Hold restocks the Golds.
How it ends
engine only — two Golds per Hold, each worth one rainbow Power and +1 Might on Prize of Progress at [Reaction] speed; the Might expires every Cleanup (317.2.c) and 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 `prize-of-progress-gear-activation`. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. The content is 718.2 read with 721.2 and 818.1.a: an ATTACHED Equipment's [Equip] is Inactive and cannot be activated, so an Equipment can never [Equip] itself off its own carrier — which means the repeatable 'activated ability of a gear' this trigger wants must belong to a gear that is never attached. The Gold token is that gear, and its [Reaction] makes the payoff work on the opponent's turn, which no [Equip] can. Trap check: 167 is cited so no Beginning-Phase Power is claimed; the Golds are explicitly stated to be banked rather than cashed on creation; R25 = A is named for the Industrialist override; 317.2.c is cited so the Might is not banked across turns; [Weaponmaster]'s printed 'even if it's already attached' is quoted as the carve-out that confirms rather than contradicts the reading.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16