Promising Future in the loop — make the opponent play their deck

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.

Quote: 'create a loop based on the above including Promising Future, which will allow you to force every card in the opponent's deck into play'. Symmetric: you play one too — the article treats that as free because the loop deck's own picks are recycled. Rides the Lux infinite-Energy loop: every piece is replayed from hand through Retreat/Forge recycling, so 'repeat' costs nothing once the engine is up. Source quotes verified by hand through a reader proxy on 2026-09-03 (the page itself blocks fetches). REFUTE 2026-09-03: WOUNDED — as a repeated engine it is net negative: each cast hands the opponent a free permanent or spell of their choice; their deck shrinks by one per cast and Burn Out recycles their trash first. The article's use is as a one-off. BUDGETED 2026-09-04 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-04-loop-budget-ledger.md, issue #21). Per cast: Promising Future 5E + 1P plus 1E + 1 Mind for the extra draw = 6 Energy + 2 Power, about 24 Energy. It CLOSES as a repeatable engine, which is all the entry claims. The printed text carries a limiter the entry never mentioned: OGN-115 says the players 'play those cards, ignoring Energy costs. (THEY MUST STILL PAY POWER COSTS.)', so even the free cards the opponent gets are gated on their Power. With 431.2.b refilling their deck from their trash before any Burn Out point, the entry's own verdict - engine at best, it cannot deck them - stands, and its value in the catalogue is recording why the community's 'force every card into play' claim does not win. SOURCE READ IN FULL 2026-09-04: the whole TCGplayer article was opened through a reader proxy and the quote above confirmed verbatim (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-04-source-verification-tcgplayer.md).