Combo · ENGINE

An attached [Temporary] is asleep, not gone — 718.2 silences it, 722.2 still finds it, and 719.5 wakes it the moment its carrier leaves the board

2 cards · fury + chaos · verified

Pieces

• Spinning Axe ×1 SFD-186 · payoff · fury/chaos

  [Quick-Draw] (This has [Reaction]. When you play it, attach it to a unit you control.) [Equip] 1 Power of any domain (1 Power of any domain: Attach this to a unit you control.) [Temporary] (If this is unattached, kill it at the start of its controller's Beginning Phase, before scoring.)

• Factory Recall ×1 SFD-135 · engine · chaos

  [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Return a gear to its owner's hand.

Payoff

Deck

• ONE LEGEND, not a domain field: Spinning Axe is a SIGNATURE card tagged Draven, so 103.2.d.2 forces the pool's one Draven legend - Glorious Executioner (SFD-185), Fury/Chaos, which is also exactly the spell's own two domains. Factory Recall is mono-Chaos and sits inside it by 103.1.b.1. 103.2.d.1 caps the deck at three Signature cards, and three Axes spend all of it.
• A body worth carrying +3 Might, and a second one for after the first dies.

Run play

• the Axe sleeps only while someone carries it, and the rescue has to come before the blow

Prerequisites

• RIOT NAMES THIS CARD TO EXPLAIN THE RULE. 722.2: 'Game Effects that parse or interpret text to determine target eligibility may still parse Inactive text for the sake of eligibility. Example: Spinning Axe is a gear with [Temporary]. While it's attached and its rules text is inactive, its [Temporary] ability doesn't trigger. However, a spell that reads "Destroy a gear with [Temporary]" could still choose and destroy Spinning Axe.' So the drawback is SILENCED while attached (718.2 + 721.2) and still VISIBLE to anything that reads text.
• AND THE AXE IS A SIGNATURE CARD, WHICH THE FIRST DRAFT OF THIS ENTRY MISSED. 103.2.d.2 puts the legend's champion tag on every Signature card, so one Axe in a list is a Glorious Executioner list and nothing else - a domain-shaped legend line would have admitted five names of which one is legal. The check that caught it is the second half of test/legend-lines.test.ts, run against the staging file before reporting; it is worth running on every draft that touches an Equipment, because a Signature Equipment reads like an ordinary one.
• 722.1 IS THE WIDER HALF: 'Cards with Inactive text still have keywords for the sake of Game Effects that want to reference or see if a card has a keyword.' An attached Equipment therefore still counts for every 'gear with [X]' clause, every keyword census and every targeting restriction — it simply cannot ACT. That is a distinction the catalogue has been making one card at a time and it has a paragraph.
• AND 719.5 IS THE CLOCK RESTARTING: 'When a Top-Most Card changes zones from a board zone to a non-board zone, all Attached cards Detach from it, remaining in their current zones.' When the carrier dies, the Axe detaches, its printed Rules Text goes Active again, and 816.1.b — 'At the start of this permanent's controller's Beginning Phase, before scoring, kill this' — is live. Losing the body is losing the gear one turn later, and that is the risk the entry is built to answer.
• [QUICK-DRAW] IS WHY THE ANSWER IS CHEAP. 819.1.d: 'Quick-Draw is functionally short for "[Reaction]" and "When you play this, attach it to a Unit you control."' No [Equip] cost is ever determined, so returning the Axe to hand and replaying it re-attaches it to a body of your choosing for its play cost alone — 2 Energy + 1 Power — and 718.2 silences the [Temporary] again the moment it lands.
• FACTORY RECALL IS AN [ACTION], SO THE RESCUE CAN HAPPEN IN THE COMBAT THAT IS ABOUT TO KILL THE CARRIER (806.1.b), not only afterwards. Returning your own gear before the body dies skips the detached window entirely.
• AND 724 IS THE SYMMETRIC FACT WORTH STATING BESIDE 718.2: 'Effect Text is Inactive unless the card with the Effect Text is Attached.' An Equipment in hand or on the board unattached has its printed text ACTIVE and its Effect Text INACTIVE; attached, exactly the reverse. The Axe is the clearest card in the pool for that inversion, because its printed text is a drawback and its Might Bonus (434.1.d, +3) is not text at all and applies either way it is attached.

Bodies no card supplies

Play Spinning Axe (2 Energy + 1 Power)

Steps

1. Play Spinning Axe (2 Energy + 1 Power). [Quick-Draw] attaches it to a unit you control on the play, with no [Equip] cost determined (819.1.d).
2. While attached, 718.2 makes its printed Rules Text — including [Temporary] — Inactive, so 816.1.b never fires. The carrier is +3 Might (434.1.d).
3. If the carrier is about to die, play Factory Recall (1 Energy, [Action]) in that window and return the Axe to your hand.
4. If the carrier dies first, 719.5 detaches the Axe on the board and its [Temporary] goes live: Factory Recall it before your next Beginning Phase.
5. Replay it: [Quick-Draw] attaches it free to a new body, and the drawback goes back to sleep.

Per iteration

the Axe moved to a new carrier for 1 Energy (the rescue) plus its replay, with its [Temporary] clock reset to never

How it ends

engine — a +3 Might Bonus that survives its carrier indefinitely, at 2 Energy + 1 Power to redeploy and 1 Energy to rescue; 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

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-07, issue #191 — uncited Core Rules sub-rules 500-899 2026-09-07 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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