Combo · ENGINE

Spirit Wheel × Stare Down — a garrison swept, and the sweep draws a card

2 cards · chaos + body · verified

Pieces

• Spirit Wheel ×1 SFD-144 · payoff · chaos

  When you choose a friendly unit, you may pay 1 Energy and exhaust this to draw 1.

• Stare Down ×1 UNL-107 · engine · body

  Choose a friendly unit and a battlefield. Move all enemy units at that battlefield with less Might than the chosen unit to their base. Gain 1 XP.

Payoff

Deck

• Legend domains must cover Chaos (Spirit Wheel) and Body (Stare Down) — Bounty Hunter, Battle Mistress, Voidreaver.

Prerequisites

• THE SWEEP IS FREE OF [Deflect], AND 355.10.d IS WHY. 'Move all enemy units at that battlefield with less Might than the chosen unit' selects them programmatically: 355.10.d says a Game Object 'programmatically selected based on its characteristics rather than chosen by the spell or ability's controller' is not a target, with 'Kill all units at a battlefield' as its worked example. 809.1.c and 809.1.d charge an opponent only for TARGETING or CHOOSING, so a whole garrison of [Deflect] bodies moves for nothing — #97 recorded this contrast between Stare Down and Public Execution.
• ONE FRIENDLY UNIT IS CHOSEN, AND THAT IS THE SPIRIT WHEEL'S TRIGGER. The chosen friendly unit sets the Might bar AND fires the Wheel: 1 Energy and its exhaust for a card. So the sweep replaces itself, and the Wheel's own exhaust (readied every Awaken, 315.1.b) caps it at one draw a turn however many chooses you make.
• AND THE EMPTIED BATTLEFIELD IS NOT YET YOURS. #102's correction: 323.6 only STRIPS the opponent's Control when their last body leaves — 'Players lose control of any controlled Battlefields without their Units occupying them if the turn is in an Open State and there is no Showdown or Combat ongoing there' — and 170.11.c then makes it open, 'unoccupied and uncontrolled', both conditions. A body of yours still has to walk in during the Main Phase (144.4.a) for 190.3.a.1 → 344.2 → 348.2.a → 348.2.a.1, which scores that same turn.
• It sweeps to their BASE, not to another battlefield, so unlike svellsongur-faefolk-mass-evacuation or marai-spire-temptation-evacuation nothing arrives anywhere inconvenient and no enemy unit is handed the Attacker designation on your turn (190.3.a.1 keys Contested on the moved unit's controller).
• The bar is the chosen unit's Might, strictly greater: a 6-Might friend clears everything at 5 or less and leaves a 6 standing. Nothing in a Chaos/Body shell reduces enemy Might to help — UNL-066 Moonlight Affliction is Mind and 103.1.b keeps it out — so the honest boundary is that this beats wide, small garrisons and loses to tall ones.
• Four Energy for the pair and 1 Energy per draw; the XP is a rider that buys nothing on its own (#116 and #146 measured that nothing in the pool converts XP into points).
• Spirit Wheel fires on ANY choose of a friendly unit, buffs included (702.2.a) — Stare Down is simply the partner whose choose is also a board sweep. Any other choose in the deck feeds the same draw.
• A BLOODLESS CONQUER IS NOT A FAIT ACCOMPLI, AND 46 OF THE 47 ENTRIES CITING 344.2 DID NOT SAY SO (added 2026-09-12, #187 batch 25). **316.8.b.1.a**: during a Non-Combat Showdown *"units controlled by a different player may become present at the Battlefield where the Showdown is"*, which converts it to a COMBAT Showdown in the following cleanup - so the opponent can turn your uncontested walk-in into a fight. 316.8.c is the permission (a Showdown is a Window of Opportunity for [Action] and [Reaction] cards). **The answer set is THREE CARDS, swept on the ACTOR rather than on the destination**: `OGN-173 Ride the Wind` (Chaos, E2+1), `OGN-262 Zenith Blade` (Calm/Order, E3+2) and `SFD-184 Relentless Pursuit` (Fury/Body, E2+1) - twelve printings move a friendly unit, and nine of them send it to base or need a body already there. They span three identities, so **no identity is safe**; and `OGN-262 Zenith Blade` is the worst to walk into, because it STUNS your body on the way in, and 423.1.b removes a stunned unit`s contribution to the damage step while 423.1.c keeps its full Might as the price to kill it - one 3-Energy card takes the unit and the battlefield. **[Ambush] is not a fourth answer**: 822.1.b needs a battlefield where the player already has units, and the defining feature of that board is that they have none there. **THE REMEDY IS A COUNTERSPELL, AND A FIRST VERSION OF THIS NOTABLE SAID SOMETHING FALSE THAT IS WITHDRAWN HERE (corrected within the hour, 2026-09-12).** It said that because all three answers are [Action] and 358.4 admits an Action card only as the card that CLOSES the state, the attacker - who holds Focus by 345 and priority by 335.1 - could shut them out by playing any cheap Action card first. Every step is true and the conclusion is false, because **a Showdown is a LOOP, not a single window**: 346 - *"When the last item on the chain resolves and the turn returns to an Open State during a Showdown, Focus passes, and the next Player gains both Focus and Priority"* - with 347.1.b and 347.2.a. Closing the state buys a lock-out lasting exactly that CHAIN; when it resolves the Showdown reopens, Focus passes TO THE DEFENDER, and they play their answer into an open Showdown after all. **The real sequence**: walk in, take Focus, **PASS** (acting first gains nothing); they play the answer, which closes the state as it is played; **you COUNTER it**, since 358.4`s other half now admits only [Reaction] and all eleven of the pool`s counters are Reaction, and 425.1.c refunds them nothing; all players then pass in sequence, 347.2.a ends the Showdown, and 348.2.a with 348.2.a.1 give you Control and the Conquer. The cheap counter is `OGN-045 Defy` (Calm, E1 + 1 Power, *"counter a spell that costs no more than 4 Energy and no more than one rainbow"*), which covers all three answers; `OGN-064 Wind Wall` is the unconditional one. **So the protection narrows to pairs containing CALM** - it is not the one-Energy insurance any deck can buy.

Bodies no card supplies

Cast Stare Down (2 Energy), choosing your biggest friendly unit and the battlefield you want emptied

Steps

1. Play Spirit Wheel (2 Energy) and keep 1 Energy available for it each turn.
2. Cast Stare Down (2 Energy), choosing your biggest friendly unit and the battlefield you want emptied.
3. The choose fires Spirit Wheel: pay 1 Energy and exhaust it to draw 1.
4. Stare Down resolves: every enemy unit at that battlefield with less Might than the chosen unit moves to their base, without being targeted or chosen (355.10.d), so no [Deflect] tax is paid.
5. If that was their whole garrison, the Cleanup strips their Control (323.6) and 170.11.c makes the battlefield open.
6. Walk a friendly unit in the same Main Phase (144.4.a): 190.3.a.1 Contests it, 344.2 opens the Showdown at the next Cleanup, 348.2.a gives Control and 348.2.a.1 makes it a Conquer — no combat, no damage, no Attacker designation.

Per iteration

a garrison of smaller bodies swept to base, a free Conquer behind it, and +1 card

How it ends

engine — a bloodless Conquer that replaces the card that made it, three times a game

Sources

Walked here, in this project

• Two-card pair walk, cause/trigger matrix rows 6-15 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-proven-rule-instances.md §24) 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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