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Stalking Wolf eats a Bird — six Might at Reaction speed where you have nothing left

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Pieces

• Stalking Wolf ×3 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.

• Ultrasoft Poro ×1 UNL-160 · engine · order

  Exhaust: Play two 1 Energy Might Bird unit tokens with [Deflect]. Use this ability only while I'm at a battlefield. (Opponents must pay 1 Power of any domain to choose a [Deflect] unit with a spell or ability.)

Payoff

Deck

• Mono-Order.
• A battlefield you control with one of your Birds standing on it - which is also the Bird you are about to kill.

Prerequisites

• The pair is a real dependency, not a preference: 356.2.a.1 makes "as an additional cost to play me, kill a Bird, Cat, Dog, or Poro you control" mandatory, because it carries no "may". Without one of those four tags on the board Stalking Wolf is a dead card.
• The fuel is exactly the tag, checked card by card in the corpus. UNL-T02 Bird is [Tags: Bird] and qualifies; UNL-160 Ultrasoft Poro qualifies as himself, [Tags: Poro, Freljord]; UNL-153 Carrion Dredger does NOT - it is [Tags: Mech, Zaun] - although the Bird token it dies into does.
• What the final clause actually widens, and what it does not. 822.1.b is "I may be played to a battlefield where you control Units" and 822.1.c calls Ambush a passive that "adds options to locations that are valid"; the Wolf's own sentence waives Ambush's own requirement for one battlefield, so he can arrive at a battlefield you control where your last body there is the token you just killed. It does not hand out a battlefield you do not control: 813.3.a keeps the inherent restriction that a unit played with Reaction "can only be played to the controlling player's base or a battlefield they control". This entry is written so it never has to settle whether the clause overrides 813.3.a for a token that walked onto an enemy battlefield - that question is real but no line here stands on it.
• He arrives exhausted (143.4), so he never attacks or moves the turn he lands. His whole value is being present before the Cleanup: 464.2.c.3.a gives a unit that becomes present after the fact the Attacker or Defender designation during the Cleanup following the action, so 6 Might joins the combat after the opponent has already committed their turn.
• Ultrasoft Poro readies once a turn (415.3.a) and makes two Birds, so he sustains one Wolf per turn. 103.2.b caps the Wolves at 3, and each is a one-shot: 4 Energy + 1 Order Power + one token, three times.

Steps

1. Have Ultrasoft Poro at a battlefield you control and exhaust him on your turn for two 1-Might Bird tokens.
2. Pass. The opponent commits their turn against a board that looks like two 1-Might tokens.
3. At Reaction speed, play Stalking Wolf: the mandatory additional cost kills one of the Birds (356.2.a.1) and the final clause lets him [Ambush] to that Bird's battlefield even if it was your only body there.
4. 464.2.c.3.a gives him the Defender designation in the Cleanup that follows, so a 6-Might body is in the combat the opponent had already sized up. He is exhausted (143.4) and does nothing else this turn.

How it ends

one 6-Might Reaction body per turn out of a free token, up to three across the game

Sources

Walked here, in this project

• Reaction/Deflect lens hunt, issue #44 candidate 6 (rc-huntF) 2026-09-05
• Hand walk 2026-09-06 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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