Combo · ENGINE

Qiyana, Victorious × three Svellsongur — eight modal conquer triggers, and the mode is the safety valve

4 cards · body + calm · verified

Pieces

• Qiyana, Victorious ×1 OGN-155 · engine · body

  [Deflect] (Opponents must pay 1 Power of any domain to choose me with a spell or ability.) When I conquer, draw 1 or channel 1 rune exhausted.

• Svellsongur ×3 SFD-059 · engine · calm

  [Equip] 1 Energy + 1 Calm Power (1 Energy + 1 Calm Power: Attach this to a unit you control.) As this is attached to a unit, copy that unit's text to this Equipment's effect text for as long as this is attached to it.

Payoff

Deck

• Legend domains must cover Calm and Body — OGN-257 Blind Monk, OGS-019 Wuju Bladesman, SFD-193 Grandmaster at Arms, UNL-191 Wuju Master.

Prerequisites

• THE MODE IS CHOSEN PER INSTANCE, WHICH IS WHAT MAKES EIGHT SAFE. Every other multiplied draw line in the catalogue is all-or-nothing: 431.1.a turns an over-draw into a Burn Out and 194.1.d gives the opponent a point, which is why svellsongur-traveling-merchant-discard carries a hard clock and why SFD-027 Dunebreaker at eight instances is simply a loss. Qiyana's 'draw 1 or channel 1 rune exhausted' is resolved eight separate times, so you take exactly as many cards as the deck can spare and channel the rest.
• The channel half is a REFILL, not a ramp, and the entry says so: 430.1 takes runes from the top of your Rune Deck, 430.3 channels 'as many as possible' if there are not enough, and 161.2.b puts a rune recycled for Power back into the Rune Deck. By the turn a Conquer engine is running, the Rune Deck holds mostly what recycling put there — so eight channels return your own spent runes rather than adding new mana. That is exactly the correction the #153 walk made, applied here instead of re-derived.
• 430.2.a is the default the card overrides: 'By default, runes are channeled readied' — Qiyana channels them EXHAUSTED, so each is Power on demand (164.2.b carries no exhaust) but not Energy until your next Awaken (315.1.b).
• It fires on a CONQUER, so it pays on the bloodless route as well as the bloody one: 348.2.a.1 makes the Showdown at an open battlefield a Conquer with no combat and no Attacker designation, so 807.1.d / 383.4.e / 461 never bite. And you cannot conquer a battlefield you already control, so this is at most once per battlefield you take — twice a turn in a Duel (485.4).
• [Deflect] is the reason Qiyana survives to conquer twice: 809.1.c makes an opponent pay 1 rainbow Power to choose her with a spell or ability, and 809.1.c.1 lets that Power be any domain. Svellsongur is M+0 (137.3), so the gears add nothing to her 4 Might, and 137.3.a strips all eight instances the moment she dies.
• Cost, counted whole: Qiyana 4 Energy + 1 Body Power; each Svellsongur 3 Energy + 1 Calm Power to play PLUS 1 Energy + 1 Calm Power to [Equip]. 16 Energy, 1 Body Power and 6 Calm Power.
• 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.

Steps

1. Play Qiyana, Victorious (4 Energy + 1 Body Power) and attach Svellsongur A, B and C to her in that order: 2, then 4, then 8 instances of her conquer trigger (434.1.c, 476.1, 477.2.c, 479.1, 480.3; R6 = A).
2. Conquer a battlefield with her present — either by winning the Combat there (466.5.d) or, with no enemy garrison, by the Showdown at the next Cleanup (344.2, 348.2.a, 348.2.a.1).
3. Resolve the eight instances one at a time. Count your Main Deck as you go and take the draw mode only while it is safe (431.1.a).
4. Take the channel mode for the rest: each puts one rune from the Rune Deck onto the board exhausted (430.1, 430.2.a overridden by the card), payable as Power at once and as Energy from your next Awaken.
5. Repeat on the next battlefield you take.

Per iteration

8 modal triggers per Conquer, split between cards drawn and runes channelled exhausted

How it ends

engine — cards and mana per Conquer, with the draw count under your own control

Sources

Walked here, in this project

• Walk of the unwalked partners of the 66 proven synergy rules, rule svellsongur-copy 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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