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Teemo, Strategist wearing Rabadon's Deathcrown — Riot's own worked example, on the one legend the Signature rule leaves

9 cards · mind + calm · verified

Pieces

Teemo, Strategist ×3 OGN-121 · payoff · mind
[Hidden] (Hide now for 1 Power of any domain to react with later for 0 Energy.) When I defend, choose an enemy unit here and reveal the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. Deal 1 to that unit for each card with [Hidden] revealed this way, then recycle the revealed cards.
Rabadon's Deathcrown ×1 SFD-191 · engine · calm/mind
[Unique] (Your deck can have only 1 card with this name.) [Equip] 1 Power of any domain (1 Power of any domain: Attach this to a unit you control.)
Your spells and abilities deal 3 Bonus Damage (while this is attached).
Fire Below the Mountain ×1 SFD-189 · legend · calm/mind
Exhaust: [Reaction] — [Add] 1 Power of any domain. Use only to play gear or use gear abilities. (Abilities that add resources can't be reacted to.)
Ornn, Blacksmith ×1 SFD-058 · enabler · calm
When you play me or when I hold, look at the top 4 cards of your Main Deck. You may reveal a gear from among them and draw it. Then recycle the rest.
Charm ×3 OGN-043 · enabler · calm
Move an enemy unit.

Payoff

Repeatable removal

Deck

Calm/Mind, and the legend is forced: SFD-189 Fire Below the Mountain is the only Ornn legend in the pool, and Rabadon's Deathcrown is Signature tagged Ornn (103.2.d.2).
The Chosen Champion must be an Ornn champion unit; the pool has two and both are legal in Calm/Mind — SFD-058 Ornn, Blacksmith and SFD-085 Ornn, Forge God.

Run play

the Deathcrown comes on turn five, and Charm makes the attack

Prerequisites

THE ISSUE'S SHELL WAS ILLEGAL AS WRITTEN, AND THE FIX IS FREE. SFD-191 is signature: true, tag Ornn. 103.2.d.2 ('All of the Signature cards must have the Champion tag that corresponds to the Champion Legend of the deck') therefore forces the legend, and grepping every '| Legend |' line for Ornn returns exactly one: SFD-189 Fire Below the Mountain, which happens to be Calm/Mind. Its ability pays the [Equip] rainbow for nothing. Same rule costs the shell a card: OGN-256 Fox-Fire is Signature tagged Ahri, so the Calm/Mind [Hidden] pool here is 14, not the 15 the issue counted.
THE ARITHMETIC, RECOMPUTED. 103.2 counts the Chosen Champion inside the 40 and 103.2.a.1 removes it, so 39 cards are shuffled and the revealed five are a uniform 5-subset of them (116 draws 4, but conditioning on the hand is unnecessary). At the issue's declared H = 15 (3 Teemo + 3 each of OGN-097 Blastcone Fae, UNL-081 Keeper of Masks, OGN-057 Block, UNL-042 Back Off): E[hits] = 5x15/39 = 1.92 and P(0 hits) = C(24,5)/C(39,5) = 7.38%. With Rabadon's live the expected damage is 1.92 + 3x0.9262 = 4.70, and 715.4 keeps the floor a true zero the 7.38% of the time nothing is revealed. Ceiling 5 + 3 = 8, or 9 with Void Gate (714 sums the instances).
THE GEAR SURVIVES THE BODY, WHICH THE ISSUE LEFT OPEN. If the equipped unit dies, 435.1.c/435.1.d make the Effect Text inactive and 435.4.b puts the Detached gear at the unit's last location, whence 435.4.a recalls it to base in the next Cleanup. So the Deathcrown is never lost — it costs one more rainbow Power to re-equip (818.1), which the legend adds for free. A Recall of the equipped unit is the same story.
FORGEFIRE CAPE IS A SECOND DEFEND TRIGGER ON THE SAME BODY, AND IT IS DELIBERATELY NOT IN uses. SFD-190 Forgefire Cape is the other Signature Ornn gear, [Unique], '[Effect] When I attack or defend, deal 2 to all enemy units here'; 434.1.c appends it to the same Top-Most Card, so one Defender designation fires both triggers, and all three Ornn gear together are exactly 103.2.d.1's cap of 3 Signature cards. What is NOT claimed: whether Rabadon's +3 applies per unit there. 715.2 grants the per-recipient bonus to a Deal action with multiple TARGETS, and 'all enemy units here' is 355.10.d ('programmatically selected based on its characteristics rather than chosen'), so the recipients are not targets and the rulebook's many-recipient paragraph is written in a vocabulary that does not name this case. The floor — 2 to each enemy unit there, on the same trigger — is already board-relevant, and this entry's own numbers use only 715.1. No numbered reading was filed for it.
ONCE PER COMBAT, AND HOW TO GET MORE THAN ONE COMBAT. 383.4.f.2.a caps the trigger at one check per combat whatever happens to the designation, so the rate is per enemy attack — which is why Charm is in uses. Three Charms are three forced triggers a game on top of whatever the opponent volunteers; 461.1 lets the Turn Player order simultaneous combats.
THE HIDE ITSELF IS A RAINBOW POWER HERE. Without Swift Scout's discount, 811.1.b charges [A] to hide, and 811.1.b also allows only one face-down card per battlefield and delays the flip to the next turn. 323.7 trashes hidden cards at a battlefield you stop controlling. 809.1.c/809.1.d tax Teemo's choice against a [Deflect] attacker.
OVERLAP, DECLARED. OGN-043 Charm is already the engine of charm-evacuate-conquer, where it is used the other way round — to empty a garrison rather than to fill one. Same card, opposite direction, and the two lines cannot want the same copy on the same turn.
424.1.a.2 is the MECHANISM under the 431.1.c protection this entry already cites, and the entry carries the consequence without it: "Cards remain in the zone they are being Revealed from." Riot's own example is that a card Revealed from the top of the Main Deck "is still the top card of that player's Main Deck." So revealing can never Burn Out because NOTHING LEAVES THE DECK, which 424.1.a states as the general fact: "Revealed is a temporary state and is not a zone." Same shape this file records for 355.7 against 355.10.d and 811.6 against the tail of 811.1.b.

Steps

Fire Below the Mountain is the legend; Ornn, Blacksmith is the Chosen Champion. Play him (5 Energy + 1 Power) or hold with him to look at the top 4 and draw the Deathcrown if it is there; the rest recycle to the bottom.
Play Rabadon's Deathcrown for 4 Energy + 2 Power, then [Equip] it to Teemo — exhaust the legend for the rainbow, so the attach is free. Teemo is now Might 5 and every spell and ability of yours deals 3 Bonus Damage.
Stand Teemo at a battlefield you control.
On your Main Phase, play Charm for 1 Energy + 1 Power and move an enemy unit to that battlefield (355.4 lets you choose the destination). 190.3.a.1 and 450 apply Contested in their name.
The Cleanup stages (323.9) and opens (323.13) the Combat. 464.2.c.1/c.2 make them the Attacker and you the Defender; 464.2.c.3 designates Teemo; 383.4.f fires and 464.2.e.1 + 340.1 resolve it first.
Reveal 5. If k carry [Hidden], deal k + 3 to the chosen unit (715.1, 714). If k is 0, deal nothing at all — 715.4 is Riot's own worked example on this exact pair. Recycle all five to the bottom.

Per iteration

4.70 damage on average and 8 at the ceiling to one chosen enemy unit per Defend Trigger, for 1 Energy + 1 Power a Charm once the Deathcrown is attached

How it ends

engine only — three Charms are three forced triggers a game, plus one per enemy attack into Teemo's battlefield; nothing here scores a point

Sources

Published elsewhere

Riot gallery card text (data/corpus_flat.txt, errata applied) 2026-09-04
Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
Teemo, Strategist reveal lens — issue #141 (GitHub) 2026-09-06

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Hand walk 2026-09-06 2026-09-06 record

How this entry was audited

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.

HAND-WALKED 2026-09-06 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-issue141-teemo-strategist-reveal.md), issue #141 candidate 2. VERIFIED as ENGINE, but THE ISSUE'S SHELL WAS ILLEGAL AS WRITTEN and it never checked the Signature supertype: SFD-191 Rabadon's Deathcrown is signature: true tagged Ornn, and 103.2.d.2 forces the deck onto the pool's only Ornn legend, SFD-189 Fire Below the Mountain. That legend is Calm/Mind, so the identity the issue guessed survives — and it pays Rabadon's [Equip] rainbow for free, once a turn, on either player's turn (813.1.c.2). The same rule costs the shell a card the issue counted: OGN-256 Fox-Fire is Signature tagged Ahri, so Calm/Mind holds 14 unbanned [Hidden] cards, not 15. Four more things the walk adds: SFD-058 Ornn, Blacksmith is a legal Chosen Champion here and digs 4 for the single Unique gear (a dig, not a tutor — 416.1.a/416.5 bottom the rest); OGN-043 Charm answers the issue's own 'the opponent can decline to attack' objection for 1 Energy + 1 Power, because 190.3.a.1 and 450 key Contested on the moved unit's controller; the issue's open question about the gear surviving the body is answered by 435.1.c + 435.4.b + 435.4.a (it detaches, is recalled to base, and costs one rainbow to re-equip); and the arithmetic is E = 1.92 / P(0) = 7.38% / E[damage] = 4.70 against a shuffled 39, not the issue's 2.1 / 5.4% against 36 (103.2 counts the Chosen Champion inside the 40 and 103.2.a.1 removes it). Riot's 715.4 example, which names this exact pair, was opened and quoted in full: a whiff is 0, not 0 + 3. SFD-190 Forgefire Cape is recorded as a notable rather than a sixth card, and the entry deliberately does NOT claim Rabadon's +3 applies per unit to it — 715.2 speaks of multiple TARGETS and 355.10.d says 'all enemy units here' are not targets; no numbered reading was filed, the claim was scoped instead. Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Citations opened: 103.2, 103.2.a.1, 103.2.a.2, 103.2.d.1, 103.2.d.2, 108.3.d, 116, 136.2.c, 190.3.a.1, 323.7, 323.9, 323.13, 340.1, 355.4, 355.4.a, 355.10.d, 383.4.f, 383.4.f.2.a, 416.1.a, 416.5, 431.1.c, 434.1.c, 435.1.c, 435.1.d, 435.4.a, 435.4.b, 450, 461.1, 464.2.c.1, 464.2.c.2, 464.2.c.3, 464.2.e.1, 465.1, 713, 714, 715, 715.1, 715.2, 715.4, 809.1.c, 809.1.d, 811.1.b, 813.1.c.2, 818.1. Ban check against data/legality.json: none of the five carries a marker in either format. Trap check: no Attacker designation is claimed for your own units; no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; no token; no recall of your own; nothing scores. Depends on no unruled reading.

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