Combo · BURST · 8 points

Two Tryndamere, one wearing three swords — the last cell of the Svellsongur family

5 cards · fury + calm · verified

Pieces

• Tryndamere, Barbarian ×2 OGN-034 · payoff · fury

  When I conquer after an attack, if you assigned 5 or more excess damage to enemy units, you score 1 point.

• 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 cover Calm and Fury, and that is a FORCED SHELL: measured over data/cards.json on 2026-09-12, the pool prints exactly ONE Calm/Fury legend name, Rogue Assassin (VEN-139 / VEN-189). CLAUDE.md's legend census records the same thing - Calm/Fury is one of only three single-name pairs, beside Body/Mind (Defender of Tomorrow) and Chaos/Order (Heart of the Tempest).
• Neither OGN-034 nor SFD-059 is a Signature card (checked on the signature field in data/cards.json, both false), so 103.2.d.2 forces no legend. 103.2.b allows the two Tryndamere and the three Svellsongur.

Prerequisites

• TEN POINTS IN ONE CONQUER, AND THE SECOND TRYNDAMERE IS LOAD-BEARING TWICE. Three Svellsongur on one carrier compose 2^3 = EIGHT instances of his trigger (434.1.c gives the Top-Most Card 'all Effect Text of all cards Attached to it appended to its Rules Text'; 477.2.c appends it in Layer 2; 479.1 finds no dependency between two copies that each alter the other; 480.3 falls back to attach order; 476.1 applies each effect 'only a single time across all sequences'), and the bare Tryndamere supplies a ninth. Nine Gains plus the Conquer's own Score is TEN. But the second body is not there for the ninth point - it is there because Svellsongur's Might Bonus is +0 and the trigger has a THRESHOLD.
• THE THRESHOLD IS THE WHOLE DIFFICULTY, AND IT IS ARITHMETIC RATHER THAN A RULE. R28 = A defines excess damage as attacking Might never assigned, and 465.2.c.4 caps each assignment at 'the minimum required to constitute lethal damage', so against a garrison of summed Might D the excess is (your summed attacking Might) - D. ONE Tryndamere is Might 8, needing 8 - D >= 5, i.e. D <= 3 - a single Might-4 defender beats him by one, which is the bound angle-shot-battleaxe-tryndamere-excess was written to widen. TWO are Might 16, so D <= 11, which is an ordinary garrison. 383.2.a.1 makes 'if you assigned 5 or more excess damage' part of the Trigger Condition, checked once when the triggers are placed - so the threshold is met or missed ONCE for the whole attack, and all nine instances stand or fall together. CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#464, the follow-up PR #463 listed for #457): D <= 11 is the excess condition only, and clearing it is not scoring ten. The garrison assigns its own summed Might back. The defender picks the deaths: 465.2.c: 'Starting with the Attacker, each player assigns an amount of damage equal to their summed Might among the other's Units.' With 465.2.c.3: 'Units must have lethal damage assigned to them in full before damage is assigned to a different Unit. Example: If a player has 5 damage to distribute among four 3 Might units, they may not choose to assign 2 damage to one of the units and 1 damage to each of the remaining 3. They must assign at least 3 damage to one, and the remaining 2 to another.' Each Tryndamere is Might 8, so a garrison of 8 or more kills one, and the defender picks the carrier, whose eight instances go with him: 383.4.c.2.a: 'The Conquer Abilities of Units are put on the Chain as Pending Items after the Unit(s) these effects correspond to are present at a Battlefield when a player gains control of it and gains 1 Victory Point from Conquering.' 365.1: 'Passive Abilities of Permanents are typically only active while on the Board.' And Svellsongur copies the text only 'for as long as this is attached to it', which 719.5: '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.' A dead Tryndamere's damage was assigned before he died, so the excess is still 16 - D (465.2.c.4: 'Units cannot have more damage assigned to them than the minimum required to constitute lethal damage unless no further units remain to have damage assigned to them. Example: If a player has 5 damage to distribute among four 3 Might units and those units each have 1 damage already marked on them, that player may not assign more than 2 damage to any of those units.'). Against a garrison of summed Might D with no damage marked and nothing else changing Might in the combat: D 1 to 7, 10 (neither can die); 8 to 11, 2 (the carrier dies, the bare Tryndamere scores); 12 to 15, 1 (one dies, and the excess is under 5); 16 or more, 0 (both die, or the garrison survives, and 466.5: 'If no Showdown or Combat is staged at this location, the player with Units remaining here Establishes Control if they didn’t already control this Battlefield.'). An empty battlefield is 1: no Combat, so no attack (807.1.d: 'Being an attacker means the Unit has gained the Attacker designation during Combat. See rule 459. Combat for more information.'). Re-derived on 2026-10-26 from the rules above. THE DECLARED QUANTITIES STILL REACH 8, so the class stays BURST: ten in one Conquer, against a garrison of 1 to 7 summed Might.
• IT IS HONESTLY NARROWER THAN ITS MONO-FURY SIBLING AND THE READER SHOULD KNOW. tryndamere-brambleback-conquer runs T=2, K=3 for NINE points at E26 + 7 Fury Power and is MONO-FURY, so every one of the five Fury pairs can run it; this is E26 + 4 Fury + 6 Calm for TEN and only a Calm/Fury legend can. One extra point for three more Power and a narrower identity is not obviously a trade worth making, and the reason to catalogue it is that it is a different card set the matcher can report - a deck already running Svellsongur for another line reaches this one without adding a Brambleback. State the comparison rather than implying dominance in either direction. CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#464, the follow-up PR #463 listed for #457): both counts depend on the garrison (the threshold notable). This line scores 10, 2, 1 and 0 against garrisons of 1 to 7, 8 to 11, 12 to 15 and 16 or more; tryndamere-brambleback-conquer scores 9, 7, 5, 3 and 1 against 1 to 3, 4 to 7, 8 to 11, 12 to 15 and 16 to 27. Against 4 to 7 this one leads 10 to 7; from 8 to 27 the five-body line scores more (from 28 both score 0), because its multipliers are spread over bodies the garrison kills one at a time and these eight ride on one.
• THE GEAR IS THE ANSWER, AND A CONQUER IS ANSWERABLE IN ITS OWN WINDOW. 718.5.b - 'Attached cards still can be chosen or targeted by game effects while Attached' - keeps all three Svellsongur legal targets even though 718.2 makes their printed Rules Text Inactive and 721.2 their [Equip] unusable. Stripping one halves the instances from 8 to 4 and the total from 10 to 6. Swept over text+effect of every deckable base, the pool prints 16 gear-kill printings across 15 names and every domain prints at least one; the unconditional enemy-facing ones are OGN-022 Thermo Beam, SFD-005 Detonate, VEN-003 Brittle Steel, OGN-224 Salvage, SFD-032 Disarming Rake and SFD-077 Rocket Barrage, and Thermo Beam (Fury, E5 + 2 Fury Power, '[Action] Kill all gear') answers all three with one card. Unlike a Hold BURST this one can be answered IN ITS OWN WINDOW: a Hold pays at 315.2.b.2 inside your Beginning Phase where 312.2.a gives the opponent priority only during THEIR Main Phase, but a Conquer is a Main Phase event and 806.1.c.1 makes [Action] short for 'This can be played during showdowns on any player's turn'.
• DO NOT REACH FOR UNL-019 BLIGHTED BATTLEAXE HERE WITHOUT WALKING IT FIRST. It is the obvious widener - Fury, +4 Might Bonus, which would take a LONE Tryndamere to 12 and D <= 7 - and angle-shot-battleaxe-tryndamere-excess already uses it. But it prints 'At the end of your turn, if I didn't conquer this turn, unattach this and deal 4 to me', and 136.2.d makes 'me' in appended Effect Text the CARRIER. Under R6 = A Svellsongur copies the carrier's CURRENT text, and 434.1.c has already appended the Battleaxe's Effect Text to that text - so the copies would carry the drawback as well as the payoff, which is the trap section 11 records ('a Svellsongur copy carries a card's DRAWBACK as well as its payoff'). Whether 'unattach THIS' in a copied instance means the Battleaxe or the Svellsongur is NOT settled by any paragraph opened here, and the line does not need it: two Tryndamere reach D <= 11 with no ambiguity at all. Left out deliberately rather than guessed.
• THE FAMILY THIS COMPLETES. Svellsongur copies a carrier's text, and the pool prints exactly ONE non-Hold point card per domain for it to copy: VEN-046 Nasus (calm) in nasus-svellsongur-conquer-burst, UNL-177 Ivern (order) in ivern-svellsongur-four-tags-hold, SFD-148 Draven (chaos) in draven-svellsongur-bloodless-combat-burst, VEN-065 Swain (mind) in swain-svellsongur-conquer-burst, and OGN-034 Tryndamere (fury) here. Body prints no non-Hold point card at all, so the family is complete at five. Each member is a different identity and none dominates another; what differs is the gate - Nasus and Ivern need only the Conquer, Draven needs a combat win, Swain needs three card types played, and this one needs the excess-damage threshold.

Steps

1. Over earlier turns, play two Tryndamere, Barbarian (E7 + 2 Fury Power each) and three Svellsongur (E3 + 1 Calm Power each), attaching all three Svellsongur to the SAME Tryndamere for E1 + 1 Calm Power apiece. 143.4 has the units enter exhausted; 315.1.b readies them at your next Awakening. Gear is unaffected by 143.4 and enters ready.
2. On the finishing turn, Standard-Move both Tryndamere to an enemy-held battlefield in ONE action (144.3 with 144.3.a's shared destination), each paying its exhaust under 144.2. 450 applies Contested status.
3. At the Cleanup, 323.9 stages a Combat because units of opposing players are present, and it opens. Your summed attacking Might is 16 (465.2.c).
4. In the damage step, 465.2.c.4 caps each assignment at the minimum lethal, so against a garrison of summed Might D you assign D and leave 16 - D unassigned. That remainder is the excess damage (R28 = A), and the clause needs 5 or more, i.e. D <= 11. CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#464, the follow-up PR #463 listed for #457): that is the excess condition only. Ten needs both Tryndamere alive at the Conquer, which is D <= 7 (the threshold notable).
5. You are the only player with units remaining (466.3.a), 466.5 establishes Control and 466.5.d makes it a Conquer, gaining its own point (469.1, 471.1).
6. 383.4.c.2.a places the conquer ability of both Tryndamere present - eight instances from the loaded one and one from the bare one - and each checks the same single excess-damage figure and scores. ONE PLUS NINE IS TEN, in a single scoring event, with 470 spent on the Score and unable to cap the nine 194.1.c Gains (R2 = A). CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#464, the follow-up PR #463 listed for #457): both are present only against a garrison of 7 or less summed Might. From 8 the defender kills the carrier, his eight instances leave with him, and the count is 2 (the threshold notable).

How it ends

ten points in one scoring event for E26, 4 Fury Power and 6 Calm Power - one Conquer Score and nine ability Gains that 470 does not cap - against any garrison of summed Might 11 or less CORRECTED 2026-10-26 (#464, the follow-up PR #463 listed for #457): ten against a garrison of summed Might 1 to 7. From 8 to 11 it is two, because the defender kills the carrier, and from 12 to 15 one (the threshold notable).

Sources

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-12, issue #200 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-12-synthesised-lines.md section 27) 2026-09-12 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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