Combo · INFINITE

Two Twilight Revelers ready each other — one Facebreaker, unbounded Recruits

4 cards · fury + order · verified

Pieces

• Twilight Reveler ×2 VEN-020 · engine · fury

  When I attack, ready another friendly unit.

• Eye of the Herald ×1 SFD-153 · payoff · order

  [Equip] 1 Order Power (1 Order Power: Attach this to a unit you control.)

  When I move, play a 1 Might Recruit unit token here.

• Facebreaker ×1 OGN-220 · enabler · order

  [Hidden] (Hide now for 1 Power of any domain to react with later for 0 Energy.) [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Stun a friendly unit and an enemy unit at the same battlefield. (They don't deal combat damage this turn.)

Payoff

Deck

• Legend domains cover Fury and Order: OGN-253 Hand of Noxus, SFD-187 Void Burrower, UNL-187 Piltover Enforcer.

Prerequisites

• THE BATTLEFIELD MUST ALREADY BE THE OPPONENT'S. 466.5 has the player with units remaining 'Establish Control if they didn't already control this Battlefield', and 466.5.d turns Establishing Control into a Conquer. If the battlefield was not already theirs, every pass hands them a free point.
• EXACTLY ONE ENEMY DEFENDER, OF 5+ MIGHT. One, because Facebreaker stuns exactly one enemy unit and any un-stunned enemy Might would kill a 3-Might Reveler. 5+, because the attackers each pass are the Reveler (3) plus the Recruit the Eye just made (1): 464.2.c.3 gives the Recruit the Attacker designation too, so 4 damage is assigned (465.2.c) and a 4-Might defender dies. If the defender dies there is no recall (466.1.a.2) and the loop stops. The sources split on this exactly as the arithmetic predicts: Dokgebi, who plays the Eye, says 'five might unit or greater'; Frobei, who does not, says four.
• This is a condition on the OPPONENT'S board, not on yours, and it is the entry's real fragility - the same shape that sank sona-viktor-opponent-turn.
• EVERY PASS OPENS A WINDOW. The combat showdown gives the opponent Focus (347.1) and the Revelers are 3 Might with no Deflect. Killing either one ends the loop. Interaction risk, not a rules break - the same note jhin-fiora-facebreaker-recall carries about Fiora.
• Nothing here makes Energy. Twilight Reveler has no [Add], so unlike jhin-fiora-facebreaker-recall this produces bodies only.
• THE EQUIPMENT THIS LINE STANDS ON (Eye of the Herald x1) IS A LEGAL TARGET THE WHOLE TIME IT SITS THERE. 718.5.b: "Attached cards still can be chosen or targeted by game effects while Attached." Its printed Rules Text is Inactive while attached (718.2) and its [Equip] is unusable (721.2), but neither of those protects the CARD. The single copy here does not need the mass answer: SFD-005 Detonate (Fury, E1 + 1 Fury Power, "Kill a gear. Its controller draws 2.") is the cheapest KILL in the pool for it - but NOT the cheapest ANSWER, corrected 2026-09-14: SFD-135 Factory Recall is chaos, E1 and NO POWER, [Action], 'Return a gear to its owner's hand.', which is strictly cheaper and answers the Equipment for the window that matters, since 719.5 detaches it on the zone change and 434.1.c stops appending its Effect Text to the carrier. A KILL predicate cannot see a BOUNCE, which is the same narrowness that once made 36 shipped notables claim less than their own question, and the two cards it hands back do not replace what was attached. The unconditional enemy-facing gear kills are OGN-022 Thermo Beam (fury), OGN-224 Salvage (order), SFD-005 Detonate (fury), SFD-032 Disarming Rake (calm), SFD-077 Rocket Barrage (mind), VEN-003 Brittle Steel (fury) - four domains, so there is no identity this line can hide in. (The full swept set is 16 base codes across all six domains; the predicate is /\bkills?\b[^.]{0,80}\bgear\b/i over text+effect of every deckable base in data/cards.json, and the rest either reach only a friendly gear or are gated below this line's costs. Run npm run adversarial to re-derive it.)
• NO GEAR KILL IN THE POOL CARRIES [Reaction] - BUT A KILL IS NOT THE ONLY ANSWER, AND THE PREDICATE THAT MEASURED THAT SET COULD NOT SEE THE OTHER FAMILY. Swept over all 16 kills: Thermo Beam and Salvage are [Action], which 806.1.c.1 makes short for "This can be played during showdowns on any player's turn", and Detonate and Brittle Steel are plain spells, which 155 confines to "an Open State outside of Showdowns on its controller's turn". WHICH OF THOSE PROTECTS THIS LINE DEPENDS ON WHERE IT PAYS, so check before relying on it. If it pays on a HOLD, the Score happens at 315.2.b.2 inside your own Beginning Phase, where 312.2.a gives the opponent no priority in a Neutral Open State and 813.1.c.1 admits only a [Reaction] in the Closed State the trigger opens - no kill in the pool reaches that window at all, so each must be cast on THEIR own turn, a full turn early and fully telegraphed, and that spell on the Chain is itself a Closed State where 312.2.c hands out priority and 813.1.c.1 admits a [Reaction] in response. If it instead pays in your MAIN PHASE, that protection does not exist: 806.1.c.1 puts Thermo Beam and Salvage inside any showdown on any player's turn, so they reach the scoring window itself. THE SECOND FAMILY IS DETACHMENT, AND IT DOES CARRY [Reaction]. 719.1 appends an attached card's Effect Text to its carrier "for as long as they remain Attached" and 137.3.a stops the Might Bonus "as soon as the card with the Might Bonus is no longer Attached", so taking the Equipment OFF switches the payoff off without killing anything. Swept with /\bdetach/i over text+effect of every deckable base: 5 base codes (4 names - Grandmaster at Arms is printed twice), of which only 1 is ENEMY-FACING, because Strike Down says "an equipped friendly unit", Veiled Temple "a friendly gear" and Grandmaster at Arms "you control". That one is SFD-011 Angle Shot - Fury, 2 Energy, NO Power, and it cantrips: "[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.) Choose a unit and an Equipment with the same controller. Attach that Equipment to that unit or detach that Equipment from that unit. Draw 1." The words that make it an answer are "the same controller", which need not be you. WHAT IT PROVABLY DOES is strip the text and the Might Bonus BEFORE the trigger condition is ever met. WHAT IS NOT WALKED, and a reader should not reach for it here until somebody does, is whether a detach inside the scoring window itself accomplishes anything. The reason to DOUBT it - not a paragraph that settles it - is that a Trigger Condition is measured when the trigger is PLACED (383.2.a.1 makes a clause immediately after the trigger "part of the Trigger Condition and not the Effect"), so stripping the Equipment once its trigger is already on the Chain may well change nothing. Nobody has walked what becomes of a chain item whose source text has gone. Until somebody does, treat Angle Shot as a cheap answer cast EARLY, and do not claim it answers the trigger.
• TOURNAMENT RULES 505 IS WHY THIS LOOP MAY BE SHORTCUT AT AN EVENT, AND IT WAS CITED BY NOTHING (upgrade 2026-09-12, #191 batch 27; Tournament Rules, labelled). **505.2** - *"Players performing a loop must have each iteration of the loop be identical with no conditional actions"* - and **505.9** - *"If a sequence of actions is non-deterministic, it may not be shortcut and iterations must be performed manually."* Read against Core Rules 416.5, two or more cards recycled to the Main Deck simultaneously go to the bottom in RANDOM order, so a loop that recycles 2+ per pass is non-deterministic unless it draws all of them back. **The condition is checkable and this entry meets it**: the Main Deck is empty by construction, so every card recycled in a pass is drawn back inside that same pass and the random order never selects a subset. That means the *"zero spare draws"* invariant this catalogue maintains for a different reason - a fifth draw is Burn Out (431.1.a) on one side and a stranded random card on the other - is load-bearing a SECOND time, against a procedural rule it was not written for: it is exactly what makes the loop shortcuttable rather than hand-iterated at a table.
• THE 505 PARAGRAPH ABOVE IS RIGHT ABOUT THE SHORTCUT AND WRONG ABOUT THIS ENTRY'S REASON, corrected 2026-09-13 (#200). It was applied UNIFORMLY to all fourteen INFINITEs by #191 batch 27, and its stated condition - *"the Main Deck is empty by construction, so every card recycled in a pass is drawn back inside that same pass"* - describes the RECYCLE-AND-DRAW loops. **This entry is a COMBAT-RECALL loop: it walks in, takes the Attacker designation, is recalled by 466.1.a.2, and repeats. It puts NO card into the Main Deck and draws none back**, which this entry says in its own words - its `netPerIteration` reads zero cards spent. **So it needs no empty deck at all, and its licence under 505.9 is shorter and stronger than the pasted one: nothing is recycled, so Core Rules 416.5 never fires and there is no random order to be non-deterministic about.** Re-measured over each entry's own `steps` rather than over the pasted needle, the class splits **8 that need an empty Main Deck and 6 that do not**; this is one of the six. **The standing form is about uniform notables rather than about this paragraph: a sentence pasted across a whole class is worth auditing precisely because that is how a CORRECT sentence lands on an entry it was never measured against** - and here the entry's own `netPerIteration` contradicted it in the same record.

Steps

1. Standard Move the Eye-carrying Reveler from base into the enemy battlefield (144.1.a, 144.4.a). 144.2: exhausting it is the whole cost - no Energy, no card.
2. 446.1 makes that a Move, so the Eye plays a 1 Might Recruit there.
3. 461/462 stage the combat; 464.2.c.3 gives the Reveler AND the Recruit the Attacker designation, and 383.4.e puts 'When I attack' on the chain: ready the other Reveler.
4. First pass only: Facebreaker on the enemy defender (and, as the card demands, on a friendly unit at the same battlefield). It stays stunned for the rest of the turn (423.1.a.2).
5. Damage: 4 assigned to the 5+ Might defender, 0 back (423.1.b). Combat Cleanup heals all units (466.1.a.1) and recalls the attackers because defenders remain (466.1.a.2). No Result (466.3.d), and 466.3.d.1 does not re-stage because only the opponent has units there.
6. The Reveler comes home exhausted (458) and the Recruit comes home with it. 456.1: the trip home triggers nothing.
7. Repeat with the other Reveler, which the attack trigger readied. Every pass costs zero Energy and zero cards; the Eye's pass adds a Recruit.

Per iteration

+1 Recruit in base on every pass made by the Eye-carrying Reveler; 0 Energy, 0 Power, 0 cards spent

How it ends

unbounded Recruits in base this turn; wins the way jhin-fiora-facebreaker-recall does - Azir, Sovereign moving tokens in, or a Grand Plaza hold with 7+ bodies next turn

Sources

Published elsewhere

• YouTube - GrappLr, "The Rek'Sai INFINITE Swarm Is OUT OF CONTROL!", 14.102 views 2026-07-28
• YouTube - Dokgebi, "Infinite Card Draw, Energy, and Power in Akali" 2026-07-18
• YouTube - Frobei, "New Infinite Loop Deck with Akali", 10.362 views - the source's own refutation 2026-07-17
• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
• Internet mining lens — issue #46 (GitHub) 2026-09-06

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