Combo · ENGINE
Void Burrower plays off the top — the only route around the draw bottleneck, priced honestly
Pieces
- Void Burrower ×1
SFD-187 · legend · fury/order
When you conquer, you may exhaust me to reveal the top 2 cards of your Main Deck. You may banish one, then play it. Recycle the rest.
- Drag Under ×3
SFD-164 · payoff · order
[Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) I cost 2 Energy less to play from anywhere other than your hand. Kill a unit at a battlefield.
- Void Drone ×3
SFD-010 · payoff · fury
I cost 2 Energy less to play from anywhere other than your hand.
Payoff
Deck
- The legend must be SFD-187 Void Burrower. Drag Under is Order and Void Drone is Fury, which is exactly its identity.
Prerequisites
- THE COSTS ARE PAID, AND 357.1 IS THE CITATION: 'In total, pay the combined Energy cost (if any) and Power cost (if any).' Nothing on Void Burrower matches 356.1.b's 'ignoring' wording, so the discount comes entirely from the two cards' own printed clause.
- THE ODDS, STATED INSTEAD OF GLOSSED. 103.2 sets the Main Deck floor at 40 cards. With 6 of the 40 printed for this, one activation reveals two cards and hits with probability 1 - (34x33)/(40x39) = 28%. This entry promises a discounted play 28% of the time, not a kill on demand.
- WHAT THE OTHER 72% BUYS IS NOT NOTHING. 'Recycle the rest' plus 416.1.a ('Main Deck cards are Recycled to the Main Deck') and 416.5 (bottom of the deck) means every activation filters two cards off the top for free - which, in a shell whose whole problem is the draw bottleneck, is paid every single turn whether or not the discount lands.
- ONE ACTIVATION PER TURN. The exhaust is returned only by 415.3.a in your own Awakening, and the trigger needs a conquer, which 466.5.d caps at one per battlefield per turn.
- UNL-029 Red Brambleback ('Your conquer effects for conquering here trigger an additional time') is Fury and does cross into this identity, but the additional instance has no second exhaust to pay, so it adds nothing here. The same is true of every other exhaust-paying conquer trigger among the legends.
- It is the only card in the pool that plays a Main Deck card from outside your hand on a repeatable trigger, which is why it is worth an entry at 28%: nothing else in Fury/Order sidesteps the draw at all.
Steps
- Conquer a battlefield (466.5.d, or through combat).
- Exhaust Void Burrower: reveal the top 2 cards of your Main Deck.
- If one of them is Drag Under, banish it and play it for 3 Energy + 1 Power - kill any unit at a battlefield. If it is Void Drone, banish it and play it for 1 Energy.
- Recycle the rest to the bottom of the Main Deck (416.1.a, 416.5). On the 72% of activations that miss, that is two cards of free filtering.
- 415.3.a readies the legend in your next Awakening, for the next conquer.
Per iteration
one card played from outside your hand per conquer, at 2 Energy off when it is one of the six; two cards filtered off the top every time
How it ends
engine only - one discounted play per conquer at a 28% hit rate, plus two cards of deck filtering per activation
Sources
Published elsewhere
- Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
- Legend lens — issue #47 (GitHub) 2026-09-06
Walked here, in this project
- 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-legend-lens-candidates.md), issue #47 candidate 6, rewritten. Issue #47 named only Drag Under and worried the entry would be a pure lottery; SFD-010 Void Drone carries the identical printed clause on the Fury side, which doubles the copies that can be hit, and the recycle half of the ability pays out on every activation. The 28% is computed from 103.2's 40-card floor and is stated in the entry rather than hidden. Trap check: no [Repeat]; no [Temporary]; the conquer is the trigger and needs no Attacker designation of its own; no rune recycled for Power; no Energy carried across a Main Phase boundary (167). Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt. Depends on no unruled reading.
Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16