Combo · ENGINE

A hidden removal spell can only ever answer at a battlefield you control - so the body that holds the hide is half the card

6 cards · mind · verified

Pieces

• Wages of Pain ×3 SFD-070 · payoff · mind

  [Hidden] (Hide now for 1 Power of any domain to react with later for 0 Energy.) [Action] (Play on your turn or in showdowns.) Deal 3 to a unit at a battlefield. Play a Gold gear token exhausted.

• Jeweled Colossus ×3 OGN-086 · engine · mind

  [Vision] (When you play me, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.) [Shield] (+1 Might while I'm a defender.)

Payoff

Deck

• Both cards are mono-Mind, so 103.1.b.3 admits any legend with Mind in its pair.
• Neither card is banned or restricted in either format, and neither is a Signature card.
• Control of the battlefield the spell is hidden at, maintained: 811.1.b hides it there 'for as long as you control that battlefield', and 323.6 takes that away the moment your last body leaves in an Open State.

Prerequisites

• THE HIDE PINS THE TARGET, WHICH MAKES THIS A DEFENSIVE CARD ONLY. 811.1.d: 'Some choices made while playing a card from Hidden are restricted to the battlefield where it was hidden. A card cannot be played from Hidden if it is a spell with no valid targets under these restrictions', with 811.1.d.2 confining a hidden spell's targets to that battlefield. And 811.1.b only lets you hide 'at a Battlefield you control'. So a hidden Wages of Pain can only ever kill something standing at a battlefield of yours - it can never answer a body you are attacking. Played from hand at its printed 3 Energy it has no such restriction; the discount and the restriction come together.
• AND THE HIDE IS CONTROL-DEPENDENT, WHICH IS THE OTHER HALF OF THE PARTNER'S JOB. The tail of 811.1.b is 'for as long as you control that battlefield', and 323.6 - 'Players lose control of any controlled Battlefields without their Units occupying them if the turn is in an Open State and there is no Showdown or Combat ongoing there' - is how that Control goes away with no fight at all. A 6 Might defender standing there is what stops it.
• WHAT IT COSTS AND WHAT IT KILLS. One rainbow Power to hide and zero to play (the tail of 811.1.b), at [Action] speed on any player's turn (806.1.c.1) - so 3 damage lands inside the combat, after the attackers are declared.
• AND IT LEAVES A GEAR, WHICH IS THE FOURTH GOLD-MAKER IN THE DOMAIN. 187.5 makes a Gold 'a domainless GEAR token' and 185.2.d puts it inside the rules for its type, so it counts for SFD-072 Dropboarder, VEN-058 Patched Porobot, VEN-064 Plaza Guardian and VEN-076 Repair Specialist. It arrives EXHAUSTED, so 415.3.a is when it becomes 1 Power of any domain. The Mind Gold-makers, named: SFD-063 Chemtech Cask, SFD-069 Plundering Poro, SFD-070 Wages of Pain, SFD-074 Pickpocket, SFD-081 Card Sharp, SFD-086 World Atlas and UNL-073 Deadly Flourish.
• THE COLOSSUS'S OWN TEXT IS TWO SMALL THINGS AND BOTH ARE HONEST. [Vision] is 817.1.b's look-at-one, which 431.1.c keeps free of Burn Out and 416.1.a recycles to the BOTTOM - a filter, not a tutor. [Shield] is 814.1.c's 'While I am a defender, I have +X [M].', so the printed 5 reads 6 exactly when it is holding the battlefield the hide depends on, and nothing at all on your own attacks.
• ONE FACEDOWN PER BATTLEFIELD. 811.1.b allows a single facedown card per battlefield and 485.4 puts two on a Duel table, so at most two hidden answers are armed at once however many the deck runs.
• WHAT IT IS NOT. Nothing here scores; 469 defines Scoring as Conquer or Hold. And the damage is dealt by the spell, so a [Tank] does not order it (815.1.b is scoped to the combat damage step) and a blanket spell-and-ability fog does stop it.

Steps

1. Play Jeweled Colossus (5 Energy) and hold a battlefield with it; [Vision] filters your top card on the way in.
2. On your turn in an Open State, pay 1 rainbow Power to hide Wages of Pain facedown there (811.1.b).
3. 323.6 cannot strip your Control while the Colossus stands, so the hide survives.
4. From the next turn the spell has [Reaction] and costs nothing to play; its [Action] permission (806.1.c.1) also lets it land inside a showdown.
5. Kill an attacker of 3 Might or less AT THAT BATTLEFIELD - 811.1.d.2 confines the target there - and take a Gold gear token exhausted.
6. The Gold is 1 Power of any domain from your next Awakening, and a gear for every count clause in the meantime.

Per iteration

one attacker of up to 3 Might removed for 1 rainbow Power in total, plus a Gold gear token, once per hidden copy

How it ends

engine only - one facedown per battlefield and two battlefields in a Duel (811.1.b, 485.4), three copies by 103.2.b, and the answer only ever reaches a battlefield you control; nothing here scores

Sources

Published elsewhere

• Riftbound Core Rules, Last Updated 2026-07-16 (data/Riftbound-Core-Rules-2026-07-16.txt) 2026-07-16
• Card text verbatim from data/corpus_flat.txt (built from Riot's gallery content API) 2026-09-07

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-07 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-07-uncatalogued-calm-mind-order.md, batch 9) 2026-09-07 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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