Combo · ENGINE

Yasuo's attack trigger clears the garrison before the damage step — and Nasus is standing there

3 cards · calm · verified

Pieces

• Yasuo, Remorseful ×1 OGN-076 · engine · calm

  When I attack, deal damage equal to my Might to an enemy unit here.

• Svellsongur ×1 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.

• Nasus, Ascended ×1 VEN-046 · payoff · calm

  [Deflect 2] (Opponents must pay 2 Power of any domain to choose me with a spell or ability.) [Empower] 8 Energy (8 Energy: Empower me. Use only if not Empowered.) [Empowered][>] When I conquer, you score 1 point.

Payoff

Deck

• Any Calm legend — Yasuo Remorseful, Svellsongur and Nasus are all mono-Calm (103.1.b.1). This is the cheapest identity of the four Nasus routes in the catalogue.

Prerequisites

• IT IS THE REPEATABLE VERSION OF THE BLOODLESS CONQUER, AND THAT IS THE WHOLE ADVANTAGE. The three [Action]-removal entries (draven-rebuke-bloodless-combat, wind-and-ghosts-nasus-bloodless-conquer, noxian-guillotine-legion-bloodless-fork) each spend a CARD per attack and 103.2.b caps them at three a game. Here the removal is a permanent that fires every time Yasuo attacks, for no Energy and no card — so the two points repeat for as long as there is a garrison to take.
• THE TRIGGER RESOLVES BEFORE THE DAMAGE STEP, WHICH IS WHY NOTHING OF YOURS IS EVER ASSIGNED DAMAGE. 383.4.e makes an Attack Trigger fire when a unit 'gains the Attacker designation for the first time during a combat', and 464.2.c.3 places that designation in step 1 of the Combat Showdown. 465.1 is step 2 and reads 'If both Attacking and Defending units remain at this battlefield, the following Tasks become Outstanding' — so if Yasuo's damage has already killed the garrison, no damage is ever assigned in either direction. 466.3.a then gives you the combat and 466.5 with 466.5.d makes Control a Conquer.
• THE ARITHMETIC, WITH THE QUANTITIES DECLARED. Svellsongur COMPOSES rather than adds (issue #45): 434.1.c gives the Top-Most Card all the Effect Text of all its attached cards, 477.2.c appends it in Layer 2 and 476.1 applies each effect only once across all sequences, so v Svellsongur yield 2^v instances of the attack trigger — ONE copy is TWO instances, two copies are FOUR. Each instance deals damage equal to Yasuo's Might, which Svellsongur's M+0 leaves at 6, and each picks 'an enemy unit here' independently (359.3.f.2 reads 'here' and the Might at execution). So one Svellsongur kills two defenders of 6 Might or less before the damage step; a garrison of three needs a second copy. R6 = A is what makes the copy track Yasuo's CURRENT text rather than a snapshot.
• NASUS HAS TO BE PRESENT, WHICH COSTS NOTHING BECAUSE AN ARMY WALKS IN ONE ACTION. 144.3: 'Players may perform multiple Units standard move simultaneously. This is treated as one game action performed on multiple Units', with 144.3.a requiring a shared destination and 144.3.c paying the exhausts simultaneously. 464.2.c.3 then gives the Attacker designation to every unit of yours at the battlefield, and 144.4.a.1's arrivals cap is unsatisfiable in a two-player game (#111). So Yasuo and Nasus enter together and both conquer.
• TWO POINTS PER ATTACK: the Conquer is a 469.1 Score capped by 470 at one per battlefield per turn, and Nasus's 'you score 1 point' is a 194.1.c Gain under R2 = A, which 470 does not touch. 471.1.a.1 lets the eighth point land, since points Gained from sources that are not Conquer are outside 471.1.b's Final Point restrictions.
• AND IT BLANKS THE EXCESS-DAMAGE FAMILY, WHICH IS WHY THE PAYOFF IS NASUS AND NOT TRYNDAMERE. R28 = A makes excess damage attacking Might that was never ASSIGNED, and 465.1 means nothing is assigned at all — so OGN-034 Tryndamere, SFD-120 Sivir, UNL-018 Yeti Brawler, UNL-187 Piltover Enforcer, UNL-188 Hextech Gauntlets and UNL-217 Trapping Grounds all read false here. Nasus's trigger is bare 'When I conquer', with no threshold and no 'after an attack' clause.
• IT STILL NEEDS A GARRISON. 461 stages a Combat only where units of two players meet and 807.1.d with 383.4.e make an empty battlefield no attack at all, so against an open battlefield Yasuo's trigger never exists — the ordinary Non-Combat Showdown Conquer applies (316.8.b.1, 348.2.a.1) and Nasus still scores, but the removal does nothing. And a defender above 6 Might survives an instance: two instances on one body is 12, which 465.2.c.4's assignment cap does not govern because this is a Deal, not combat damage.
• ONE CONQUER PER BATTLEFIELD PER TURN (469.1, 470), and neither body has [Ganking], so 144.4 keeps the pair to one battlefield a turn. To repeat it you have to give the battlefield back — 323.6 does that the moment you walk off — or take the other one (485.4, 'Battlefield Count: 2').
• SVELLSONGUR'S EQUIP IS 1 ENERGY + 1 CALM POWER AND 818.1 MAKES IT AN ACTIVATED ABILITY, so attaching is never playing and no [Weaponmaster] or 'when you play a gear' trigger fires off it.

Steps

1. Land Yasuo, Remorseful (6 Energy + 2 Calm Power), Svellsongur (3 Energy + 1 Calm Power) and Nasus, Ascended (8 Energy + 1 Calm Power), and attach Svellsongur to Yasuo for 1 Energy + 1 Calm Power. Empower Nasus — his own 8-Energy [Empower], permanent by 441.2, or VEN-035 Sanction for the turn.
2. From the next Awakening, Standard-move Yasuo and Nasus together to an enemy-garrisoned battlefield: 144.3 makes that one game action with a shared destination, and each pays its own exhaust (144.2, 144.3.c).
3. 464.2.c.3 gives both the Attacker designation. Yasuo's attack trigger fires twice — his own and Svellsongur's copy — each dealing 6 to an enemy unit there.
4. With the garrison dead, 465.1 finds no Defending units and the damage step never becomes Outstanding. Neither Yasuo nor Nasus is assigned anything.
5. 466.3.a: you are the only player with units there. 466.5 and 466.5.d establish Control as a Conquer — 1 point — and Nasus's '[Empowered][>] When I conquer, you score 1 point' adds the second.
6. Repeat every turn there is a garrison to take: the removal is a permanent, so no card is spent.

Per iteration

+2 points and the enemy garrison cleared per attack, with no damage assigned to either side and no card spent

How it ends

engine — 2 points per attack, repeatable every turn for no cards and no Energy once the board is set; one conquer per battlefield per turn, so eight points is four attacks

Sources

Walked here, in this project

• Hand walk 2026-09-06 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-engine-payoff-walk.md, section 23) 2026-09-06 record
• Issue #155 — Engine × payoff: the repeatable-removal group, refused wholesale on the grounds that the only Might-to-point bridge is a threshold 2026-09-06
• Hand walk 2026-09-06, issue #118 (docs/phase0/walks/2026-09-06-2v2-showdown-action-lens.md) — the removal-inside-the-combat window 2026-09-06 record

Walked against Core Rules 2026-07-16

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