Welcome to the Radiance FAQ article! As talked about within the Radiance Launch Notes article, the FAQ article serves as a set of rulings and clarifications at our traditional cadence, and serves as an extra supplemental article to the Launch Notes article.
The FAQ is a set of official rulings. In locations the place the FAQ differs from the Core Guidelines Doc, the FAQ takes priority. When a brand new Core Guidelines Doc is launched, it is going to take priority over any factors that differ from this doc.
All through this doc, we use some particular shorthand to symbolize symbols in card textual content. Right here’s a brief information:
- [E] means “exhaust”
- [M] means “Would possibly”
- [A] means “one energy of any area”
- [C] means “one energy of this card’s area”
- [C] in Speed up prices takes on the area of the Unit, or turns into [A] if the Unit has no area or a number of domains.
- [C] in different instances is handled because the corresponding energy image in all respects, matching how the playing cards are literally printed—it’s only a design shorthand!
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If my opponent empowers Kharox and chooses to play my Neeko, Mixing In from my trash with the triggered capability, do they get one of many Legends I selected throughout deckbuilding?
No.
When the play impact of the Neeko performed by Kharox resolves, if their deck has a number of copies of Neeko, Mixing In, they’ll add one of many Legends they selected throughout deckbuilding to their Legend Zone as if they’d performed a replica of Neeko that they personal. The Legends they add to the Legend Zone don’t have any relation to the Legends their opponent selected. If their deck has no copies of Neeko, within the Fundamental Deck or the sideboard, that instruction might be ignored.
If I play Mobilize whereas I management Seraphic Wyvern and I solely have one rune left in my Rune Deck, do I nonetheless draw a card?
No.
Referencing the motion on this approach refers solely to the sport motion and the sport object it was carried out on. The channel occasion that Seraphic Wyvern instructs introduces a brand new sport object that the motion is carried out on, however the referenced motion remains to be solely the unique one within the directions of the spell.
The identical logic applies to Catalyst of Aeons performed whereas its controller has a Seraphic Wyvern on the board and solely two runes left of their Rune Deck. They have been capable of channel 2 runes, even when the extra sport object instructed to be channeled by Seraphic Wyvern wasn’t doable. Due to this fact they won’t draw 1.
Related guidelines: 359.3.e.14.c.
If I play Meticulous Restorationist from my trash for [Y] by way of its triggered capability, can I banish a unit or gear from my trash with Mordekaiser, Iron Revenant to pay the price?
Sure.
“Play me for [Cost]” is an alternate price which replaces the bottom price ([2]) with the alternate price ([Y]). Mordekaiser, Iron Revenant’s Energy can solely be spent to play items.
Related guidelines: 356.1.a.
If I play Atakhan and kill a non-token unit for its extra price, can I banish that unit with Mordekaiser, Iron Revenant to assist pay for Atakhan’s Energy price?
No.
When paying prices in Riftbound, you pay Power and Energy prices earlier than you carry out different “non-standard” prices, like Atakhan’s optionally available extra price to kill a unit. When paying the Energy price of Atakhan, the unit in query isn’t truly lifeless but, and thus can’t be banished out of your trash.
Related guidelines: 357.1., 357.2.
If I kill Runeblade Anvil throughout an opponent’s flip, when is the final second I can play the banished card?
You may play it till the Ending Section in your subsequent flip begins.
If I kill Runeblade Anvil throughout my flip, can I play the cardboard in the course of the Ending Section of that flip?
No.
The period for Runeblade Anvil’s permission is “till your subsequent Ending Section.” It’s legitimate till the desired level within the specified flip begins, after which the permission is misplaced.
If I kill Runeblade Anvil throughout my Ending Section, when is the final second I can play the banished card?
You may play it till the Ending Section in your subsequent flip begins.
Your subsequent Ending Section after your present Ending Section is the one in your subsequent flip. Till that Ending Section begins, it is possible for you to to play the cardboard in query.
If I management Hunters’ Circle and I play Baron Nashor with no Baron Pit on the board, can I play him for [9][C][C][C]?
Sure.
Hunters’ Circle applies a price discount to the primary unit or gear every participant performs there throughout their flip. Baron Nashor coming into on the Baron Pit is a substitute impact that applies whereas Baron resolves and enters the board. As compared, Hunters’ Circle’s price discount is in impact throughout finalization, when selecting play places in step 2 and figuring out the entire price in step 3. By the point Baron Nashor’s substitute impact applies, his price has been decided and paid.
Related guidelines: 355.2.
If I management a battlefield and I’ve Riven, the Exile as my legend, can I play Baron Nashor with no Baron Pit on the board and have him enter prepared?
Sure.
Riven, the Exile applies a substitute impact to items her controller performs to a battlefield they management. This refers to step 2 of finalization, when gamers choose the play location for a unit they’re enjoying. Riven then generates a substitute impact for these items, which causes them to enter prepared. When Baron Nashor enters on this state of affairs, there are two substitute results that apply to the occasion of him coming into: him coming into prepared, and him coming into to the Baron Pit. Whatever the order of those substitute results, Baron Nashor will enter prepared on the Baron Pit.
Related guidelines: 355.2.
For Riven, Damaged Blade’s exhaust set off, do I spend the buff when finalizing the triggered capability or when it resolves?
When it resolves.
A value inside directions that doesn’t seem as the primary a part of a triggered capability’s impact is a part of the directions that happen on decision and never the bottom price of the triggered capability. The primary a part of Riven, Damaged Blade’s triggered capability is “Select one which hasn’t been chosen this flip…”
Related guidelines: 383.3.b.
If I Normal Transfer a Riven, Damaged Blade and a Stellacorn Herder concurrently, which fits on the chain first: Riven’s exhaust set off or Stellacorn Herder’s transfer set off?
The exhaust set off.
The order of the triggers on the chain after the transfer occasion completes is: exhaust triggers first, adopted by transfer triggers. The fee to carry out the transfer happens earlier than the transfer motion is definitely carried out.
Related guidelines: 203.
If I try and Normal Transfer to a battlefield with Gravity Area and decline the price, can I nonetheless exhaust my unit?
No.
The Normal Transfer is an inherent capability. We’ll make clear some established consensus on how the Normal Transfer operates: you can’t try and carry out the Normal Transfer if the ensuing transfer isn’t doable, nor should you can not pay its related prices.
Moreover, if the Normal Transfer incurs a Value that can not be paid, or if the transfer motion can not in any other case be carried out, the Normal Transfer and all actions taken as a part of performing it will likely be undone, any results these actions triggered to happen are equally undone, and the Normal Transfer might be cancelled.
If I play Allure shifting an enemy unit to a battlefield the place I management Gravity Area, does its controller should pay the price?
No.
The opponent should pay [1][A] to maneuver a unit to the battlefield with Gravity Area, however Allure instructs you to maneuver the enemy unit and never your opponent.
In case your opponent managed the Gravity Area at that battlefield, you could be the one who must pay [1][A] to maneuver the enemy unit to that battlefield when Allure resolves.
Related guidelines: 412.2. and its subrules
What about if I play Angler Wyrm’s activated capability whereas it’s positioned on the similar battlefield with Gravity Area? Will they should pay the price to maneuver the unit to the battlefield?
Sure.
In contrast to Allure, Angler Wyrm instructs your opponent to maneuver their unit, so they have to pay the price to be able to transfer it to that battlefield. In the event that they select to not or can’t, the unit doesn’t transfer.
Related guidelines: 412.2. and its subrules, 204.4., 204.4.b., 204.4.c.
Talking of Angler Wyrm, if my opponent performs Angler Wyrm’s activated capability selecting me and I play Hunker Down on considered one of my items, can I choose that unit when Angler Wyrm instructs me to maneuver a unit even when I management different items?
No, you can’t.
The chosen opponent should carry out the transfer sport motion if they’ve a unit that may transfer. In the event that they management some variety of items that can’t transfer, they can not select to “transfer” these items to fulfill the transfer directions, as no transfer is definitely doable. In the event that they management no items that may transfer, the instruction is negated. If they’ve some variety of items that can transfer, they have to transfer a kind of items.
If I play Possession and take management of my opponent’s Ekko, Revolutionary, can I play his activated capability to banish after which play him? Do I management him when he comes again in?
Yup and yup.
Related guidelines: 378., 191.2.