Zed Legaal

Costs may be Energy costs, Power costs, or non-standard costs. Example: A card reads "As an additional cost to play me, kill a friendly unit." Killing a friendly unit is an additional cost to play that card.…

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1. An optional additional cost was "paid" if the player made the decision to pay it. It doesn't matter how much the player actually paid. Example: Clockwork Keeper is a unit that costs 2 Energy and 0 Power and says "As you play me, you may pay [C] as an additi…

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1. When the additional cost is paid, the effect of the spell or ability, upon resolution, will be performed an additional time. Example: Desert’s Call is a spell with [Repeat] [2] and “Play a 2 [M] Sand Soldier unit token.” If its controller pays its Repeat co…

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Legion (§419.4.b)

Legion checks whether cards were finalized by an opponent, not whether an opponent controls a spell that resolves. A spell finalized by an opponent but subsequently taken over via Rebuttal still counts as finalized by the opponent, so Legion abilities remain active. Citaat uit de bron: “Battering Ram and Legion … check whether cards were finalized. Although you gained control of Stupefy, you did not finalize it; you got it after it was already finalized by your opponent.”

§ 419.4.b

17-8-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Perched Grimwyrm (§054.2., 369.3.)

If Perched Grimwyrm cannot be legally finalized (no valid play location due to its own restriction), all actions taken as part of playing it are undone and it is returned to the zone it was played from. If you have conquered a different battlefield this turn you may play it there without paying Dragon Roost's additional cost, but not to Dragon Roost itself unless you've conquered it. Citaat uit de bron: “The actions taken as part of playing Perched Grimwyrm will be undone and it will be returned to the zone it was played from.”

§ 054.2§ 369.3

15-8-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Ravenbloom Student (§419.4)

Ravenbloom Student's triggered ability checks whether a spell you control resolves, not whether you finalized it. Gaining control of an opponent's already-finalized spell (e.g., via Rebuttal on Stupefy) still causes the ability to trigger when that spell resolves. Citaat uit de bron: “Ravenbloom Student's triggered ability checks whether a spell that you control resolves. You gained control of the Stupefy, and it resolved, so you will have triggered Ravenbloom Student's ability.”

§ 419.4

15-8-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Flow

A spell played for its Flow cost is banished even if countered by Abandon. "Then banish it" means: if the flow spell would leave the chain after becoming a finalized chain item, and leaving the chain was not instructed by the spell's own execution, banish it instead. Abandon returning the spell to hand counts as such a departure, so the spell is banished rather than returned. This also applies to effects like Kai'Sa, Evolutionary and Fizz, Trickster. Citaat uit de bron: “No matter how it happens, as long as the flow spell leaving the chain wasn't instructed by the execution of the spell itself, it will be banished.”

15-8-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/vendetta-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Jhin, Meticulous Killer + countered spell (Singularity)

Jhin checks whether energy was spent to play a spell and whether it became a Finalized Chain Item—not whether it resolved. If Singularity is countered after being finalized, the energy was spent and Jhin's C cost condition is satisfied, allowing Jhin to be played for C that turn. Citaat uit de bron: “Jhin checks the energy spent to play a spell, not whether that spell resolved.”

16-7-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-unleashed-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/unleashed-rules-faq-and-clarifications/

Baited Hook (187.4.c example) (§187.4.c)

When Baited Hook resolves, kills the targeted unit (the sole unit at a battlefield), and the player plays a unit from the top 5 cards, that unit goes pending on the chain. The outstanding cleanup cannot strip battlefield control while a chain item is pending, so the finalized unit can be played to the same battlefield where the kill occurred. Citaat uit de bron: “I can't lose control of the battlefield because the played unit is on the chain pending”

16-7-2026 · bron: clarify-mining:playriftbound-com-unleashed-rules-faq-and-clarifications

Bron van deze ruling: https://playriftbound.com/en-us/news/rules-and-releases/unleashed-rules-faq-and-clarifications/