416. Recycle

400.1. When an Ability finishes the steps of playing it becomes a Finalized Chain Item just like a Spell.

400.2. When an Ability with the [Add] action is finalized it resolves immediately, like a Unit or Gear.

401. 1. Activate or trigger the Ability

402. 2. Make relevant choices

403. 3. Determine Total Cost

404. 4. Pay Costs

405. 5. Check Legality

406. 6. Proceed with Play

407. Game Actions

408. Game Actions are actions players may perform at any given time during the game.

409. A player, unless otherwise specified or prompted, may only perform actions on their turn.

410. There are two types of Game Actions:

411. Responsibility

412. Types of Actions

413. Draw

414. Exhaust

415. Ready

417. Deal

418. Heal

419. Play

420. Move

421. Hide

422. Discard

423. Stun

424. Reveal

425. Counter

426. Buff

427. Banish

428. Kill

429. Add

430. Channel

431. Burn Out

432. Double

433. Swap

434. Attach

435. Detach

436. Predict

437. Prevent

438. Replace

439. Create

440. Burn

441. Empower

442. Disempower

443. Skip

444. Pay

445. Movement

446. Moving is a Limited Action.

447. Moving is defined by the Origin and Destination of the Permanent that is changing locations.

448. Players may choose to move their Units with the Standard Move. See rule 144. for more information on the Standard Move.

449. Spells, Abilities, or other effects may cause a Move to occur.

450. The Destination becomes Contested if it is an Uncontested Battlefield not controlled by the controller of the Unit or Units that moved.

451. Units may cause a Non-Combat Showdown when they Move. See rule 341. Showdowns for more information.

452. Units may cause Combat when they Move. See rule 459. Combat for more information.

453. When a Move action is complete, perform a Cleanup.

454. Recalls

455. A Recall is when a Permanent is relocated from anywhere to its Base without it being a Move.

456. Recalls are not Moves.

457. Gear can be Recalled.

458. Recalls do not affect the state of the Permanent being recalled.

459. Combat

460. A Combat occurs when a Cleanup occurs, there are no items on the Chain, there is a staged Combat at a Battlefield, and no Showdown or Combat is ongoing at any other Battlefield. See rule 318. Cleanups for more information.

461. Combat is considered Staged if there are units controlled by two opposing players at a Battlefield but the Steps of Combat have not been initiated.

462. Combat can only occur between Units controlled by exactly two players.

463. The Steps of Combat

464. Step 1: The Combat Showdown Step

465. Step 2: The Combat Damage Step

466. Step 3: The Resolution Step

467. Scoring

468. Scoring is the act of a Player gaining a point through the process of seizing or maintaining control over Battlefields.

469. A player Scores in one of two ways:

470. A player may only Score, from either method, once per Battlefield per turn.

471. When a player Scores, two things occur:

472. When a cleanup occurs and a player has accrued Points greater than or equal to the Victory Score for their Mode of Play, and if they have more points than any opponent, they Win the Game.

473. Layers

474. Layers are the mechanism in which Game Effects alter the Traits, Intrinsic Abilities, or other properties of Game Objects.

475. Layers are an organizational structure.

476. The layers are applied repeatedly until all effects operating on objects have been applied once and no changes have been processed.

477. Layers are applied in the following order:

478. If more than one effect applies to the same Game Object in the Same Layer, or to each other in the same layer, then both effects will apply but their order may be determined by Dependency.

479. To determine which effect Depends on another, determine which of the prior criteria applies, and then also which effect's evaluation is altered by the sequence of applications. That effect is said to Depend on the other. Example: A unit with 4 [M] is under the effects of a passive ability that reads "Units you control here have their Might increased to 5 [M]." Its controller plays Discipline on the unit, giving it +2 [M]. When applying Layer alterations, both effects are applied in the same layer. If we apply the passive ability first, the passive ability will give +1 [M] while the Discipline effect will give +2 [M]. If we apply them in the other order, the Discipline effect will give +2 [M], and the passive ability will give +0 [M]. The passive ability is altered by the sequence of applications, so it depends on the Discipline effect.

480. If more than one effect applies in the same layer but no dependency is established, then Timestamp order is applied to the effects within that layer and sublayer

481. Modes of Play

482. There are multiple methods of playing Riftbound.

483. A Mode of Play must define several variables for the game.

484. Sanctioned Modes

485. 1v1 (Duel)

486. 1v1 (Match)

487. FFA3 (Skirmish)

488. FFA4 (War)

489. 2v2 (Magma Chamber)