Baited Hook

Baited Hook is an epic-rarity gear card from Riftbound's Origins expansion. This Gear costs 3 Energy and attaches to a unit to modify its play. Aligned with the Order domain. It carries the Errata tag. It sees significant competitive play, appearing in roughly 16% of tracked tournament decks.

3 Energy | Gear | Order | epic | Origins

Rules Text

1 Energy Order Rune, Exhaust: Kill a friendly unit. Look at the top 5 cards of your Main Deck. You may banish a unit from among them that has Might up to 1 more than the killed unit and play it, ignoring its cost. Then recycle the rest.

Domain: Order

Meta Statistics

Inclusion Rate: 15.7% | Win Rate: 54.1%

Related FAQ (3)

What happens if I use an effect like Unlicensed Armory to prevent the death of the friendly unit I chose to kill with Baited Hook?

Baited Hook kills a unit, then uses information about “the killed unit." If you prevent that unit's death, there's no killed unit, so Baited Hook can't evaluate its Might. As a result, the check for the Might of the “killed unit" returns a null value, and you're not able to play any unit. If the unit is killed before the ability of Baited Hook resolves, the outcome is the same.

If a unit would be killed by Hidden Blade, but one of these cards replaces that unit's death, does the unit's controller still draw 2?

Yes. Hidden Blade attempts to kill a unit, then says that “its controller" draws 2. Even if the unit doesn't die, it's still on the board and information about its controller is still available, so that player draws 2. This is different from Baited Hook, which requests information about “the killed unit," and can't find any information if no unit was actually killed.

You mentioned rule 187.4.c. earlier and it says "open state", I don't remember that in the old rules. What gives?

Control cannot be lost while items are on the chain per rule 187.4.c. This enables spells and abilities that kill or banish units then play others to the same battlefield. Examples include Cruel Patron killing a Recruit to pay costs, Baited Hook killing units before playing new ones, and Arcane Shift banishing and replaying units.

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