Diana, Lunari

3 Mind Champion Unit

Might 3

When a showdown begins here, you may pay 1. If you do, [Predict], then reveal the top card of your Main Deck. If it's a spell, draw it. (To Predict, look at the top card of your Main Deck. You may recycle it.)

"Follow no false light."

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Rulings

Does Diana, Lunari's ability resolve before or after attack and defend abilities from the start of combat?

When combat opens with a new showdown, Diana's ability triggers first but resolves last, after all attack and defend abilities generated immediately afterward.

Start-of-showdown effects happen before units gain their attacker and defender designations, so Diana triggers before those designations trigger attack and defend abilities.383.4.e383.4.f466.2.a466.2.b466.2.c.3 These are consecutive combat-opening tasks with no priority between them, so all resulting abilities are pending on the combat chain before any is finalized or can resolve.334.1334.2466.2.d The newest chain items resolve first, so the attack and defend abilities resolve before Diana's ability.340.1

If combat opens during an existing showdown, the showdown does not begin again, so Diana's "when a showdown begins here" ability does not trigger.466.1466.2

When do I pay the 1 energy for Diana, Lunari's ability?

You pay it while Diana's triggered ability is being finalized, before opponents receive the normal opportunity to play Reactions to the ability.407.4

Because "you may" is the first part of the effect, you choose whether to perform the ability during finalization.383.3.a The immediately following "pay 1 to [Predict]" is a cost within instructions, so the payment becomes the triggered ability's base cost and must be paid for the ability to finalize.383.3.b383.3.b.1740.4.a While paying, you may activate an eligible [Add] ability with [Reaction] to provide the energy.445.2.c

If you decline to pay, the pending ability is removed from the chain without finalizing.405.2 If you pay, it becomes a finalized chain item, and opponents may react before it resolves.407.2407.4 When it resolves, you [Predict], reveal the top card of your main deck, and draw that card if it is a spell.

Errata

Diana received functional errata. Older printings say "you may pay 1. If you do, ..."; her current text says "you may pay 1 to ..." instead. This changes the payment from an instruction performed during resolution into a cost paid while finalizing the ability.

From Riftbound FAQ by Christian “Near” Ivicevic, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviewed against Core Rules 1.5. Unofficial; not from Riot Games.