Temporal Breach

2 Mind Spell

[Hidden] (Hide now for any rune to react with later for 0.)
Banish a unit, then its owner plays it to the same location, ignoring its cost.

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Rulings

When I play Temporal Breach from face down, can it banish a unit at a different battlefield?

No. "Banish a unit" targets the mentioned unit,355.10 and when you play Temporal Breach from face down, you must choose its targets from the battlefield where it was hidden.811.1.d.2 A unit at another battlefield or a base is therefore not a legal target.

If you play Temporal Breach normally, the [Hidden] restriction does not apply. You may target an otherwise legal unit at any battlefield or base.355.9.a811.3

What happens to equipment attached to a unit banished by Temporal Breach?

The equipment detaches at the unit's previous location and does not reattach when the unit is played again. Moving the unit from the board to banishment detaches its attached cards at that last location.719.5436.4.b The unit entering the board is a new game object, and Temporal Breach does not instruct the equipment to attach again.124

Detached equipment at a battlefield is recalled to its controller's base during the next cleanup.436.4.a Detached equipment at a base its controller does not control is recalled to its controller's base during cleanup.323.6 Equipment already at its controller's base remains there.323.6

Can Temporal Breach cause a unit's attack or defend ability to trigger again during the same combat?

Yes, if the unit enters the battlefield where combat is occurring and its attack or defend condition is otherwise fulfilled.383.4.e.2.b383.4.f.2.b The unit entering the battlefield is a new game object, so its attack or defend condition has not been checked during that combat.124383.4.e.2.a383.4.f.2.a During the cleanup after it re-enters, it gains the same attacker or defender designation as its controller.466.2.c.3.a Gaining that designation checks the corresponding attack or defend trigger.383.4.e383.4.f

Example

Ahri, Inquisitive's "When I attack or defend" ability triggers when she first gains the defender designation. If Temporal Breach then banishes her and her owner plays her again at that battlefield, the new Ahri object gains the designation during cleanup and can trigger the ability again.

Does Ravenbloom Conservatory trigger again if Temporal Breach banishes my only defending unit and I play it again?

No. "You" in Ravenbloom Conservatory's ability means its controller, so if you control Ravenbloom Conservatory, it checks its "When you defend here" condition when you gain the defender designation as combat opens.190.6.d383.4.f466.2.c.3 That defend condition is checked only once per combat.383.4.f.2.a

The unit becomes a new game object, but Ravenbloom Conservatory does not.124 As the defending player, you keep the defender designation until combat ends, so the unit's return does not cause you to gain it again.468.7.a

Can I pay optional additional costs, like Accelerate, when playing a unit banished by Temporal Breach?

Yes. Playing the unit "ignoring its cost" sets only its base energy and power costs to zero.356.1.b.1 Additional costs apply afterward and can raise the total cost above zero.356.1.b.3 As the unit's owner, you may therefore choose and pay an optional additional cost during finalization.355.1.a356.2.b.1 For example, [Accelerate] remains available because it is an optional additional cost paid while playing the unit.805.2

What happens if a unit's owner can't pay a mandatory additional cost when Temporal Breach instructs them to play it?

The attempted play is cancelled, and the unit returns to its owner's banishment. Temporal Breach sets only the unit's base energy and power costs to zero, so mandatory additional costs must still be paid.356.1.b.1356.2.a.1 If the owner cannot pay one, the play fails its cost check.358.2 The play is then cancelled and its actions are undone, returning the unit from the chain to its owner's banishment without undoing Temporal Breach's earlier, completed instruction.354358.5

Example

If Temporal Breach banishes Cruel Patron and its owner has no other friendly unit, they can't pay Cruel Patron's mandatory additional cost to kill a friendly unit. Cruel Patron cannot finish finalizing and returns to its owner's banishment.

Can Temporal Breach make me conquer the same battlefield again on my opponent's turn?

No. You retain control of the battlefield while Temporal Breach banishes your only unit there and that unit is played again, so you do not conquer it again.471.1 The unit remains pending on the chain through cleanup, so you do not lose and regain control of the battlefield.323.5330334.2 Cleanup can remove your control of an empty battlefield only when no chain exists.190.4.c309.1

Steps

  1. Banishment leaves you with no units at the battlefield and incurs a cleanup, but that cleanup waits for Temporal Breach to finish resolving.319.6321.1

  2. The unit's owner begins playing it by moving it to the chain, where it remains pending while Temporal Breach finishes resolving.354354.2354.3

  3. The pending unit remains on the chain throughout the cleanup, so you retain control.

  4. The unit then finalizes and enters the same battlefield under its owner's control.191.2191.4334.2337.1359.2.c

Can Rockfall Path or Brynhir Thundersong stop the unit from being played after Temporal Breach banishes it?

Both effects can stop the unit from being played and leave it in its owner's banishment, but Rockfall Path does not stop the play process from starting, while a resolved Brynhir Thundersong effect that applies to the unit's owner does.

With Rockfall Path, the owner begins playing the unit, moving it from banishment to the chain as a pending card.354354.2420.3.b Its finalization waits until Temporal Breach finishes resolving.354.3 Temporal Breach requires the unit to be played to its previous location, but Rockfall Path forbids units from being played there, so the unit fails its legality check.355.17355.17.b358.1 That play is cancelled and undone, returning the unit to its owner's banishment.358.5

With Brynhir Thundersong, the owner cannot begin the play game action, so the unit never leaves banishment.054.1420.3.c420.5 The impossible play instruction is negated, and Temporal Breach continues resolving after doing as much as possible.055358.3.a359.3.e.6

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