Blazing Renewal

Frequently Asked Questions

Power Cards

• Can you use Blazing Renewal on a Spirit with no destroyed Presence just to do 4 Damage somewhere if you have the threshold elements?
  No.

  The threshold effect should specify "4 Damage in that land." (The Power doesn't target a land, so there's not any other place one could deal the Damage anyhow.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Blazing Renewal
• If I get a Range boost, what Ranges does it affect?
  Anything that's your action, has a printed Range arrow, is not itself a Range boost, and obeys other restrictions (e.g., if the bonus is restricted to Powers or merely targeting Powers).

  So not just the arrow under "Target Land" on most Power Cards, but also, e.g., Range arrows in the text of Powers (e.g., Unrelenting Growth) and Range arrows in Spirit Phase actions (like "Move a Presence 1" as a Presence-track ability). Obviously, Power Cards that boost Range won't be able to help with Spirit Phase actions, because Power Cards are used too late in the turn for that.

  • They do not affect Gather or Push, because there is no Range arrow. (And the definition of those keywords involves "an adjacent land".)
  • They do not affect "Your land" or "lands with your Presence" because there is no Range arrow. (And that wording is about what is in the land, not how far away the land is.)
  • They do not affect Ranges on other players' Powers (even if targeting you), because they are not your actions.

  It also doesn't boost the Range at which Flame Markers make lands vulnerable to damage/destruction in Rituals of the Destroying Flame.

  The original wording of "Sky Stretches to Shore," if read strictly, would cause it to work a little differently (only affecting targeting, not Range arrows in the text of Powers), but for the sake of consistency with other Powers that boost Range, it boosts all Range arrows.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range Boosts, Reaching Grasp, Flow Like Water, Reach Like Air, Gift of Proliferation (A Spread of Rampant Green), 10 more...
• When a Power (say, Blazing Renewal) does damage to each Invader, then its threshold effect says "+4 Damage", is that +4 overall Damage, or +3 Damage to each Invader?
  +4 overall Damage, done when the threshold is resolved. If it were a per-Invader improvement, the text would read "+4 Damage to each Invader".

  Generally, the "+" in threshold effects is just to remind players that the damage is in addition to the damage up in the normal effects.

  (Mists of Oblivion changed between the second and third printings, and the current printings no longer have the "+".)
  Tags: Damage, Mists of Oblivion, Blazing Renewal

Range and Targeting

• When a special rule grants a Range boost specifically for targeting lands with specific traits/contents, like Shadows of the Dahan, does that apply to Range arrows within a Power's text?
  No, that bonus is specifically for choosing the target of a land-targeting Power.

  Use the Power as though the number in the "Range" box were increased or completely ignored (depending on the Range boost in question) and the extra target requirement were included in the "Target Land" box. In the case of Shadows of the Dahan, this means ignoring the Range number entirely (but not anything else in the "Range" box!) and adding "Dahan" to whatever else is already in the "Target Land" box.

  This differs from general-purpose Range boosts, which apply to all Range arrows.

  Though early printings of Sky Stretches to Shore use the word "targeting," the text of that Power has been revised to work like other Range-boosing Powers and is not subject to this restriction.
  Tags: Range Boosts, Shadows of the Dahan (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Shadows Flicker Like Flame, Encircle Aspect (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves), 8 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• When Ocean's Hungry Grasp is in play, can Blight, other Spirit Presence, Beasts, or other tokens end up in the Ocean?
  Yes, the Ocean is a Coastal Wetland for many purposes, and Blight and any of the tokens from Branch & Claw can end up there. Spirit Presence from other spirits cannot be placed there during the Spirit Phase, but can end up there as a result of cards like "Indomitable Claim" or "Flow Like Water, Reach Like Air." So long as Ocean's Hungry Grasp has Presence on the board, non-human pieces in the Ocean continue to behave normally and are considered "in play" — so a Disease would count for an Event which checks if the board has Disease, for instance, even though that's an Event Action.

  Invaders never take actions there, so many of the tokens will have no effect.

  See also What happens to items left in the ocean if the last Presence of Ocean's Hungry Grasp is removed from the Island Board?.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Indomitable Claim, Growth Through Sacrifice, Unrelenting Growth, 6 more...
• Can Relentless Gaze of the Sun use Relentless Punishment to repeat Spirit-targeting Powers?
  No, a Spirit-targeting Power doesn't have an origin land.

  (Some Spirit-targeting Powers technically have origin lands for specific Range checks in their effects, like for the Damage in Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence, but the Power as a whole still doesn't have an origin for Relentless Punishment to count Presence in.)
  Tags: Range, Relentless Punishment (Relentless Gaze of the Sun), Relentless Gaze of the Sun, Unleash a Torrent of the Self's Own Essence, 3 more...
• Can Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares do real damage (destroying cities, etc) with Power X?
  The answer, in general, is 'no'. If the Power says "damage" or "destroy", it doesn't matter if it also says that Dahan, Beasts, Invaders, or anything else are doing that damage, the source is still ultimately Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares and is only nightmare damage.

  This applies even if the power has some other spirit doing something (eg, Blazing Renewal). If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares played the power, it cannot do real damage.

  But: note that Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares can "remove" or "replace" Invaders without restriction, can trigger Invader Actions (ie, cause a Ravage, which will involve real damage), can modify how Invader actions work, and can usefully add Defense (without changing how the Dahan deal their retaliation damage in the Ravage).
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Veil the Night's Hunt, Manifestation of Power and Glory (Thunderspeaker), Instruments of their Own Ruin, Insatiable Hunger of the Swarm, 6 more...