Cost To Use

Frequently Asked Questions

Event Cards

• Does a Spirit have to pay for the Power Card played via Ethereal Conjunction?
  No, since the card is put directly into play without needing to pay its cost.

  However, the Spirit still needs to pay any costs associated with using the Power, whether that's a mandatory "Cost to Use" (e.g., for Absolute Stasis) or a cost associated with a particular choice (e.g., for Hazards Spread Across the Island). You can pick a Power Card with a Cost to Use that you can't afford; in that case, you fail to use the Power and then Forget the card.
  Tags: Cost To Use, Resolving Powers, Ethereal Conjunction, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), 3 more...

Power Cards

• When exactly do you have to pay a "cost to use" on a Power Card?
  Before targeting it - "using" / "resolving" a Power includes choosing a target land and verifying that it's legal.

  This can be relevant for cards like Scream Disease Into the Wind, which set up a triggered action after a Power is used on a land.
  Tags: Cost To Use, Triggered Actions, Scream Disease Into the Wind, Mists Shift and Flow (Shroud of Silent Mist), 4 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• If Fractured Days gives away its Unique Powers (eg, with Entwined Power), can other Spirits play them?
  Other Spirits can play them but not use them, since they would have to pay Time and have no way of gaining it.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Cost To Use, Fractured Days Split the Sky, Entwined Power