Disintegrating Ecosystem

Frequently Asked Questions

Blighted Island cards

• The Blighted Island card Disintegrating Ecosystem reads: <i>"Immediately, on each board destroy 1 Beast and add 1 Blight to a land with a Town/City."</i> Are both effects to the same land, or can the destroyed Beast come from anywhere on the board?
  The destroyed Beast can come from anywhere.

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  Tags: Blighted Island, Disintegrating Ecosystem
• The Blighted Island card Disintegrating Ecosystem adds Blight to the board. Where does that come from?
  The Blight comes from the Blight card, from the pool of 5 Blight per player that is created when the card flips.

  Unless explicitly stated otherwise, Blight is always added from the Blight card (not the box), and is returned to the Blight card when removed from the board.
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Effect Rules

• When an effect checks if the Ravage Step added Blight to a board (e.g., "Invested Aristocracy" or Level 6 of The Tsardom of Russia), which sources of Blight count?
  Count Blight added during the Ravage Step, no matter the reason Blight was added at that time. While this will usually be Blight added by a Ravage Card, the condition can also be met by flipping a Blight Card that adds Blight on each board, like "Disintegrating Ecosystem".
  Tags: Ravage, Invested Aristocracy, Tsardom of Russia, Disintegrating Ecosystem, 1 more...
• When Blight is Added, what order do you perform all of the effects of Adding Blight? If you were in the middle of a Ravage, do you finish the Ravage first?
  Do the ‘Immediately’ effects on the Blight card, and then finish resolving whatever caused the card to flip (whether it's a Ravage or something else).

  More precisely, the order is:

  1. Take Blight off the card. If this empties the card, flip it, refill the Blight pool, and resolve any ‘Immediately’ effects on the card as a nested Action.
  2. Actually put the Blight in the land.
  3. Destroy Presence and do anything else that cares “when” this happens, like Kingdom of Sweden Level 5, Tsardom of Russia Level 1, or the Blight card All Things Weaken.
  4. If Blight was already present, cascade (returning to Step 1 in that adjacent land).
  5. Finish resolving the Action (usually the Ravage) that caused the Blight card to flip.
  6. Perform any Triggered Actions that care about Blight being added, like Kingdom of Scotland Level 5.

  In particular, if more Invaders are added to the land being Ravaged (e.g., with Promising Farmlands), they don't deal more damage, as that step has already happened; however, they are susceptible to a Dahan counterattack, and any new Dahan (e.g., with Unnatural Proliferation) would participate.
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Power Cards

• If you have a choice between destroying a normal Beasts token and a Beasts token marked by Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, can you pick the marked Beasts? If so, what happens?
  Yes, you can pick the marked Beasts, and it's generally advantageous to do so: if it would be destroyed, removed, or replaced, skip those effects.

  It won't count as destroyed, removed, or replaced for effects that scale off the number of Beasts that leave the board, like A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh or Pent-Up Calamity.
  Tags: Destroy, Remove, Replace, Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, 12 more...