Elements and Elemental Thresholds

If you gain presence during the turn (after Growth) and uncover the "any" or another element, can you then use it for other powers?
Yes, you can start using elements as soon as you gain them. (p. 14) Similarly, if you are able to play a card mid-turn, you get the effects of its Elements immediately.

(And if some effect were to cover an Element by returning Presence to your track, or destroy a Power card in play, you'd immediately lose access to the elements.)
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If I gain an Element in the middle of resolving a Power, may I use that Element to gain a later threshold?
Yes, you may.

This can happen, e.g., if the first part of Indomitable Claim reveals an Element on a Presence track, or if the land gets Blighted and the card is Aid from Lesser Spirits.

Likewise if you lose Elements in the middle of resolving the Power, you may lose further thresholds.

Note that any parts of the power that have already happened cannot be modified — those thresholds are either already hit or already missed. In particular, any thresholds that modify Speed or Range are checked first (before the rest of the power), and ~or~ choices are made before resolving either option.
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If you gain Elements from a Growth option, do they go away at the end of the turn?
Yes. (Core rulebook, p. 10)
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Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power can let you use a Major with all elemental thresholds. Does this let you use the threshold on Draw Towards a Consuming Void?
No, because the threshold checks something that isn't an element (how many other Power Cards you have in play).
Tags: Non-elemental thresholds, Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, Draw Towards a Consuming Void

When I Repeat a Major Power, if I got the threshold effect the first time, do I get it on the repetition as well?
Yes, usually.

Elements are not "used up" when you reach a threshold, so you still have the elements on the repetition. The only exception would be if you lose the elements before the repetition (e.g., you Forgot a card in play granting the elements).
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Can I use an Innate Power more than once a turn, if I meet the threshold multiple times?
In general, no.

Usually a power can only be used once a turn. Some powers (e.g. Powerstorm) allow you to repeat a power card. Other powers let you repeat themselves, via threshold effect (e.g. Creepers Tear into Mortar, the innate power of Spread of Rampant Green). But having extra elements doesn't let you do anything extra by itself.
Tags: Elements

Can the different thresholds of an innate power be used separately?
No, the thresholds are all part of a single power. All effects must be used on the same target land (or same target Spirit), and you use the effects of every threshold you meet{1}, in the order they're printed{2}.

For example, Lightning's Swift Strike's innate power of Thundering Destruction used with 5 Fire, 4 Air, and 1 Water can destroy two buildings in the same land, but it cannot destroy two buildings in different lands. Even the final threshold on Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island's Serpent Rouses in Anger targets a single land, although it affects all lands on the board in addition to the one that it targets.

One sort-of-exception: innate powers that say "Repeat this Power," like A Spread of Rampant Green's innate Creepers Tear into Mortar. When a power is Repeated, you use the power from the beginning, which means you can target a new land.

{1} = You are allowed to pretend you have fewer Elements than you really do — e.g., to activate only the lower level of an innate — but that decision is made for the entire Power, not each threshold individually. Once you've chosen, you must activate every threshold those elements qualify for. Particularly, for Shadows Flicker Like Flames' innate power Darkness Swallows the Unwary, there is no set of elements which can activate the second threshold without also activating the first threshold. If you destroy 2 Explorers to earn fear, you must first gather an explorer (if able).

{2} = Effects which modify Speed, Range, or targeting obviously apply when you check Speed / Range / targeting.
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Can you use the threshold effects of innate powers, even if you can't use the effects above them?
Yes, each line is evaluated independently, depending on the Elements you activate the power with.

(You are allowed to pretend you have fewer Elements than you actually have, but need to be consistent for the whole power.)
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When you hit the threshold of a Major Power, is the effect in addition to the base effect?
Yes, unless the card says "instead", threshold effects are in addition to the base effect [p. 17].
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Are elements personal, or can you use elements from other spirits?
Elements can only be used by the spirit that played them; they can't be shared unless an effect explicitly says so.

For example, if you are playing River Surges in Sunlight, you cannot use water generated by cards played by Ocean's Hungry Grasp.

There are a few power cards that grant elements to other spirits, like Elemental Boon, the innate power Spirits May Yet Dream from Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares, or several of Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island's powers. Powers with this effect are specifically marked.
Tags: Elements