Flow Like Water, Reach Like Air

Frequently Asked Questions

Power Cards

• 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.

  So not just the arrow under "Target Land" on most Power Cards, but also, e.g., Range arrows in the text of Powers (eg, 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 (like Reaching Grasp) won't be able to help with Spirit Phase actions, because it's too late in the turn for that (and furthermore, Reaching Grasp is explicitly limited to Powers).

  • 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 played on you), because it is not your action.

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

  Sky Stretches to Shore has wording that, 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 it works the same way.
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Presence and Sacred Sites

• When Blight is moved into a land, does it destroy Presence or cause cascades?
  No, Blight only destroys Presence when it is added to the board, not when it is moved from one land to another. Likewise, moving Blight does not cause cascades. [B&C p. 15, JE p. 28]
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Range and Targeting

• Do Range buffs apply to Powers that affect "a land with your Presence" or "one of your lands"?
  No. "A land with your Presence" specifies a requirement for the land you're affecting (similar to, eg, "a land with Dahan" or "a land with Blight"), not a numeric Range. While it is usually the same in practice as "a land at Range 0", when using effects that modify Range the distinction matters.

  For powers like Punish Those Who Trespass or Firestorm that have a base effect with normal range and a further effect referring to "lands where you have presence", the range on the base effect can be extended, but the further part cannot.

  For instance, if you reach all the thresholds of Punish Those Who Trespass and have extended range, you can use the base effect to deal damage in a distant land and use the further part to deal damage where you have presence (without extension).
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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 Growth 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 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 will 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?.
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• If Finder of Paths Unseen makes 2 of its lands adjacent, then uses the Moon+Air threshold of its 1st innate to Push its Presence out of one of those lands, are those two lands still adjacent for the Sun+Air threshold?
  Yes. They're adjacent for the whole action (Power use), but then cease being adjacent once you're done resolving the Power because they're no longer both your lands.
  Tags: Actions, Open the Ways (Finder of Paths Unseen), Lay Paths They Cannot Help But Walk (Finder of Paths Unseen), Flowing and Silent Forms Dart By, 7 more...