Gift of Abundance (Downpour Drenches the World)

Frequently Asked Questions

Blighted Island cards

• Can you Repeat the Power Card granted by Aid from Lesser Spirits?
  Yes, but with some restrictions.

  • Anything that checks the cost of the Power Card checks its printed cost, which may be 1 Energy.
  • It's not one of your Power Cards in play, so you can't Repeat it with Gift of Twinned Days (but it doesn't stop you from repeating a more expensive Power Card).

  Triggered Repeats, like those from Relentless Punishment, also work normally.
  Tags: Repeat, Aid from Lesser Spirits, Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 5 more...

Effect Rules

• If a "Spirits may prevent this on any/all boards" effect wouldn't do anything on a particular board it's affecting, can Spirits sacrifice Presence there anyway?
  Yes. The sacrifice is to prevent the rest of the Event Action from resolving on that board, not to prevent the actual results of that Event there.

  Choosing to sacrifice Presence this way isn't generally advantageous, but can be used to set up for a Power that uses destroyed Presence, like "Blazing Renewal." Some Spirits also get benefits when their Presence is destroyed or would be destroyed, like Volcano Looming High dealing Damage via its "Collapse in a Blast of Lava and Steam" special rule, making that sacrifice situationally useful even with no future plans for that Presence. And in particularly rare cases, Spirits can even use this to disable a normally-beneficial effect granted by their Presence.

  If the Event only applies to specific boards, you can't sacrifice Presence on other boards. For example, "The Center Crumbles" ("On Each Board with Invaders: Add 1 Blight to an Inland Land") doesn't even attempt to do anything on boards without Invaders, so Presence can't be destroyed to prevent the nonexistent Event Action there. On the other hand, Spirits can sacrifice Presence to prevent that Event on a board with Invaders but with no Inland lands (e.g., because "Weave Together the Fabric of Place" has merged all lands on that board into Coastal lands), since the Event still happens on that board despite it being unable to add Blight.
  Tags: On Each Board, Presence, Destroyed Presence, The Center Crumbles, 32 more...
• When a Power like "Powerstorm" grants target Spirit the option to repeat a Power Card of their choice "once this turn," do they have to immediately choose which Power Card will later be repeated?
  No, the Spirit is granted the option to repeat a Power Card in the general sense, rather than a specific Power Card being granted the option of being repeated. This is particularly relevant if Target Spirit has multiple Slow Power Cards in play, since they can see the outcome of the Invader Phase before choosing which of those Power Cards to repeat. The chosen Power Card does not need to have even been in play when the repeat-granting Power was used – if target Spirit is granted the option to play a Power Card later in the turn, the granted repeat can be spent on that Power Card.

  If the granted repeat has a restriction on which Power Cards can be chosen, such as "lowest-cost Power Card they have in play" (from "Gift of Twinned Days"), that condition is checked when repeating the chosen Power Card, not when the option to repeat is granted. Which Power Cards can be repeated this way can thus change over the course of the turn in the uncommon case that Power Cards enter or leave play.
  Tags: Repeat, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Vital Strength of the Earth, Gift of Twinned Days, 4 more...

Power Cards

• When you use a Power outside of its normal phase (e.g., during the Invader Phase via the Rouse the Spirits event), if Repeats have been granted to you (e.g., from Gift of Strength), can you use them then?
  Changed answer: Not to use the Power twice at that time. Unlike "Lightning's Boon" or "Sky Stretches to Shore," you're not actually changing the Power's speed, you're just using it (once) ignoring speed. Repeating a Power lets you use it again in the phase matching the Power's actual speed.

  The first-pass answer was "yes" based on the idea that these things changed the Power's speed, but that proved the wrong direction.

  In the uncommon case where the only reason you can't use the Power at the unusual time is having used it already, you can use a granted Repeat at that unusual time to get around the 1/turn restriction on using Powers.

  Note that this only applies when granted the option to Repeat a Power later in the turn, like with "Gift of Strength" or "Powerstorm." It does not apply to Powers that have "Repeat this Power" as one of their instructions; those can and must be Repeated immediately as an action triggered by the initial use (after any other triggered actions). Similarly, if using a Power triggers the option to Repeat it immediately (rather than later in the turn), you may do so.
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Events, Timing, Changed rulings, 9 more...
• If you Forget a Power Card partway through resolution, do you continue resolving it? (E.g., if you gain a Major Power with "Entwined Power" and then Forget "Entwined Power.")
  Yes, finish resolving the current use of the Power, along with any immediately-triggered instructions to Repeat the Power (e.g., via Relentless Gaze of the Sun using its "Relentless Punishment" special rule). The Power Card is no longer in play though, so you no longer gain the benefits of its Elements towards its own elemental thresholds and cannot Repeat it later in the turn with a "once this turn" Repeat option (e.g., via "Powestorm").
  Tags: Forgetting, Repeat, Entwined Power, Draw Towards a Consuming Void, 11 more...
• Does repeating a Power Card that grants repeats (e.g., "Powerstorm") create an infinite combo?
  No, since "Repeat" instructions are ignored when repeating a Power. [Core game p. 19]

  Some of these Power Cards can be usefully repeated due to having non-Repeat instructions:

  • "Powerstorm" grants target Spirit 3 Energy. Repeating it for free gets the Spirits more Energy, and even repeating it by paying its cost can allow an effective transfer of Energy from the Spirit repeating "Powerstorm" to target Spirit.
  • "Gift of Abundance" grants target Spirit gain 2 Energy and lets either Downpour Drenches the World or target Spirit add destroyed Presence back onto the island.

  On the other hand, "Gift of Twinned Days" only grants the option to repeat Power Cards, so repeating it does nothing.

  Tags: Repeat, Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, Gift of Abundance (Downpour Drenches the World), 1 more...
• If you repeat a Power, can you use another Power in between the two uses, or do the two uses have to go right after each other?
  That depends on what's letting you Repeat the Power.

  • If you can Repeat the Power "this turn" (e.g., from "Powestorm" or "Gift of Strength"), then you may use another Power between the two uses of the repeated Power.
  • If the Power repeats itself (e.g., "Creepers Tear into Mortar" or "The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain") or you are granted the option to Repeat a Power "After" using it the first time (e.g., from "Relentless Punishment" or "Strength of the Waking Island"), then resolve the Power and anything else it triggers (e.g., "Vengeance of the Dead") before immediately Repeating it – you don't have a chance to use another Power first.
    (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, 20 more...