Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance)

Frequently Asked Questions

Blighted Island cards

• If All Things Weaken is out, can the third level of Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance) save adjacent Presence from destruction?
  No. That innate threshold specifies "When a ... Blight card directly destroys Presence". All Things Weaken changes the rules for how Blight destroys Presence, but does not directly destroy Presence itself, it's adding Blight which does so.
  Tags: Blight, Adding Presence, Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance), All Things Weaken, 0 more...

Effect Rules

• Does "you can't destroy the same Invader twice in one action" also apply to Presence destruction?
  Yes — a single action can't destroy the same Presence more than once.

  This can happen with "Flowing and Silent Forms Dart" by in concert with anything that adds Blight one after another in multiple lands, like cascades or Volcano's "Explosive Eruption".
  Tags: Destroy, Saved From Destruction, Blight, Presence, 8 more...

Power Cards

• Does "Entwined Power" (you and target Spirit may use each others’ Presence to target Powers) also allow you to count the other Spirit's Presence for the text effects of Powers (e.g., getting 1 Fear and dealing 1 Damage with "Pull Beneath the Hungry Earth")? How about for determining which lands are "your lands" for the purpose of a Power?
  No. Those are effects of Powers; Entwined Power only helps targeting – i.e., meeting the requirements in the "Range" and "Target" boxes.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Targeting, Entwined Power, Locus Aspect (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), Gift of Living Energy, 48 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Can Stone's Unyielding Defiance use Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (to take Blight from the box) even if the Blight being added will destroy their Presence?
  Yes.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Blight, Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance)
• What does "When an Event or Blight Card directly destroys Presence" mean, for Stone's innate Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will?
  It means the Event / Blight card uses the words “Destroy (Presence)” rather than, e.g., adding Blight that then happens to Destroy Presence. This Innate’s effect can be used even if the Presence Destruction was a choice, paying a cost or otherwise optional.
  Tags: Events, Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance)
• If 2 Blight is added at once (eg: Sweden), can Stone's first innate pay for just 1 of it to come from the box? Or is the choice all-or-nothing?
  Yes, you can pay for just 1 of the 2 Blight to come from the box.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Blight, Hold the Island Fast with a Bulwark of Will (Stone's Unyielding Defiance), Kingdom of Sweden
• If Vengeance as a Burning Plague's presence is saved from destruction, does it still get to add a Disease?
  No. Both because of the phrasing "...where each Destroyed Presence was", which is meaningless if no Presence is actually destroyed; and because the replacement must be applied before other modifications.

  The phrasing on this is pretty unclear – "...where each Destroyed Presence was" is a check that should happen after Presence might be destroyed, not at the moment Presence might be destroyed. The rule would have been better done either as a triggered action ("After your Presence is destroyed..."), or phrased as "...instead Replace your Presence with a Disease".
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Saved From Destruction, Vengeance as a Burning Plague, Flowing and Silent Forms Dark By (Shroud of Silent Mist), Lingering Pestilence (Vengeance as a Burning Plague), 4 more...