Immense Aspect (Lightning's Swift Strike)

Frequently Asked Questions

Aspects

• When the Immense Aspect would grant an extra Element at the end of the Spirit Phase, do its Plays count as 1 Play or half a Play?
  1 Play. Immense has just as many Plays as Lightning's Swift Strike normally does; it just has to spend twice as many of them to play a card at the end of the Spirit Phase.

  The extra Element lets Immense still get a benefit from advancing to having an odd number of plays, despite the 3rd and 5th plays not actually allowing Immense to play any more Power Cards.
  Tags: Elements, Immense Aspect (Lightning's Swift Strike)

Scenarios

• When playing a Power Card face-down in the Ward the Shores scenario, is the card still a Major/Minor/Unique Power Card for the purpose of abilities that care (e.g., the Immense Aspect)?
  No, a Power Card that's played face-down loses its prior type.

  To cover specific cases:

  • The Immense Aspect does not gain 2 Elements for playing a Major Power face-down.
  • The Intensify Aspect can't spend an Air Marker to use a face-down Minor Power during the Fast Phase.
  • During the Ethereal Conjunction Event, all face-down Power Cards count as non-Major Power Cards, and can be used by that Event to add a Warding Pattern.
    Tags: Rulings Under Examination, Ward the Shores, Immense Aspect (Lightning's Swift Strike), Intensify Aspect (Shifting Memory of Ages), 1 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• Does Grinning Trickster's rightmost Growth Option just use the Card Plays revealed on the Presence Track, or does it include modifiers (e.g., "Back Against the Wall," or Invader benefit 4 in Powers Long Forgotten)?
  The printed number on the Plays track. In general, effects that scale via the Energy/Plays on Presence tracks use the printed numbers rather than the amount of Energy or Plays actually usable during a given Spirit Phase, whether or not they explicitly say so.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Growth, Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble, Back Against the Wall, Powers Long Forgotten, 5 more...