Missionaries Arrive

Frequently Asked Questions

Definitions

• When instructed to discard a card, which cards can you choose from? Where do those cards go?
  "Discard a card" without any other qualifiers means "put a Power Card from your hand into your discard pile." This most commonly occurs as part of paying for a Choice Event, but can also appear as a cost or detrimental effect.

  Some effects (most notably, the standard effects of Time Passes) discard Power Cards from play because they interact with a specific card that's in play or with cards in play in general. In that case, put the Power Card(s) from play into your discard pile. You can't discard a Power Card from play unless otherwise instructed to do so.

  If instructed to discard a card not controlled by a player, the card goes to that deck's discard pile. This most commonly occurs when gaining a Power Card, discarding the top card of the Event Deck on Turn 1, and when discarding a Minor Power as a randomizer.
  Tags: Discarding Powers as a randomizer, Choice Events, Turmoil's Touch (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), Wandering Voice Keens Delirium, 19 more...

Effect Rules

• What counts as "adding" a piece (e.g., adding an Invader for "Confounding Mists")?
  A new piece getting placed on the island.

  In the "Confounding Mists" case, this most commonly occurs due to a Build or Explore action, but can also happen due to Events, Adversary effects, or Scenarios.

  Pieces that are pushed, gathered, brought, or otherwise moved then count as "moved," but not "added." Replacing one piece with another (or multiple others) counts as neither adding nor moving the new pieces; while the components representing that entity have changed, the entity itself is not a new arrival.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Replace, Push, Gather, Move, 36 more...

Event Cards

• When Event cards ask you to discard the top major or minor power and do something on each board, do you discard just one card overall or one per board?
  You discard one card for each board and follow the instructions on that board.

  This affects 'Missionaries Arrive', 'New Species Spread', 'War Touches the Island's Shores', and 'Years of Little Rain'.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Missionaries Arrive, New Species Spread, War Touches the Island's Shores, Years of Little Rain, 2 more...

Fear and Fear Cards

• Can the same piece be moved multiple times with the same Event or Fear card?
  Yes, as long as any restrictions on the card are obeyed.

  For instance, the same Explorer can move multiple times with the Fear card 'Retreat!', and the same Beast can be moved multiple time with 'A Strange Madness among the Beasts'.

  If the card says players must make different choices, this must be obeyed.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Events, Fear, Gather, Push, 11 more...

General Play

• If you damage an Invader/Dahan and then replace it with another Invader/Dahan, does the new piece enter the game damaged?
  Yes. (Rulebook p. 18) When you replace a piece with another piece, the new piece comes in with whatever Damage the original piece had.
  

  For example, if you deal 2 Damage to a City and then replace it with a Town, that Town is immediately destroyed.

  If you replace a damaged piece with two or more pieces (as when "Dissolve the Bonds of Kinship" replaces a City with two Explorers), the damage get divided between the new pieces as you choose. Similarly, if the piece had Strife tokens attached to it, the Strife tokens get divided between the new pieces as you choose.

  Note that if a piece is replaced as part of being saved from destruction (as is done by the Transforming Aspect), then Damage is cleared before the piece is replaced, so there's no Damage to divide. (Strife tokens are still divided normally, if relevant.)
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Damage, Replace, Strife, Crops Wither and Fade (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), 22 more...

Invader Actions

• Can the "next normal" Ravage or Build be on a future turn?
  Yes.

  If the Ravage or Build Space is empty, or if the Invader Card in that space has been changed into a different type of Invader Card (e.g., the next normal Ravage Card becoming a Build Card) leave the relevant Event Card in that space until the effect has a chance to apply.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ravage, Build, Events, Normal Action, 6 more...
• What happens if one effect modifies "the next normal Ravage" and another effect skips it?
  If the next normal Ravage is skipped, then the effect that modifies the Ravage remains in effect until a Ravage actually occurs.

  This can happen, eg, if the event Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid (the next normal Ravage becomes a Build) occurs on a turn when there is no card in the Ravage slot, and on the next turn the event Urban Development (during the next normal Ravage, each City does +2 damage) occurs. Because of Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid, the Ravage is skipped, so Urban Development remains active until the next turn.

  Note that this only applies if the Ravage is effected globally, and not if the Ravage is modified in only some lands.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ravage, Skipping Actions, Events, Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid, 4 more...
• What counts as a single Ravage when "the next normal Ravage" is affected?
  A "normal" Ravage refers to a single Ravage Card in the Ravage Space printed on the board, resolving during the Ravage Step. Similarly the "normal" Build/Explore refers to a Build/Explore Card in the Build/Explore Space printed on the Invader Board, resolving during the Build/Explore Step. (See B&C p. 15 or JE p. 27)

  Thus anything modifying the "next normal" Invader Card of a particular type affects both terrains on a Stage III card, but only one card if there are multiple cards in the space. It doesn't apply to extra steps added by Adversaries like England, Invader Actions caused by an Event or Power (unless modifying how the existing card works), or if an Event swaps an Invader Card to a different type than the space it's in (e.g., turning a card in the Ravage Space into a Build Card). It does include extra actions created by an Invader Card due to a modifier to that card.

  As an exception to the normal rules about ongoing effects expiring when Time Passes, modifiers to the "next normal" Invader Action can persist into future turns in the rare case that there is no Invader Card in the appropriate space on the turn the modifier is added (or even more rarely, if the only card in space has had its type changed to no longer correspond to the space it's in).
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Skipping Actions, Normal Action, Farmers Seek the Dahan for Aid, Heavy Farming, 5 more...
• Under “Ravage Timing” on p. 7 of the Jagged Earth rulebook, it mentions “modifiers to individual Invader Damage” happen first, and “per-land modifiers” only happen afterwards. Why is this relevant? What are some examples of individual vs. land modifiers?
  It's relevant when every Invader in a land has been rendered harmless (via Strife, or reducing its individual Damage to 0) — drawing an Event Card like Destroy the Unnatural (which does +3 total Damage in certain lands) won't increase the Damage from 0 to 3.

  Individual modifiers are things like “Cities deal +3 Damage”, Mesmerized Tranquility (“Each Invader deals -1 damage”), or Strife tokens. Per-land modifiers are things like Destroy the Unnatural (above), or anything which says “Invaders deal +N Damage (per land) …”
  Tags: Strife, Damage, Ravage, Mesmerized Tranquility, 17 more...