Mists of Oblivion

Frequently Asked Questions

Elements and Elemental Thresholds

• When you hit the threshold of a Major Power, is the effect in addition to the base effect?
  Yes, unless the card says "instead", threshold effects are in addition to the base effect [p. 17].
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General Play

• When a Power cares about how many Invaders that Power destroyed (eg: Mists of Oblivion, or Shadows' innate Power), do Damage boosts (Badlands, Flame's Fury) count?
  Yes. Damage boosts increase the amount of damage done, but the damage is still being done by the original source.
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Power Cards

• If you Repeat Infestation of Venomous Spiders with threshold, does the "this Power" in the threshold refer to all uses of the Power that turn, granting Damage twice from each skip?
  No, when you check what "this Power" does, it refers to one use of the Power, not every use that turn. Any Action skipped by one use of Infestation of Venomous Spiders will only cause Damage from that use's threshold, not from any Repeats.
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• How does Mists of Oblivion destroy invaders, if it only does one damage to each Town/City?
  Usually, only if the Invaders are already damaged by some other effect, or if you hit the threshold.

  The instruction "1 Fear per Town/City this Power destroys" means that you generate some extra Fear if the power happens to destroy things. It's up to you to arrange how this happens, using the rest of the card.
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• When a Power (say, Blazing Renewal) does damage to each Invader, then its threshold effect says "+4 Damage", is that +4 overall Damage, or +3 Damage to each Invader?
  +4 overall Damage, done when the threshold is resolved. If it were a per-Invader improvement, the text would read "+4 Damage to each Invader".

  Generally, the "+" in threshold effects is just to remind players that the damage is in addition to the damage up in the normal effects.

  (Mists of Oblivion changed between the second and third printings, and the current printings no longer have the "+".)
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Spirits and Innate Powers

• If Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares uses "Mists of Oblivion," do they get the Power Card's bonus fear for destroying Towns/Cities? (Relatedly, can they trigger "Vengeance of the Dead"?)
  No. No Towns/Cities are actually destroyed, so "Mists of Oblivion" grants no bonus Fear. And similarly, "Vengeance of the Dead" doesn't deal any Damage.

  "To Dream a Thousand Deaths" only changes what happens when Bringer of Dreams and Nightmares would destroy/damage Invaders. It doesn't change what happens if an effect checks whether or not Invaders actually got destroyed.
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