Nested Actions

Frequently Asked Questions

Blighted Island cards

• If there's only 1 Blight on the Healthy Island card, and you need to add 2 at once (eg: Sweden 1), what do you do?
  Immediately flip the card; any Blight that was on it is added to the newly created Blight pool. If the Blight Card has any immediate effects, resolve them. Then add the 2 Blight to the board.

  Immediate effects of the flipped Blight card are nested actions - you resolve them completely (including anything they trigger) before returning to what you were doing.
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Effect Rules

• When Blight is Added, what order do you perform all of the effects of Adding Blight? If you were in the middle of a Ravage, do you finish the Ravage first?
  Do the ‘Immediately’ effects on the Blight card, and then finish resolving whatever caused the card to flip (whether it's a Ravage or something else).

  More precisely, the order is:

  1. Take Blight off the card. If this empties the card, flip it, refill the Blight pool, and resolve any ‘Immediately’ effects on the card as a nested Action.
  2. Actually put the Blight in the land.
  3. Destroy Presence and do anything else that cares “when” this happens, like Kingdom of Sweden Level 5, Tsardom of Russia Level 1, or the Blight card All Things Weaken.
  4. If Blight was already present, cascade (returning to Step 1 in that adjacent land).
  5. Finish resolving the Action (usually the Ravage) that caused the Blight card to flip.
  6. Perform any Triggered Actions that care about Blight being added, like Kingdom of Scotland Level 5.

  In particular, if more Invaders are added to the land being Ravaged (e.g., with Promising Farmlands), they don't deal more damage, as that step has already happened; however, they are susceptible to a Dahan counterattack, and any new Dahan (e.g., with Unnatural Proliferation) would participate.
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General Play

• Can a triggered action trigger itself if it does so via an (nested) basic action? Eg: Wildfire adds Presence, triggering Blight. The Blight card flips and its immediate effects (a basic action) let Wildfire add more Presence. Does Blazing Presence trigger again?
  No. "Can't trigger themselves even indirectly" includes cases like this; otherwise infinite loops would be possible.
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Power Cards

• If an Adversary/Event/Scenario Action causes an Invader Action, does "Pour Time Sideways" double both the the original Action and then twice double the Invader Action?
  No, "Pour Time Sideways" doesn't double anything that's already doubled.

  For example, if time is poured onto a board twice, then "On each board: Choose a land with Cities. Build there." (the "Provincial Seat" Event) makes players choose a land on that board three times, but only Builds once in each chosen land for a total for three Build Actions on that board (rather than causing nine Build Actions by choosing three times and Building three times per choice).

  Formally, when "Pour Time Sideways" changes how many times an action happens, it doesn’t apply to any secondary (triggered/nested) actions caused, directly or indirectly by that action (i.e., any descendant in the action tree).
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