Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes)

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• When a Power Card is played for less than its total cost (e.g., via "Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power"), does that reduce the cost to Repeat it via "Powerstorm" or other effects that Repeat a Power based on its cost?
  No, being able to play a Power Card for less than its printed cost does not reduce the cost printed on the card. Use that printed cost for anything else that references the cost of the Power Card.

  Contrast this with the Blitz Scenario, which does actually reduce the cost of all Fast Powers, and thus reduces the cost to Repeat them.
  Tags: Repeat, Powerstorm, Gift of Twinned Days, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), 12 more...

General Play

• When an effect lets you play a card, does that count against your allowed number of card plays?
  No. The number of card plays on your Presence track only affects how many cards you can play as part of the "Play and Pay For Power Cards" action in the Spirit Phase. Cards played any other way (usually in the Fast Phase when instructed to do so by a Power) are in addition to those limits.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Playing Power Cards, Spur on with Words of Fire, Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, Gift of the Primordial Deeps (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), 14 more...

Scenarios

• When does Blitz reduce the cost of a Fast Power and when does Blitz refund Energy for a Power being Fast?
  When you play Power Cards by paying their costs {1}, total up the Energy cost of all of the Powers you’re playing and reduce it by 1 per Fast Power to determine how much you need to pay. If that number is negative, gain that much Energy as a refund.

  When using a Fast Innate Power that has the potential to do something for the first time each turn, gain 1 Energy as a refund.

  When you make a Slow Power Fast (via Swiftness of Lightning or similar) gain a 1 Energy rebate.

  If a Fast Power Card (or a Power Card made Fast) costs 1 or more Energy, also reduce its printed cost by 1 (e.g., for Repeating it with Gift of Strength or checking when it's played by Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo).

  {1} = This usually as part of the “Play and Pay For Power Cards” action in Spirit Phase, but sometimes a Power like Call on Midnight’s Dream tells you to do so.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Energy, Playing Power Cards, Blitz, Gift of Strength (Vital Strength of the Earth), 11 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• When using Dances Up Earthquakes' third growth option, can you pick the same impending card twice? Can you gain extra Energy onto one impending card and less Energy onto another impending card?
  No and yes, respectively. You first choose which 0-2 cards you're going to affect and then separately decide which of the chosen cards (if any) will gain +1 Energy and which (if any) will gain -1 Energy when you gain Energy later that Spirit Phase.
  Tags: Growth, Action Modifiers, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), 1 more...
• Do impending cards grant Elements once they’re in play?
  Once Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo puts an impending card into play, it is no longer impending and works just like any other card in play.

  Power cards don't grant Elements while impending because they aren't in play. There isn't an extra effect that stops them from granting Elements forever.
  Tags: Elements, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), Dances Up Earthquakes, 0 more...
• When Dances Up Earthquakes puts an impending card into play, can it immediately make the card impending again?
  No. Dances Up Earthquakes can only make a Power Card impending when it wasn't already impending.
  Tags: Dances Up Earthquakes, Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes)
• When Dances Up Earthquakes plays a Major Power via Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, what happens if you make that Power Card impending?
  If you choose to Forget the Power at end of turn, then nothing useful happens: you make the card impending, then Forget it when the turn ends without ever using it.

  If you choose to pay with Energy, "Begin a Dance of Decades" lets you pay any amount of Energy – even more than the amount you'd normally have to pay. This may be advantageous if you want reduce the time it will spend impending. The impending card will then come into play on a future turn based on the card's printed cost, like impending cards normally do. It won't automatically gain all elemental thresholds on that future turn since that effect of "Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power" expires when Time Passes this turn.
  Tags: Forgetting, Unlock the Gates of Deepest Power, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), 1 more...
• Can Dances Up Earthquakes Forget an impending card when it gains a Major Power? How about to pay for a Choice Event?
  Yes, in both cases — impending cards are still Dances' cards, so they can be forgotten. Discard all Energy on the impending card when you forget it.

  However, Dances can't use them to assist with paying for a Choice Event in any other way. Impending cards are not in play, so they don't contribute Elements for being in play, and they are not in hand, so they cannot be discarded for Elements.
  Tags: Forgetting, Choice Events, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), 1 more...
• Do Dances Up Earthquakes' Impending Power Cards count as being in hand, play, or discard?
  No, impending cards are set aside out of play until they accumulate enough Energy to be played. They can't be played (except by Rhythmic Powers Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo), can't be discarded, and can't be reclaimed. They also don't count as being in play for, e.g., Earth Shudders, Buildings Fall or Gift of Seismic Energy.

  However, they can be forgotten, since that doesn't require the power card to be in any particular place.
  Tags: Reclaim, Dances Up Earthquakes, Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), 2 more...
• When Dances Up Earthquakes gains Energy directly onto impending cards, is that Energy decreased by Bargains or increased by Back Against the Wall?
  No, those effects modify the Energy gained into a Spirit's individual Energy stockpile, not the amount gained onto impending cards.
  Tags: Bargain, Energy, Bargains of Power and Protection, Back Against the Wall, 4 more...
• Can Dances Up Earthquakes use its third growth option to delay an impending card from being played even if there's no Energy on that card to remove?
  Yes. That growth option doesn't immediately change the amount of Energy on the impending card — it changes how much Energy will be gained onto that card later in the Spirit Phase. It's possible to delay a 1-cost card with 0 Energy on it by gaining 1 fewer Energy onto it that turn.
  Tags: Growth, Action Modifiers, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), 1 more...
• What is the penultimate space on Dance Up Earthquakes' top track? Is it a track action that lets it gain 2 extra Energy onto each impending card?
  No, just gives 2 total Energy onto each card, and not as a track action. (For instance, it cannot be skipped.)

  Dances Up Earthquakes has two kinds of Energy icons on its top track. The highest normal Energy icon determines how much Energy Dances gains into its stockpile, and the highest Energy-on-an-impending-card icon determines how much Energy Dances gains onto each impending card.
  Tags: Presence track, Energy, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), 1 more...
• When can Dances Up Earthquakes put Energy on impending cards?
  Dances Up Earthquakes can only put Energy on impending Power Cards in two ways:

  • When making a Power Card impending, they can put any amount of Energy on it.
  • When gaining Energy from its Presence Track in the middle of the Spirit Phase, they gain some amount of Energy (usually 1) directly onto each impending Power Card, based on which spaces are revealed on their top Presence Track and which Growth option they picked that turn.
    Tags: Energy, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), Dances Up Earthquakes, 0 more...
• Can Dances Up Earthquakes use one of its "+1 Play for impending only" spaces to make a 0-Energy Power Card impending and then play it immediately?
  No, that card will be put into play on the following turn.

  Impending cards are put into play by Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo immediately after gaining Energy each Spirit Phase, before Power Cards are played from hand. By the time the 0-Energy card is made impending, the chance for impending cards to come into play has already passed.
  Tags: Playing Power Cards, Rhythmic Power Builds to a Cataclysmic Crescendo (Dances Up Earthquakes), Begin a Dance of Decades (Dances Up Earthquakes), Dances Up Earthquakes, 0 more...