Sky Stretches to Shore

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• Can effects that change a Power’s Speed also change the Speed of other Actions taken in specific Phases? (e.g., dealing Damage with the Beasts token marked by "Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone")
  No. Speed changes apply to the original use of a Power, not to delayed effects of a Power (as in this case) nor to non-Power Actions (like Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine abducting pieces at its Incarna).
  Tags: Speed (Fast/Slow), Unearth a Beast of Wrathful Stone, Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine, Terror Stalks the Land (Breath of Darkness Down Your Spine), 9 more...

Event Cards

• If Sky Stretches to Shore has been used on you, and you reveal the "Outpaced" Event, can you change a Power's speed at that point so it interacts differently with Outpaced?
  Yes.
  

  Making a Slow Power Fast will NOT let you resolve it immediately - the Fast phase is done - but will let you keep it in play (perhaps for its elements) without paying Outpaced. Making a Fast Power Slow would let you discard it to gain Energy regardless of whether you used it during Fast, but you could not "resolve it now" unless you had not used it during the Fast phase already.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Speed (Fast/Slow), Sky Stretches to Shore, Outpaced

Power Cards

• If I get a Range boost, what Ranges does it affect?
  Anything that's your action, has a printed Range arrow, is not itself a Range boost, and obeys other restrictions (e.g., if the bonus is restricted to Powers or merely targeting Powers).

  So not just the arrow under "Target Land" on most Power Cards, but also, e.g., Range arrows in the text of Powers (e.g., "Unrelenting Growth") and Range arrows in Spirit Phase actions (like "Move a Presence 1" as a Presence-track ability). Obviously, Power Cards that boost Range won't be able to help with Spirit Phase actions, because Power Cards are used too late in the turn for that.

  • They do not affect Gather or Push, because there is no Range arrow. (And the definition of those keywords involves "an adjacent land".)
  • They do not affect "Your land" or "lands with your Presence" because there is no Range arrow. (And that wording is about what is in the land, not how far away the land is.)
  • They do not affect Ranges on other players' Powers (even if targeting you), because they are not your actions.

  It also doesn't boost the Range at which Flame Markers make lands vulnerable to damage/destruction in Rituals of the Destroying Flame.

  The original wording of "Sky Stretches to Shore," if read strictly, would cause it to work a little differently (only affecting targeting, not Range arrows in the text of Powers), but for the sake of consistency with other Powers that boost Range, it boosts all Range arrows.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range Boosts, Range, Reaching Grasp, Flow Like Water, Reach Like Air, 14 more...
• What happens if you give a Range boost to someone who's used Bargains of Power and Protection? Does it matter if they played Bargains on that turn or an earlier turn?
  In either case, for the turn the Range boost is active, it increases the "within Range 1 of your Presence" at which that Spirit affects Dahan. The boost wears off at the end of the turn, even though Bargains of Power and Protection doesn't.

  This includes range bonuses to "your Power Card" (e.g., Volcano Looming High), but not bonuses specifically for targeting.

  If a Range boost only increases the Range for a single Action (e.g., the Reach Aspect ignoring Range), then the farther-afield Dahan only grant Defend for one action of your choice (usually a single Ravage in one land).
  Tags: Range, Range Boosts, Bargains of Power and Protection, Reaching Grasp, 9 more...
• Does Sky Stretches to Shore boost Range arrows inside a Power's effect text?
  Yes. On a strict reading, it shouldn't - Range arrows inside a Power's effect text aren't part of "targeting", and it reads "for targeting Coastal lands" - but it's much clearer to have all Range boosts work the same way.
  

  (In general, Range boosts affect all Range arrows, including those in the text of Powers.)
  Tags: Range Boosts, Sky Stretches to Shore
• Can Sky Stretches to Shore let you, during the Slow Phase, Repeat an already-used Fast Power? (Assuming you have a Repeat from somewhere, like Powerstorm or Gift of Strength.)
  Yes. Even after a Power is used, it stays in play, and can be modified - there's just usually little point in doing so. So the Fast Power can be made Slow¹ with Sky Stretches to Shore, then used via the Repeat.

  ¹ Effects reading "Use a Power as if it were (Fast/Slow)" should be interpreted as "Make a Power (Fast/Slow)", and would have been better phrased that way.
  (Discussion elsewhere) (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Speed (Fast/Slow), Sky Stretches to Shore

Range and Targeting

• Do Range buffs apply to Powers that affect "a land with your Presence" or "one of your lands"?
  No. "A land with your Presence" specifies a requirement for the land you're affecting (similar to, eg, "a land with Dahan" or "a land with Blight"), not a numeric Range. While it is usually the same in practice as "a land at Range 0", when using effects that modify Range the distinction matters.

  For powers like Punish Those Who Trespass or Firestorm that have a base effect with normal range and a further effect referring to "lands where you have presence", the range on the base effect can be extended, but the further part cannot.

  For instance, if you reach all the thresholds of Punish Those Who Trespass and have extended range, you can use the base effect to deal damage in a distant land and use the further part to deal damage where you have presence (without extension).
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range, Presence, Targeting, Reaching Grasp, 10 more...
• When a special rule grants a Range boost specifically for targeting lands with specific traits/contents, like "Shadows of the Dahan," does that apply to Range arrows within a Power's text?
  No, that bonus is specifically for choosing the target of a land-targeting Power.

  Use the Power as though the number in the "Range" box were increased or completely ignored (depending on the Range boost in question) and the extra target requirement were included in the "Target Land" box. In the case of Shadows of the Dahan, this means ignoring the Range number entirely (but not anything else in the "Range" box!) and adding "Dahan" to whatever else is already in the "Target Land" box.

  This differs from general-purpose Range boosts, which apply to all Range arrows.

  Though early printings of "Sky Stretches to Shore" use the word "targeting," the text of that Power has been revised to work like other Range-boosing Powers and is not subject to this restriction.
  Tags: Range Boosts, Shadows of the Dahan (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Shadows Flicker Like Flame, Encircle Aspect (Sharp Fangs Behind the Leaves), 8 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...