Sweep into the Sea

Frequently Asked Questions

Effect Rules

• When instructed to "Repeat this Power", do you have to obey the range/target land restrictions?
  Only if it doesn't tell you where to Repeat it. If a Repeat specifies where to use it, you obey those instructions instead of the usual Range and Target restrictions (p. 19) even if the land would normally be untargetable. In the rare case that the origin land matters when instructed to Repeat a Power in a specific land, it's the same origin land as the original power use.

  For example, The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain could be Repeated on an adjacent land without Blight.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Repeat, Targeting, Range, The Land Thrashes in Furious Pain, 19 more...

Power Cards

• When using Sweep Into the Sea, what does "Push... one land towards the nearest Ocean" mean? What if you move a piece inland?
  When you Push towards the Ocean, the land you Push to must be closer to the nearest Ocean than the land they're currently in, measuring by Range. So a land 2 away from its closest Ocean could only Push to lands 1 away from that Ocean (Coastal to it). As with all ambiguous cases, if multiple Oceans are closest, you decide which one to consider "nearest".

  Similarly if you move a piece inland, you move it further away from the Ocean: each land it moves through must be further from (any) Ocean than the one it left.

  All game notions of "closer" and "further" use Range – you never need a ruler, and a land that looks physically closer might not actually be at shorter Range!
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Range, Move, Sweep into the Sea
• Does an "or" line on a power divide the entire card?
  No. The "or" line only applies to the clauses immediately above and below the line, without extra whitespace.

  For example, if you use Crops Wither and Fade, you always gain 2 fear and then you may choose whether you are replacing a City or a Town. On the other hand, on Tormenting Rotflies, you either choose everything above the "or" or everything below it.

  To be explicit, the following cards have clauses that are not part of the "or" choice (separated by whitespace): Crops Wither and Fade; Growth Through Sacrifice; Sacrosanct Wilderness; Gift of the Primordial Deeps; Gift of Flowing Power; Call to Guard; Vanish Softly Away, Forgotten by All; Thickets Erupt with Every Touch of Breeze
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Crops Wither and Fade (Shadows Flicker Like Flame), Growth Through Sacrifice, Sacrosanct Wilderness (Keeper of the Forbidden Wilds), Gift of the Primordial Deeps (Serpent Slumbering Beneath the Island), 15 more...

Spirits and Innate Powers

• With Sweep into the Sea, can you push Invaders into the Ocean on a board where Ocean's Hungry Grasp has presence?
  Yes, absolutely.

  If the Invaders are in a Coastal land, with Sweep into the Sea you can choose to either push them into the nearest Ocean (which is right there) or destroy them; with Ocean's Hungry Grasp in play, it will usually be better to push and Drown them.
  (Discussion elsewhere)  Tags: Ocean's Hungry Grasp, Sweep into the Sea