Visions Out of Time

Frequently Asked Questions

Definitions

• If the end of a Step or Phase triggers multiple Actions, are those Triggered Actions part of the same Action Tree?
  No, they each start their own Action Tree.

  This can matter if one Action Tree will win the game and another will lose the game — the players can choose which Action Tree resolves first and check for Victory after that one.

  For instance, the Triggered Actions from Russia Level 6 each start their own Action Tree, each potentially winning the game (e.g., with Call to Guard) or losing the game (e.g., combined with France or England).
  Tags: Action tree, Triggered Actions, Victory and Defeat, Visions Out of Time, 0 more...
• When instructed to discard a card, which cards can you choose from? Where do those cards go?
  "Discard a card" without any other qualifiers means "put a Power Card from your hand into your discard pile." This most commonly occurs as part of paying for a Choice Event, but can also appear as a cost or detrimental effect.

  Some effects (most notably, the standard effects of Time Passes) discard Power Cards from play because they interact with a specific card that's in play or with cards in play in general. In that case, put the Power Card(s) from play into your discard pile. You can't discard a Power Card from play unless otherwise instructed to do so.

  If instructed to discard a card not controlled by a player, the card goes to that deck's discard pile. This most commonly occurs when gaining a Power Card, discarding the top card of the Event Deck on Turn 1, and when discarding a Minor Power as a randomizer.
  Tags: Discarding Powers as a randomizer, Choice Events, Turmoil's Touch (Wandering Voice Keens Delirium), Wandering Voice Keens Delirium, 19 more...

Effect Rules

• Do effects that interact with “gaining” Power Cards apply to every time a Spirit gets a new Power Card, no matter the method?
  No, only if the Spirit explicitly “gains” that Power Card (usually by drawing four cards and picking one to keep). If they “take” a Power Card, are given a Power Card, or otherwise receive a Power Card without being told to “gain” it, then they have not “gained” a Power Card.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Taking Power Cards, Transferring Power Cards, Gather Power from the Cool and Dark (Shroud of Silent Mist), 14 more...

Event Cards

• In the "Visions Out of Time" Event, what happens if multiple Omens end up in one land? How about if an Omen is temporarily out of the game due to being under Absolute Stasis?
  On the turn after "Visions Out of Time" is drawn, in each land that's in the game and has Omens, gain 2 Fear, Ravage once, and Remove 1 Omen after the Ravage Step. Any leftover Omens (whether due to multiple Omens stacking up in one land or the Omens not being in a land at the relevant time) can be removed from the board to reduce clutter, since it's unlikely they will do anything relevant for the rest of the game.

  As a more thematic option, you can treat Omens as if they had the ability on the Event Card: "Starting next turn, after the Ravage Step: 2 Fear; Invaders Ravage; Remove this Omen." In that case, stacked Omens can cause multiple Ravages in one land, and Omens under "Absolute Stasis" will cause problems after Ravage Steps of future turns.
  Tags: Visions Out of Time, Absolute Stasis (Fractured Days Split the Sky), Weave Together the Fabric of Place, Bargain of Coursing Paths, 0 more...
• Can a Spirit pick the top option for Visions Out of Time even if they don’t have 1 Energy or a Power Card that the Event can replace?
  Yes.

  Those are both effects of the choice, not costs, so just do as much as you can.
  Tags: Choice Events, Visions Out of Time, Ethereal Conjunction

Scenarios

• Does Destiny Unfolds have any effect on taking powers (e.g., via "Transformative Sacrifice") or gaining powers from a specific subset rather than from the deck (e.g., "Let's See What Happens")?
  No, those effects work normally, since they either aren't “gaining,” or are gaining from a place that is not specifically a power deck.
  Tags: Gaining Power Cards, Taking Power Cards, Aid from Lesser Spirits, Let's See What Happens (Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble), 10 more...
• When are Scenario Markers / Element Markers considered pieces?
  Nearly anytime they're placed on the board. The only exception is if they're purely a visual reminder, like in The Great River, or if used to mark Inner Lands for Guard The Isle's Heart. (JE p. 35, "Piece")

  This might be revisited if future content results in weird situations, as some of the cases are kind of borderline (eg: Rituals of the Destroying Flame), but for now the simplicity of "always" wins out.

  Element Markers placed on the board for Elemental Invocation are not considered "pieces" - the first printings of Jagged Earth considered them as pieces that were basically non-interactable (since they're not in any land); it's cleaner to just not count them as pieces at all.
  Tags: Element markers, Pieces, Changed rulings, Despicable Theft, 9 more...