Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble
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- Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble
- Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble Lore
- Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble Cards
- Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble Strategy
- Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble Design and Extras
SETUP
Put 2 
on your starting board: 1 in the highest-numbered land with 
, and 1 in land #4.
PLAY STYLE
Requires some comfort with risk: both Overenthusiastic Arson and Let's See What Will Happen involve uncertainty about how the Fast Powers phase will pan out.
Can be effective from the get-go, but benefitrs from not working too hard, instead improving its capacity for mischief - adding and gaining Power Cards in particular. Free Energy from Let's See What Will Happen can also be helpful, so it doesn't need to focus as much on gaining it elsewhere.
COMPLEXITY
| MODERATE |
|---|
 Reclaim Cards +
1  Move Presence |
+
2  Add Presence |
 Gain Power Card |
 per card play
|
| Energy/Turn  Moon  2  Any  Fire  3
|
 Card Plays  3 3  4  Air  5
|
SPECIAL RULES
A REAL FLAIR FOR DISCORD
After one of your Powers adds 
in a land, you may pay 1 Energy to also add 1 within 1 of that land.
CLEANING UP MESSES IS A DRAG
After one of your powers removes 
, destroy 1 of your . Ignore this rule for Let's See What Happens.
LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
|
1
|
INVADERS |
1 
1 
2 
Discard Minor Powers from the deck until you get one that targets a land. Use its text effects on target land immediately, ignoring normal Range/Targeting restrictions. All "up to" instructions must be used at max value. Treat all "OR"s as "AND"s.
(It is not considered a card of yours/a card in play. Its effects are treated as performed by this Power, as if its text was copied here.)
2 1 2 You may Forget a Power Card to gain the just-used Power Card (to hand) and 1 Energy.
WHY DON'T YOU AND THEM FIGHT
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
|
|
0
|
INVADERS |
3 This Power may be 
.
3 Add 1 .
3 
OR 3 1 Invader and 1 deal Damage to each other.
3 
If target land has 
, 2 Damage. Otherwise, you may Gather 1 .
SUMMARY OF POWERS
| Offense | Control | Fear | Defense | Utility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Lore
From the Playmat
There are many trickster Spirits, but this one is the most infamous due to its part in instigating the Second Great Reckoning between the Dahan and the Spirits. It wears any form it pleases - perhaps a tree, perhaps a canoe, perhaps a prominent clan-chief - but can always be distinguished by its multitude of eyes, though they may be subtle or concealed.
Despite its knack for stirring up trouble, it's neither unfriendly nor motivated by malice - it just has a driving curiosity to see what will happen when it messes around with things. Of course, this may involve putting Spirits, people, and animals alike into suddenly precarious situations, so the Dahan appreciate its shenanigans best at a healthy distance.
Design Lore
Trickery, misdirection, and curiosity are all common in nature, and so there are Spirits which partake of those things to a greater or lesser extent. The urge to try things for onesself and a “let’s poke the anthill and see what will happen!” attitude also exist in nature... and are particularly prevalent among humans. The being now known as Grinning Trickster Stirs Up Trouble was one of those Spirits who found the arrival of the Dahan fascinating, and over many centuries its nature has shifted somewhat in response.
It’s generally friendly, and fairly congenial - but even in the days before it became infamous, the Dahan learned that “friendly” was no guarantee that it wouldn’t, say, hide a tiger inside your house. Not out of any malice, but because it would be fun to see how the whole ridiculous (and incidentally deadly) situation would unfold.
It became infamous by touching off the Second Reckoning, the second great clash between Dahan and Spirits. It did this by telling the absolute truth in the worst manner possible, throwing the (admittedly already tense) situation straight into outright conflict. (Nobody is quite sure whether it intended such a huge blow-up; it claims not to remember.)
It’s been involved in all sorts of adventures and misadventures since - its life is nothing if not eventful - but nothing quite so large-scale as the arrival of the Invaders! (Well, except for that time with the cave? And maybe that other thing with the Sky Serpent. Or…)
Starting Cards
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
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1
|
ANY |
deals Damage to other Invaders.1
per Invader destroyed.
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
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1
|
ANY |
.Discard the top card of the Minor Power deck. If it provides
:1
. 2 Damage. Add 1 .
| SPEED | RANGE | TARGET LAND |
|---|---|---|
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1
|
ANY |
if Invaders are present.If you can Gather 1
, do so, then push 1 . Otherwise, add 1 .
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