Spirit Island Guide - Finder of Paths Unseen

A brief guide and strategy discussion on Finder of Paths Unseen. This video assumes you are familiar with the rules of Spirit Island.

[@knerken]

I will get Feather and Flame in the mail next week and your videos are both great tutorials - and great hype videos! Thanks - keep it up!

[@Zilong09]

Something worth noting in any updated future guides for this beast of a team player: Players need to remember that they Special Rules treat more or less all your lands as adjacent! This is ridiculously broken in group play because G4 let's you place a Presence literally anywhere on the island. This makes everything you touch adjacent. It's like reverse isolate!

[@Reggie1408]

Only two at a time

[@jmanzx5508]

The offer passage between worlds expire at end of turn, like all other effects that don't specify an expiration time (Defend 4 doesn't last forever either, for example)

[@benlikesgames3177]

Thanks for the clarification!

[@SpiderDiscord]

Thanks for making these! They are very enjoyable and informative to watch. A quick question: In 1 2-spirit game which spirit would, in your opinion, match best with Finder?

[@benlikesgames3177]

Thunderspeaker. I don't really mention it in the video, but you can move Dahan with most of your powers as well as invaders. Thunderspeaker's presence can auto-move with Dahan, and provides that Dahan-centric offense that Finder explicitly forbids. Moving all the Dahan and invaders into one land would be crushing. Under that are spirits that have big damage in specific places, ie Ocean or Volcano. Then under that are defensive spirits that let you stall, ie Vital Strength or Rampant Green. Glad you enjoy the videos!

[@SpiderDiscord]

@@benlikesgames3177 Cheers!

[@Reverie42]

@@SpiderDiscord Ocean is a pretty fun combo with finder, but be aware that if you use Finder to push things directly into the ocean, it triggers its special rule, causing you to lose presence/energy. Sometimes that's a price worth paying, but more often than not, you're going to be moving things to the coasts and then having Ocean drown them.

[@mrRHZ]

I have a question, if you move an invader to a space with dahan in it, and then in ravage phase one of them died Does it triggers the responsibility to the dead special rule? The rule mention if your action "directly" lead to destruction of either dahan or invader you must destroy one presence and one energy you have is destruction as a result of ravage phase consider as inderect or direct?

[@benlikesgames3177]

Your (spirit) actions are mostly uses of powers, or if an event or fear card directs you as the spirit to do something. There may be some edge cases, but if you look near the end of my Shifting Ages video I took a picture of the action definitions. A Ravage counts as an invader action, so push/gather is your action and does not directly destroy the Dahan. An exception would be something like if Melt Earth into Quicksand was played and you moved Dahan into that land. In that example, your action of push/gather directly destroyed the Dahan.

[@mrRHZ]

@@benlikesgames3177 thankyou for the reply! So direct damage is from a power card otherwise the rules doesn't apply. Very helpful 👍

[@jaydeestrong]

​@@benlikesgames3177hi, event and fear card effects are not spirit powers even when they are the one who benefited or decide on its resolution

[@benlikesgames3177]

@@jaydeestrong You're right, events and fear actions don't trigger Finder's special rules (to amend my initial comment). The reasoning is that the fear/event cards are the source of the damage and not the spirit itself. Here is a nice summary from the game designer boardgamegeek.com/thread/2422588/article/34754940#34754940

[@Lunaraia]

This spirit seems like a really good combo with Ocean, since Ocean can drown the stuff Finder pushes into the coastal areas, thus working as a loophole. Yes pushing them into the sea itself is not happening, but Ocean can do that itself.

[@yannickdeimel2810]

If the ocean spirit is in the game you can push enemys in the ocean because the ocean counts as swamp land too but if you do that,you will kill you own presence becqause the special rule from finder.

[@yannickdeimel2810]

But yeah its a good combo