Prepare the marked plots for the prophecy
In a standard run, your blessing is revealed in year 6 and takes effect in year 16; blue highlights identify its target plots, except for Prosperity, which checks gold instead. Prepare those spaces for the blessing you receive: Baby Boom wants a troop, Zenith wants a damage carry, Illuminism wants a card worth upgrading, and Feudalism wants empty plots.
How to prepare a blessing
Plan around the highlighted spaces and what they will contain when the prophecy resolves. A useful troop elsewhere in your kingdom will not benefit from a plot-targeted blessing simply because it is your strongest unit. Before committing cards, decide which marked spaces should hold something valuable and which should stay empty.
- Read the blessing revealed in year 6 to identify the reward you are preparing for. Match your plan to its effect before changing the contents of the marked plots.
- Inspect the blue plot highlights to locate the spaces the blessing will affect. Use those marked positions when planning your next placements; Prosperity instead asks you to consider your gold.
- Place a suitable card on a marked plot before year 16: an important troop for Baby Boom, a damage carry for Zenith, or a card you want to upgrade for Illuminism.
- Leave Feudalism's marked plots empty so they meet its reward condition. Treat those spaces as reserved rather than filling them with cards you do not need there.
- Review your target plots before year 16 arrives. Their contents when the blessing resolves determine whether the effect helps the unit or building you intended.
Match the blessing to your build
| Blessing | Effect and preparation |
|---|---|
| Baby Boom | Doubles troop quantity on its target plots. Place an important troop on a marked space before the prophecy resolves. |
| Illuminism | Affects levels. Put a card worth upgrading on a marked plot so the reward supports your intended build. |
| Peacetime | Affects HP. Consider which eligible card would make the best use of a health-focused reward. |
| Prosperity | Checks gold rather than a target plot. Prepare your treasury instead of rearranging cards to catch a blue highlight. |
| Zenith | Affects damage. Position a damage carry on a marked plot so the blessing strengthens an attacker you rely on. |
| Feudalism | Rewards empty marked plots with free cards. Preserve those empty spaces when planning the rest of your board. |
| Hegemony | Copies the cards on its target plots into your hand. Prepare plots whose cards you want to play again. |
Use Baby Boom on the troop you want to multiply
Baby Boom rewards having a troop on its target plots by the prophecy year, doubling its unit count. For an Elf-and-Boar army, the Elf plot is a useful target: the blessing multiplies the Elves that fire the army's ranged attacks. This is a troop-quantity reward, so prepare the troop you want more of.
Keep the rest of that army's placement useful while preparing the marked space. Boars must be adjacent to Elves for the Elves to mount them, and Forests belong against the Boar plot to support its HP. A blessing target should fit into that working arrangement rather than leave your key cards disconnected.
Pair Hegemony with a Portal in multiplayer
Hegemony can do more than refill your hand when a Portal is part of its target area. In multiplayer, the Portal can replay the blessing's prophecy year, allowing Hegemony to copy the targeted cards again. Build toward this sequence when Hegemony is offered and you already have a Portal in your hand or kingdom.
- Place a Portal on a Hegemony target plot so the blessing can copy its cards alongside the cards from your main plot.
- Reach the prophecy year with those cards on the marked plots to receive Hegemony's copies in your hand.
- Play the cloned Portal cards onto a Portal plot until it reaches maximum level, sending your kingdom 2 years back in time.
- Play through the prophecy year again to trigger another set of copies. Keeping the Portal among Hegemony's targets supplies cards for another trip.
The important restriction is that the copies must include the Portal cards. Each jump requires a Portal plot to reach maximum level, so copying only your main attacker does not supply the next trip. A different blessing can still be replayed by a Portal, but Hegemony is the blessing that returns the Portal cards for this sequence.
Account for the full release additions
The full release added Cornucopia and Reclamation, bringing the blessing total to nine. Read the effect displayed in your run before reserving plots for either one. Use the blessing's own condition to guide your placements rather than applying the Baby Boom or Hegemony plan automatically.