Many Minds Move as One

Spirit Overview — Framing

Wiki-printed playstyle note:

Requires heavy spatial thought for Beast movement, due to its improved Push/Gather and large numbers of Beast. Has no offense to start with, but an excellent stalling defense combined with Fear generation; outright Fear victories may be plausible in smaller games. Both Fear Cards and Beast events are unpredictable, however, so swings of fortune are apt to be more relevant than usual.

Strategic framing [VERIFY: enhance with play experience].

Starting Setup

Put 1 Presence and 1 Beast on your starting board, in a land with Beast. Note that you have 5 Unique Power Cards.

Growth Options (one)

Growth token reference (Wiki shorthand):

• reclaim — Reclaim all discarded Power Cards.
• gain1p / gain2p — Gain 1 or 2 Power Cards (Minor).
• addpresence1 / addpresence2 / addpresence3 — Add 1 Presence from track, Range N.
• energy1 / energy2 / energy3 — +1/+2/+3 Energy.
• card1 / card2 — +1/+2 Card Plays this turn.
• (Other tokens documented on Wiki Spirit template reference pages.)

Presence Tracks

As Presence leaves each track, these values are revealed:

• Energy track: energy0, energy1, air, energy2, animal, energy3, energy4
• Card-play track: card1, card2, pay2pcard, card3, card3, card4, card5

Core Mechanics & Special Rules

Special Rule

FLY FAST AS THOUGHT When you Gather or Push Beast, they may come from or go to lands up to 2 distant (rather than adjacent only). A JOINING OF SWARMS AND FLOCKS Your Sacred Site may also count as Beast. (Note: You never have more than 1 Sacred Site in a land, no matter how many Presence you have there.) (If something changes a Beast that is your Sacred Site, it affects 2 of your Presence there - e.g., Push 1 Beast will Push 2 of your Presence together.)

Innate: THE TEEMING HOST ARRIVES

• Speed: fast · Range: 2 · Target: any

Level	Thresholds	Effect
1	2 Air + 1 Animal	Gather up to 1 Beasts.
2	3 Air + 1 Water + 2 Animal	Instead, Gather up to 1 Beasts per Air you have.
3	1 Fire + 4 Air + 2 Animal	Push up to 3 Beasts.

Innate: BESET AND CONFOUND THE INVADERS

• Speed: fast · Range: 2 · Target: invaders

Level	Thresholds	Effect
1	1 Air + 2 Animal	2 Fear and Defend 2.
2	2 Air + 3 Animal	Instead, 3 Fear and Defend 4.
3	3 Air + 4 Animal	Instead, 4 Fear and Defend 7.
4	4 Air + 1 Earth + 5 Animal	Instead, 6 Fear and Defend 10.

Unique Cards (all, Wiki-verified)

A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh

• 0 Energy · Fast · Range Range 1, from your Sacred Site · Land with 2 or more Beasts tokens · Moon, Air, Water, Animal
• Remove up to half (round down) of Beasts in target land. For each Beasts Removed, 2 Fear and skip one Invader Action.

Boon of Swarming Bedevilment

• 0 Energy · Fast · Range No Range · Another Spirit · Air, Water, Animal
• For the rest of this turn, each of target Spirit’s Presence grants Defend 1 in its land. Target Spirit may Push up to 1 of their Presence.

Ever-Multiplying Swarm

• 1 Energy · Slow · Range 0 · Any Land · Fire, Earth, Animal
• Add 2 Beasts.

Guide the Way on Feathered Wings

• 0 Energy · Fast · Range 1 · Any Land · Sun, Air, Animal

• Move 1 Beasts up to two lands. As it moves, up to 2 Dahan may move with it, for part or all of the way. (The Beasts/Dahan may move to an adjacent land and then back.)

• Pursue with Scratches$ Pecks$ and Stings — [VERIFY] (Wiki fetch error: Wiki API error for ‘Pursue_with_Scratches$_Pecks$_and_Stings’: {‘code’: ‘missingtitle’, ‘info’: “The page you specified doesn’t exist.”, ‘docref’: ‘See https://spiritislandwiki.com/api.php for API usage. Subscribe to the mediawiki-api-announce mailing list at <https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mediawiki-api-announce> for notice of API deprecations and breaking changes.’})

Card Priority Ratings

Uniques

The spirit’s own 5 Unique Power cards (always in hand; always A-tier by default — see Uniques section above for full text):

• A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh
• Boon of Swarming Bedevilment
• Ever-Multiplying Swarm
• Guide the Way on Feathered Wings
• Pursue with Scratches$ Pecks$ and Stings

Top 10 Minor Draft Picks (from full pool)

#	Card	Cost	Speed	Elements	Effect (truncated)	Why this pick
1	Here There Be Monsters	0	Slow	Moon, Air, Animal	You may Push 1 Explorer /Town/Dahan. 2 Fear . If target land has any Beasts, 1 Fear .	elements air+animal → 18.0
2	Set Them on an Ever-Twisting Trail	1	Fast	Air, Plant, Animal	Gather or Push 1 Explorer . Isolate target land.	elements air+animal → 18.0
3	Swarming Wasps	0	Fast	Fire, Air, Animal	Add 1 Beasts. OR If target land has Beasts, Push up to 2 Explorers .	elements air+animal+fire → 18.3
4	Rain of Blood	0	Slow	Air, Water, Animal	2 Fear . If target land has at least 2 Towns /Cities, 1 Fear .	elements air+animal+water → 18.6
5	Call to Isolation	0	Fast	Sun, Air, Animal	Push 1 Explorer /Town per Dahan. OR Push 1 Dahan .	elements air+animal → 18.0
6	Bats Scout for Raids by Darkness	1	Slow	Moon, Air, Animal	For each [[Dahan]], 1 Damage to [[Towns]]/[[Cities]]. OR 1 [[Fear]]. [[Gather]] up to…	elements air+animal → 18.0
7	Fleshrot Fever	1	Slow	Fire, Air, Water, Animal	1 Fear . Add 1 Disease.	elements air+animal+fire+water → 18.9
8	Birds Cry Warning	1	Fast	Sun, Air, Animal	The next time Dahan would be Destroyed in target land, Destroy 2 fewer Dahan. OR Push…	elements air+animal → 18.0
9	Veil the Night’s Hunt	1	Fast	Moon, Air, Animal	For each Dahan present, choose a different Invader. 1 Damage to each of those Invaders. *…	elements air+animal → 18.0
10	Call to Migrate	1	Slow	Fire, Air, Animal	Gather up to 3 Dahan . Push up to 3 Dahan .	elements air+animal+fire → 18.3

Top 5 Major Draft Picks (from full pool)

#	Card	Cost	Speed	Elements	Effect (truncated)	Why this pick
1	Winds of Rust and Atrophy	3	Fast	Air, Water, Animal	1 Fear and Defend 6. Downgrade 1 Town /City.	elements air+animal+water → 18.6
2	Infestation of Venomous Spiders	4	Fast	Air, Earth, Plant, Animal	Add 1 Beasts. Gather up to 1 Beasts. For each Beasts, 1 Fear (max. 4) and Invaders skip o…	elements air+animal+earth → 18.3
3	Plague Ships Sail to Distant Ports	4	Fast	Fire, Air, Water, Animal	1 Fear . Add 4 Disease among Coastal lands (on any boards) other than target land.	elements air+animal+fire+water → 18.9
4	Wrap in Wings of Sunlight	3	Fast	Sun, Air, Animal	Move up to 5 Dahan to any land (including back into target land). If you moved at least 1…	elements air+animal → 18.0
5	Flocking Red-Talons	3	Fast	Air, Water, Plant, Animal	Add 1 Beasts. Move up to 2 Beasts within 3 Range to target land. For each Beasts present,…	elements air+animal+water → 18.6

HoSI Beginner Deck Bundle — for reference only

No HoSI beginner-deck bundle for this spirit.

Cards to Avoid (anti-synergy flagged)

Key Strategic Principles

[VERIFY and enhance] — strategic principles should be derived from Wiki-verified mechanics above.

1. Use the Special Rule to its fullest (see above for exact text).
2. Element thresholds drive innate firing — see the innate tables above.
3. Suggested draft cards are Wiki-recommended; pattern-match to your matchup.

Opener Mechanics — starter reference

Starting state

• Setup: Put 1 Presence and 1 Beast on your starting board, in a land with Beast. Note that you have 5 Unique Power Cards.
• Starting income (from presence_energy_track[0] = energy0, presence_cardplay_track[0] = card1): 0 Energy · 1 Card Play
• Hand at start: 4 Unique Power Cards (listed below)
• Growth type: one — pick one growth option per turn

Growth options

• G1: reclaim (Reclaim all discarded+played Power Cards); gain1p (Gain 1 Power Card (Minor unless otherwise noted))
• G2: addpresence1 (Place 1 Presence from a track (Range 1)); addpresence0 (Place 1 Presence from a track (Range 0))
• G3: addpresence3beast ((spirit-specific: addpresence3beast — consult spirit panel)); energy1 ((track slot showing 1 Energy)); gatherbeast2 ((spirit-specific: gatherbeast2 — consult spirit panel))

Presence-track reveal rules: placing Presence (via a growth option with addpresence*) reveals one track slot — either the next Energy slot or the next Card-Play slot, not both. The choice determines your permanent-income trajectory from that turn onward.

Energy track

energy0 · energy1 · air · energy2 · animal · energy3 · energy4 — income as slots reveal: 0 → 1 → air → 2 → animal → 3 → 4

Card-play track

card1 · card2 · pay2pcard · card3 · card3 · card4 · card5 — CP as slots reveal: 1 → 2 → pay2pcard → 3 → 3 → 4 → 5

Innate Powers

• THE TEEMING HOST ARRIVES (Speed: Fast · Range: 2 · Target: any)
  • L1 — 2 Air + 1 Animal: Gather up to 1 Beasts.
  • L2 — 3 Air + 1 Water + 2 Animal: Instead, Gather up to 1 Beasts per Air you have.
  • L3 — 1 Fire + 4 Air + 2 Animal: Push up to 3 Beasts.
• BESET AND CONFOUND THE INVADERS (Speed: Fast · Range: 2 · Target: invaders)
  • L1 — 1 Air + 2 Animal: 2 Fear and Defend 2.
  • L2 — 2 Air + 3 Animal: Instead, 3 Fear and Defend 4.
  • L3 — 3 Air + 4 Animal: Instead, 4 Fear and Defend 7.
  • L4 — 4 Air + 1 Earth + 5 Animal: Instead, 6 Fear and Defend 10.

Fast-phase element ceiling from Uniques

Fast innates resolve in Fast phase and can only see elements from Fast cards played before the innate. Slow-card elements arrive too late to feed a Fast innate. This is the element ceiling Fast plays from your Uniques alone can contribute each turn:

• Fast-phase Unique elements: Sun ×1, Moon ×1, Air ×3, Water ×2, Animal ×3
• Fast-phase L1 ceiling from Uniques alone is sufficient — you can fire L1 T1 without drafting (play enough Fast Uniques to meet the threshold).

Unique Power Cards

Card	Cost	Speed	Range	Target	Elements	Effect
A Dreadful Tide of Scurrying Flesh	0	Fast	Range 1, from your Sacred Site	Land with 2 or more Beasts tokens	moon, air, water, animal	Remove up to half (round down) of Beasts in target land. For each Beasts Removed, 2 Fear and skip o…
Boon of Swarming Bedevilment	0	Fast	No Range	Another Spirit	air, water, animal	For the rest of this turn, each of target Spirit’s Presence grants Defend 1 in its land. Target Spi…
Ever-Multiplying Swarm	1	Slow	0	Any Land	fire, earth, animal	Add 2 Beasts.
Guide the Way on Feathered Wings	0	Fast	1	Any Land	sun, air, animal	Move 1 Beasts up to two lands. As it moves, up to 2 Dahan may move with it, for part or all of the …

Invader phase by turn (base deck)

Adversary escalation can shift this — check the adversary JSON for deviations (Sweden front-loads a Build; some Habsburg levels add early Builds).

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Adversary Matchup Matrix

[VERIFY all grades] — template only; fill in per-adversary notes after play.

Strategy Cliffs — per-adversary-level shifts that change Many Minds Move as One’s math

England L5 — Buildings +1 HP

What changes: Towns become 3-HP (was 2), Cities become 4-HP (was 3). Damage-only Powers dealing 2 or 3 may no longer kill a Town/City in one go.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Stack damage from multiple plays or use downgrade Powers (Crops Wither, Tangled Trees) to soften before finishing.

Sweden L2+ — Fear-card effects reduced

What changes: Sweden’s escalation reduces the impact of Fear cards. Spirits that win by riding Fear cards to Terror-level flips are meaningfully slower.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Shift from fear-rush to board-control: favor Damage/Push Majors over more Fear; accept Terror 2 flip ~2 rounds later.

Russia L3+ — Dahan under pressure + fear suppression

What changes: Russia’s L3 escalation targets Dahan directly and suppresses Fear. Spirits reliant on Dahan density (Shadows of the Dahan, Favors Called Due, Thunderspeaker synergies) lose a key engine.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Pre-empt Dahan loss with Defend-heavy Minors (Dahan/Village-fortify cards); lean on Push/Gather Majors to offset Fear deficit.

Habsburg Mining L5+ — Explorer/Town scaling

What changes: Habsburg Mining L5+ adds extra Explorers and faster builds. Aggressive fear-rush openers can get outpaced by raw Invader accumulation.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Favor Major Powers with mass destruction (Jungle Hungers, Cleansing Floods, etc.) over Minor-heavy drafts.

France (Plantation) — Dahan capture threatens your Dahan engine

What changes: France’s plantation rules convert Dahan to colonists, and Invaders occupy lands with Dahan. Spirits whose innate/card math counts on Dahan density (Shadows-of-the-Dahan, Favors, Thunderspeaker) are downgraded.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Play Defend Powers on Dahan lands; accept loss of range-extension budget.

Brandenburg-Prussia — Cities drive Fear-per-kill (favorable swing)

What changes: BP’s escalation puts Cities on the board early, and each destroyed City dumps Fear into the pool. Damage-dealing spirits benefit from an inflated Fear curve; weaker spirits may struggle against pre-City pressure.

Mitigation for Many Minds Move as One: Aim at City-dense lands with your highest-damage plays for outsized Fear returns.

Board / Map Configuration

[VERIFY via play] — base boards A–D, Jagged Earth E–H, and thematic ratings pending per-spirit play experience.

Game-Phase Strategy

[VERIFY: needs play data].

Synergy Partners (Multiplayer)

[VERIFY: needs multi-spirit play data] — archetype-based hints from Archetype Index are the starting point.

Common Mistakes

[VERIFY: collect from play].

Tempo Profile

[VERIFY: per-round targets need playtest].

Expansion Sensitivity

• Base only: core Uniques + Innate + Special Rule functional if expansion = Base.
• + Branch & Claw: events + blight deck introduce variance.
• + Jagged Earth: Major/Minor pool deepens.
• + Nature Incarnate: additional aspects may unlock; check the aspect column above.

Per-expansion specifics [VERIFY].

Stat Snapshot

Source Notes

Chapter draft generated from Wiki data 2026-04-19. Strategic prose needs enhancement from play experience. See templates/SPIRIT_TEMPLATE.md for the full Rei-format spine.