Second Sun for income

[Shangrila00]

Originally Posted by shatner

However, that cold-3 nation does need to deal with the gold loss of all of those turns leading up to them casting Second Sun PLUS all of those turns leading up to their reaching a neutral temperature.

I agree that taking cold-3 and then casting this is clever but you do have to account for all the time it'll take them to reach Evocation 6.

Oh sure, but isn't supposed to be some massive game changing strategy like casting Utterdark or something. It's just a little something you can do with an F9 pretender that is otherwise pretty useless, if you happen to need to take temp scales to balance out your points, and you don't have a preference. It's not that you'll have to take the pain from cold 3 until you cast it, but rather than you'll have to take an extreme temp anyway to have that bless you want, so why not take cold and have a chance to cancel it out later.

I guess the question is whether it might annoy other players into combining against you, which would be a problem seeing as how unlike other spells that do that, it doesn't give you some massive game winning advantage. Though it does have the advantage that it'll do pretty much nothing to heat preference nations who'd have little reason to want it down, and might even want to help you keep it up. So situational depending on diplomacy I guess.