Seasons FAQ
218 questions players ask · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Full rulebook
Components
- Can players look through the discard pile during the game?
- What happens when the draw pile runs out of Power cards?
- What are the holes in the player boards for?
- If Air Elemental turns opponents' energy into air but the air tokens run out, what happens?
- How many spaces does each season have on the season wheel?
- How do I tell whether a Power Card's effect is one-time, permanent or activated?
Setup
- Does 'discard' mean removing a card from your hand, and 'sacrifice' removing one from play?
- Do you choose the season dice again every round, or only once at setup?
- Is there a card draft at the beginner (Apprentice Wizard) level?
- In the Apprentice Wizard sets, is each card a single copy or two?
- Do you put both copies of each Power card into the deck at setup?
- Can a Power card's effect go past the 7-token energy limit?
- Does the youngest player choose the starting player every round?
- Can you look at the face-down cards reserved for Year II or III during an earlier year?
- In a three-player game with starter decks, do you shuffle the unused fourth deck back into the draw pile?
Game Overview
First Game Phase – The Prelude
Second Game Phase – The Tournament
- What is the energy reserve limit, and what happens to extra energy?
- If gaining energy would push you past your limit, can you choose which tokens to keep?
- Must the gains on your season die be resolved before any other action on your turn?
- When and how often can you transmute, and is transmuting compulsory?
- After Temporal Boots change the season mid-round, which transmutation chart do later players use?
- Must you take every action on your chosen season die?
- Does the Draw Two Cards bonus need a draw-a-card face on your season die?
- When do you choose and pay for the Draw Two Cards bonus, and can you use it before the die's other gains?
- With the Draw Two Cards bonus, can you discard both cards you draw?
- Can you use the Draw Two Cards bonus more than once in a turn, or stack the draws from one roll?
- Can you use the same bonus more than once, and what do bonuses cost?
- Does the +1 transmute bonus need a transmute symbol on the die?
- Does the transmute bonus apply to Potion of Life and Balance of Ishtar, and do several transmute bonuses stack?
- How do you raise your summoning gauge when the dice bring no gauge symbol?
- Can your summoning gauge go above 15?
- If your summoning gauge drops below the number of cards you have in play, must you sacrifice a card?
- Do cards with one-time effects stay on the table, and do they use a summoning gauge slot?
- Does a card put into play for free still need an open summoning-gauge slot?
- Can you make room in your summoning gauge to play a card, by discarding, sacrificing or raising the gauge first?
- Does a card put into play for free count as summoned, and does it trigger summon effects?
- Can you receive a card an opponent passes to you when your summoning gauge is already full?
- Do Yjang's Forgotten Vase effects resolve before or after the cost of a summoned card?
- Can you summon, activate and summon again in one turn, and can you activate partway through a summon?
- Can you activate a card on the turn you summon it?
- How often can a card be activated, and can you choose not to activate it?
- Do you pay a card's summoning cost again to activate it?
- Must you hold the crystals and energy a summon costs, or only have them available?
- Can you discard a Power card you drew with a die's draw action?
- Can you discard a card or sacrifice a card in play when no card effect says you may?
- Is there a limit on how many cards you can hold in hand?
- Can you draw new Power cards whenever your hand is empty?
- When the season marker moves past space 12, does a new year start on space 1?
- If a card moves the season marker backwards, do the season-change effects apply again?
- If a card sends the season marker back into an earlier season of the same year, do you draw the next year's cards?
- Do you roll the season dice again each round even if the marker stays in the same season, and do you repeat last round's actions?
- Can players alternate playing cards back and forth, or does each player finish a turn before the next acts?
- Can you use a bonus, such as the +1 summoning gauge bonus, in the middle of resolving a card's action?
- How many actions can you take in one turn?
End of the Game
- Can your crystal count or your final score go below zero?
- How are ties broken at the end of the game?
- Do you lose points for cards still in your hand at the end of the game?
- Which cards does Scepter of Greatness count when it enters play?
- Can energy from Beggar's Horn be transmuted in the same turn?
- Do end-of-round and change-of-season effects still trigger in the final round, when the marker passes space 12 in year three?
- In what order do end-of-round effects resolve when several players have them?
- In what order do end-of-round, change-of-season and change-of-year effects resolve, and when does the first-player token pass?
List of Cards and ClarificationsExpansion
- Does Mesodae's Lantern give its 3 crystals every round, not only the round it is played?
- Does Mesodae's Lantern reduce your energy reserve once, or again every round?
- If Elemental Amulet is put into play for free through Divine Chalice, Potion of Dreams or Crystal Orb, do all four of its effects happen?
- If Igramul discards Elemental Amulet, do you receive all four energies?
- Can you resolve Elemental Amulet's energy payments and card draw in any order?
- Can energy gained while paying Elemental Amulet's cost be used to pay the rest of that same cost?
- Can you pay nothing for Elemental Amulet and take no effect?
- Does paying Air Energy for Elemental Amulet raise your summoning gauge, or make you discard a card?
- Do duplicate cards with activation effects stack when both are in play?
- Do a one-off card's benefits end when the card leaves play?
- When you activate Potion of Life, must you transmute all of your energy?
- After activating Potion of Life, can you still transmute on the same turn?
- Does the transmute bonus crystal apply when you activate Potion of Life?
- Does Purse of Io stack with the transmute bonus crystal?
- Does Crystallize from Potion of the Ancients count as transmuting for Purse of Io?
- Does Purse of Io increase what Lantern of Xidit pays?
- What does the current Balance of Ishtar do?
- How many crystals does Balance of Ishtar pay with Purse of Io?
- Can you play two Balance of Ishtar cards to double the crystals in one turn?
- If you play Balance of Ishtar twice, do you pay its cost twice?
- If an opponent has Thieving Fairies, is your Balance of Ishtar gain taken before or after the steal?
- Does Potion of Knowledge give its 5 energy when another card forces you to sacrifice it?
- Does Potion of Power activate if Syllas the Faithful makes you sacrifice it?
- Does a forced sacrifice trigger a card's sacrifice benefit?
- Does a Glutton Cauldron keep its energy when another effect takes it out of play or returns it to hand?
- What happens when the Glutton Cauldron gets its seventh energy token?
- Can energy on Amulet of Water be placed on Glutton Cauldron?
- What does Vampiric Crown give when the card you draw or discard has zero or negative prestige?
- Can you resolve Vampiric Crown by discarding zero cards when your hand is empty?
- If Vampiric Crown gives you many energy tokens, do you take them all before discarding to your reserve limit?
- If Vampiric Crown makes you draw a card and Speedwall the Escaped steals it, do you still gain the energy?
- After a card is sacrificed, does it still use a summoning slot or score at game end?
- Can you sacrifice a card on purpose whenever you want to free a summoning slot?
- How does Hand of Fortune affect a summoning cost of one energy?
- Do Thieving Fairies still give you a crystal when the opponent has no crystals?
- When a player activates a card while I have Thieving Fairies, do I get my Fairies crystal before they pay the activation cost?
- When do Thieving Fairies take crystals relative to an opponent using a gear activation?
- Do two Thieving Fairies stack?
- Can I summon a Power card if I have no crystals to give an opponent's Arcano Leech?
- When does Arcano Leech's crystal from an opponent resolve relative to a summon?
- Does Staff of Spring trigger for a card summoned by Potion of Dreams?
- Does a card put into play for free trigger summon-based effects like Staff of Spring or Yjang's Forgotten Vase?
- Do a card's when-summoned effects still happen when it is put into play for free by Divine Chalice or Crystal Orb?
- Does Staff of Spring or a similar "each time you summon" card trigger on its own summoning?
- Do two copies of Staff of Spring stack?
- Which cards can Amsug Longneck return to hand?
- In what order do players return items when Amsug Longneck is played?
- If Amsug Longneck returns Amulet of Air to your hand, does the summoning gauge increase stay?
- When Amsug Longneck returns Jewel of the Ancients to hand, do its energy tokens stay on it?
- Does Amsug Longneck make you lose crystals from Olaf's Blessed Statue?
- Does Scepter of Greatness count itself when it scores or moves you on the crystal track?
- Does Scepter of Greatness's bonus apply to magic items summoned after it is in play?
- If you own two copies of a magic item such as Scepter of Greatness, does each copy trigger its own effect?
- If Temporal Boots move the season token back from winter to fall, what happens to the year counter and your hand?
- Do change-of-season effects trigger when Temporal Boots move the season marker?
- Does Temporal Boots make change-of-season effects trigger twice if the dice later move the marker forward again?
- What happens when Temporal Boots is your first summon and moves the season back into an earlier year?
- Can Temporal Boots move the season marker back before the first year?
- Can you play Temporal Boots and leave the season marker where it is?
- When you draw a Die of Malice reroll, must the reroll come before any other action with your season dice?
- Can Die of Malice be used on the turn it enters play?
- Can Die of Malice be used on a die other than the season die you chose, such as the Destiny die?
- Can you use two Dice of Malice in one turn to reroll your season die twice and gain 4 crystals?
- If Dragonsoul straightens your Die of Malice, can you use it again to reroll the season die and gain 2 crystals?
- Does Kairn the Destroyer's activation make every opponent lose 4 crystals?
- Do two Kairn the Destroyer cards in play both activate on your turn?
- How do several Beggar's Horn cards work at end of round, including when you have 0 or 1 energy?
- Does Figrim the Avaricious trigger when the final year ends and the game ends?
- When Figrim the Avaricious and Titus Deepgaze both trigger at the season change, which one resolves first?
- Does Titus Deepgaze steal crystals at the end of every round, or only once?
- When several players have Figrim the Avaricious and a player ends the season with crystals, who receives them and in what order?
- When Lewis Greyface or another effect gives you more energy than your reserve limit, can you choose which tokens to keep?
- What changed on Idol of the Familiar in the revised version?
- Do two Lanterns of Xidit each give 3 crystals per energy in your reserve, so 6 in total?
- Does having two Bespelled Grimoire cards raise the energy reserve limit above 10?
- How do reserve-reducing tokens interact with Bespelled Grimoire?
- Does Mirror of the Seasons convert energy tokens placed on Amulet of Water?
- Does Horn of Plenty force you to discard energy from Amulet of Water when your reserve is empty?
- Is discarding one energy at the end of the round with Horn of Plenty mandatory?
- Does Speedwall the Escaped trigger when a player uses the draw-two bonus?
- Can Speedwall the Escaped trigger when Scroll of Ishtar reveals cards?
- Can Speedwall the Escaped be activated on an opponent's turn, and is the ability optional?
- Does Raven the Usurper copy the prestige points of the card it copies?
- Does a Raven copying Chest of Urm count as Chest of Urm for its 20 points at game end?
- Where do the energy tokens go when Raven copies Amulet of Water?
- Does Hand of Fortune lower the cost Raven the Usurper pays when copying an opponent's card?
- Can Raven the Usurper use the energy on an opponent's Glutton Cauldron to build it up?
- Can Argos Embrace be triggered when Crystal Orb or Divine Chalice puts a Power card straight into play?
- Does Argos Embrace trigger when Throne of Renewal or Amulet of Time draws cards?
- Does Potion of Dreams have a same-turn activation restriction under Entangling Roots?
- Does Jewel of the Ancients score 35 VP with exactly 3 energy, or does it need more?
- Does Io's Minion stop Jewel of the Ancients from scoring its 35 VP bonus, and does it block end-of-game crystal gains?
- Does Io's Transmuter still give its 2 crystals when you transmute from a die?
- What must be true to activate Eolis's Replicator and make replicas?
- Can Staff of Winter discard a replica from Eolis's Replicator?
- Can Potion of Dreams summon a card drawn into the common row by Otus the Oracle?
- Do two Yjang's Forgotten Vases with two Potions of Resurrection make an infinite combo?
- What happens when the Urmian Psychic Cage's trap token is triggered?
- Can Damned Soul of Onys be passed to the next player, and what does it cost?
- Can Damned Soul of Onys be passed to a player whose summoning gauge is full or who has 15 cards?
- When you receive Damned Soul of Onys, does it count toward your summoning gauge, and can you still summon?
- Does Damned Soul of Onys still cost 3 crystals if its owner has only 1 or 2 crystals?
- Who receives the water token when you put Damned Soul of Onys into play?
- Who receives Damned Soul of Onys, and can the receiver activate it straight away?
- Can you sacrifice Damned Soul of Onys to a Necrotic Kriss effect?
- Does Shield of Zira replace a power card sacrifice caused by another player's card, such as Crystal Titan?
- If Shield of Zira replaces Igramul the Banisher's sacrifice, does Igramul's player gain the energy?
- Can you discard Shield of Zira to keep both cards drawn by Potion of the Ancients?
- Can I sacrifice Shield of Zira to pay for Necrotic Kriss if I have no familiar?
- Can you voluntarily sacrifice Cursed Treatise of Arus whenever you want?
- Can you sacrifice Cursed Treatise by discarding all your energy tokens, or sacrifice it with no energy in reserve?
- If Raven copies Cursed Treatise of Arus and the Treatise is sacrificed, does Raven's owner lose all their energy?
- Can Dragon Skull's three sacrificed power cards come from your hand?
- If Io's Minion is among the cards sacrificed for Dragon Skull, does its owner get the 15 crystals?
- When Syllas the Faithful forces every opponent to sacrifice a card and a copied card is involved, in what order are cards sacrificed?
- Who chooses which Power card is sacrificed when Syllas the Faithful is played?
- If Argosian Tangleweed leaves play, does the card it locked get its powers back?
- What happens if you Tangleweed a card that already has a Tangleweed on it?
- Can Argosian Tangleweed lock Damned Soul of Onys or Io's Minion, and what happens to them?
- Does Ethiel's Fountain give its 3 crystals at the end of the round or at the end of the season?
- With two Hearts of Argos in play, does activating one Power card trigger both?
- Does Drought trigger when the season marker passes through space 7 without stopping on it?
- What happens to the revealed cards when you use the Familiar Catcher?
- How does the Jewel of the Ancients energy cost work?
- Does Io's Minion stop Figrim the Avaricious from taking a crystal when the season changes?
- When Igramul the Banisher names a card, does the opponent reveal from all nine of their cards or only the cards in hand?
- How do multiple Statues of Eolis resolve when the season changes?
- Can energy from Vampiric Crown be used to summon Mesodae's Lantern in the same turn?
- Can you have two familiars with the same name in play and use both abilities?
- If you have two copies of a card with an end-of-game bonus for most Power cards, do you get the bonus twice?
- Can you transmute or spend energy tokens placed on Amulet of Water?
- What happens to the energy tokens on Amulet of Water when it is sacrificed or returned, and can they move to or from your reserve?
- When Amulet of Water says to take four energy tokens, must they all be water?
Rarity of Energy Types, Depending on the Season
Essential Lexicon
- What does it mean to sacrifice a Power card in Seasons?
- What is the difference between discarding and sacrificing a Power card?
- Can I sacrifice or discard a Power card whenever I want during my turn?
- How often can a card with the gear icon be activated, and what does tapping it mean?
- How do the effect types on Power cards differ: enters play, permanent and activation?
- Do Power cards with an enters-play effect stay in play after they are summoned?
Seasons: Enchanted KingdomExpansion
- Does Warden of Argos's 'each player' option also apply to the player who played it?
- Is the energy on Glutton Cauldron affected by Warden of Argos?
- With Familiar Catcher, if you refuse the first familiar revealed, must you keep the next one?
- Can I sacrifice Shield of Zira in place of another card, and when does the sacrificed card go to the discard pile?
- Can I summon Raven the Usurper and choose to copy no card at all?
- Can I use Special Ability token 4 when it would drop my Summoning gauge below my number of Power cards in play?
- Can I use Special Ability token 12 before the Season die's draw-a-card action?
- If you drafted a die that grants crystals and then play Io's Transmuter in the same round, do you get the transmute bonus?
- If you use Steadfast Die instead of a crystal die, can Io's Transmuter still trigger?
- Can you use two Steadfast Dice in one turn to take two actions?
Seasons: Path of DestinyExpansion
- Can Io's Transmuter apply when you use the Die of Destiny instead of your Season die?
- Can I summon cards from my hand while Otus the Oracle's Power cards sit in the centre of the table?
- Do replicated cards from Eolis's Replicator count as Power cards for the Dial of Colof?
- Can Dragonsoul straighten a turned card to cancel an opponent's Power card?