The Vale of Eternity
87 questions players ask about The Vale of Eternity. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup and Components
Hunting Phase
Action Phase
- Can I summon a hunted card directly, or must I tame it first?
- Can I mix actions in any order, such as sell, summon, then sell again?
- Can I summon the same card several times in one turn?
- Can I pay for a summon and then reuse the same stones to remove a card?
- Does removing a card cost the round number, even for effects like Cerberus?
Magic Stones
Summoning, Costs and Instant Effects
- Do I need to pay a stone to summon a card that costs 0?
- Can I summon a card whose instant effect cannot be fully resolved?
- Do cost reductions stack, and can a cost go below zero?
- Does a permanent summoning effect apply to the card being summoned itself?
- Can I summon Tengu when my area is full, since it goes back to the deck?
- When an effect makes a player discard a summoned card, who chooses which one?
Card Effects and Interactions
- Can I summon Boreas several times in one turn?
- When does Boreas recover, on summon or in the Resolution Phase?
- Does Haetae change a stone's color or only its value?
- Does Charybdis score by a stone's color or its value?
- Do Haetae and Water Giant stack, for example with Yuki-Onna Exalted?
- Do stones spent on its cost count for Rock Golem's points?
- How does Exalted Genie work with a recover effect or Basilisk?
- Can Exalted Genie copy an effect I cannot currently use, like Burning Soul with no stone?
- If Scorch copies Aeris's recover, can Aeris be recovered?
- After Aeris recovers a card, can I summon it again the same turn?
Resolution Phase
End of Game
The Vale of Eternity: ArtifactsExpansion
- Does Thalassa trigger on any 3-stone entering my pool, including exchanges and upgrades?
- Does Ash count as discarded for Totem Pole, and can Cerberus or Anubis remove it?
- How many points does Ash earn?
- Can Ash combine with Nurikabe?
- If Horus summons a second card for free, does its instant effect trigger?
- Does swapping a card into my area trigger its instant effect?
- Can Loki count as several families at once?
- Can I play Taweret and discard zero cards?
- Do sheltered cards count as in my area or use area space?
- Can I sell a card right after retrieving it from my shelter?
The Vale of Eternity: CurseExpansion
- How many wards can I break for one summon or remove action?
- Can a curse token be moved onto a card that is not cursed?
- If a cursed card is swapped to another player, do its tokens stay?
- When a cursed card returns to a hand through Recover or Taniwha, who takes the curse tokens?
- Does Dunia flip if I use only ability A?
- Is a card Dunia curses soothed in the Curse Phase even if it could not normally be cursed?
- Can I play with Curse cards without summoner tiles?
- What does Taniwha's cost fixed to a blue stone mean?
- Can Carte Luan break three seals for 6 points?