The Vale of Eternity

Objective and victory: Summon creatures, combine their abilities, and score more points than the other players. At the end of a round, the game ends if anyone has reached at least 60 points. If nobody has, the game ends after round 10. The player with the most points wins; a tie goes to the player with more summoned cards, and a remaining tie is shared.

Setup: Place the board and round marker, shuffle the 70 creature cards, and prepare the magic stones. Reveal a market according to the number of players, then give each player a personal board and two markers. Starting points depend on turn order: the first player starts with 1, the second with 2, the third with 3, and the fourth with 4. Each player develops a personal tableau; the base rules do not specify a hand limit.

Families and effects: Base cards belong to five families: Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, and Dragon. Each card shows a cost, family, and ability. Instant effects resolve when the card is summoned; Permanent effects remain active while the card is in the tableau; Active effects may be used during Resolution. Check timing, target, and any stated conditions before using an ability; an Instant effect is not a recurring effect.

Hunting each round: Reveal a number of creature cards equal to twice the player count. In clockwise order, each player places one marker on a market card. Then, starting with the last player and moving counterclockwise, each player places their second marker. This gives every player two marked choices, with the last player choosing second first. The markers identify options for the Action phase; a card does not move to a hand or tableau until an action resolves.

Action phase and markers: Players take turns performing the four action types—Sell, Tame, Summon, and Remove—in any legal order, and may repeat actions when allowed. Sell or Tame retrieves a marker from the selected market card. By the end of the Action phase, each player must take back their remaining markers. Marking a card in Hunting reserves a choice but does not itself sell, tame, or summon it.

Sell and Tame: To Sell, retrieve one marker from a market card, discard that card, and gain the magic stone associated with its family; the card’s printed summoning cost is not paid first. To Tame, retrieve a marker and take the selected card into hand for a later summon. Selling provides a resource now, while Taming preserves the creature and its ability as an option. Choose according to current costs, stones, plans, and the cards opponents could take.

Summoning and stones: To Summon, choose a creature from hand, pay its cost, place it in your tableau, and resolve its Instant effect. Magic stones have values of 1, 3, or 6 according to color, and a player may store at most four stones. Cost-reduction effects can stack, but the minimum cost is zero; excess payment is not returned. The number of cards in a player’s tableau may not exceed the current round number, so the limit grows as the game progresses.

Removing cards and tableau space: To Remove, discard one creature from your own tableau and pay a removal cost equal to the current round number. Removal frees a tableau space but also ends any Permanent effect from that card. The tableau limit equals the round number, rising by one each round. If a card ability changes a cost or restriction, apply its text when resolving the action.

Resolution: Beginning with the first player, each player must use every available Active effect in their area once, in an order of their choice. Do not voluntarily skip an effect that can be performed. Instant effects resolve on summoning and Permanent effects remain active. A card cannot be summoned if any part of its Instant effect cannot be resolved.

Round flow and expansions: A round consists of Hunting, Action, and Resolution, after which the round marker advances and the market is refreshed. Keep base-game cards and rules separate from expansion content. Renegade lists Artifacts and Curse as expansions to the base game; this entry follows the 2024 English base rulebook and does not treat expansion cards or mechanisms as part of the original base set. The first-player marker passes left each round. If you exceed four magic stones, immediately keep four and discard the rest before another action; do not exchange stones with the supply unless a card allows it.