Kinfire Delve: Vainglory's Grotto
97 questions players ask about Kinfire Delve: Vainglory's Grotto. Pick one for the answer. See also the full rulebook.
Updated 2026-11-05.
Setup and General
- Do you need Kinfire Chronicles to play Kinfire Delve?
- Can you combine components from different Kinfire Delve boxes?
- Can one player run two Seekers solo?
- Does the Well need to be laid out in a circle around the Master?
- On a Seeker card, does 'you' mean the active player or the player who played the card?
Turn Structure and Refilling the Well
- Do event cards activate when they enter the Well?
- Are Events challenges, so 'discard a challenge' effects can hit them?
- Can an Event be discarded without using it?
- When do empty Well spaces get refilled?
- When several Well cards enter play at once, are they revealed one at a time?
- When do played action and boost cards go to the discard pile?
- Can you skip your turn if you have nothing useful to play?
Attempting a Challenge
- Do you have to play a skill card to attempt a challenge?
- Can you play a card of the wrong color on a challenge just for its ability?
- When do 'before this action' and 'after this action' effects resolve?
- Is progress from the action and dice placed before completion is checked?
- Do you still roll the dice if the challenge already has enough progress?
- Do I have to roll all four dice when attempting a challenge?
- If a challenge is completed outside your normal attempt, who gets the reward?
- Do rewards and penalties apply to all Seekers or only the one attempting?
- If an effect discards a challenge, do you get its reward?
Skill Cards, Boosts and Shields
- How many boosts can an action receive, including in two-player games?
- When a card is used as a boost, does its ability text apply?
- If a boost shows +1 and shields in brackets, do you get both?
- Which shield icon do discard effects like Shard Whip or Aftershock count?
- How many shield cards can you discard for Shard Whip or Aftershock?
- If you discard Khor's Taunt for Shard Whip, does it count as one or two shields?
- Can a card you played as an action or boost also be discarded for its shield or discard effect?
- Do shield icons stack when you fail a challenge?
- Can you discard Riposte, Survivor or Odd Raven Charm from your hand on another Seeker's turn?
Rewards, Penalties and Failure Triggers
- If you complete a challenge but roll darkness, do you suffer the penalty?
- Does an effect triggered by rolling darkness resolve before success or failure is decided?
- When a card ignores a penalty (Sneaky Feet, Fearless), is the challenge's 'if failed' text also ignored?
- If a penalty is ignored, do fail triggers on other cards (Vainglory's Symphony) still happen?
- Does Accept the Blow involve rolling dice, and can it trigger a Master's darkness penalty?
- Does Accept the Blow count as failing for Vainglory's Symphony or Khor's shield?
- Can you use Accept the Blow on a challenge whose penalty attaches it to Vainglory?
- Can Survivor be used to discard Vainglory's Symphony before Symphony's final progress lands, and can it stop the penalty?
Exhaustion and Drawing Cards
- Is there a maximum hand size?
- In multi-Seeker games, does Symphony trigger on any Seeker's failure?
- How does Vainglory's Web change how many Well cards you refill to?
- Are Exhausted cards shared or kept by the player who drew them?
- Must you exhaust when your hand is empty, and can you exhaust earlier?
- What happens if you run out of Exhausted cards?
- When is the discard pile reshuffled, and does it cause exhaustion?
Lanterns
Specific Well Cards
- Does Great Stag add extra damage even if shields cancel the base damage, or to Hunting Cat?
- After Snake Eyes completes Hall of Memory, does it return to hand before or after the reward?
- If two Hunting Cats are in the Well, how much damage do you take?
- Does Deadly Rose count herself for '+2 per other combat'?
- What happens when you fail Crown of Ashes?
- Must you attempt King's Ransom as soon as it enters play?
- How does Watching Glass work, and can you use it as a free delve?
- If two copies of The Maze are in play and you complete one, do you get both rewards?
- Can Cheat the System put progress on Prison Mirror?
- Can Cheat the System move progress from more than one other card?
Well Master and Attached Cards
- When Dreamer's Seat is completed, where do Vainglory's attached cards go?
- If you fail Dreamer's Seat, what gets attached to Vainglory?
- Do attached cards do anything on their own?
- If the Well deck is empty when Vainglory's Feast resolves, what is attached?
- Can a completed Bubbles be attached to Alter instead of Vainglory?
- Does progress on the Master carry over when it flips face up?
- If you must delve but the Well deck is empty, do you go to the Master?
- Does bold text on a challenge apply all the time, or only when you attempt it?
- Does Vainglory's Collector +1 difficulty clear automatically after an attempt?
The Final Gauntlet
- Do Master penalties need darkness as well as failure?
- How does Sea of Dreams work with attached cards?
- Which color counts for dice when attacking a vulnerable Vainglory?
- Can white cards be used against Vainglory?
- Can effects add progress to the Master while it is vulnerable only to other colors?
- What happens when 5 or more progress would be placed on Vainglory at once under The Handmaids?
- Do Grace's and Beauty's discard penalties trigger when they are discarded, and do they add?
- Can effects discard Gauntlet cards, and does their discard damage apply?