While a single core may feel complete (and on a casual level it is), a 2nd core is really going to open the deck building options for a couple sharing a box. There’s one Phoenixborn pre-set that even emphasizes this by making your opponent discard cards from their hand and deck to limit their choices and to kill them on overdraw. Yes you can meditate, but since you take damage when you run out of deck, you don’t want to meditate often. You can get totally boned by your dice rolls. MtG releases like ~250 cards each quarter (granted only maybe 10% will be playable in constructed formats), and the meta still settles in after a month or so, if there’s only going to be 10 new cards each quarter from Ashes…nothing is really going to mix things up.ĭice as a resource. With such a small card pool to start with, and having to wait months between each expansion, the meta is going to grind. The meta is going to get extremely stale extremely quickly. This makes including hard counters have practically no drawbacks. And if the 1-of is drawn and not useful, it’s never completely a dead card since you can always use it to meditate. You can throw in a bunch of 1-ofs for a particular matchup, and then start with that counter in your opening hand. While it is nice to choose not to be “screwed/flooded” of a certain card from the onset, it also makes for uninteresting deck construction. I would’ve much prefered more card variety. The deck construction feels really limited, and while yes you can make minor tweaks to the pre-set decks, the decks contained are pretty well optimized. 180 spells split into 3 copies of each card is only 60 unique cards, a very small card pool.
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The choice to go with a full playset while good in some instances, its really bad in others. So let’s get onto…Ī full playset of cards. Yeah, I don’t have much good to say about the game. I’ll get into this later, but having a full playset makes it so you don’t need multiple core sets to have a playset of all the cards. I love full bleed cards, and this kicks it up a notch for me.Ī full playset of cards. The artwork is fantastic, and the card layout is great. Really thick cardstock for the cards, I felt like they were 2 cards stuck together. Each unit heals HP equal to their recover value, then 1 exhaustion token is removed from all cards, exhaust any number of dice from your dice pool, and then the first player token is passed.Ĭomponents are top notch. Some cards require a side action to activate or play.Īt the end of the round, there is a recovery phase. Meditate: Discard any number of cards from your hand or the top of your deck to change the face of that many dice.Īctivate Dice Power: Each dice has a power face, and you can use your side action to activate that die for it’s power. When both players pass in succession, the round ends. Pass: If you cannot, or choose not, to use a main action, you must pass. Some cards use your main action to activate. Play a card/Activate a card: Cards with the main action icon are played using your main action.
Put an exhaustion token on all attackers. A Phoenixborn can block for a unit, and a unit can block for a Phoenixborn, but units do not block for other units (unless stated otherwise). The turns go back-and-forth with players using a main action and an optional side action until both players pass and that ends the round.Īttack: Choose any number of your units and attack a unit or Phoenixborn. A round takes place with each player rolling their dice, which determines which spells and abilities can be used, discarding any number of cards from their hand and then drawing back up to 5 cards. Each player then chooses 5 unique cards from their deck as their starting hand, called the First Five. The objective of the game is to defeat your opponent’s PhoenixbornĮach player starts with a 30 card deck, a side deck of summons, and 10 dice. In this game, each player is represented by a Phoenixborn, someone with immense magical powers, similar to planeswalkers in MtG. So this review is coming at Ashes as it pertains to a competitive game.Īshes: Rise of the Phoenixborn is a 2 player expandable card game, similar to FFG’s LCG system, designed by Isaac Vega and published by Plaid Hat Games. Author’s Note: I played Magic the Gathering at a competitive level for 20 years, and currently play Android: Netrunner, Star Wars, 40K Conquest.
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