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Ashes

Aufstieg der Phönixmagier

Once, in the mists of time, the Phoenixborn rose from the ashes of ancient eons and defeated the chimeras, but now the source that has created them calls for their amalgamation by transformation into ashes and taking in of into ashes, so now the Phoenixborn fight to eliminate each other.

Each player has his own deck - you can use the ready-made decks, six of them come with the core game -  or you can create your own deck from all cards or decks can be created by drafting.

The Phoenixborn and other cards from your deck are laid out according to the rules, 10 dice are in stock as “depleted” and you select five cards from your deck for your starting hand.

To prepare for a round, you roll depleted dice and discard cards and draw cards. Then you must do a Main Action - to pay for the cost of another action, or you can attack a Phoenixborn, or attack a unit or pass - and then you can do a Side Action, again as part of payment for other action, or as Meditation or to activate and resolve dice effects. This action phase is followed by a Recovery Phase: In turn, all players remove wound tokens from units and Exhaustion tokens from cards; then you can transfer any number of active dice into stock of depleted dice, and then the starting player marker is handed on.  When a Phoenixborn has as many wound markers as he has life points, he is destroyed; the last player in play wins.

The diverse options of how to assemble decks provide a high replay value; the dice used for resources, the streamlined rules and easy access provide a well-working variation for the genre, for experienced players of trading card games as well as for newcomers.

Players: 2-4

Age: 14+

Time: 120+

Designer: Isaac Vega

Artist: Fernanda Suarez

Price: ca. 45 Euro

Publisher: Plaid Hat / Heidelberger 2016

Web: www.asmodee.de

Genre: Fantasy, cards, conflict

Users: With friends

Version: de

Rules: de en es fr it pl

In-game text: yes

Comments:

Deck construction with your own selection or drafting or using pre-constructed decks

Good mix of standard mechanisms

Very attractive design

Additional Phoenixborn decks are available

Compares to:

Magic The Gathering and other games with one deck per player

Asterion (it), Cube Factory of Ideas (pl), Edge Entertainment (es), Filosofia (fr), Plaid Hat (en)

Chance (pink): 1

Tactic (turquoise): 3

Strategy (blue): 2

Creativity (dark blue): 0

Knowledge (yellow): 0

Memory (orange): 0

Communication (red): 0

Interaction (brown): 3

Dexterity (green): 0

Action (dark green): 0