Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn

Designer	Isaac Vega
Publisher	Plaid Hat Games
Players	2-4
Playtime	30-120 mins
Suggested Age	14 and up
Expansions	Ashes Reborn: The Ghost Guardian  Ashes Reborn: The Roaring Rose  Ashes Reborn: The Demons of Darmas  Ashes Reborn: The Duchess of Deception  Ashes Reborn: The Laws of Lions  Ashes Reborn: The King of Titans  Ashes Reborn: The Song of Soaksend  Ashes Reborn: The Grave King  Ashes Reborn: The Masters of Gravity  Ashes Reborn: The Protector of Argaia  Ashes Reborn: The Goddess of Ishra  Ashes Reborn: The Children of Blackcloud  Ashes Reborn: The Boy Among Wolves  Ashes Reborn: The Frostdale Giants  Ashes Reborn: The Spirits of Memoria  Ashes Reborn: The Breaker of Fate  Ashes Reborn: The Artist of Dreams  Ashes Reborn: The Queen of Lightning  Ashes Reborn: The Scholar of Ruin  Ashes Reborn: The Ocean's Guard Ashes Reborn: Red Rains – The Corpse of Viros Ashes Reborn: Red Rains – The Frostwild Scourge
Honors	2015 Golden Geek Best Card Game Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best Board Game Artwork/Presentation Nominee 2015 Golden Geek Best 2-Player Board Game Nominee 2015 Cardboard Republic Striker Laurel Nominee 2015 Board Game Quest Awards Best Card Game Nominee
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In Ashes: Rise of the Phoenixborn, a two-player expandable card game, players take on the roles of Phoenixborns, demi-gods and protectors of this world. These characters are the great saviors of their civilizations. Before they came into existence, the humans were plagued by monsters like chimeras that took away their lands and forced them to live in walled-off cities. When the Phoenixborns came, they fought off the chimeras and freed the lands for humans to take over once again.

But the time of peace was short-lived. A prophecy arose that if one Phoenixborn was able to absorb enough Ashes of others, they would ascend into full gods and take mastery over this world. This, as well as humans' greed for land, fueled the War of Ashes. The great cities now fight among each other, each one of them with a Phoenixborn at its helm, and you will decide who will rise and who will fall to ashes.

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn, released in 2021, features the same Phoenixborn as in the original Ashes with the same cards, but some cards have been modified to balance them. (Publisher Plaid Hat Games estimates that about 30% of all cards across all expansions are being modified.) The rules have undergone a few changes as well, mostly to clarify powers. The Ashes Reborn 1.5 Upgrade Kit contains more than 350+ updated Ashes cards, along with an updated rulebook, allowing players to move from the original game to the new 1.5 rules.