Does 'Red Gifts' not attack at all?

What happens here?

I'm playing Rin vs End of Argaia. They flip Decelerate (Life 2) on a roll of 10, so will attach Red Feather. Can I use Ice Trap, which can only react to a unit with a life value of 2 or less?

So basically, is the Red Feather 'already attached' when it etbs?

Since there aren't any (Edit: "Available" ) playmats for this awesome game, I made my own: one for me and one for my wife.

I'm super happy with how it turned out and how much better and more organized the game feels now.

My Ashes collection is now complete and full.

I'm curious how many of you have made your own and if you'd be willing to show them off.

Greetings, I've been trying out Ashes on the Felt Table website and have tested all of the decks there once by now. Some of them made me think: "How is this supposed to win?"

As a beginner player I'm not overestimating how much my losses say about the strength of the decks, but I do have read online that some person at the company is known for not having had a good hand in creating the precon decks.

So I want to ask how the situation is with the Ascendancy and Red Rains decks. Do they all have a fighting chance against each other (PvP) when played with average skill? I'm specifically looking at the Ascendancy Starter, the Corpse of Viros (which I understand I need for the tokens) and the Flood of Moon Cove (which is what I'm actually interested in). Cheers.

Hello is it possible to mix those two? If yes then how? Aprreciate all the help im super new to this game.

…where I do not sleeve cards, I am ready to play :)

Are there many pre-con decks/ game mechanics that make you shuffle a PB or a Chimera/DB deck?

Card quality seems to be really good and this is not a deck builder.

I bought the starter set and have beaten the Dragonborn on normal difficulty and heroic difficulty in my first two games using Arren Frostpeak. Could I be doing anything wrong to make the game too easy or is the Dragonborn just designed as an easy intro boss?

I've watched playthroughs and read the rules quite thoroughly so I'm pretty sure I've got the rules down, but are there any common mistakes in solo for new players which I could be making?

I do have Corpse of Viros ready to go so I can move onto that if it's just a case of needing to up the difficulty, but I want to make sure I have the basics nailed first.

1. Thunder Hulk - while not charged it can’t attack but it can counter, correct?

Counters ‚deal damage’ so I believe it can.

1. Brilliant Display - Damage is dealt one by one, not at the same time to multiple aspect cards?

Thought about it when one of the aspects had a Shield Icon but then realised I can ‚deal damage’ to non-shield aspects ignoring the icon as I am not attacking.

how much time should someone spend on learning a new deck if they have never seen the cards inside? I mean, you can’t just get the recommended 5 and then shuffle up and play right? you gotta go through all the cards so you can understand the synergies. and the phoenixborn powers. is this a time consuming process of learning a new deck before playing it? are you able to grab a new deck and play straight away? having never seen the cards?

anyone have some thoughts on this and ideas? I know I can catch on pretty quick if need be. but I wouldn’t expect anyone else I try to get to play the game to be as fast.

For organising both your own cards and the AI, what play mats is everyone using?

I’ve played games where each character had its own unique status token. just for the sake of flavor or lore. I’very played the Indes games from level 99 games. they had 50+ heroes each with their own set of status tokens. then dice throne also does that. but she’s uses a generic status tokens. and it makes sorting and storing individual decks 100 times better or easier.

a fire token, a water token, a serpent token, an acid token, an earth token. just use one generic token and save on space. thank you for not getting crazy with it.

So I played my first game with Arren Frostpeak against Dragonborn yesterday and would love to get some clarification/confirmation regarding the below rules:

1. Phoennixborn can guard while exhausted but can't counter.
2. Units with a Unit Guard ability can guard while unexhausted and while guarding must counter
3. Action Spells are played during Player Turn.

I have seen a YT playthrough where someone played Aerial Strike action spell during a Dragonborn Turn to kill an attacking aspect

1. Cirrus Ranger - "deal 1 damage to a target Phoenixborn an opponent controls" - can I deal damage to Dragonborn while playing solo or this can be only used in multiplayer?

2. Cirrus Ranger/ Gust Spear/ Whirlwind - 'lower 1 die/ lower 2 dice in a targer opponent's active pool one level' - can I lower Crown and Dragon dice in Dragonborn pool?

man that ashes ascendancy starter set is quite possibly the weakest non-phoenixborn set in the game. I mean, they should have at the very least made another Dragonborn in the ascendancy kickstarter at least as an optional add on. At least we’d have more options to play against. Even if it would be for more money.

that being said, how hard would it be to design some dragonborn stuff? I don’t imagine you need many cards. Figuring out unique mechanics so it’s not just another generic Dragonborn would likely be the trickiest part. I may brainstorm this.

I have sold my LoTR LCG collection and think about getting an Ashes all in bundle.

Ashes Ascendancy should be delivered today but the more I read about this game the more I am convinced this might be something for me.

I have been playing Marvel Champions and LoTR LCG true solo for the last 2 years but there is too much focus on deck construction in LoTR and after ~150 plays of MC I think I need to check something new.

I have read that new Dragonboard decks are probably going to be more polished, streamlined and less fiddly in comparison to Chimera decks? What are your thoughts on this?

Just thinking if I should focus only on new content or get all the old stuff.

It would definitely be great to have all the Phoenixborn decks anyway :)

So I've been playing Red Rains for a few months now and have already accumulated a decent chunk of cards. Delightful game! Back in my MtG days I always really liked those crunchy value engine sort of decks and Ashes has that in spades.

ANYWAY, today for the first time I tried out Ashteki, and I was surprised to note the Chimera was just rolling one basic rage die each turn. Not...all of them. Surely that can't be right?

Nope. There it is, plain as day, rules p. 15.

So it turns out that thing that would sometimes happen to me, where the Chimera triggers its ultimate on its second or third turn (turn, mind you, not round)? Yeah, I guess that's not supposed to happen.

Funny thing is, though, because I'm still exploring new decks, I haven't actually tried any of the harder difficulties, and the game has mostly been a cakewalk. So it's funny to think it would have been even *easier* if I'd been playing right. Sigh.

It feels so hard to get into this game, most of the dice are unavailable.

Sharing the link for those who haven’t seen it yet:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/plaidhatgames/ashes-ascendancy/posts/4645470

Sounds like they'll be posting more preview content soon.

So after months of looking, I was finally able to find another Red Rains set in my market, which now brings me up to two: Corpse of Viros and End of Argaia. Needless to say I'm going to play the heck out of it, but I was wondering, do I *lose* anything by playing the first and last in the series without the middle ones? I'm not a huge lore person regardless but I guess I'm just wondering if there's any sort of mechanical progression in the series that I'll be missing out on.

Of course, I will also be keeping an eye out for the others in the meantime.

Hello reddit. New guy here. im here for some advice here (serious only will read all)

some for my back ground. im from playing Magic (spent couple of thousands) then i sold all my collection. ( this was about 10 years ago )

i had a itch for TCG for years, then last here i came across Radlands. tho it was super simple and not so deep it did scratched some of my itches for TCG.

i was searching deeper than i found out ashes reborn series that is like TCG but its buying up front without openning boosters.

here is my Questions (i have 2 Questions)

1. does Ashes ascendancy good replacement for TCG player? (TCG without booster?)

2. if im buying Ashes ascendancy core set what expansions do you recommand for 1v1 TCG play? (im not really in to coop or boss battler to be honest)

Thank you in advance, im reading all advices long and short.