Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn
BGG rank
BGG #877
BGG rating
7.3

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn

2015

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  • 2–4 players
  • 30–120 min
  • 14+
  • Complexity 2.9/5

For 2 players

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Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn is a board game released in 2015 for 2–4 players, 30–120 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Isaac Vega and its main mechanics are Variable Player Powers, Hand Management, and Dice Rolling.

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About the game

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.

Designers

Publishers

  • Edge Entertainment
  • GoKids 玩樂小子
  • Heidelberger Spieleverlag
  • Asterion Press
  • Filosofia Éditions
  • Cube Factory of Ideas
  • Plaid Hat Games

Questions and answers

Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn supports 2–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.