Ashes Reborn

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• Setup
  • 1. Choose a deck or build a deck.
    2. Place your phoenixborn in your play area with the information side face up.
    3. Place your conjuration pile face down to the left of your phoenixborn.
    4. Place the reference cards that correspond to your dice in your play area and take a phases reference card.
    5. Place all 10 of your dice to the right of your power reference cards (exhausted pool).
    6. Choose your 1st 5 by taking 5 cards of your choice from your deck as your starting hand. You cannot have more than 1 copy of a card in your starting hand. Shuffle the rest of your deck.
    7. Make a supply of wound, exhaustion, and status tokens.
• Gameplay

  • The game is played over a series of rounds consisting of 3 phases in each round.

  • Prepare Phase
    • 1. Roll dice: Roll all your dice in your exhausted pool and place them to the left of your reference cards (active pool).
         • On the 1st round: the player who rolls the most basic symbols chooses who should go 1st and that person takes the first player token. If there is a tie, reroll all dice until there isn't a tie.
      2. Discard cards: You may discard any number of cards from your hand.
      3. Draw cards: Draw back up to 5 cards.
         1. Starting with the 1st player, players alternate placing 1 wound token on their phoenixborn until all players have placed wounds equal to the cards they should have drawn but could not.
  • Player Turns Phase

    • Players take turns taking 1 or 2 actions on their turn until both players consecutively pass on their turn.

      Each turn consists of 1 main action and 1 optional side action. These can be taken in either order.

      Once both players have passed for their main action consecutively, move to the recovery phase

    • Main Action: Pay a Main Action Cost

      • Play or activate a card with the symbol in the play or activation cost.

        Playing a Card

        Play a card from your hand by paying its cost(s).

        Costs:

        Symbol	Usage
        	Main action: Take your main action for the turn
        	Side action: Take your side action for the turn
        	Exhaust: Place 1 exhaustion token on this card
        	Discard: Discard a number of cards from your hand equal to the num shown
        	Magic: Exhaust dice of the appropriate type and number. Remember that higher level dice can be used to pay for lower level costs
        	Parallel Costs: If 2 costs are connected, you pay one or the other, not both

        Card Types

        There are 5 different types of cards in a player's deck and 2 types that can be included in a player's conjuration pile.

        • Ally (Unit): Play an ally to an empty slot on your battlefield. The number of slots in your battlefield is determined by the battlefield value of your phoenixborn.
          • Attack: How much damage your ally does.
          • Life: How many wound tokens it takes to destroy the unit.
          • Recover: How many wounds are removed during the recovery phase.
        • Conjuration (Unit): These start in a conjuration pile and are brought into play by other card effects. They return to that conjuration pile when they leave play. Attack, life, and recover work the same as an ally
        • Action Spell: These are a 1-time effect that is then played to your discard pile.
        • Alteration Spell: These modify the units they are attached to. When played, place it under a unit so that its text is showing.
        • Conjured Alteration Spell: These are considered to be alteration spells, not conjurations. These start in a conjuration pile and are brought into play by card effects. They return to the conjuration pile when they leave play.
        • Ready Spells: These remain in play to be activated later. When played, they take an empty spot on your spellboard. The number of slots in your spellboard is determined by the spellboard value on your phoenixborn.
          • If you already have 1 or more copies of the same ready spell, place the new on top of the existing one(s). It does not take an extra slot.
          • Ready spells can be activated on a later turn.
          • Focusing a Ready Spell: If you have more than 1 copy of ready spell, the spell is focused. Each copy of the spell is separate and can have its own exhaustion and status tokens. It can be also be activated separately. Some spells have focus effects that can be used by all copies of that spell.
        • Reaction Spell: These can be played on any player's turn when its conditions are met. Each player can only play 1 reaction per turn.
          • Other Reactions: Some cards have reaction abilities or effects on them (blue box). These may be played from your hand as reactions when conditions are met. This counts toward your limit of 1 reaction per turn.
    • Main Action: Attack

      • When you attack, 1 or more of your unexhausted (no exhaustion tokens) units will enter battle.

        • Battle: An attacker deals damage equal to its attack value and 1 exhaustion token is placed on it and on the defender if they counter.
        • Counter: Deal damage equal to the attack value of the defender to the attacker. Attack and counter damage happen simultaneously.

        Attacking a Phoenixborn

        1. Declare attackers: Choose any number of unexhausted units to be attackers.
        2. Opponent declares blockers: Your opponent may block each attacker with up to 1 unexhausted unit.
        3. Resolve battles: Resolve each battle 1 at a time.
           • If blocked, the attacker battles the blocker and the blocker counters.
           • If unblocked, the attacker battles the opponent's phoenixborn.

        Attacking a Unit

        1. Declare attackers: Choose 1 unexhausted unit to be the attacker.
        2. Opponent declares guard: Your opponent can guard with their phoenixborn or an unexhausted unit.
           • A phoenixborn can only guard once per round, but may guard even if exhausted.
        3. Resolve battle:
           • If guarded, the attacker battles the guard. If the guard is a unit, the guard counters. If the guard is a phoenixborn, tap it to show it can't be used as a guard again this round.
           • If unguarded, the attacker battles the target unit. If it is unexhausted, your opponent may counter with it.
    • Main Action: Pass

      • When passing, you do nothing for your main action, but you may still take a side action. If your opponent does not pass on their next turn, you may take a main action on your next turn.

    • Side Actions
      • • Pay a Cost: Play or activate a card with a play or activation cost.
        • Activate a dice power: Exhaust a die on it's power side to activate it's power effect. See the dice power reference card corresponding to that die.
        • Meditate: This allows you to raise the levels of your dice. For each card you discard from the following options, turn an active die to a side of your choice.
          • Cards in your hand.
          • Cards off the top of your deck.
          • Ready spells from your spellboard.
  • Recovery Phase

    • During the recovery phase, each player simultaneously resolves the following steps in order:

      1. Recover: Remove a number of wounds from each unit equal to its recover value.
      2. Remove exhaustion: Remove 1 exhaustion token from each card you have in play. Rotate your phoenixborn so it is upright.
      3. Exhaust dice: Move any number of dice from your active pool to your exhausted pool.
  • End of Round

    • Note that some effects take place after the recovery phase as "at the end of the round" effects.

      • Resolve all of these effects one at a time starting with the 1st player, who resolves all of their effects before moving to the next player.
      • The effects can be resolved in any order.
      • After all effects are resolved, pass the 1st player token to the next player.
• Winning and Losing

  • If a player's phoenixborn has a number of wound tokens equal to or greater than its life value, that phoenixborn is destroyed and the other player wins.

• Clarifications
  • • Damage, wound tokens and destruction: When damage is dealt, place a number of wound tokens on it equal to the amount of unprevented damage.
      • If a unit or phoenixborn has would tokens equal to its life, it is destroyed.
        • A destroyed unit is discarded.
        • A player's phoenixborn being destroyed means that player loses.
      • A card's life is not reduced when placing wounds on it.
      • An effect that "deals damage" places wounds and destroys, but an effect hat "destroys" does not deal damage or place wound tokens.
    • Discarding cards: When a card in play is discarded or removed from play, set it aside along with any cards underneath (attached) to it. These cards will go to the player's discard pile.
      • Discarded conjurations and conjured alteration spells return to the owner's conjuration pile.
    • Exhaustion tokens: When a card has 1 or more of these tokens on it, it is exhausted.
      • Exhausted cards have no abilities or effects, but it retains its attack, life, and recover values (on units). It also retains value bonuses (on alteration spells).
      • Exhausted units cannot attack, block, guard or counter.
      • Some cards have inexhaustable effects or abilities. These are indicated by a yellow text box. These remain in effect even when exhausted.
    • Status tokens: These are generic counters that can mean different things as defined by their cards.
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