2014Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Isaac Vega
- Videos
- 75
- Creators
- 55
2 - 5 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight

2015Isaac Vega
Mostly playthroughs and reviews. Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 29 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 30 recorded sessions, 4 unboxings, and 13 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
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.
Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn has 83 videos from 35 creators: 29 reviews, 7 how-to-play guides, 30 playthroughs, 4 unboxings and 13 other videos. They date from 2015 to July 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Ashes - How To Play, by Watch It Played" by Watch It Played, which runs 22 min. For a quicker teach, "Overview in English (Hunter & Cron @GenCon2015)" by Hunter & Friends - Brettspiele runs 12 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Dice Tower Reviews: Ashes" by The Dice Tower. 18 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Ashes - Play Through, by Watch It Played" by Watch It Played, one of 30 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, Keystone: North America, Dead of Winter: The Long Night and Wild Gardens, also by Isaac Vega.
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2014Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Isaac Vega
2 - 5 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
2022Jeffrey Joyce, Isaac Vega
1 - 4 players30 - 60 minMedium weight
2016Jonathan Gilmour-Long, Isaac Vega
2 - 5 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
2024Isaac Vega
1 - 4 players90 - 120 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
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.
Designer
Isaac Vega
Artists
Thander Lin, David Richards, Fernanda Suárez
Publisher
Plaid Hat Games
Mechanics