Rulebook
An effort to reproduce and enhance the core rule books for ease of referencing and linking.
Components
Phoenixborn Card
Your Phoenixborn is your most important card. Its battlefield and spellboard values dictate how m...
Unit Cards
Allies and conjurations are the two types of units that you will summon to your battlefield. Unit...
Spell Cards
Action and reaction spells are discarded for one-time effects whereas ready and alteration spells...
Chimera Cards
Chimera The Chimera is a shared opponent of the players and can be standard or heroic difficulty...
Dice
Dice are the magic that let you cast spells and summon units. You will encounter many ypes of dic...
Tokens
Red Rains In Ashes: Red Rains there is an additional token type called "Red Rains" which are u...
Chimera Board
Game Setup
To set up a game of Ashes, each player should do the following: Choose a deck to play with (see ...
Game Flow
Objective and Winning/Losing
Object of the Game Ashes: Reborn (PvP) In Ashes, you are a Phoenixborn—a powerful magic wielder...
Round Order
Ashes is played over a series of rounds. Each round is divided into three phases that must be res...
Main Action
Pay a Cost To take this main action, play or activate a card where the symbol appears in the pla...
Side Action
Pay a Cost To take this side action, play or activate a card where the symbol appears in the pla...
Resolving Effects
There are four rules when playing cards or resolving effects: Resolve the card text from top to ...
Chimera Turn
To resolve a Chimera turn, first resolve any status (green box) abilities on aspects on its battl...
Alternate Formats
3-4 Player Game
Ashes can also be played with three or four players. The rules are identical except that whenever...
Drafting
Instead of playing with a pre-built deck or bringing a custom built deck to a game of Ashes, you ...
Two Player Cooperative (Red Rains)
When playing Ashes: Red Rains cooperatively with two players, add in the following rules and adju...
Red Rains Campaign
Tell the story of Argaia by choosing Phoenixborn to play through a three-encounter campaign again...
Deck Building
There are 5 different types of cards that can be included in a player’s deck (ally, alteration sp...
Glossary
Entries in purple apply to the Red Rains game mode only. Ability A named effect on a unit or Ph...
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions for Ashes Reborn
Common Confusion
Plaid Hat Games maintains a FAQ for Ashes Reborn, which can be found here. Other sources of confu...
Rule Clarifications
Abilities and Text Any text in a card’s text box that has the format of “X = ...” is not conside...
Chained List
Ashes Reborn does not currently have a Banned or Restricted list. Instead, it has the Chained Lis...
Card Errata
The following cards have received official errata, available in a print-and-play file at plaidhat...
Recommended First Fives
Here is a list of First Fives for each of the preconstructed Ashes decks. Note that these are jus...
Individual Card FAQs
Accelerate Q: If I use Copycat on Accelerate, can I take side actions on my opponent’s turn?A: N...
Ashes: Red Rains FAQ
Rules Clarifications In a 2 player game of Red Rains, the Chimera takes a turn against each oppo...
References
Direct reference material from Plaid Hat Games
Extra Rules That Need Placing
Phoenixborn Uniques This expansion introduces new Phoenixborn unique cards for previously existi...