First, any Blood Puppet that you place on your opponent’s battlefield and that survives until the end of the round, will cause your opponent to receive 1 Curse damage. This deck relies on a variety of different forms of direct burn damage to place wound tokens onto your opponent’s Phoenixborn. Puppets are fun, or at least Jessa thinks they are! The Puppet of My Puppet Must Be a Friend, Right? She became a playtester in 2020 and currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana where she is a medical student. Lizzie Hart has been playing Ashes since early 2017, she participated in the 2018 GenCon Ashes tournament and road tripped to Dallas in 2019 for the farewell tournament. Hope you found this article helpful and more importantly I hope if you try out this deck you find it fun! They can easily clear your board of small units and can be a big threat to a Hammer Knight. If possible, it’s best to play your board-clearing spells near the end of the round, especially if Jessa is out of dice and can’t use Screams.Ģ) Watch out for Blood Archers. As much as you want to clear the board, you also do not want to give your opponent wounds onto a Living Doll or too many opportunities to use Screams of the Departed. If you are facing an Owl make sure you have a natural dice power up and ready, so you can bring in the Anchornaut, hit the Owl for 1 damage with the Throw ability, then use your side action to ping the Owl away.Ī few other tips for facing the Jessa deck below:ġ) Be careful with Mist Typhoon and One Hundred Blades. For most matchups I would First Five Chant of Revenge, however if you are sitting across the table from charm (as with the Jessa deck below) you have to be worried about Three-Eyed Owls creating hand pressure, so I recommend switching Chant of Revenge out for an Anchornaut. Typical First Five for this deck is Hammer Knight, Strengthen, Summon Mist Spirit, Summon Butterfly Monk and a flex card that depends on the match up. If you find that your opponent is not killing your allies to charge up your chants, I have even been known to Slash my own Anchornaut! Lastly, Chant of Revenge is a nice ready spell that helps you put damage directly onto an opposing Phoenixborn. Typically I would recommend putting the wounds onto your opponent’s Phoenixborn, but in some cases a pesky opposing unit can be worth playing a Molten Gold against. It can be great against a mill deck or if you roll too many basics, but I have also found myself Slashing it. Hidden Power is a great tech card that allows you to fix your dice without having to meditate. The deck is rounded out with cards like Iron Worker - a solid hitter who, if you can keep him around, helps you draw into more cards at the start of a round giving Coal more fodder for Slash. It can seem strange at first but don’t be afraid to use Slash, especially if you find yourself not using a card in hand. However, it can be tricky to know which cards to discard! I recommend using allies like Anchornaut (or as I like to call him anchy-boy) since you can use the ceremonial dice power if you want to recur them and you are not getting rid of too much of your deck. If they have beefy units, a strengthened Hammer Knight is hitting for 5 and can clear most units in the game, and if they choose to guard and take the damage on their Phoenixborn, even better!Ĭoal’s ability, Slash, is another great way to clear the board. You can also use Strengthen with small units to go for more big damage or to force bad trades. If they destroy your Mist Spirits and Butterfly Monks, it’s no problem because you can summon Sleeping Widows, and the Butterflies have the added benefit of healing you! The main strategy for this deck is to clear the opponent's board using One Hundred Blades and/or Mist Typhoon, then swing in for damage using Hammer Knight and your smaller units. These decks aim to give you the tools and inspiration to make more fun, unique, and refined decks than just the preconstructed decklists. This week, we have playtesters Lizzie Hart and Brian Broughman as guest writers to introduce us to deck building within just the Ashes Reborn Rise of the Phoenixborn Set. Today marks the start of a new article series, where we will be featuring decklists made by members of the Ashes community! These deck lists are being made available to any Ashes player, new or old, who are interested in making custom constructed decks.
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