Ashes Reborn Deck Building Guide

An introduction to deck building in Ashes Reborn.

0:00 - Intro
1:43 - Pick a Starting Point
3:01 - Define Your Win Condition
4:23 - Put Together Your Skeleton
6:00 - Flesh Out Your Deck
8:34 - Meta and Tech Cards
9:29 - Ask Questions
10:38 - Testing
12:23 - Kill Your Darlings
13:27 - Note on Netdecking
14:42 - Ashes Specific Discussion
14:51 - Phoenixborn
18:41 - First Five
21:23 - Spellboard
23:42 - Dice Fixers
24:52 - Dice Spread
27:28 - Note on Card Draw and Tutoring
28:59 - Archetypes
31:54 - Outro

[robertshashy]

I would love to see a follow-up video where build a deck using the steps you explained in the video. This would really illustrate how to effectively use your model, and solidify the learning goal. I know you put a lot of work into this video. Thanks again.

[andrewheimburger]

This is one of the best deck construction videos I’ve seen! Thanks!

[bizcota]

This is why I love Ashes, the fact that the control archetype isn't meta just as it is in MTG makes for some crazy fast 'n fun Swing decks and games!! Love the content :).

[emptycupoz]

This is great! Thanks for putting this together, ChaosTheory.

[starwindm]

Part 2 when?

Seriously quality content. Deck Tech videos where you maybe discuss building for each archetype (including reasoning for card inclusions) would be so cool. Seeing how other people think while building/tweaking is a whole next chapter to content (and I’ve always enjoyed it).

Brilliant as always!

[jeffiejay]

Very comprehensive and helpful for beginning players. Thanks for the effort and well done!

[sumocat]

I loved this! I’d also like to see a curated set of decks on Ashes Live that illustrate the archetypes.

[civilbeard]

Very helpful! I'm a total noob to deckbuilders, so the first half of the video helped a lot.

[springogeek]

Finally got around to giving this a watch/listen, very informative and useful, thank you so much. Hopefully you keep making this kind of content and more!

[mr.nelson]

I’ve just started learning the game. I’m playing again tonight. I look forward to deck building in the future. This series will be a great starting point.

[j]

Ahhh step 8 hits me.
I used to play this game, I won't mention it's name. It was an obscure game anyway. I tried so hard to get this deck to fuction. It just wasn't as good as another version was. The version that was good was the
"net deck" I eventually had to throw in the towel and play the net deck version because it was just that much better. I got top 8 with it at a tournament, that was fun.
Anyway...my version was infact my darling. I totally feel that.

[deckofsomethings]

Great video Chaos! Good job! I am definitely looking forward to more. I had no idea there was a time to discard in the first round...🤔 My feeling regarding the net deck section though, my understanding of what you described is using someone else's deck as inspiration and that I'm cool with. Hearthstone is notorious for how I would define "true" net decking and that is just using the deck to win with no regard for changes. To end on a positive ill say this video was a necessity for Ashes and one every new player should watch 😁

[relaxeddave]

Really good video, got a lot from it. Thanks!

[CloudBuilderMetba]

Great video. It was super helpful to hear other people’s though process. Do you have an example of a bear/massive growth deck?

[reafdfsagassg]

hold on a second... not everybody builds jank deck after jank deck always looking forward and never learning from their losses? :-D

[reafdfsagassg]

ashes is my first real foray into deck construction games. i don't know what tutoring means in context of a card game.

[robando]

How can no one just state what the deck limit is? Is it 30 or is it 40? 😅