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Ascension: Dawn Of Champions box art
2015 Ranked #3,125

Ascension: Dawn Of Champions

Fantasy deck-building game where faction champions build reputation, gain powerful cards, and fight for New Vigil. Champion abilities unlock as standing rises, so every acquisition must strengthen your faction while opening the effects that can decide the contest.

Strategy Games Card Game Fantasy Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Open Drafting

Players

1-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

2.25/5

Rating

7.32

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Game description from the publisher: Where there were once six realms, now only a single remains: New Vigil. In Ascension: Dawn of Champions, you take on the role of your faction's Champion to guide them to victory in this world of new alliances and ancient foes.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Deck / Bag Building

Add new pieces during play to improve the cards, tokens, or dice drawn later.
Open Drafting

Select cards or items from a shared face-up display.
Hand Management

Time and sequence a limited hand of cards to preserve future options.
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Game description from the publisher: Where there were once six realms, now only a single remains: New Vigil. In Ascension: Dawn of Champions, you take on the role of your faction's Champion to guide them to victory in this world of new alliances and ancient foes. New Champion cards let you play as a faction leader, building your reputation to unlock powerful cards and effects. This set also includes new multi-faction cards to acquire and defeat, including Constructs and Monsters! As with all other Ascension sets, Ascension: Dawn of Champions can be played as a standalone game or combined with other Ascension games.

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Type

1
Strategy Games

Category

2
Card Game Fantasy

Mechanism

3
Deck, Bag, and Pool Building Hand Management Open Drafting

Family

2
Game: Ascension Deck Building Players: Games with Solitaire Rules

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
1–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
30 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.3/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Justin Gary

Publishers

1
Stone Blade Entertainment

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