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Ascension: Storm Of Souls box art
2011 Ranked #1,010

Ascension: Storm Of Souls

Fantasy deck-building game where players recruit champions, defeat monsters, and gather honor amid a world overrun by restless souls. New event cards reshape the available choices, making each contest a shifting race to build the strongest deck.

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

Players

1-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

2.33/5

Rating

7.28

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.3/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

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?

Samael is dead, but a storm is still raging across Vigil. Ascension: Storm of Souls takes players into the chaos following the Fallen One's demise.

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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Samael is dead, but a storm is still raging across Vigil. Ascension: Storm of Souls takes players into the chaos following the Fallen One's demise. As Samael's monsters run wild and his minions conspire, the world is being slowly overtaken with souls that should have moved on. Are you ready for the new challenges that Vigil's future holds? Ascension: Storm of Souls is the first full-sized expansion for the hit deck-building game from Gary Games. The 200-card set features tons of new cards and mechanisms, in addition to a new Event card type. This is a complete game for 1-4 players that's playable on its own or in combination with other Ascension games. Combine this with other Ascension games to play with up to six players!

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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

3
Digital Implementations: VASSAL 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

4
Robert Dougherty John Fiorillo Justin Gary Brian M. Kibler

Artists

1
Eric Sabee

Publishers

4
Arclight Games asmodee Marabunta Stone Blade Entertainment

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