Ashes Reborn: The Frostdale Giants
Ashes Reborn: The Frostdale Giants Rulebook
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Playing With This Expansion
The Frostdale Giants plays under the rules of Ashes Reborn: Rise of the Phoenixborn. Its rules are not repeated here. The cards below are used with the base rules, and the Phoenixborn card is Rin Northfell.
Icons are written in brackets as in the base rulebook: [main] is the main action symbol, and [side], [basic], [natural] and [exhaust] are the side, basic, natural and exhaust dice symbols. The class dice symbol is written as "class" in the card text, as printed on the cards.
Rin Northfell
Rin Northfell (Phoenixborn)
Battlefield 6, Life 17, Spellboard 4.
Dice: requires 10 Natural (blue) dice (base set). This line comes from the Plaid Hat description, not the card record.
Ice Buff: [side] - [exhaust]: Attach an Ice Buff conjured alteration spell to a target unit you control.
Spells
Freezing Blast
Action Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 2 natural class dice. Placement: Discard.
Deal 2 damage to a target unit. Remove 2 status tokens from that unit.
Frost Bite
Ready Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main]. Placement: Spellboard.
- [main] - [exhaust] - 1 natural class die: Deal 1 damage to a target unit or Phoenixborn.
- Focus 1: You may change the activation cost of this ability to [main] - [exhaust] - 1 basic die.
Ice Trap
Reaction Spell (3 copies)
Cost: 1 natural power die. Placement: Discard.
You may play this spell after a unit with a life value of 2 or less comes into play. Destroy that target unit.
Summon Ice Golem
Ready Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main]. Placement: Spellboard.
- [main] - [exhaust] - 2 natural class dice - 1 basic die: Place an Ice Golem conjuration onto your battlefield.
- Focus 2: You may remove 1 wound token from all Ice Golems you control.
Summon Frostback Bear
Ready Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 1 natural power die. Placement: Spellboard.
- [main] - [exhaust] - 1 natural class die - 1 basic die: Place a Frostback Bear conjuration onto your battlefield.
Crystal Shield
Alteration Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 1 natural class die, 1 basic die. Placement: Unit.
Life +2.
This unit now has the following ability:
- Unit Guard: This unit may guard a unit that is being attacked.
Frozen Crown
Alteration Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 1 natural class die, 2 basic dice. Placement: Unit.
Attack +3.
Deep Freeze
Alteration Spell (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 1 natural class die. Placement: Unit.
When attaching this spell, place 3 status tokens on this spell. Discard this spell when it no longer has any status tokens on it. As long as this spell is attached to this unit, this unit is considered to be exhausted.
This unit now has the following ability:
- Thaw: [side]: Remove 1 status token from a Deep Freeze alteration spell attached to this unit.
Rin's Fury
Reaction Spell (3 copies)
Cost: 2 basic dice. Placement: Discard.
You may play this spell after a unit you control is dealt damage by a unit's attack. Prevent that damage from being received. Destroy that target attacking unit.
Note: Plaid Hat's contents list calls this an Action Spell. The ashes.live record and the printed effect text ("You may play this spell after...") make it a Reaction Spell, and this document uses Reaction Spell. See "Disclosed Gaps."
Allies
Frost Fang
Ally (3 copies)
Cost: [main], 2 natural class dice. Placement: Battlefield.
Attack 3, Life 1, Recover 1.
- Armored 1: After this unit is dealt damage, prevent 1 damage from being received.
Conjurations
Frostback Bear
Conjuration (2 copies)
Placement: Battlefield. Attack 2, Life 3, Recover 0.
- Terrifying 1: This unit cannot be blocked or guarded against by units with an attack value of 1 or less.
Ice Golem
Conjuration (3 copies)
Placement: Battlefield. Attack 3, Life 2, Recover 0.
- Skin Morph 2: Add 2 to this unit's life value if it has 1 or more alteration spells attached to it.
Ice Buff
Conjured Alteration Spell (5 copies)
Placement: Unit. Life +1. Conjured by Rin Northfell's Ice Buff ability (see above).
Note: ashes.live records Ice Buff's effect as "Life +1" with no separate text box. The effect above is that recorded field only; the card's printed text box is not confirmed. See "Disclosed Gaps."
Disclosed Gaps
- Source type. The text is from the ashes.live card database, not a printed card scan or a publisher PDF. Card names, types and copy counts were cross-checked against the Plaid Hat contents list. The effect text itself has no second source.
- Rin's Fury, Action or Reaction. Plaid Hat's contents list calls it an Action Spell. The ashes.live record and its effect text make it a Reaction Spell. This document uses Reaction Spell, matching the record.
- Ice Buff, text. The database holds no text box for Ice Buff; only "Life +1" is recorded. The entry above gives only that value. The printed card text is not verified here.
- Card count. The copy counts listed above (3 copies each for 11 names, 2 for Frostback Bear, 5 for Ice Buff) add up to 40 cards, which matches the sourcer's count for the Plaid Hat list. The database-derived document header read "41 cards"; the 40 figure is used here because it is the sum of the copy counts recorded.
- Phoenixborn dice line. The "requires 10 Natural dice" line comes from the Plaid Hat description, not the card record.