The Cinders

Four cards

The four cards of the Cinders

The four Cinders cards carry the same numbers, 6, 5, 5 and 3, each a quarter turn further on: what is on top on one is on the right on the next. Choosing the right card means choosing which rank will face the enemy.

• 6553Card 1
  top 6 · left 5
  right 5 · bottom 3
• 5365Card 2
  top 5 · left 3
  right 6 · bottom 5
• 3556Card 3
  top 3 · left 5
  right 5 · bottom 6
• 5635Card 4
  top 5 · left 6
  right 3 · bottom 5

In a duel, your eight cards come from your two Orders, four per Order, plus one card from each Order kept in Reserve for Sudden Death.

Strategy

Playing the Cinders well

• Distance is no shelter

  A card placed at the far end of an empty line is a card the Cinders will come and fetch. Aim for isolated enemies, placed far from everything to be left in peace: they arrive pressed against you, and judged.

• The 6 judges, the others escort

  Its 6 is on top. Pull the enemy you want to take toward that side, and use the other sides to move whatever is in your way, or to bring an ally back.

• Move your own cards too

  The pull doesn't sort: an ally is pulled just like an enemy, without being judged. It's a free move: get a card out of an exposed position, or bring it closer to a Resonance.

• Drag them through the poison

  With the Plagued, every poisoned square on the way takes 1 rank from the pulled card, the landing square included. The enemy arrives drained: that is the Treaty The Venom Drag.

• The Herald pulls two

  The Herald of the Cinders pulls up to two lined-up cards instead of one in the same direction: they fall in one behind the other, and the corridor closes up against you.

Facing them

Countering the Cinders

Against the Cinders' 6, a rank of 6 or more holds: the card is moved, not taken. Near a Cinders card, prefer cards with balanced ranks to cards with a single big number, which arrive on the wrong side. And turn the weapon around: its 3, at the bottom, is weak, so attack it from there.

Two per duel

The alliances of the Cinders

Before each duel, you choose two Orders. Some pairs have a name: these are the Treaties, which your profile tracks game after game. The Cinders sign two of them.

• The Venom Drag with the Plagued

  You poison the corridor, then drag the enemy through it: it arrives drained.

  The signA pulled card whose path crosses at least one poisoned square.

• The Drive Hunt with the Archers

  The Cinders tear the enemy out of its sheltered pocket; the arrow brings it down in open ground.

  The signA ranged capture within the two turns after a pull.

Story mode

The Herald of the Cinders

Pulls up to two lined-up cards instead of one.

The Herald is the superior version of the Order: its four cards keep their numbers, but its ability changes. It is earned by finishing chapter I of Story mode: six games, from the Ember to the Master of Embers. It is played against the Echo, in Classic matches and in challenges between friends, never in Ranked or in tournaments.

Chapter I in detail · The eight Heralds

Questions

The Cinders in three questions

Ten Orders

The nine other Orders

Each Order has its own page: its ability, its four cards, how to play it and how to counter it.

• Gilded
• Pikes
• Archers
• Abyssals
• Chimeras
• Plagued
• Guardians
• Scribes
• Cursed

All the Orders on one page · The rules of the game