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{{Set
|Prev_Set=Call of the Archons
|Name=Age of Ascension
|Abv=aoa
|Next_Set=Worlds Collide
|Number=2
|Released=May 30, 2019
|Cards=370
|New=204
|1=Brobnar
|2=Dis
|3=Logos
|4=Mars
|5=Sanctum
|6=Shadows
|7=Untamed
|Designer=
|Development=Brad Andres, Skaff Elias and Richard Garfield
|Languages=10 - English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Thai
}}
'''Age of Ascension''' is the second KeyForge [[Sets|set]], announced in a FFG live stream with Richard Garfield on February 12th 2019 and released on May 30, 2019. In Europe, the game launched with a Sealed [[2019_UK_Games_Expo_Vault_Tour|Vault Tour at UK Games Expo]] in Birmingham. With 388 players, this is the largest [[KeyForge Organized Play|KeyForge Organized Play]] event to date.

Keeping 166 cards from [[Call of the Archons]] and adding 204 new cards, Age of Ascension again contains 370 cards, spread among the same seven [[houses]] as: [[Houses#Brobnar|Brobnar]], [[Houses#Dis|Dis]], [[Houses#Logos|Logos]], [[Houses#Mars|Mars]], [[Houses#Sanctum|Sanctum]], [[Houses#Shadows|Shadows]] and [[Houses#Untamed|Untamed]]
==New Set Mechanics==

=== New Keywords: Alpha, Omega, Deploy ===
New keywords introduced in Age of Ascension were [[Alpha]], [[Omega]] and [[Deploy]]: restricting when certain cards can be played and freeing others from the constraints of standard placement. These are keywords that are considered "evergreen" as they regularly show up in subsequent sets.

=== Legacy Cards ===
Age of Ascension introduced [[Legacy]] cards. These are cards from a previous set (such as CotA) that are not part of the current set, but on very rare occasions can appear in a deck. [[Legacy Maverick|Legacy Mavericks]] are also possible and extremely rare. Legacies occur in [[Legacy_and_Maverick_Frequencies|about 8.4%]] of AoA decks, but legacy mavericks are only found in about 1 in 11,000 of them. Legacy cards have continued to appear in subsequent sets.
==Gameplay==
Age of Ascension features more board based abilities and less Æmber bonus cards than Call of the Archons, and introduces abilities that punish or stop reaping. This creates a more complex and interactive gameplay, which along with [[Houses#Competitive success|improved]] house strength balance made Age of Ascension especially enjoyable in the [[Formats and variants#Sealed|Sealed]] format.

Iconic and powerful combos include [[Martian Generosity]] + [[Key Abduction]] in Mars and [[Drummernaut]] + [[Ganger Chieftain]] in Brobnar. [[Grump Buggy]], [[Proclamation 346E]] and especially [[Heart of the Forest]] are artifacts that change the flow of the game considerably. Another popular combo is [[Binate Rupture]] + [[Interdimensional Graft]] in Logos, and [[Archimedes]] was one of the best cards in the game before the errata (the previous ruling stated that it could archive the player’s entire battleline when a board wipe was played).
==Special Rarity Cards==
[[Rarity|Special rarity]] cards include [[Mars Ambassador|Ambassador]] variants (in Sanctum) for each other house, as well as the three [[Gold Key Imp|Key Imps]]. “Fixed” cards are [[Ortannu the Chained|Ortannu the Chained]] that always appears together with two [[Ortannu’s Binding|Ortannu’s Bindings]], as well as [[Timetraveller]] with [[Help from Future Self]].

Each house also contains a unique [[:Category:Shard|Shard]] artifact, which always appears with at least one other Shard from another house. Cards that always appear with another card are [[Grumpus Tamer|Grumpus Tamer]] and [[Project Z.Y.X.|Project Z.Y.X.]]

[[Routine Job]] always appears at least in a pair, while [[Plague Rat|Plague Rat]] is the first card introduced that always appears with minimum 3 copies in a deck.

==Card Distribution==
This table indicates how many cards are in each house of Age of Ascension and how many are of each [[rarity]]. The bottom section displays the number of reprints in each house and the set from which they originated. 

{{SetCards
|house1=Brobnar
|house2=Dis
|house3=Logos
|house4=Mars
|house5=Sanctum
|house6=Shadows
|house7=Untamed
|T1=52
|T2=55
|T3=52
|T4=51
|T5=56
|T6=52
|T7=52
|TT=370
|C1=16
|C2=16
|C3=16
|C4=16
|C5=16
|C6=16
|C7=16
|CT=112
|U1=16
|U2=15
|U3=15
|U4=16
|U5=15
|U6=16
|U7=16
|UT=109
|R1=20
|R2=20
|R3=20
|R4=19
|R5=19
|R6=20
|R7=20
|RT=138
|S1=
|S2=4
|S3=1
|S4=
|S5=6
|S6=
|S7=
|ST=11
}}
{{SetCardsP}}
{{SetCardsS
|set=New in AoA
|T1=28
|T2=31
|T3=28
|T4=28
|T5=33
|T6=28
|T7=28
|TT=204
}}
{{SetCardsS
|set=CotA
|T1=24
|T2=24
|T3=24
|T4=23
|T5=23
|T6=24
|T7=24
|TT=166
}}
|}

==Reception==
More than 100.000 Age of Ascension decks were registered in the 3 weeks within release, but AoA did not match CotA’s [[Master Vault|number of registered decks]] or competitive success. To date, no Age of Ascension deck has won a non-Sealed [[Vault Tour|Vault Tour]] or [[Grand Championships|Grand Championship]] event.

==Competitive Success==
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|colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: #c2ddff; text-align: center;" |Most Popular Cards in AoA Vault Tour<br>Winning Decks, by Rarity
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|colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(237, 235, 235); text-align: center;" | Commons
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|style="vertical-align:top; font-size:.9em;"|
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Nerve Blast]] (5)
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Ronnie Wristclocks]] (5)
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:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Sucker Punch]] (5)
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Life for a Life]] (4)
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|colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(237, 235, 235); text-align: center;"|Uncommons
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|style="vertical-align:top;  font-size:.9em;"|
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Brend the Fanatic]] (3)
:{{House|House=Dis|Size=18px}} [[Gongoozle]] (2)
:{{House|House=Untamed|Size=18px}} [[Mimicry]] (2)
|style="vertical-align:top;  font-size:.9em; padding-right:20px;"|
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Murkens]] (2)
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Oubliette]] (2)
:{{House|House=Shadows|Size=18px}} [[Too Much to Protect]] (2)
|-
|colspan="2" style="font-weight: bold; background-color: rgb(237, 235, 235); text-align: center; padding-right:10px;"|Rares & Specials
|-
|style="vertical-align:top;  font-size:.9em;"|
:{{House|House=Logos|Size=18px}} [[Neutron Shark]] (2)
|style="vertical-align:top;  font-size:.9em; padding-right:20px;"|
:{{House|House=Dis|Size=18px}} [[Onyx Knight]] (2)
|}
A deck from Age of Ascension has yet to win an Archon Vault Tour; the highest Archon ranking the set has achieved is second place in the [[2019 Krakow Archon Vault Tour]] and [[2019 Madrid Vault Tour]]. The set contains several powerful combos, such as "GenKA", the [[Martian Generosity]]/[[Key Abduction]] combo which often allows the player to draw many cards and forge a key for free. Of the fifteen Age of Ascension decks that made the top cut of an Archon Vault Tour, however, only three were GenKA combo decks. Instead, decks containing Dis, Shadows, and Logos were the most common. Brobnar, Sanctum, and Untamed were the least represented houses among Age of Ascension decks making the top cut of Archon Vault Tours.

{{Set_TopCards_Header|Header=Most Popular Cards in<br>AoA Vault Tour Winning Decks}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Nerve Blast
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=5
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Ronnie Wristclocks
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=5
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Sucker Punch
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=5
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Life for a Life
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=4
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=1-2 Punch
|House=Brobnar
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Brend the Fanatic
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Uncommon
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Dusk Chronicles
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Furtive Investors
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Lamindra
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Lash of Broken Dreams
|House=Dis
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Mars First
|House=Mars
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Throwing Stars
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
{{Set_TopCards
|Card=Whistling Darts
|House=Shadows
|Rarity=Common
|Count=3
}}
|}
''Last updated on February 7, 2020''
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==Products==
{| class="wikitable"
!Name
!Model
!Description
|-
|KeyForge: Age of Ascension Archon Deck
|KF03a
|
|-
|KeyForge: Age of Ascension Display
|KF03d
|Contains 12 Age of Ascension Archon Decks
|-
|KeyForge: Age of Ascension 2 Player Starter Set
|KF04
|Contains:

* 2 Age of Ascension Archon Decks
* 6 Key tokens
* 2 Chain trackers
* 24 Damage tokens
* 26 Æmber tokens
* 44 Power and Stun tokens
* 2 Poster paper playmats
* Quick rules insert
|}
==See also==
• [[:Category:AoA|All cards in Age of Ascension]]<br  />
• Cards with an errata: [[Drummernaut]], [[Life for a Life]], [[Yzphyz Knowdrone]], [[Pain Reaction]]<br  />
• [[Master Vault#Registered decks|Deck registration data]]<br  />
• [[Houses#Competitive success|Competitive success among houses]]


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