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Ascension: Dreamscape

Game ID: GID0030459
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Year
2015
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Description

Ascension is a deck-building game in which players spend Runes to acquire more powerful cards for their deck. It offers a dynamic play experience where players have to react and adjust their strategy accordingly. Each player starts with a small deck of cards, and uses those cards to acquire more and better cards for their deck, with the goal of earning the most Honor Points by gaining cards and defeating monsters.

Ascension: Dreamscape is the ninth standalone game in the Ascension series, although the game can be combined with other titles for play with up to six players. This set introduces the Insight resource that allows players to acquire exclusive Dream cards. Player can also use the Dreamscape to access powerful new Vision cards as well as Heroes and Contructs.

Description

Ascension is a deck-building game in which players spend Runes to acquire more powerful cards for their deck. It offers a dynamic play experience where players have to react and adjust their strategy accordingly. Each player starts with a small deck of cards, and uses those cards to acquire more and better cards for their deck, with the goal of earning the most Honor Points by gaining cards and defeating monsters.

Ascension: Dreamscape is the ninth standalone game in the Ascension series, although the game can be combined with other titles for play with up to six players. This set introduces the Insight resource that allows players to acquire exclusive Dream cards. Player can also use the Dreamscape to access powerful new Vision cards as well as Heroes and Contructs.

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Rolling Dice and Taking Names Jul 15, 2026
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Video Ty01LetgVxA Rolling Dice & Taking Names Review at 4:36 sentiment: positive
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Overall sentiment (raw)
positive
Pros
  • Art is liked more than previous series, being more 'airy'
  • Immediate plays with vision cards are a neat idea
  • New 'insight' resource is a big plus
  • Can be played standalone or integrated with other expansions
  • Good for a 'quick deck builder'
Cons
  • Insight tokens (egg-shaped) roll around too easily and get lost
  • Small font on cards, especially flavor text
  • Dream mechanic feels like an 'add-on' for new players
  • Can be 'swingy' at times, where the center row fills with monsters, making it hard to get an engine going
Thematic elements
  • dream
Comparison games
  • Imperial Settlers
  • 51st State
  • Star Realms
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Card Combos — Players can devise strategies to create powerful combinations of construct cards.
  • deck-building — Players start with a deck of cards and acquire new cards to improve their deck and strategies throughout the game.
  • Insight — A new resource collected by players that is used to purchase special cards from an individual 'dreamscape deck'.
  • Victory Points (Honor) — Players earn 'honor' by defeating monsters and through cards in their purchased deck; the player with the most honor wins.
  • Vision cards — A type of dream card that offers an immediate effect, either being discarded after use or staying on the table.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • "Marty it's our anniversary month so it's going to take a lot to drag me away from you there's nothing that a hundred men or more could ever do just move on to the intro you're so unromantic."
  • "I don't know whether people like them or not but hey you know we're gonna do a couple of them."
  • "I one day i will pay you back for this."
  • "A card laid is a card played."
  • "Why did you pick round tokens that just floors me I don't understand that."
  • "I'm an old man it's a little small on cards people i know i know you got to get it in there yada yada yada whatever but the font was kind of one of those um Ignacio odds they're intense that's what we're gonna call it now yeah the annossy fine big na SI phan which now for from here on that would be known as a small small fun yes."
  • "Everybody knows your gay oh dude that was pretty I was nice was that their slogan you just make that up it's actually on his business card dude."
  • "I cannot believe that somebody hasn't come out with one of these before now."
  • "You need to drop start craft on them one down man just do that just come drop that on the table and say go for it."
  • "It's just it's a nagging gnawing type of feeling I have but I'm going to let those that are way smarter than me to tell me whether or not I'm wrong or right after they have a whole bunch of plays in their pros at these euro games."
  • "I'm a blind hog and found an acorn and saw it come it just hit me a blind hog finding an acorn yeah that's a common expression blind squirrel is blind hog Google a hog a hug are you serious why would a hog find ok for squirrels find a core is it a hug Hyundai corns too but ok for this show it's a blind squirrel finding an acorn."
  • "Anthony was possessed devil you know anyway I try to tie it together and you messed me up but that's okay I'm good with that."
  • "That's only one third of a 20-ounce coke in the hotel i'm at right now."
  • "It was abysmal dude it was like being releasing a horror flick in the middle of summer which you picked which idea which was an idiot pic but anyway."
  • "Our Marty obviously did not pay attention to that very well because he has been sharing it with every other guy and not me."
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Video E-nJQCx66SE Rolling Dice & Taking Names Analysis at 19:19 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
  • Great implementation of the Dreamscape expansion on iPad.
  • Enjoyable to play Dreamscape by itself.
Cons
  • Mixing Dreamscape with too many other expansions can hinder gameplay.
  • Losing games to Scott King.
Thematic elements
  • dreams
Comparison games
none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Deck Building — A core mechanic of the Ascension series, where players build their deck of cards during the game.
  • Expansion mechanics — The Dreamscape expansion introduces unique mechanics related to dreams and insight.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • I think for the first time ever we are using an instrumental theme song that's right we have because I floundered gray liam coming up with a song title however this one marty is because of our five-minute initiative in this one cause of imperial the domination of it of the empire Plus this whole week they've been doing Star Wars own blows at tnt I don't know it's dynamite yeah whatever you know so I've been was another song we could use AC DC AC DC that's right but it was the fact that episodes 1 2 3 4 5 6 we're all on TNT in order each night so I would be picking up various ones you know periodically like Return of the Jedi was last night got to watch the end of it and so I was like man which ones were on all of them in order so 4 5 & 6 1 2 3 4 5 & 6 no try that again four five and six you can deny all you want to deny oh I shall deny but you played a video game Star Wars galaxy that included the Gungans therefore you cannot deny that they were part of the Star Wars lore yeah but what was the best thing about playing Star Wars Galaxies with the Gungans we got to slaughter them exactly that's right we took every mission where we had to go to the island and kill them and enjoyed every minute of it brings back a lot of memories doesn't it yeah it does fantastic game but we aren't here to talk about video games however i would like to an episode on video game sometime but not this time we have got a great show tonight because we are going to do something that we've been talking about for a little while well we're going to do in-depth analysis of three miniature games
  • people might be wondering why you guys will talk about miniature games and I think the main reason why Tony is cause I feel that the gap between board games and miniature games has been shrinking over time and I think there's this feeling of intrepid ation or our little nervousness about a board game are getting into miniature games and we just want to talk about how actually easy it is to get into these games because a lot of current board games actually use some mechanics for miniature games yeah and it could also be you know getting smaller because every freaking game now comes with miniatures escalating the prices way up out of our price range
  • well it's that time of year again where the fall TV shows start coming on and Marty I don't know what's on your radar I'm sure nothing on CBS I'll see assuming every CBS show either involves a doctor or lawyer or cop that's cool yeah yeah there you go so you had bull and all that other stuff but what are you going to watch this fall the only things that we have said we'll give a shot was a good place Ted Danson and kristen bell that's the comedy was made by some of the other people that we like we watched the first show thought it was ok we'll we'll keep trying and what's on your list we haven't really tried a lot yeah a good place i enjoyed watching that I gotta give it another chance I did watch speechless that I enjoyed I thought but I enjoy the actor who's in that and an actress who's in that and as well as the guy who plays um bow II from Big Bang he's in it that one was really fun we actually watched that one of vanessa was like who is that guy I said come on Vanessa fake and I said voice you oh yeah that's right for Big Bang yeah so what do you think of it I thought it's actually pretty good show it was a lot like I told Vanessa I was a lot like Goldberg's to me the mom and this shows a lot like the mom and Goldberg's but we'll continue to watch it i think that that was a dish and show another show that we're going to try is that ties that show for NBC timely as will be mother time travelers the teasers look good but we'll see what we'll give it a shot I've kind of gotten to the point with new shows I want to see how their ratings are over the first several weeks and if they're not bad I'm not even gonna invest in the entire met him because I know they're going to be gone right and I think for me the biggest disappointment so far but one more shot is MacGyver I had to give it a shot any reboots I'm just reluctant to give a shot too but it's a reboot on CBS I'm out
  • I think some of the most competitive some of the best gamers I've ever played against were miniature gamers by far I've played the heaviest of heavy euros and the amount of brain power it takes to play those to me doesn't compare when you're playing against somebody that really knows how to play these miniature games because there's just so many decisions that need to be made
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