Is Ashes a Card Game?

Ashes was never intended to have a one card beats everything type of game. It was about, i'm a powerful spellcaster. I am coming to a battle ia to come prepared. And the cards not only a started in your hands, the cards also remained on the board and e lot of them can be reutilized again. The first five became this thing that allowed players to kind of have an understanding of how they would approach a deck. They would be able to see like, ok, you're playing with that phoenix. Bornd, i think this is going to be the most useful set of cards thats goin. Ago had appealed to or, i want to