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General Strategy Article

Because they give minor benefits and don't give negative points, Ruins are not as harmful as Curses, and Looters are thus not as good as Cursers. Cards like Scrying Pool, Transmute, and Vineyard, which care about Action cards, can actually make use of them. Procession can also be used as a Ruins-trasher. See here for a quite comprehensive comparison between Ruins and Curses.

Synergies/Combos

• Scrying Pool, Transmute, Vineyard
• Procession

Antisynergies

• Curse
• Golem
• Wandering Minstrel

Card Articles

Survivors

Official FAQ

• You either discard both cards, or put both cards back on top; you cannot just discard one card.
• This is a Ruins; see Additional Rules for Dark Ages and Preparation.

Other Rules clarifications

• If you do not have 2 cards in your deck, look at what you can and then shuffle your discard pile to make a new deck. If you still don't have 2 cards to look at just reveal what you can.

Strategy Article

Survivors is an Action-Ruins from Dark Ages. It is typically given out by Looters, but can be bought if it is the top card of the Ruins pile. When played, it lets you look at the top two cards of your deck and gives you the opportunity to discard them. It gives you a little bit of filtering and looks at the top of your deck, and so combos with Scrying Pool, Mystic, and Wishing Well, just a bit. It's probably more useful in junked-up decks... such as those filled with Ruins.

Synergies/Combos

• Scrying Pool, Mystic, and Wishing Well

Trivia

In Other Languages

*pron. pyeheoga doen doseogwan. **pron. pyeheoga doen sijang. ***pron. pyeheoga doen ma-eul.
Literal translations can be found on the individual card pages.

Art

Abandoned Mine.	Ruined Library.	Ruined Market.
Ruined Village.	Survivors.

Secret History

Back when the main set had Confusion—a blank card—and an attack that gave it out. Confusion just wasn't worth the 30 or 50 extra cards it required. It plays so much like Curse. When I decided to make Dark Ages 500 cards, I of course thought of Confusion. Confusion still wasn't worth doing though. But what about more interesting penalty cards? They wouldn't need to be all the same even. And well there they are, the Ruins. It was always those five. Some people argued that Ruined Village was more funny than worth printing; it's easily the worst one, and in a multiplayer game someone just randomly got handed it while someone else got Abandoned Mine. But I thought that wasn't so bad, and felt that it was important that it be very easy to learn the Ruins. Four are +1's and then there's Survivors. Bam.

I needed a rule for putting out the pile, and so put "Looter" on the bottom of the relevant kingdom cards. It seemed like it would be confusing if the Ruins pile wasn't in the supply, so it is; that meant the top card had to be visible, so that for example if I name it for Contraband we know that that's what you'd be buying (and you can't). This means you have to carefully deal them out in turn order and well that was as good as it got.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of the Dark Ages Cards

DYK

For a while we tried a card in the Apprentice / Salvager family that gave you a mix of +1's of your choice for trashing a card. It was cwazy, today's word of the day. I dropped +Cards from it and it was still cwazy. We kept giving it chances but I also tried some alternatives. Raze copied the earlier Disciple but based on the size of the trashed card. The mix of +1's thing let you trash itself, so I put that on Raze, and I liked everything about Raze so it got the slot.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, The Secret History of Dominion: Adventures