Ruins
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Additional Rules
Ruins are introduced in Dark Ages; relevant rules are reproduced below.
List of Ruins
The different ruins cards are:
Preparation
- If any Kingdom card has the type Looter (e.g. Cultist, Death Cart, and Marauder), add the Ruins pile to this game.
- Shuffle the Ruins cards, then count 10 per player after the first: 10 for two players, 20 for three players, 30 for four players, and so on.
- Put the pile face down with the top card face up.
- Return any remaining Ruins cards to the box as they are not used in this game.
Ruins pile
- Players can buy Ruins even though they normally will not wish to.
- Ruins cards are Actions; they may be played in the Action phase, and count as Actions for things that refer to Action cards, such as Procession.
- The Ruins pile, when used, is in the Supply, and if it is empty that counts towards the normal end condition.
- Cards that try to get specific cards from the Supply fail to get a Ruins if the correct one is not the top one. For example if you buy a Ruined Market with Talisman, you only gain another Ruined Market if that is the top Ruins under the one you bought; if you use Ambassador to return Survivors to the Supply, the next player will gain that Survivors, but the player after that will not gain a card, unless the next Ruins is also a Survivors.
- The only card that may be bought or gained or chosen from the Ruins pile is the card on top.
- Players cannot look through the pile, only at the top card; the players turn the top card over any time it is face down.
- If a Ruins is returned to the Ruins pile with Ambassador, turn over the current top card and the returned card goes on top, turned face-up.
- Ruins cards with different names count as differently named cards for cards that care about this. For example if Tribute reveals two different Ruins cards, it will give +4 Actions.
- When Contraband is played, a player can name a Ruins, but that only stops that specific Ruins from being bought. However an Embargo token placed on the Ruins pile will affect any cards bought from it.