Ruined Market

Ruined Market
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Ruins
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Marcel-André Casasola Merkle
Card text
+1 Buy

Ruined Market 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 gives +1 Buy.

FAQ

Official FAQ

• When you play this, you just get +1 Buy.
• This is a Ruins; see Additional Rules for Dark Ages and Preparation.

Strategy

Refer to the Ruins strategy section.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		+1 Buy	Dark Ages	August 2012
		+1 Buy	Dark Ages (2017 printing)	September 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	市場殘骸			+1 購買
Czech	Zničené tržiště (lit. destroyed marketplace)			+1 nákup
Dutch	Verwoeste Markt (lit. devastated market)			+1 Aanschaf	(2012)
Finnish	Raunioitunut tori
French	Marché en ruines
German	Zerstörter Markt			+1 Kauf
Japanese	市場跡地 (pron. ichiba atochi, lit. site of demolished market)			+1 購入
Korean	폐허가 된 시장 (pron. pyeheoga doen sijang)
Russian	Разрушенный Рынок (pron. razrushyenny rynok)
Spanish	Mercado en Ruinas			+1 Compra

Trivia

Official card art.

Card Art

The art shows a ruined version of the art for Grand Market.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, 'Art Trivia'

Preview

Ruined Market for example just gives +1 Buy. It’s as simple as Smithy! I am betting you can guess what three of the other Ruinses do. The last one will remain a small mystery until next week. Looking at the art, it appears that that Ruined Market was once Grand. It’s hard times for all of us. Once you get given a Ruined Market, well, it’s pretty bad, but it does do something. You don’t usually want it – though it has a certain charm in a Fairgrounds deck – but who knows, maybe that +1 Buy will come in handy. So it’s like a Curse but more interesting. And really that’s the whole point to them.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Dark Ages Preview #2: Feodum, Cultist, Ruined Market

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