Survivors

Survivors
Info
Cost
Type(s)	Action - Ruins
Kingdom card?	No
Set	Dark Ages
Illustrator(s)	Alex Drummond
Card text
Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Discard them or put them back in any order.

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.

FAQ

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

Refer to the Ruins strategy section.

Versions

English versions

Print	Digital	Text	Release	Date
		Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Discard them or put them back in any order.	Dark Ages	August 2012
		Look at the top 2 cards of your deck. Discard them or put them back in any order.	Dark Ages (2017 printing)	September 2017

Other language versions

Language	Name	Print	Digital	Text	Notes
Chinese	難民			觀看你牌庫頂的兩張卡，棄掉那兩張或是將那兩張以任意順序放回牌庫頂。
Czech	Pozůstalí			Podívej se na vrchní 2 karty svého dobíracího balíčku. Odlož je nebo vrať zpět v libovolném pořadí.
Dutch	Overlevenden			Bekijk de 2 bovenste kaarten van je trekstapel. Leg deze af of leg ze terug in een volgorde naar keuze.	(2012)
Finnish	Eloonjääneet
French	Rescapés
German	Überlebende			Sieh die obersten 2 Karten deines Nachziehstapels an. Lege beide ab oder in beliebiger Reihenfolge zurück.	(2019)
Japanese	生存者 (pron. seizon-sha)			山札の上から2枚を見る。両方を捨て札にするか、好きな順番で山札に戻す。
Korean	생존자 (pron. saengjonja)
Russian	Уцелевшие (pron. utsyelyevshiye)
Spanish	Supervivientes			Mira las 2 cartas superiores de tu mazo. Descártalas o devuélvelas en el orden que desees.

Trivia

Official card art.

This is the only non-vanilla Ruins card. It is also the only one whose name and artwork aren't based on earlier cards.

Theme

The Survivors survived an attack of some kind, like Pillage. Sadly they are doomed to be sold to a Junk Dealer.

—Donald X. Vaccarino, Interview with Donald X.

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

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