(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/a/ae/Ruined_Village.jpg/200px-Ruined_Village.jpg) | #5 =0 Ruined Village (Dark Ages) Weighted Average: 2.3% ▼2.6pp / Unweighted Average: 4.3% / Median: 0% =0pp / Standard Deviation: 16.4% There is no doubt. This is the worst Ruin you can possibly get. Almost everyone voted it last, only 6 didn't. This Ruin is the card which is closest to Confusion, a dead card with no effect which DXV wanted to publish originally. This card gives also mostly no benefit and there is mostly no need to play it beside some edge cases e.g. when you want to lower the cost of Peddler, activate a Conspirator, lower the hand size for Watchtower/Library or raise the value of Horn of Plenty. You could also play Throne Room or King's Court on it if you are in desperate need for a village to play other Action cards, but often you just better play Throne Room or King's Court on these Action cards. |
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/f/fe/Ruined_Library.jpg/200px-Ruined_Library.jpg) | #4 =0 Ruined Library (Dark Ages) Weighted Average: 49.3% ▲5.5pp / Unweighted Average: 49.3% / Median: 50% =0pp / Standard Deviation: 26.9% It was close, but Ruined Library is the second worse Ruin again. It was voted on #4 30 times and even 2 times last. Ruined Libary itself also doesn't give you any benefit. You just only draw the card you would have drawn anyway. And if you have only 1 Action left you could also draw that Action dead. So this is only worth playing if you have a spare Action left. Then you have at least mitigated the bad effect of this Ruin. Of course you could also play Throne Room or King's Court on it to draw multiple cards if you're really desperate. |
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/7/7a/Survivors.jpg/200px-Survivors.jpg) | #3 =0 Survivors (Dark Ages) Weighted Average: 53.4% ▼8.3pp / Unweighted Average: 53.6% / Median: 50% =0pp / Standard Deviation: 28.3% Survivors is the biggest loser in this list. It has 13 first and 3 last places. Survivors is the only not +1 X Ruin. In a hand with one of all 5 Ruins, this is probably the one you want to play as this turn is dead anyway, so you can at least prepare the next one. So, it can be quite handy. Imagine you normally - without this Ruin - would have drawn an Estate, but now you can discard that Estate and maybe even a second one which you normally would have drawn next turn. This means it isn't the worst Ruin to have, but still the benefit is often only marginal. Like with Scout you have to be lucky to draw 2 bad cards you want to discard or have the rare case you put the cards back and have Actions left and the order in which you put the cards back really matters like with Wishing Well. The problem here therefore is that it only helps in really junked decks, but then you're gonna probably lose anyway. |
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/f/f2/Ruined_Market.jpg/200px-Ruined_Market.jpg) | #2 =0 Ruined Market (Dark Ages) Weighted Average: 65.4% ▼3.1pp / Unweighted Average: 64.5% / Median: 50% =0pp / Standard Deviation: 29.3% Ruined Market is the Ruin with the most disagreement, but is still on the same rank. Contrary to Survivors which helps most in bad decks, this helps probably most in still relatively good decks. This might even help a lot if you miss your Action card this turn which normally would give you the much needed buy for building up your engine. In the late game you could even use this for Double Estate or Duchy/Estate, especially on a board with otherwise no other +Buys. This might even be a card you want to buy/gain on purpose. I could even imageine open with Ruined Market on a board with Peddler and no other +Buys :). You see the benefit of this Ruin is really board dependant, but having a much needed +Buy from this Ruin could really save you the day. |
(http://wiki.dominionstrategy.com/images/thumb/6/6d/Abandoned_Mine.jpg/200px-Abandoned_Mine.jpg) | #1 =0 Abandoned Mine (Dark Ages) Weighted Average: 79.7% ▲8.6pp / Unweighted Average: 78.3% / Median: 75% =0pp / Standard Deviation: 22.0% With no last place and 29 first places this is clearly the "least bad" Ruin you can get. Abandoned Mine is the winner of this list. Abandoned Mine is in games with Ruins mostly better than Ruined Library as you have a junked deck and don't want to draw your Action cards dead and have a low money average either way. But what makes it better than Survivors or Ruined Market? Money is really important in Ruins games as your struggling your way up to $5 or $6. While Curses don't give you this opportunity you often get to $5 or $6 with Abandoned Mine. |
Ruined Market, you'll forever be my #1 (http://dom.retrobox.eu/?/20130811/log.5101a6c4e4b02b7235c3860f.1376262835430.txt).
But the number of cases in which you need +buy, in a Ruins game where your deck is filled with junk, and it's also not already easy to get from the kingdom cards, is not very high.Well first of all sometimes Ruins are available and the game still won't be a heavy-junking slog: Death Cart with no other Looters; Marauder without Cultist with decent trashing; or, elite trashing with Marauder and/or Cultist. I mean, yeah, you don't get those games all the time but they're not super rare or anything.
But the number of cases in which you need +buy, in a Ruins game where your deck is filled with junk, and it's also not already easy to get from the kingdom cards, is not very high.Well first of all sometimes Ruins are available and the game still won't be a heavy-junking slog: Death Cart with no other Looters; Marauder without Cultist with decent trashing; or, elite trashing with Marauder and/or Cultist. I mean, yeah, you don't get those games all the time but they're not super rare or anything.
And it's not just about the engines, sometimes +Buy can help you a little bit in a slog, probably to get a couple extra Coppers or maybe to double-Estate or something.
I still don't really understand why people seems to rank the card based on "which would I buy more often" rather than "which is the less bad". Based on this, I'm just convinced that R Library is better than all the others (though I understant the arguments for R Market)