Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Game Reports => Topic started by: LibraryAdventurer on September 03, 2020, 02:17:38 am
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I played a game with my family today with a fan made looter that makes other players gain ruins into their hand. There was also Way of the Mouse with Raze set aside. (The kingdom also had Lighthouse, which just made this situation a little funnier IMO.)
A couple minutes into the game, I said "I just realized that this attack is completely nullified on this board by Way of the Mouse because you can play ruins as way of the mouse with Raze and use it to trash itself with +1 Action."
And this is the way we played the game, except I made the mistake of keeping the ruins at first, using them to trash my Estates, thinking I could trash my ruins later for my choice of one of the top two cards of my deck. I revised my thinking a couple turns later because the trashed card still cost $0, so you don't get anything for playing a ruins to play Raze and trashing the ruins.
Thinking about it more after the game, I realized that even if you play a ruins as Way of the mouse with Raze you can't use it to trash the ruins because the "this" on Raze still refers to Raze, not the card you're playing as Way of the mouse.
Is this correct?
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I've played a game online with Ruins + Way of the Mouse + Raze before. I'm pretty sure it was possible to trash the card itself. It didn't draw any cards.
This isn't how it works online (or by the rules), OP is correct.
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Your thinking is correct; you played wrong. Mouse makes you play another card in just the same way that Throne Room or current Band of Misfits does. There is no connection between the Ruins you played and the Raze that you played, other than the Ruins having the instruction to play Raze.
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This isn't how it works online (or by the rules), OP is correct.
I assume you're right (and I misrememberd) and have deleted my comment.