I think it has to make sense word wise.
How does one ruin an Island? Other than the Dharma guys fom Lost I find it hard.
And how do you ruin a Pawn?!?
What could the weird one be?
Ruined Monument - +.1 VP
Ruined Gardens - Worth one VP for every 30 cards in your deck.
Ruined Golem - Play one action from your deck
Ruined Library - Draw up to five cards in hand
Ruined Militia - Opponent discards down to five cards in hand
Ruined Pawn - Choose 1: +1 Buy
Ruined Island - 1 VP. You may set this aside with another card, but they will NOT be returned to your deck at the end of the game.
SO you can actually buy ruins if you want, right? Like in a Goons or Garden deck? Could this make Goons-Scrying Pool viable?
Ruins are Actions so they're much worse than curses in any of the following decks: Golem, Farming Village, Hunting Party (imagine having 5 different kinds of ruins thrown at your HP deck!)
Looters and Ruins - the design space for fan cards just got much bigger!
I see, thanks for the clarification. 1 action is required to play the 1st Cultist but all subsequent cultists from the same turn consume no further actions, right?
I am confused about why it was necessary to put verbiage on the card explicitly giving me permission to play another Cultist. I suppose the real question is why would I think that i couldn't?
Ok, so the Ruined Lab variant is obvious: +1 Card
And, the ruined terminal Silver (no idea which one he'll pick) is going to be +$1.
The interesting question is: will the Ruined Village be +2 Actions or just +1 Action? I'm guessing +2 because outside of some Conspirator niche cases, an action that does nothing has no redeeming quality.
About an hour left!
Does the card have to leave you with exactly one fewer card in hand before you played it, or at least one fewer card?
-I was hoping to see strong evidence that there are times where you want transmute when there are no other cards in the kingdom that require Potion (like Familiar or Scrying Pool), but I'm still not convinced. The Potion/Loan game looked like a lot of fun, but I still believe it's safer for most players to always avoid Transmute except for cursed Colony games or games where you want Potion for a good card.
When I say half the cards were gone by the 3rd turn, I mean the other player literally had a few of most of the cards, including golds. Probably at least 10 total that would have been impossible to buy under any circumstances in your first two turns.
You have arguably the most powerful $4 card, tempered only by the fact it hurts for a short time, and make it become arguably even more powerful halfway through the game?
Big Money = Buy Province, if you can't, buy Gold, if you can't, buy Silver
Big Money Ultimate = Big Money + buy Duchy over Gold when 5 Provinces left in supply and Estate over Gold when 2 Provinces left in supply
Perfecting the BMU algorithm has been a favorite subject of the simulators: http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=1427.0
I generally just push all my cards together during clean-up and slap them on top of my discard, so it's possible to do it in a non-deliberate way. That said, you are allowed to be deliberate about the top card of your discard. That's all. The order of the rest does not... and should not... and will not, provided you shuffle adequately... matter.
Other people in the thread were saying that they moved cards around in their discard because they believed it would result in better hands later. I suppose its fine to do this if you really, really, really, really, really shuffle well. But it's sort of in bad taste, because if you bother ordering your cards in such a way, it implies that you believe that ordering the discard matters, and if you believe ordering the discard matters, it implies you believe your shuffling will be less than adequate.
Lack of good shuffling is the issue, not ordering the discard. But if you order the discard with much deliberation--other than the top card--it suggests a lack of good shuffling is about to occur.
Right. I don't think people here were disagreeing with that. You are allowed to put your clean-up cards on top of your deck in any order. You may even do this to strategically "hide" cards from your opponents, because they can only see the top card.
What others, including myself, are saying, is that you shouldn't deliberately space out your terminals, or something, because you don't want to draw them together. How you arranged them shouldn't matter, because you are obligated to shuffle your deck thoroughly. So a discard arrangement that seeks to take advantage of your own bad shuffling is tantamount to cheating.
