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Ruination
Oracle Text
Destroy all nonbasic lands.
Card Details
Mana CostCharacter Background
Ruination is a brutally efficient one‑shot lock piece: for just {3}{R} it annihilates every nonbasic land and sharply punishes greedy manabases, so it best supports land‑denial/prison and tempo‑oriented decks that can convert a mana advantage into a fast win. In practice you want to build your deck with a heavy baseline of basics (or be mono‑red) and slot Ruination as a midgame reset—cast it after opponents have invested in mana development and before they can rebuild; pairing it with fast creatures or a low curve lets you close the game while their mana is crippled. A concrete synergy is Blood Moon — together they convert and then remove nonbasic mana, producing near‑permanent disruption — or use utility lands like Ghost Quarter/Field of Ruin to finish off any remaining troublesome lands. Deckbuilding tip: minimize your own nonbasics and include ways to recur or cheat spells into play, because Ruination is as unforgiving to you as to them if your mana base is mixed.
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Character Background
Ruination is a brutally efficient one‑shot lock piece: for just {3}{R} it annihilates every nonbasic land and sharply punishes greedy manabases, so it best supports land‑denial/prison and tempo‑oriented decks that can convert a mana advantage into a fast win. In practice you want to build your deck with a heavy baseline of basics (or be mono‑red) and slot Ruination as a midgame reset—cast it after opponents have invested in mana development and before they can rebuild; pairing it with fast creatures or a low curve lets you close the game while their mana is crippled. A concrete synergy is Blood Moon — together they convert and then remove nonbasic mana, producing near‑permanent disruption — or use utility lands like Ghost Quarter/Field of Ruin to finish off any remaining troublesome lands. Deckbuilding tip: minimize your own nonbasics and include ways to recur or cheat spells into play, because Ruination is as unforgiving to you as to them if your mana base is mixed.
Generated using gpt-5-mini · Updated at 2026-05-16 09:20:46 UTC