Ruination

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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.

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