Ruination

Sorcery

Destroy all nonbasic lands.

Legality

Format	Legality
1v1 Commander	Legal
Archenemy	Legal
Big Apple Highlander	Legal
Block Constructed	Legal
Canadian Highlander	Legal
Casual	Legal
Commander / EDH	Legal
Commander: Rule 0	Legal
Custom	Legal
Duel Commander	Legal
Freeform	Legal
Highlander	Legal
Legacy	Legal
Leviathan	Legal
Limited	Legal
Oathbreaker	Legal
Planar Constructed	Legal
Planechase	Legal
PreDH	Legal
Premodern	Legal
Quest Magic	Legal
Vanguard	Legal
Vintage	Legal

Discussion (48)

sandwich_steve on Fuk your land base bitch

2 weeks ago

Hey friend,

Pyrohemia and a creature with indestructible (many options) or protection from red Subterranean Spirit (5 drop) or Vulshok Refugee (3 drop) synergize well for just pumping red mana into pyrohemia indefinitely.

Smoke is a decent red stax piece.

Spellshock and Ancient Runes add damage quickly.

Mana Flare with Manabarbs can bait players into damaging themselves, or add Stoneshaker Shaman to punish not tapping lands.

Ruination and From the Ashes remove nonbasic lands. Overmaster could make one mass land removal card not be countered, that way you don't rely on only Obliterate.

The tech is weird for Ghost Town but I like to suggest it for any land destruction deck.

Tectonic Instability works well with Field of Ruin so all lands get tapped by it.

Hope this helps a little.

Regards

legendofa on Which Mono-Color is the Most …

1 month ago

I should mention total board clearing and land denial for red. Obliterate, Jokulhaups, and Worldfire make sure everything's gone. Blood Moon, Ruination, and Impending Disaster make sure nobody can do anything about it.

hyalopterouslemur on Why Are the Other Free …

4 months ago

Also, if you're playing at a lower power level, Trinisphere becomes weak? Mind, never completely useless, since it makes a lot of removal/counterspells cost {1} to {2} more, but it's not nearly as strong in a Bracket 2 deck as it is in cEDH (Conversely, Gaddock Teeg is stronger in lower brackets, but still keeps Wraths and MLD off the table in higher brackets.)

The difference is a meta issue, as so much of Magic is. I always use the example of four- and five-color decks. In the lower brackets, there's only your budget stopping you from playing as many nonbasic lands as needed, and it's possible to even build a three-color deck with no basics. (In fact, the only nonbasic hoser of note that's legal in the lower brackets is Primal Order, I think. Oh, I guess Molten Rain.) But in bracket 4 and 5? Blood Moon, Back to Basics, Winter Moon, Ruination, suddenly playing five colors is a losing strategy.

Valengeta on Salt Devastation

1 year ago

I have made some changes to the deck, including some cards you've suggested and others like Ruination, Jokulhaups and Dawn's Truce

You make a good point about replacing the Myr and Ornithopter dorks for less removable rocks. The Ramos' ones look very cool. Maybe replace the dorks and Mind Stone for them?

I like Burning Sands, although it might backfire a bit too much for my taste. What would you replace for it?

legendofa on

1 year ago

An easy switch would be the shocklands Hallowed Fountain, Breeding Pool, and Temple Garden. They're pretty much the next best thing to the original duals, and they can be picked up by Windswept Heath and friends that search for a land type, not a basic land. Spara's Headquarters and Waterlogged Grove are also good options.

And, as a personal choice, I like to include enough basic lands to cast any card in the deck of basics alone. You never know when a Ruination or Back to Basics is going to wander in.

HeyImVegan on [Klothys] Pain-chantments

3 years ago

OK, Update Time! :

In addition to the other mentioned cards from the comments that finally got in, i managed to get my hands on some stuff:

IN:

Arasta of the Endless Web went in for good Blockers (and it is a Enchantment Creature)

Verduran Enchantress for more Draw with the Enchantment Syergy

OUT:

Ruination just a little bit too brutal. And put some more NonBasic Lands in

Fire Diamond and Moss Diamond out for Talisman of Impulse

EnbyGolem on Rootpath Purifier

3 years ago

Ruination is pretty brutal. It was always generally ‘Rule Zeroed’ out of most play groups though.

Mr-White on What to do with Sisay

3 years ago

Someone gave me the secret lair foil Sisay, Weatherlight Captain and after a few days of looking at edhrec and online builds I have to admit I have no clue what to do with her.

Legendary deck I saw seems to just mash in every Legendary those people found without much of a precise wincon or plan in mind.

I saw a few planeswalker build which looked fun but the stuff around the walkers was way too expensive for me.

And the last one was a shrine build but then I thought why would I build a Go-Shintai of Life's Origin deck without Go-Shintai in the command zone.

Anyone got tips on a descent budget (around 200-300$) deck? Had in mind a budget mana base with like 10-15 basic lands with basic land ramp and use stax stuff with cards like Back to Basics and Ruination to slow them down while I put my pieces in place.

Lots of creature board wipe if I have a planeswalker build.