Ruination
Mystery Booster 2 199 • rare
- Set
- Mystery Booster 2
- Collector number
- 199
- Rarity
- Rare
- Mana cost
- 3 generic mana red mana
- Type
- Sorcery
- Colors
- Red
- Artist
- Dermot Power
- Market price
- $0.55
What it does
Destroy all nonbasic lands.
"We have built a wall upon sand. The wall will vanish. The sand will remain."— Oracle *en*-Vec
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernNot legal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulNot legal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Ruination is a card originally featured in the 1998 Stronghold expansion for Magic: The Gathering, designed by Wizards of the Coast to emphasize the vulnerability of non-basic lands in the game's competitive ecosystem. The card functions as a powerful tool for punishing players who rely heavily on complex mana bases, forcing a strategic shift that has made it a polarizing and memorable inclusion in eternal formats over the decades.
This specific iteration appears in Mystery Booster 2, a curated playtest and reprint set designed to celebrate the history of the game. The artwork is credited to Dermot Power, an illustrator known for his atmospheric and gritty fantasy style, which captures the destructive essence of the spell. The reprint maintains the card's original mechanical identity, serving as both a nod to the game's evolving design philosophy and a functional tool for modern tabletop play.
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