The most surprising games of 2017

@jpinard make sure you get 1404 / Dawn of Discovery, the best sub $4 you will ever spend.

Yes, this is just during one game. There’s an important distinction between knocked out and ruined cards:

If a card loses all its hitpoints it gets “knocked out”. At the end of the round all of the knocked out cards come back to life except for one of them, which is “ruined”. There are also some cards that have the ability to ruin another card directly. For the rest of that game, a ruined card is replaced with a gravestone card which is pretty much worthless.