• Type: Action - Ruins
• Cost: 4
• Effect: +$5, but you must trash an Action (including itself), else the effect fizzles.
• When gained: Also gain 2 Ruins.

Cost 4 for +$5 is huge, but the 2-Ruins penalty pollutes the deck. With trashing in place, Death Cart becomes a Province-finishing burst. B+ tier.

Opening: Avoid (Ruins penalty).

Midgame: Buy 1-2 once trashing online. Self-trash for one-shot +$5.

Endgame: Death Cart for finisher Province.

• Chapel: Quick Ruins trash.
• Forager / Junk Dealer: Process Ruins.
• Fortress: Trash Fortress (returns) to fuel Death Cart.
• Throne: 2× = +$10 (need Action to trash 2nd time).

• Trashing: Chapel / Procession / Remodel.
• Fortress: Trash loop.
• Throne family: +$10.
• Peddler: Action-cheaper.
• Gardens: Ruins count for VP.

• No trashing: Ruins polluted forever.
• Action-light: No trash target.
• Thinned engine: Ruins anti-synergy.
• Short games: Ruins-clear too slow.

Self-trash one-shot Death Cart for Province-buy finisher. 1-2 copies max.

Pair with trashing for Ruins disposal + +$5 burst.

Procession Death Cart = +$10 + 2 trashes + 5-cost gain. Province + α.