Horned Rat Ruination

By Sythorn, in Chaos in the Old World

The rules for the horned rat state that the cost of figures he has in a region are used in lieu of corruption tokens when determining if he is the first or second ruiner. When the old world card from the new expansion that increases the power cost of all figures by one is in play, does the increased cost of a figure count towards ruination for the horned rat, or merely the printed cost? I'm highly torn on this one; on one hand, the rules do not say the "printed cost," but on the other, the example in parenthesis lists the value of each figure and is totally silent on the subject of increasing power point costs.

Unless I'm missing something, then by the RAW the ruination value should be the total cost of summoning a figure into that region, but this seems wrong somehow.

What you paid to summon a figure is not its summoning cost. The summoning cost is the printed value on its upgrade card/faction card.