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$44.95
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$34.95
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Description:
You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner.
But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn’t be proud, but your grandparents, would be delighted.
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Our Review:
What can we say about Dominion? It won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award for 2009. Dominion is innovative, taking the age-old concept of a deck of cards and doing something entirely new with it. It is wildly popular among beginning and experienced gamers. In our opinion, it deserves all of these accolades.
In Dominion, two to four players take turns drawing and playing cards. The difference here is that each player has his own deck of cards, or his "Dominion." Starting out with a very small deck, each turn consists of players drawing a fresh hand from their decks, and using those cards to acquire new cards from a supply that is available to all the players.
There are action cards (typically some type of building structure or person with certain abilities), money cards, and point cards to choose from when acquiring a new card, and each has its advantages. For example, when you draw point cards you have accumulated in your deck, they generally aren't good for much during your turn, but they are the only thing that counts when the scores are tallied at the end of the game. When players get the right combinations of cards in their decks, they have a better chance of drawing hands that enable them to use synergy between multiple cards, greatly expanding their purchasing power for future moves.
After playing all the cards he can from his hand, the rest are discarded. Thus the next turn begins with a fresh hand, drawn from the player's own deck. Of course, when the draw pile is exhausted, the discard pile is shuffled and the process repeats. The game ends when a certain number of types of cards are exhausted from the supply.
In Dominion there is a good amount of interaction between players because certain cards do things to other players. All players are also competing for the same set of cards. There is a lot of strategy involved in figuring out which cards to add to your "dominion." The supply consists of ten types of action cards at a time, but there are 24 different types of action cards, providing countless combinations. Each game is as unique as you want it to be, or you can repeat play with certain card combinations you really like.
Dominion is definitely the type of game where experience will play to your advantage, but the rules are simple enough that new players can have fun their first time through. The strategy in Dominion is varied and can be pretty deep, though the process of shuffling and drawing cards ensures that a healthy dose of luck mixes things up.
Dominion has nice artwork, relatively simple rules, surprising depth, interactive game play, and is the type of game that will appeal to experienced and novice gamers of all ages (8 and up). It is the first game in a good while to spark an entirely new type of game play concept. We give Dominion our highest recommendation.
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User Reviews:
| Best game ever
I introduced this game to a couple friends and they have bought the game along with expansion set. The game is fun and has a unique game play.
by Brian (Dec 31 2011)
| Best Strategy Game Ever
My only advice is if you just buy the base dominion you will kick yourself later. Buy all of them: Dominion, Intrigue, Seaside, Alchemy, Cornucopia, and eventually in October 2011-Hinterlands. This game will endure-it will be fun for a long time.
by DB (Sep 02 2011)
| Own them all
This is the main game that my wife and I play. We own all of the expansions and we love it. I am still waiting for an expansion that will mix things up more than the rest, but all things considered, this game is excellent.
by Andrew (Jul 04 2011)
| Love this game!
I love how much strategy there is to this game but how easy it is to learn. So many choices and cards that every game is different. Buy it, you should love it!
by John (Jan 22 2011)
| Most fun with a deck of cards
My 8-year-old kids have become board game addicts, which by extension makes me a board game addict. I've gotten some really great ones recently - Ticket to Ride, Settlers of Catan, Apples to Apples, Small World, Scribblish, Blokus, Qwirkle - and this one is right up there.
When I first saw it in the stores, I said "wow, 40 bucks for a deck of cards? You've got to be kidding me." But everything I've heard and read led me to buy it, and I definitely was not disappointed. I never thought a deck of cards would hold my interest so completely. I had the same reaction from "Apples to Apples," which is an equally great but entirely different kind of game.
If the rule book confuses you, as it did us at first, skip to the other booklet which includes a walkthrough of a sample game. That answered pretty much all of our questions nicely.
by Ryan (Jan 18 2011)
| Addictive and Awesome
After playing Dominion over the holidays with my Sister-in-law and her husband, my husband and I bought this game (and the Intrigue expansion set) as soon as we returned to Georgia. Being able to combine different expansion packs keep the game super fresh and exciting. While the base Dominion game is a 2-4 person game, if you use the Intrigue expansion you can double the number of people that can play! As of late, my husband and I have opted to play Dominion in the evening rather that watching TV!!!
by Meghan (Jan 10 2011)
|  Fun game
While it is a fun game I've played quite a few times, it often ends abruptly and is just a race to the end. There are very few cards that influence others, and very few of those that really have any meaningful impact.
by Chris (Aug 04 2010)
| Awesome Game
This game is definitely fun and quick to play. Make sure to read the example. When we first read the instructions we were very confused on how it would work, but then when we looked at the second sheet with the example it all made sense. An excellent two player game.
by Brian (Apr 23 2010)
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