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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:
| 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)
| cool
really good game nice graphics
by hatter (Apr 15 2010)
| Great Card Game
This is a great game, it's right up there among my favorites. You can play very fast paced if you want, two players, three or four, which is nice since some games you can't play with two. it's easy to learn, but that doesn't mean it's simple or boring. I would highly recommend it to anyone.
by Eric (Feb 18 2010)
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