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Dominion

by Rio Grande Games
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (506 customer reviews)

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  • For 2-4 players
  • Tactical card game
  • Takes about 30 minutes to play
  • Lots of expansions available to add depth and complexity
  • Quick to learn, many ways to win

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Product Details

  • Product Dimensions: 11.8 x 11.8 x 2.9 inches ; 1 pounds
  • Shipping Weight: 4.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
  • Origin: Germany
  • ASIN: B001JQY6K4
  • Item model number: RGG370
  • Manufacturer recommended age: 13 - 17 years
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #200 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (506 customer reviews)
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Product Description

From the Manufacturer

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.

Product Description

Play Dominion from Rio Grande Games for a fun card came of strategy, luck and deck-building! 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 fifedums. 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! Several other monarchs have exactly the same idea. 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! Dominion finds each player trying to build a more profitable deck. Play cards from your hands to take action or purchase new cards and money! Wildly entertaining, Dominion is ideal for a friend or family game night!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
502 of 505 people found the following review helpful
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Durability: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
Dominion is a deceptively simple game which encompasses endless variation. The basic game contains the following major components:

1. 25 groups of action cards, victory cards, and money cards, in total over 250 cards.
2. Card storage and organizer box designed specifically for organizing the game components.
3. The Rules.

Game Play:
A game starts with each player holding an identical 10 card deck. As the game begins a group of 10 special action cards are selected from the 25 categories in the box. The rules outline specific selections for scenario play or you can design your own lay out. There is no banker or moderator; all players start entirely equal with access to the exact same cards.
During each player's turn they may take actions and purchase new cards from the communal decks. Each player has to balance the need to buy new cards and money with the purchase of victory points (which remain in the player's deck but don't help them until points are totaled.) The decision of when to stop building one's deck and start buying victory points is one of the most critical choices the player will make. Too early, and you'll find yourself bogged down with a deck full of moderate victory cards while other players' resources have increased to the point where they blow by you. If you wait too long, all of the good cards will have been bought out and you won't have anything to spend your resources on.

I have to be honest, when I first heard about Dominion I didn't understand why my wife and several of our friends were so worked up over the thing. It sounded terribly dry, particularly to a person like myself who has played collectable card games like magic the gathering for many years. Nothing could have been farther from the truth.
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125 of 128 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelieveably Addicting Game March 3, 2009
Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
Ok, I have to start this review off by saying I had my reservations about this game. I absolutely love Euro strategy games like Puerto Rico, Agricola, Power Grid, Caylus, etc, but I'm not into card games. In fact, I pretty much hate card games.

This game was getting a lot of publicity on BoardGameGeek and everyone was raving about it so I decided that I should buy it to give it a shot. I'm glad I did.

The whole point of the game is to build your deck of cards and build up a collection of victory points. The reason this game shines is because it is a quick game that only takes about 30-40 minutes to play. It is also very fun because as you are building your deck of cards you aren't usually getting rid of the cards. If you spend some gold to buy a card that gold goes back into your discard pile and will eventually be shuffled for you to use again in another turn.

There are over 500 cards in this game with around 25 different action cards available so you can vary the game a lot depending on what cards are currently on the table. The only downside is that someone that has played the game a lot and knows a base strategy can usually beat a new player easily.

Overall this game is very addicting and short, which is a good thing. You can play multiple rounds of this game in an evening as opposed to one game of another typical Euro.
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138 of 144 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Renewed family connection June 1, 2009
Durability: 5.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   
In the days of technology and scheduled events we struggle to find times to connect with our children. Dominion has helped us renew that connection. My wife and I plus both our sons (age 17 & 11) LOVE playing this game together. Whether you go in with a fine tuned strategy or just "make it up as you go along" the opportunity to enjoy the game and win is presented. We love that the entire game play lasts about 30-40 minutes, we don't always have an entire day to devote to a game, but we have a half hour after dinner to enjoy the company of our kids. they will be moving out soon enough and beginning their own families. Dominion is a game that everyone wants to set aside what they are doing and play together. When was the last time your kids begged to play a game with Mom and Dad?
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140 of 150 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Starts out with a bang, but fades August 8, 2010
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Durability: 3.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 1.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 3.0 out of 5 stars   
I picked up a copy of Dominion hot off the presses after I played it a few times at GenCon 2008 after it was introduced. I was amazed by the uniqueness of drafting cards into your hand by the way of getting money cards and increasing the size of your deck. The fact there were so many combos available to make the 10 types of cards to buy in the box seemed to offer limitless play. But I quickly began to see the cracks in the game.

While there are a lot of cards you can use to make up the ones you can buy to make your deck, they end up being pretty similar and there will be some you use all the time and some you'll never want to use for personal tastes. There will quickly emerge strategies that if you just work to build up your money cards and skip the majority of action cards you'll win >75% of the time. This cuts down on the fun since if everyone takes this route there isn't much to the game, and if you are the only one to do this, you'll find yourself bored as people try to chain actions after more actions to find they still don't have enough money in hand to buy the top victory point cards. This is the crux of why my love for the game has faded.

I time and again find myself bored as the other players take their turn. Since there only a handful of cards that cause you to interact with other players, you essentially all play 3 or 4 solitaire games at the same table. I don't find this interesting and would rather play strategy games, even light ones, that have some level of interaction, even if it just watching where the other player moves.

I have even tried to renew my interest by trying the expansions that have followed almost every 6 or so months after the release of Dominion in 2008.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars good stuff
Fun game. A little pricey for what you get, in my opinion, and the base set does get it old after a while. Still worth it.
Published 13 hours ago by mcg480
5.0 out of 5 stars Love this game, met all my expectations.
This is a really fun game that I love playing with 2-4 people whenever I get the chance. Its got a good mix of strategy and luck. Read more
Published 1 day ago by Kevin L
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Fun
I've been recently getting into these types of games (Munchkin, Settlers of Catan, etc.) and this is by far my favorite. Read more
Published 6 days ago by A. Uricchio
4.0 out of 5 stars Gift item
This item was purchased as a gift from the recipient's wish list, so I am not able to comment much on the item itself. Read more
Published 9 days ago by Amerileiro
5.0 out of 5 stars High skill ceiling
Dominion is one of my favorite games mainly because every game is so different. Sometimes tried-and-true strategies won't work, and often you'll find cool combinations which kick... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Yay
4.0 out of 5 stars Fun for 2 to 4 players.
I'd played the game before I bought it. It's a good game. It has a good mix of luck and skill. It's one of the few games that I've found that can played with only 2 players.
Published 11 days ago by Brian Kosnoff
4.0 out of 5 stars wonderful game
if you like deck building games then you must get at least one of the iterations of Dominion since this is the mother of all deck building games. Read more
Published 11 days ago by Raul "THE MAN"
3.0 out of 5 stars It's a deckbuilder, you'll like it or you'll hate it
I highly recommend checking out videos on game play to see if a deck builder like Dominion is something you would like to play. Read more
Published 12 days ago by Renbutsu
5.0 out of 5 stars Best Card Game Ever!
Bought this game for my husband and we are addicted to it! It is very strategic but also short not like a lot of other card games out there. Read more
Published 16 days ago by Hime
5.0 out of 5 stars Good, simple, fun
Playing for the first time, it moves rather slow. Eventually you'll get the hang of it and the pace picks up. The rules are very simple to grasp. Read more
Published 17 days ago by David M. T.
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