Dominion
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.
Throughout the course of the game, players will buy more cards and add
them to their original 10 card deck. As the game progresses, this deck
gets larger and larger with the newly acquired cards. This bigger deck
gives you expanded play options on your turn via the action cards you
purchased during previous game rounds. More victory point cards (how you
win the game) and currency cards (how you buy new cards) will also make
their way into your deck. Players have to walk a fine line of buying
actions cards, victory points and currency cards during the game. Too
much of one of them means a player will be drawing less of the other
ones during the game. While a hand full of victory point cards is
horrible to draw during the game, you need those at the end of the game
to win. Card drafting, hand management and deck building are the main
themes of this game. Spend your resources wisely on your turn and you
should come out as the victor.
