Dominion

Description

--- **Dominion** is a pioneering deck-building card game where players compete to expand their kingdoms by acquiring cards that optimize victory point accumulation. Key mechanics include: - *Deck construction* Players start with identical small decks and buy cards from a central supply to build efficient decks on the fly. - *Card acquisition and play* Players purchase and play cards from hands to gain resources, hire minions, construct buildings, and pursue victory points. - *Kingdom selection* Choose 10 of 25 Kingdom card types from 500 total cards for immense replayability and variety. - *Competitive expansion* Race rival monarchs to claim unclaimed lands (fiefs, freeholds, feodums) while fending them off. - *Thematic strategy* Spruce up castles, fill treasuries, and unite petty lords under your banner for dominion. Dominion is a competitive deck-building game evoking medieval kingdom expansion, where players embody ambitious monarchs seeking to enlarge their pleasant realms of rivers and evergreens by conquering surrounding anarchic lands controlled by petty lords. Starting with identical minimal decks, players buy from a central array of cards—selecting 10 of 25 Kingdom types from a 500-card set for vast variety—and play hands to dynamically construct superior decks. Actions enable hiring minions, erecting buildings, enhancing castles, and amassing treasury coffers, all to race rivals, fend off competitors, and efficiently gather victory points. Though reminiscent of CCG deck play, it is not a CCG, emphasizing strategic card selection and engine-building for the most victorious dominion. ---