Dominion | 
| Brand: Rio Grande Games
Category: Toy
List Price: $44.99
Buy New: $27.99
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Seller: goHastings
Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 37
Batteries Included: No
Age: 8 - 200 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 11.8 x 2.9 x 11.8
MPN: rio370
Model: 370RGG
UPC: 655132003704
EAN: 0655132003704
ASIN: B001JQY6K4
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | 2-4 player game | | • | 30 minutes to play | | • | Tactical Card game | | • | Massive replay value | | • | Quick to learn, many ways to win |
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Product Description
In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end. 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
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High Tech Designer Card Game July 21, 2010
Brad J. Niemann (Hayden, Idaho)
Dominion is a designer card game that simply fun, fun, fun! I had to read the instructions about x3 to get it but, that is the sign of a good game to me! It is full of tactics and strategy and a fast paced game. If you are a gamer and into quality games, get this for your game collection.
 Fun, easy to learn, quick to pick up and play July 20, 2010
BPRJam (Minnesota)
Everyone I've introduced to this game has asked to play it again within a few days. The game is just that fun and addicting.
The game is card based, and there are 10 stacks of "action cards" per game. However, the box contains many more than 10 sets of action cards, meaning that the game can be different every time you play it. The strategy that worked on your first game might not work on the next game. I love that for every game I have to carefully analyze the action cards to determine what strategy I need to use.
It takes maybe 30 minutes to learn the game enough that you can play without additional coaching, but the game has depth - there are lots of strategies and substrategies that you can explore and employ. The game is very easy to set up (couple of minutes, max) after you get everything unpacked. It seems about as durable as a deck of standard playing cards, which somewhat concerns me, but I'm not willing to put all the cards into sleeves.
I only have 2 minor complaints - the first is that most of the games tend to be significantly longer than the stated 30 mins. After playing with a single partner every night for 8 or 9 nights (in other words, we both had a pretty good handle on the game), a standard game would still last 45+ minutes. The other complaint is that the age range (8+) is a little optimistic. I played with some pretty smart 10 year olds, and they really struggled. I'm thinking more like 12+.
If you love board games, you can't go wrong with this one.
Good Strategy for a Short Duration July 19, 2010
Daniel J. Aldrin (IL USA)
First off, we like this game a lot. That being said, I'll get the cons out of the way.
For one, the game requires a lot of shuffling. Not that shuffling in and of itself is a bad thing, but I worry about the cards deteriorating over time. Deck protectors are available, but those make the piles slippery and tilty and I just don't like them. I'm pretty much resigned to the cards looking like crap after a few years (like our battered version of Quests). The four player limit is a bit inhibiting, but the enjoyability of the game is to blame (at a party or gathering, it's hard to find people who DON'T want to play. Everybody wants in). Also, there can be games which are lame due to which decks are randomly selected (if you know the rules already, this makes sense), but this brings me right around to the pros.
The main pro is that this game is fast. It actually speeds up with more players (if they know what they're doing). If you're not doing well, or the decks on hand are lame or don't work well together, no worries. In 20 minutes you'll be playing another game! I like that. For a while I've been on a big pitch for complex and longer games (rail games, Catan, etc.). Dominion offers a similar degree of strategy and planning, but without the epicly long time commitment, which makes it tons easier to get folks to play, (If you don't think duration makes a difference in playability, think about the response you got last time you asked people if they were down for a round of Monopoly). Learning curve is high, but after battling through one game, most folks get it.
All told, I recommend this to folks who like card based games, but also strategy fans. You'll enjoy it.
Best New Card Game since Magic! July 14, 2010
T. R. Partee (Redmond, WA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I've been playing Dominion for a little over a year now on a fairly regular basis because it's just a fantastic game! It's simple to learn the rules, easy to play, games are fast once you get the hang of it, and there is virtually endless variety - literally endless variety when you buy one or two of the expansions. It's a game for all ages and you can employ simple or very complex strategies towards a victory. Excellent game for thinkers and great educational game for learning basic deck-building and financial strategy. There is also a good selection of expansions available, with more coming over the next couple years, and good aftermarket support for products that help to organize and speed-up the setup and break-down of the game. Quite simply this is the best new card game since Magic: The Gathering came out over 15 years ago, without the annoying cost and collector bent!
In love July 6, 2010
Prestige Worldwide (Nor Cal)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Dominion is an amazing game. My boyfriend and I play all the time, and introduce it to everyone we can. Now our siblings and friends are hooked too. We recently purchased Dominion Intrigue which can be played as stand alone or used as an expansion with first release Dominion. We tried it as a stand alone and it was okay. We like it better as an expansion. We also bought Seaside (an expansion only) but have not integrated it into our playing yet.
All in all, original plain ol' Dominion is awesome. Get this game!!!
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