Does anyone even play dominion

Nikhil Vyas , Staff Writer April 24, Nikhil Vyas. Donald X Vaccarino designed Dominion. It can be played with players in less than an hour. Dominion is one of the best games of all time.

It gets an easy 10 out of 10 for its infinite replayability and simple deck-building mechanism. Now you can buy yourself a copy of Dominion and stop reading. The goal of Dominion is to score the most points at the end of the game.

Cards that are worth victory points do nothing else, so getting too many of those slows down your efficiency. The way deck building in this game works is that you have five cards each turn. More specifically, the cards that everyone starts with are seven coppers and three estates.

The picture to the left shows the supply piles that make up the game. The treasures cards on the right, copper, silver, and gold, are part of every game. They provide the player with money to buy cards each turn they are in your hand. Estates, duchies, provinces, and curse cards on the left are the other cards used in all games.

They provide the player with victory points. The other 10 stacks of kingdom cards in the middle are randomly selected. The base game comes with 26 different sets of kingdom cards to choose from. Most of these cards are actions, which means that they give you special abilities and effects when you play them. Once you read through the cards and know what they do, you are ready to begin.

Draw the top five cards of your deck for your first turn. Starting with the first player, players take turns going through steps A, B, C, and D of their turn.

A stands for action. Each player gets one free action each turn. Actions allow the player to play an action card from their hand. They follow the instructions on the card, which include a large variety of effects such as drawing cards or getting money to spend this turn. Some action cards give a player more actions, which allows the player to play more action cards from their hand. B stands for buy. Each player can usually buy one card during this phase, although some action cards will allow the player to buy more cards.

Before purchasing a card, the player can play any number of treasure cards from their hand. They count up the money from their treasures and any actions played this turn that provide money.

Next, they choose what to buy. Cards they buy go into their discard pile. After the player uses all their buys or decides not to buy any more cards, they finish their turn with steps C and D.

C stands for cleanup. During cleanup, the player places all cards from their hand and play area into their discard pile. D stands for draw. The last thing the player does is draw five cards for their next turn. Order Best Newest. Trent Ellingsen Owner 25 months ago What deck building games do you like? Trent Ellingsen Owner 25 months ago I've got Quest for El Dorado on my shelf but still haven't played it yet even though it's been a few months.

Theegravedigger 24 months ago Ever since we were introduce to the market square system in Heart of Crown, it's hard to play deck builders with a basic static market. Marshwiggle92 Moderator Level 1 25 months ago A classic. Deserves to be in every collection. BenjaminK 25 months ago This is my brother-in-law's favorite game along with, like, all the expansions haha. JamesReid Supporter 25 months ago I'd say that it still has a spot. Fairly bland without expansions but this is a classic.

Linked Games. Linked Topic. Videos This is a place to post video reviews, skits, vlogs or any other video related posts. Community Details. Board Game Atlas Forum We talk about board games here. Create Post. Guidelines Keep the discussion about Board Gaming. Political, social, religious, and divisive discussion, even if tied to a board game, doesn't belong. Be Nice. Originally posted by Paradox :. Originally posted by Cavaleiro de Bolsonaro :. Dominion is by far the best game mode.

Lots of fun to be had because its more than just 1v1. You have to take into account so much happening at once. I'd rather they have a 6v6 game mode or hell even a 15v Gatsu View Profile View Posts. I think it is fun. Better than terrible skirmish anyways. Night View Profile View Posts. I think dominion is the best mode.

Guard breaks are so powerful in duels and 2 v 2 that they basically run the show at the moment almost impossible to reliably counter even by skilled vets. You basically just have to get lucky and predict exactly when they are going to go for a guard break. I also find it curious that people are upset about ganks.

Maybe it's because I have like a thousand hours in dota 2 but, to me, if you are taking up 2 or, even better, 3 peoples time then that is just giving your team all the more time to capture the other two points. Sometimes I even win just by blocking and going into revenge mode you get it so quickly versus three. When you're outnumbered any time spent is worth it because that means you are tying up their team for the duration of the fight. In every occasion where it was 3 v 1 I was able to last long enough for my team to capture the other two points and in one occasion even killed two of them.

Benjabad View Profile View Posts. I played open beta.