Short article since there’s only 7 cards. I’ll talk a bit more about the cards in Strategy.Īs for the rest of Gameplay, it’s an Update Pack for Dominion, so it plays the same as Dominion does. The main changes are the removed cards, which, in my opinion, either mostly weren’t great or were replaced by better cards (for instance, Bandit is better than Thief, significantly, in my opinion). Thematically, it’s still mostly “fairly standard cards for an introductory deckbuilder”, they’re just a bit tweaked from the original set. The fact of the matter is that this is just seven new cards for Dominion, so it plays roughly the same otherwise. If you still don’t know what a deckbuilder is, please see my Dominion review. Once you’ve done that, your play area should look like this, signifying that you’re ready to start playing:

Once you’ve set out the Base Cards and the Kingdom Cards, you should have your Supply ready:Īnd then each player should shuffle their starting deck and draw 5 cards. Note that since I want to try the Update Pack, I’m going to keep those 7 fixed and choose 3 from the rest of the Dominion set: Grab your randomizer cards and choose 10. Use 12 Estate, Duchy, Province, and any other Victory (green) cards.Use all 12 Estate, Duchy, Province, and any other Victory (green) cards.Use 8 Estate, Duchy, Province, and any other Victory (green) cards.Now, set aside the base cards ( Copper, Silver, Gold, Estate, Duchy, Province, Curse), and then set them up: They’ll put those together to form their starting deck. First, you’ll want to give each player 3 Estate cards and 7 Copper cards.

Namely, these cards, which are no longer in Dominion as of the Second Edition: To fix that, I’m adding in a few of the Kingdom Cards from Dominion, but I’m removing from the rotation any cards that would have been removed from the Second Edition. Now, you might say, “Eric, don’t you need at least 10 sets of Kingdom Cards to play a game of Dominion?” and in this case, you’d be right. While Adventures and Empires had a ton, this one has relatively few at 7: You need at least one instance of Dominion’s base cards and likely a base game or an expansion in order to play Dominion. Why? Well, let me explain.Īs with all other instances of Dominion, this comes with sets of Kingdom Cards. So, I want to reiterate this for people who are considering picking this up: This is not an expansion or a base game. It is an update pack.

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