Dominion
In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection ofother cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Throughtheir selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as theydraw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving forthe most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end.
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Editor reviews
Scratches a CCG itch--ignore the Eurogamer hype
Dominion is a game that combines the best of power CCG gamer combos with a sort of resource-based card draft where you create your deck on the fly. And it totally works. The entire game you spend your time trying to turn your deck...
Final verdict time. This is yet another low-interaction optimization/efficiency game. It's novel, short and manages to squeeze an awful lot of game play out of some very simple rules which makes it either ideal filler for efficiency gamers, or an efficiency game for the rest of us. But it's still...
User reviews
FIRE-BREATHING PIMPS
A mechanical kick in the pants. Draft cards to build an efficiency engine to hit the magical 8+ coins per hand and then start buying the big victory points... the rub being that once you start buying VPs they will clog up your machine and make it run all choppy....
THE "Deckbuilder"
There are tons of copycats, but I still feel this is the best one out there.
Nice little deck building and card shuffling game
It's a nice little card game that is light and fun. You start with a small amount of cards and build your deck throughout the game. I like deck building and I like that there is a lot of variety and different things you can try out. A bit of...
Euroquest VI game du jour!
Played it twice at EQ, once with 3, and once with 4 - both times it was the basic set up. I really think this game has more in common with Fluxx than MTG, but definitely elements of both. That said, I really liked the games I...
I hate to admit it, but it's good
It took me a lot of games of Dominion to really appreciate it. It doesn't present well -- kind of like Race for the Galaxy -- so I can see where the hate comes from. I don't begrudge anyone who won't play it a second time.