But if your timing is off by even a single turn, it could lose you the game.ĭominion is a modern classic game, and very much worth your time. The difference in the game is the ranking of cards, the 2s are high and the 3s are low.
The game ends up as a supremely satisfying exercise in slowly building your deck into an efficient tool, so that you might snap up victory point cards all at once, near the end of the game. Just like the other card games, this is played between 2 to 12 players. The problem is, victory point cards (which for the most part do nothing aside from giving you game-winning points) dilute your deck. Countless card games exist, including families of related games (such as poker). The core gameplay is simple: Each turn you can play an action and buy a card, be it an action card, a money card or a victory point card. A card game is any game using playing cards as the primary device with which the game is played, be they traditional or game-specific. And the granddaddy of these sorts of games is Dominion.ĭominion has been around for years, but its developer has kept it fresh with over a dozen expansions to the base game. Slowly, then, the hands they play with each turn transform to allow new strategies over the course of a game.
Essentially, players draft or 'buy' cards in a deck-building game to shuffle into their draw decks. Deck building is a relatively recent development in card games.
