Dominion is a card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games, originally in 2008. It was the first deck-building game and inspired a whole genre of games built on its central mechanic. Each player draws from a personal deck that starts out identical to everyone else's, and on their turn can buy new cards from a common supply to upgrade that deck, then draw and use them on later turns. Players seek to build the strongest deck with the most victory points needed to win. The game has a medieval theme, with card names that refer to pre-industrial, monarchical and feudal social structures. At release at the Spiel game fair in 2008 it was voted best game of the fair, and in 2009 it won the Spiel des Jahres and the Deutscher Spiele Preis.
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Player Count Player CountSmall Group (3-6 Players) 1 Sport
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1. Dominion (card game) (Wikipedia)
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2 to 4 (up to 6 with additional base cards)
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Originally published in 2008
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Dominion is a card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino
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