Dominion Prosperity: Review
Information:
Mechanics: Deck-Building
Player Age: 13+Player Count: 2 - 4 PlayersTime to Play: 30 Minutes
Game Designer: Donald X. VaccarinoPublisher: Rio Grande GamesYear Published: 2010BGG Weight: 2.45Disclaimer: A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher.
Player Age: 13+
Game Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino
Introduction:
Dominion is a great Deck-Building game for the original review click here. It has a good level of variability built in. Each expansion nearly doubles this range by adding at least 300 more cards. Prosperity focuses on two components treasures, and a new mechanism of victory tokens.
Treasure Cards:
The four main card types in the game are actions, reaction, victory and treasures. This expansion is all about the treasures. There are nine new treasure cards that award the players money but they also introduce additional effects without having to plan a deck around gaining more actions, since any amount of treasures can be played on a turn.
A lot of these treasures affect the players purchasing power, through gaining discounts, acquiring cards, gaining more money or gaining additional buys. There are also several new kingdom cards that play off the treasures.
VP Tokens:
One of the big challenges of dominion is when players should buy victory points. In the core game victory points are cards that will enter the players deck clogging the deck with effectively dead cards. This expansion changes this by adding ways to gain victory points tokens worth one point each. These tokens may be slower to gain, but they won't clog the deck the players are creating. Better yet these cards can produce these VP tokens consistently whenever the specific cards are played.
Platinum and Colony:
With the added wealth and new method of VP some new standard cards have been added to the mix at a high price. These cards are used whenever one of the kingdom cards from this set are used, or if players choose to have them added. Platinum is the next step above gold, that adds five money when played and costs nine to purchase. Colony adds a large 10 history points but comes at a hefty price of 11 money.
Final Thoughts:
- A way to work around the clogging of the deck by gaining small amounts of victory point tokens whenever certain cards are played.
- larger standard victory and treasure card.
Prosperity is a fun expansion with plenty of new treasures to add into the mix, these treasures fun new ways to build a player's deck through discounts, ways to gain more money, acquire cards or gain additional buys. The other crucial elements added are victory tokens. Small victory cards are going to become much less sought after with this expansion, since there are new cards that generate victory tokens. These tokens do not clog a player's deck, these cards also generate more of these tokens when played. Players will still seek out high scoring cards like the province, and new with this expansion the colony which awards 10 points. Prosperity is a fun new expansion with plenty of new content to explore. This is a perfect example of a more stuff expansion, nothing fully breaks the mold of Dominion. But the gameplay thoughts are definitely stretched with the victory tokens in particular causing less reliance on victory cards. If you enjoy dominion this is an easy addition with no more overhead added.
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