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Dominion: Hinterlands (First Edition) Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building  Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2011 BGG Weight:  2.54 Introductions: I am slowly going down the rabbit hole of dominion expansions. I found this at a buy and sell. Hinterlands is great for low complexity expansions.  Cards: There are plenty of fun action cards in this expansion. The main new focus on these cards is the bottom text of some. This text will either award a benefit when the card is gained. There are also some cards that have effects that will be active simply for having this card in the game. Like the Duchess that will be gained by a player when they acquire a duchy. The other crucial element of Hinterlands is there are a lot of ways to gain better control of the players deck, through cyclin...

Dominion - Cornucopia and Guilds: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building  Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2024 BGG Weight:  2.00 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: This is quite a welcoming expansions for dominion. With 26 new kingdom stacks, there are plenty that focus on variety but also some new mechanisms introduced. Including the new token type coffers, which act as a bank of coins that can be dipped into on future turns and a method to overpay gaining additional benefits when purchasing the card if the card was overpayed. Cards: There are plenty of cards in this expansion that add variability. Most of them are focused on action cards. There are a few attack cards in this expansion with two in particular that are more i...

Dominion Seaside: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building  Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2022 BGG Weight:  2.23 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Dominion is a great Deck-Building game one of the core examples of pure Deck-Building. For the original review click here. This review is focused on the expansion of Seaside. The main focus of this expansion is easily the new card type, duration cards. These cards are represented by their orange border. They may be introduced in this set, but they are a re-occuring card type appearing in seven more expansions.  Action Cards: The duration action cards are the focus but there are still some standard action cards in this expansion. Like most of the action cards in Dominion they may seem ge...

Dominion Prosperity: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2010 BGG Weight:  2.45 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. 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, si...

Dominion - Nocturne: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building Player Age:  14+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Game Artist : Matthias Catrein, Elisa Cella, Garret DeChellis, Radosław Jaszczuk Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2017 BGG Weight:  2.9 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction : Dominion is a classic deck of game, of assessing the setup and working towards an efficient deck to score the most points. For the original review click here . This review is focused on the expansion Nocturne. The expansion is packed with content at 500 cards featuring 33 new kingdom cards and an array of other decks of cards. There are an array of new types of cards in this expansion, one prominent card type from earlier expansions is the duration cards that have effects that last longer than the turn th...

Dominion: Review Information: Mechanics:  Deck-Building Player Age:  13+ Player Count:  2 - 4  Players Time to Play:  30  Minutes  Game Designer:   Donald X. Vaccarino Publisher : Rio Grande Games Year Published:  2008 BGG Weight:  2.35 Disclaimer:  A review copy for the game was provided by the publisher. Introduction: Dominion is the first board game that took deck-building as its main mechanism. Deck-building is a great genre of board games that's always evolving and it is one of my favourite mechanisms. However, does the original mechanism of this game hold up to today's standards? Card Anatomy: Treasure: Treasure cards are the main form of currency throughout the game. They come in copper (1 money), silver (2 money), and gold (3 money). As the game progresses, it is a strategy to fill the player's deck with more beneficial treasure like gold and sometimes silver, and remove the coppers from the deck. Act...