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Dominion
Year
2008
Players
2–4
Play time
30min
Min age
13+
Weight
2.34
BGG rating
7.60
BGG rank
#146
Best with
3

Owned by

Michael Redlich

Local copies

Rating: ★ 8.0

Plays: 1

Board game

Dominion

Dominion: Basisspiel

Designed by Donald X. Vaccarino

MeepleMates notes for Dominion

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  • Dominion is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
  • Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
  • BoardGameGeek average rating 7.60 and BGG rank #146.
  • Groups use this page to connect Card Game, Medieval metadata with real play history, ratings and game night notes.
  • Recommended player counts include 2, 4.
"You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother's side, would be delighted." -description from the back of the box In Dominion, each player starts with an identical, very small deck of cards. In the center of the table is a selection of other cards the players can "buy" as they can afford them. Through their selection of cards to buy, and how they play their hands as they draw them, the players construct their deck on the fly, striving for the most efficient path to the precious victory points by game end. Dominion is not a Collectible Card Game (CCG), but the play of the game is similar to the construction and play of a CCG deck. The game comes with 500 cards. You select 10 of the 25 Kingdom card types to include in any given play-leading to immense variety. -user summary Part of the Dominion series.

Categories

Card GameMedieval

Mechanics

Hand ManagementVariable Set-upOpen DraftingTake ThatDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingDelayed Purchase

Best with how many players

1
Not rec.
2
Recommended
3
Best
4
Recommended
4+
Not rec.

Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Moderate in-game text(231 of 434 votes)

Sub-rankings

  • Strategy Game Rank#143

Videos

YouTube2

Instructional2

BoardGameGeek12

Review5

Session4

Instructional1

Unboxing1

Other1

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 5 links · 3 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/23/2026.

Links

Facts

Publication date
2008
Publisher
ASS Altenburger
Publisher
Rio Grande Games