Dominion review

Five years ago, Donald X. Vaccarino created one of the most popular deck building games ever. What started in 2008 has now grown tremendously. Since then the deck building genre has taken over the gaming world. Over the past few years, Dominion has been translated into 18 different languages. A couple years ago, Dominion was ranked number two on Amazon's top selling games, right under Klaus Teuber's Settlers of Catan.

How to Play:

The base game comes with a total of five hundred cards. To start off you are given ten cards. Three of those cards are victory point cards and seven of them are treasure cards. After receiving your cards, you shuffle them together. When your turn comes, you draw five cards at random. The cards that you have drawn now become your hand. You now have the opportunity to buy whatever cards on the board you have the resources for. Using the treasure cards in your hand you can buy your first action, victory point, or another treasure card of higher value. Since the making of the game, players have figured out that the best way to explain the game is by using the letters A-B-C.

A: Action, If you have one or more action cards in your hand, you may play them.

B: Buy, Using the treasure and actions cards in your hand, you may buy at least one treasure, victory point, or action card.

C: Clean-up, The clean-up process starts with you discarding your hand. Once your hand has been discarded, you may draw five more cards from your deck.

Card types:

• Victory Cards: Victory point cards give the player more points to add up at the end of the game. 
• Treasure Cards: Treasure cards give you the opportunity to buy different cards to add to your deck.
• Curse Cards: Curse cards are identical to victory cards, except they take away one victory point.
• Action Cards: Action cards help you buy other types of cards throughout the game. 

Winning the game:

The game ends when the Province stack or two Action card stacks run out.

For me the hardest part about really learning how to play Dominion was knowing what each of the action cards do. As far as time is concerned, Dominion takes thirty minutes to an hour. When it's all said and done, I would give the game a 8.5 out of 10.