Cyzaine
Staff Emeritus
I've been obsessed with the card game lately. It can best be described as a deck building game, where how well you can figure out how to make 10 randomly assigned cards work together best wins.
Essentially you all start off with the same deck (3 victory point cards, and 7 copper cards), and can buy one of 10 randomly chosen 'kingdom' cards, or more money, or victory points. Victory points usually do nothing else, and tend to be dead weight in your hand (5 cards). The more victory you have, the better your chances of winning, but the less you can do statistically.
In any case I'm rather addicted to it these days, and highly recommend it. You can find more info about a physical copy here... http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion
But more important for most people, is an awesome version of the game online here for free! Browser based too!
http://dominion.isotropic.org/
It's not an official version but the games creator donated some alpha artwork to it the other day, so it seems to at least be accepted. You can play solo to learn the cards a bit, but in general its best to bring some friends in to play. Not something you can really just jump into in most cases, but a surprisingly deep and fun game if you put in the time.
Essentially you all start off with the same deck (3 victory point cards, and 7 copper cards), and can buy one of 10 randomly chosen 'kingdom' cards, or more money, or victory points. Victory points usually do nothing else, and tend to be dead weight in your hand (5 cards). The more victory you have, the better your chances of winning, but the less you can do statistically.
In any case I'm rather addicted to it these days, and highly recommend it. You can find more info about a physical copy here... http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion
But more important for most people, is an awesome version of the game online here for free! Browser based too!
http://dominion.isotropic.org/
It's not an official version but the games creator donated some alpha artwork to it the other day, so it seems to at least be accepted. You can play solo to learn the cards a bit, but in general its best to bring some friends in to play. Not something you can really just jump into in most cases, but a surprisingly deep and fun game if you put in the time.