Dominion is a designer card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino, and published by Rio Grande Games. The game was released at Spiel 2008 in multiple languages.

It was voted the best game of the fair by the Fairplay polls with a rating of 1.75 from 147 votes. Within two months of its release, Dominion was one of the top ten games according to BoardGameGeek ratings. In 2009, it won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres award as game of the year.

The game is a deck building card game in which the players compete to gather the most valuable deck of cards, representing a Kingdom. There are 4 kinds of cards: Treasure cards (Copper, Silver, Gold), Victory cards (Estate, Duchy, Province, Gardens - Worth 1/3/6/X Victory points), Kingdom cards (various cards, mostly actions) and Curses (worth -1 Victory point and which are normally only used as a result of Kingdom cards). Each card has a cost to purchase, which is paid in coins gained from a combination of Kingdom and/or Treasure cards.

The game includes 25 different types of Kingdom cards, but for each game, 10 of these are selected to increase interaction and re-playability. The selected Kingdom cards, the Treasure cards, Victory cards, and the Curses are put on the table in piles available for all players to purchase (or obtain through actions). Each player starts with an identical deck consisting of 7 Copper cards and 3 Estate cards.

The deck is shuffled and the player draws five cards to form their hand.

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