Dominion: Second Edition

About this board game

Dominion: Second Edition is a deck-building game for 2–4 players, with each game lasting about 30 minutes. Every player begins with an identical, very small deck and competes to create the most efficient route to victory points.

At the center of the table, a selection of cards is available to buy. As you draw and play your hand, you decide which cards to add to your deck and how to use them, gradually shaping your strategy during the game rather than before it begins.

You are a monarch seeking to build a bigger and more pleasant dominion. Recruit minions, construct buildings, improve your castle, and fill your treasury while racing other monarchs to claim as much unclaimed land as possible.

• Start with an identical small deck, then expand it through card purchases.
• Choose 10 Kingdom card types from the 26 included types for each game.
• Use hand management and deck construction to pursue the most valuable path to victory points.
• Play with a set of 500 cards offering immense variety between games.

Dominion is not a collectible card game, although its play resembles constructing and using a deck in a CCG. The changing selection of Kingdom cards ensures that different combinations can produce fresh challenges and opportunities each time you play.

This Second Edition replaces six Kingdom card types from the first edition with six new types and replaces the blank cards with a seventh new Kingdom card. It also includes a rewritten rulebook, mild functional changes to Moneylender, Mine, and Throne Room, and several rephrased cards that remain functionally the same.