_Dominion_ is a deck-building [card game](/wiki/Card_game "Card game") in
which two or more players compete to gather the most valuable deck of cards,
defined by the total amount of Victory Points, representing a Kingdom.[4]
There are four main classes of cards:
* **Victory cards** , which have a Victory Point value that is tallied at the end of the game to determine the winner, but generally have no value during the game.
* **Curse cards** , which are like Victory cards, but have a negative Victory Point value that counts against the player at the end of the game.
* **Treasure cards** , played during the Buy Phase, which generate Coins (and sometimes have other effects).
* **Action cards** generate effects during a player's turn, allowing that player to gain more cards, Coins, Buys, or Actions, to get rid of cards, or they may affect other players in the game.
There are other modifying card types. Attack cards generally adversely affect
other players, such as forcing them to discard cards from their hand or gain
Curse cards. Reaction cards can be triggered out of turn in response to a
certain event, such as other players' Attacks. The Dark Ages expansion to
Dominion added more types: Looter cards are all action cards and give out
Ruins cards to players. (Ruins cards are all weak actions that are generally
not worth the space they take up in the deck and therefore function something
like Curse cards.) Knight cards are all Action and Attack cards that share the
same basic attack but have effects unlike any other Knight, as well.
Some cards are hybrids of the above classes, such as an Action-Victory card
which can be used during a player's turn but also will count as some number of
Victory Points.
*Age: 8+
*Players: 2-4
*Time: +-30min
*Packaging: 29,7 x 29,7 x 5cm
which two or more players compete to gather the most valuable deck of cards,
defined by the total amount of Victory Points, representing a Kingdom.[4]
There are four main classes of cards:
* **Victory cards** , which have a Victory Point value that is tallied at the end of the game to determine the winner, but generally have no value during the game.
* **Curse cards** , which are like Victory cards, but have a negative Victory Point value that counts against the player at the end of the game.
* **Treasure cards** , played during the Buy Phase, which generate Coins (and sometimes have other effects).
* **Action cards** generate effects during a player's turn, allowing that player to gain more cards, Coins, Buys, or Actions, to get rid of cards, or they may affect other players in the game.
There are other modifying card types. Attack cards generally adversely affect
other players, such as forcing them to discard cards from their hand or gain
Curse cards. Reaction cards can be triggered out of turn in response to a
certain event, such as other players' Attacks. The Dark Ages expansion to
Dominion added more types: Looter cards are all action cards and give out
Ruins cards to players. (Ruins cards are all weak actions that are generally
not worth the space they take up in the deck and therefore function something
like Curse cards.) Knight cards are all Action and Attack cards that share the
same basic attack but have effects unlike any other Knight, as well.
Some cards are hybrids of the above classes, such as an Action-Victory card
which can be used during a player's turn but also will count as some number of
Victory Points.
*Age: 8+
*Players: 2-4
*Time: +-30min
*Packaging: 29,7 x 29,7 x 5cm