Dominion Second Edition | Deck Building Tabletop Game from Rio Grande Games

"You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion! In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. "But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn't be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother's side, would be delighted.'"' Dominion is the classic deck-building card game and the Second Edition was published by Rio Grande Games in 2016. Dominion is a card drafting game, where over time you improve your deck until the game ends, and the total victory points in each deck is compared to find the winner. Each player starts with a 10-card deck of victory point cards and treasure cards, and each turn draws five cards from their deck. Treasure cards can be spent to buy action cards, victory points, or more treasure, and each game will have a different 10 action cards available. Each time your deck runs dry, you shuffle your cards to form a new deck, which will be slightly different each time due to the new cards you have bought. Some action cards will allow you to 'attack'? your opponents, affecting their deck or hand somehow, and others will affect only your own hand and deck, however they have a varied cost and affording the pricier ones will require more treasure. Each turn you first play your action cards from your hand, then you can use your treasure (and bonuses from action cards) to buy cards from the c