Rio Grande Games Dominion Card Game Big Box 2nd Edition with Extra Base Cards for 5-6 Players

I played Dominion for the first time about 4 weeks ago and have played probably 25 hands since. I and my friends enjoy the game quite a bit and would recommend it for everyone who enjoys game playing. That said I do not recommend this edition. It's not a terrible edition if you can get it at a good price, but here are a couple thoughts to consider: 1) I have played Dominion, Dominion Prosperity and Dominion Intrigue. Dominion and Dominion Prosperity were very enjoyable. Dominion Intrigue not as much. It had a couple of likable cards, but altogether lacked the flow of the basic game and the smoothness of Prosperity. 2) This Edition offers 100 extra base cards to provide for 6 player play. I'm not sure of the exact overall distribution of those 100 cards but six of them are Province cards and none of them are Duchy cards. This does not work out well since it results in 12 Duchy cards and 18 Province cards when the Duke card in Intrigue (for example) relies on duchies. I think the extra Platinum and Colony cards in Prosperity work better to support at least five players comfortably. 3) The interior construction of this box stores all of the cards vertically rather than horizontally to conserve space. This results in the cards standing in the card tray less distinctly from one another than with other Dominion editions which store the cards horizontally. This makes the cards in this set more difficult to remove and replace quickly. These things said I love the game, but would recommend basic Dominion and a separately boxed expansion such as Prosperity over this big box solution. I am also anxious to try Seaside and Dark Ages! Update: I have updated this post to 4/5 stars as I have learned through more playing that the Intrigue and basic Dominion cards work together much better when mixed rather than using exclusive Intrigue combinations as I first tried. Also, I want to note that there are currently three different sets of base cards for American editions of Dominion: 1) the original base cards which use large round symbols of coins for treasure cards 2) the updated base cards which are sold in the base card box and have pretty pictures without large coin symbols on treasure cards 3) and the second edition base cards which have both the pretty pictures and mid-sized coin symbols on the treasure cards The type contained in the second edition sets such as this one are IMO the best looking. Other posters on Amazon or a Google search can be checked for images. I just want to mention this because since a second edition of Prosperity has not yet been released it is not possible to get a complete set of second edition base cards including Platinum and Colony cards. This might annoy some a bit. Update: Prosperity is now second edition and I was mistaken about the need for more duchies. 12 is proper, even for 5-6 players. Dominion has now become my and my friends favorite game. This is an excellent edition and the best one to start with! It is still slightly annoying that the cards rest vertically in this box (because they fan out more than in horizontally positioning boxes), but now that I have all the sets I use my own custom box anyway. 5 stars!

I was given the original game of Dominion when it first came out, but for some reason I can't remember, it got put in the basement and was never played. I came across an article of the top 10 must owned games and found it in the basement. When I looked online and saw there was a second edition, I decided to get this instead of using the 1st edition one. My friends and family have instantly become addicted. My family has played this almost every night for the past 6 months. My friends love this as well. There are so many scenarios and different deck combinations that it feels like a different game every time. My 2 favorite aspects of this game are the easy setup, and scoring. Too many games require too much too setup and calculators to score. This game is simple in both aspects. The best part is that scoring is actually cleaning up too! 2 for one deal in my opinion. Be warned though, this has set off a chain of purchasing the 10+ expansions. However, each is definitely worth getting, with Empires probably being my favorite and Renaissance a close 2nd. I made a decision to sleeve each card in the beginning, which proved to be a lot of work since the beginning, but the cards have preserved very well. Recently I converted all the boxes to 2 big boxes to made it easier to play with every expansion since I got tired of opening 6 different boxes to cleanup and setup each game, but that was a HUGE project in itself. Great Game Overall, I can't wait for more expansions. My biggest regret is not playing it when I first got it and getting to enjoy each expansion in its own right at release. It has been a lot to learn and buy them all over the past 6 months.

I picked this up when I was looking for more base game cards for my set of Dominion and saw that this box came with the first expansion and all the cards you would need for the same price as Intrigue anyway. I already played Dominion a bunch by the time I had bought this. The game is easy to learn and really quick to pick up, play and put away. You can get a few games in in the time it would take most other board games. Rating: 10/10 Base game 8.5/10 Intrigue I love Dominion and Intrigue is a really good first expansion(my other favorites being Empires or Prosperity.) Dominion is a deck building game where you make a deck as you play to combo things together on your turn to get enough money to buy the best Victory Point cards. Plenty of strategy and replayability abound. Intrigue adds cards that have multiple options as you play them and feature Victory cards that can do more than just sit there and give you points. I really like that it features cards from the base game with some sort of downside but are cheaper and don't really feel like a bad card. Overall, if you are looking at getting into the game or have the first edition and was looking at maybe getting the second edition I highly recommend this box!

Like this expansion

I'm a big fan of dominion, the game is very easy to pick up and the ability to change the decks constatntly allows for new options. The box the cars came in is big but the size makes sense as the dividers make it easy to organise the cards. The dividers make it clear what is for the 4, 5 and 6 player variants. The most fun Ihave had with the game so far was using the wishing well in my deck builds to atttemlt to read the"hear of the cards" and draw theough my deck or the spamming nobles to just flood myself with actions and cards. Both lf these cards being part of the expansion included in the dominion big box.

Juego imprescindible en su segunda edición inglesa con Dominion, Intriga y expansión para 6 jugadores.

Awesome game. We all love it!

Excelente paquete, lo compré junto con Dominion Prosperity para así tener una cantidad decente de sets de juego. Soy nuevo en Dominion y me ha encantado, tanto que ya compré otra expansión: Seaside. Recomiendo ver varios videos en youtube sobre reseñas y cómo se juega. Si te llama la atención la dinámica de deck-building, este es el paquete que debes comprar primero, de preferencia en oferta ya que sí es caro y la calidad de las tarjetas no es tan bueno, pero el juego lo vale para mí. La caja es enorme pero sirve para tener todo en órden.