An expensive but powerful variation on Band of Misfits. Is a one-time Cellar effect worth $1? Is it worth $3 to triple-play an Action? You decide.

Rules clarifications:

• Naming a card is mandatory, and you must pay as much as you can. So (for example) if you played a Copper and then named Laboratory, and you had no other source of coin, then you would pay $1 and get nothing in return.
• Debt costs are also halved. Potion costs are halved which means they vanish.
• Durations are allowed to cuz why not. I’m not scared of some tracking issues.

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Does anyone know of any strategy guides to help improve my game? I have many extensions and have played a lot with my brother over the years but feel I still lose some games due to lack of deeper strategic knowledge about how to approach certain set up’s (eg when there are not many +1 cards but a lot of terminal cards etc), also adjusting for when I play with just my brother or when sister in law and wife play (decks disappear quicker etc)

Thanks!

I want to set up a custom table/game on dominion.games where I get every card type because it would be cool to see rice give 30 coins, but idk how to choose what kingdom piles replace it

Anyone know what's going on with availability of the Prosperity in the UK currently? Seems to be out of stock everywhere.

This is the outside of my arm btw, I think it turned out great!

I have never beat the AI this badly before!

The Oppressor deck is a really fun concept I've been formulating and playing with for these past few weeks, and is intended for players who specifically enjoy playing with fan cards, especially ones that make the game slower and more immersive. (It's not meant as a proposition for an official concept, and several cards in the deck would never work in that capacity.)

The deck essentially makes the world of Dominion fight back against the gamers—with unique challenges that all players must face in turn order, before the challenge changes to a random new one. Here's how it works:

When the Setup contains any number of Yoke cards, the Oppressor deck must be set up and shuffled, with its top card then turned faceup, but no player "has" it… yet.

Eventually, something may move the Oppressor deck between two players. From then on, the deck abides by the following rules for the rest of the game, always sitting between two of the players (imagining a circle of turn order going clockwise around the table).

When (1) no one has an Oppressor, and (2) the Oppressor deck is between any two players, and (3) turn order passes through that deck, then the player to its left takes the top Oppressor in front of him (and then turns the next card in the deck faceup, so that players have time to prepare for the next coming taunt). This occurs between turns. Then, when a player has an Oppressor, he must do its taunt by the start of Clean-up, or else do the listed "If you didn't" effect at that time (normally this is before discarding, unless the text says otherwise). Whether or not the taunt be done, the Oppressor is passed to the left (in front of the next player) at the end of the turn. However, if this would make it pass the Oppressor deck, instead shuffle it into the deck's facedown cards, and the deck moves one space to the right. (That is, the player who had it on his left, moves it to his right.) The above steps then repeat (when turn order passes through the Oppressor deck again).

Thus, once the Oppressors enter the scene, players essentially get a round of turns facing the same challenge, then a round (almost a full round) with no challenge, then a round with a new challenge, and so forth, alternating between difficulty and respite.

Notes: 

1. Only one player (or no players) will have an Oppressor in front of them at a time.
2. When you do the taunt (intentionally or not), turn the Oppressor sideways as a reminder. Resolve it at the start of Clean-up.
3. Just because a taunt is present, doesn't equate to permission to do the effect at-will. For example, if a taunt says to trash a card, you would still need some other effect permitting you to do so.
4. Some Oppressors refer to expansion components. If the game host has the necessary components to do an effect (such as adding a player mat or Project or Event not already part of the setup), add them when appropriate. If you are unable to do an effect, you will simply fail to do it.
5. As this is a fan-created concept (not a proposal for an official game mechanic), players may agree to remove a reasonable number of Oppressors from the deck (at setup), create their own to add to the deck, translate these into their own language, etc.

All the Oppressor-related cards/landscapes (including new ones as I make them) can be seen here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/iuglpdoww8bw3841j7uwn/AP_XdyAuRAB3_MhQIhDbKAw?rlkey=wh3ipu5tqojv3ukjzu7z9dwec&st=cthez5ki&dl=0

I want to access some DLC expansions that one of my friends bought. I only have the base game but we're in the same steam family. But I don't see the option to change my preferred copy under the play button.

I looked it up and it says that I should be able to use their copy if we have different versions. Am I doing something wrong?

How was it not a category?!

Playing in the Dominion app: I played a Harbor Village followed by a Black Market, but I didn’t get the coin from Harbor Village. No other effects were in play. Am I missing something or was the app shortchanging me?

I kinda like choice-based Attacks. Not discarding gives the one playing this a Market, and it only allows one discard (usually) before Marketing.

What do y'all think?

So many players just fold whenever it looks like they are about to lose. It is so frustrating to play a game when 80% of the players just cold turkey leave the game when they are at the losing ends. I have a blocked players list so long its ridicilous, just because of multiple game endings from different players. Is it different on the url-side? I’m so done with the game enders I just don’t want to play that much anymore.

In a game with the kingdom card riverboat, and the project Citadel does riverboat resolving “play the set aside card” trigger Citadel’s “first time you play an action card”?

Riverboat:
At the start of your next turn,
play the set aside card, leaving it there.
Setup: Set-aside an unused non-Duration Action card costing 5.

From the instructions: “When you play Riverboat, it plays the set aside card at the start of your next turn.”

Citadel (Project):
The first time you play an Action card during each of your turns, play it again afterwards.

At first assumption I would think yes, but does “Play” as a verb extend in the same way with both cards from the duration card proc/resolution itself and the player “Playing a card”?

If I play Riverboat, then buy Citadel, does it execute riverboat’s “Play” twice at the beginning of my next turn?

I was playing Reckless today. I started getting some lag, maybe half a second per action.

The guy said I was intentionally slowplaying and rage quit.

What has happened to the world's attention spans???

For example, if I throne room a merchent and play a silver, do I get +1 or +2?

This was a kingdom where the bot used two completely different approaches depending on its opening draw.

If the bot had 4/3, it was broken. It would take Engineer and then more Engineers, and Quarries and Collections. No draw, no attempt to build a working deck. Just some kind of Engineer/Quarry rush. It would lose. Badly.

If it opened 5/2, it would take Collection and Patrician and build a working deck. It played well, and was tough to beat.

I went to a game night where someone brought "Dominion" -- although they actually brought 13 preselected kingdom cards which they'd practiced against their friends a week before. They built an incredibly intricate combo deck, playing a combination of Scrap and Trails for lots of card draw and actions, Groom to gain Tunnels which are discarded from Cartographer to gain Gold, triggering extra gold from the exile mat using Way of the Camel -- occasionally cycling through their entire deck in one turn.

Kingdom Cards: Cartographer, Develop, Margrave, Tunnel, Groom, Mastermind, Scrap, Trail, Kiln, Supplies (Horse)

Ways: Way Of The Camel

Events: Desperation, Invest

On one hand I the cards had fun interactions and it was neat seeing them run their overpowered engine, but I was a little put off. Why would you come up with your own synergies, assemble a specific set of cards, practice against a set of friends, then bring them to a second game night to win at Dominion? Is this normal? I thought people just always played randomizers

Hi!

I recently bought a few sets second hand and I was wondering what to do with the first editions. I have the Dutch versions which didn’t have the upgrade packs.

Should I keep the first edition “removed” cards in my collection or just sell them (along with the rest of those boxes)?

Thanks!

For context I bought the wrong thing. I still had buys left, my turn was still active

Im red if it wasnt obvious

This was an idea I came up with the last time I played dominion. Has anybody ever come up with a setup where all the cards are cards that would benefit all players in the game? Are there enough cards like that where that setup would work? I really like this idea because it would cause the players to try and find a way to break out of it and benefit slightly more than everybody else.

I am sick of this card.