Description

Game description from the publisher:

Times have been hard. To save on money, you've moved out of your old castle and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway; it was always getting looted and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great; you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you've taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You're quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else.

Dominion: Dark Ages is the seventh addition to the game of Dominion. It contains 500 cards but is not a standalone game. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting Estates (Shelters), and cards you can get only via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards.

Part of the Dominion series.

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Components (Rio Grande Games standard edition):

• Rulebook
• 500 cards:
  • 34 Action Cards: 10 each of Altar, Armory, Band of Misfits, Bandit Camp, Beggar, Catacombs, Count, Cultist, Death Cart, Forager, Fortress, Graverobber, Hermit, Hunting Grounds, Ironmonger, Junk Dealer, Madman, Marauder, Market Square, Mercenary, Mystic, Pillage, Poor House, Procession, Rats (x20) Rebuild, Rogue, Sage, Scavenger, Squire, Storeroom, Urchin, Vagrant, Wandering Minstrel
  • 2 Treasure Cards: Counterfeit (x10), Spoils (x15)
  • 1 Victory Card: Feodum (x12)
  • 10 Knight Cards: 1 each of Dame Anna, Dame Josephine, Dame Molly, Dame Natalie, Dame Sylvia, Sir Bailey, Sir Destry, Sir Martin, Sir Michael, Sir Vander
  • 35 Randomizer Cards
  • 1 Knight Randomizer Card
  • 5 Ruins Cards: 10 each of Abandoned Mine, Ruined Library, Ruined Market, Ruined Village, Survivors
  • 3 Shelter Cards: 6 each of Hovel, Necropolis, Overgrown Estate

Card Search Engine

• deckengine.info

Extra Info

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Ages: 13 and up
Artist: Raven Mimura
BGID: 125403
Category: Card Game, Expansion for Base-game, Medieval
Designer: Donald X. Vaccarino
Family: Dominion
Mechanics: Card Drafting, Deck / Pool Building, Hand Management
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Publisher: 999 Games, Filosofia Édition, Hans im Glück Verlags-GmbH, Hobby Japan, Korea Boardgames, Lautapelit.fi, Rio Grande Games,
Time: 30 minutes
Year: 2012
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