Questions tagged [dominion-prosperity]
The 5th Dominion expansion, built around the theme of big money and big actions.
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How does Hireling work with Throne Room or King's Court?
I was playing Dominion Adventures combined with Prosperity, the "Think Big" setup.
The main focus here are these 2 cards:
King's Court (from Prosperity)
Hireling (from Adventures)
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Dominion - Kings Court on Tragic Hero
What happens when you play a kings court on a tragic hero?
Does it go like this:
Lets say your hand is 3 coppers, a kings court and a tragic hero.
Play the kings court
Select the tragic hero
(Play ...
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Dominion Prosperity play out treasures
I have a question regarding the dominion extension prosperity, especially the new treasure-cards
Venture: "When you play this, reveal cards from your deck until you reveal a Treasure. Discard the ...
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What makes King’s Court-King’s Court-Goons-Goons-Masquerade so powerful?
A while ago while reading, I read about the King’s Court-King’s Court-Goons-Goons-Masquerade combo it was stated to be very powerful, and I was wondering why it was considered as such.
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How do I organise my cards in the Dominion big box insert?
I have a Dominion set that includes the base set plus Alchemy and Prosperity. The box contains a plastic insert with many slots of various sizes. I have stored the cards in alphabetical order mixing ...
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Do you replace tokens moved to the Trade Route mat?
With Trade Route in play, do you replace the coins on the victory cards after the first card is purchased?
Example: I buy a Duchy and move the coin to the Trade Route mat. Do I put another coin ...
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Prosperity - Cornucopia card set
Normally the game rule book provides balanced setup to play with different extensions. We just bought Cornucopia, but the French rule book did not provided a setup to play with Prosperity.
We would ...
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Should I buy Gold or Hoard?
Hoard is a treasure worth 2 that also reads:
While this is in play, when you buy a Victory card, gain a Gold.
It costs the same as a Gold (i.e. 6) and while it's not immediately worth as much as a ...
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Need help with the Peddler card in Dominion Prosperity
I love Dominion Prosperity, and understand all of the cards perfectly except for Peddler. Can anyone explain it to me? For some reason I just can't get it. Thanks!
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Setup for more than 4 players in Dominion?
We have the base Dominion set along with the Alchemy and Prosperity expansions. The rules cover 2-4 players, but elsewhere it implies that up to 6 players are allowed with expansions. Nowhere we could ...
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When is it optimal to purchase a Mint on a 5/2 split?
Every now and then, what seems like a golden opportunity comes up: you start the game with five coppers, and the Mint is in play. By purchasing this, you can instantly trash five of your starting ...
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Which Dominion expansion playes best with two players? [closed]
I'm looking at picking up my first expansion for Dominion. I play primarily with 2 players (total).
Which of the expansions would play best with two players, and why? (For example, a card like ...
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Abusing my watchtower?
In Dominion, can I play my treasure cards first, and watchtower last to gain more cards? I tried this last night, and my friend read the rule that says you only play treasure cards in your buy phase.
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Can you buy with a copper after buying Grand Market?
If you buy the Grand Market in your turn, can you then use spare copper to buy something else? Or does doing so forbid you from having bought the Grand Market?
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How does Conspirator work with Throne Room / King's Court?
If, for example, my turn starts by playing a King's Court and choosing Conspirator, how many cards will I draw?
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If I buy a Mint, do I still get to use the coins from the treasures I played that turn to buy a Grand Market?
In the Prosperity rules it says "if you have 11 coppers in play and 2 Buys, you could buy a Mint, trash all of your played Treasures, and then buy a Grand Market." My question is: What are you going ...
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What is a good way to store multiple expansions of Dominion?
At the moment I just have the base set of Dominion and Dominion-Intrigue, each of which are a full set so currently I'm storing each per the in-the-box organizers in their original boxes.
But when ...
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How do Mine and Watchtower Interact?
When playing Mine while having a Watchtower in hand, can you put the upgraded treasure card on top of your deck instead of in your hand?
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Watchtower when someone uses a Masquerade
As a reaction card, Watchtower can be revealed whenever you gain a card.
Does this apply to the card you receive from other players during a Masquerade?
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What happens if you Forge nothing?
If I play a Forge and for whatever reason choose "none" as the amount of cards trashed (say if I played it via Golem by accident), do I gain anything? I could see 2 possibilities:
Don't gain because ...
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Do you need to buy a card when playing treasures in Dominion?
So I ran into a situation where I had a single treasure, the Loan card. I wanted to play the Loan card but I did not want to buy any cards.
So can you play treasure cards and not buy anything?
I ...
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Are the Goons un-fun? [closed]
At my weekly boardgames night earlier this evening I was roped into an all-expansions, 6-player game of Dominion. A girl on the sidelines piped up: "You should take out the Goons card. It takes all ...
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Dominion: When to use Platinum and Colony
I recently acquired Dominion: Prosperity (yay Christmas) and came across the Platinum and Colony Cards which are designed to be new Basic Cards (like Estate, Copper, etc...).
My question is, should I ...
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I have the Dominion base set only, in what order should I buy the expansions?
I've heard a lot about the different Dominion expansions, but I'm still not really sure which direction to go.
In what order would you suggest I buy the expansions?
How does each one change the game?
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In Dominion, how do Duration cards interact with King's Court / Throne Room?
For example, suppose I play a King's Court on a Lighthouse. Do I get +$3 now and +$3 next turn? +$3 now and +$1 next turn?
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Good set of cards for teaching beginners
We have 1 or 2 new people who are interested in joining our lunch Dominion games where I work.
We'd like to teach them about the various rules unique to each of these sets: Base, Intrigue, Seaside, ...
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City card and predicting when Supply piles will run low
This card kind of has me stumped. In my experience, the vast majority of games deplete the Province or Colony pile before any other, ending the game. Which means in most circumstances, this card is ...
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When you King's Court a King's Court, when must you pick the three target cards?
Bear with me here. In Dominion: Prosperity you can play King's Court and choose another King's Court as the target:
The rules are clear on the basics of what happens here: you pick three cards and ...
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When is Loan worth buying?
When would you ever want to buy this instead of just buying a Silver for the same price?
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