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Dominion - bold and regular type: which action comes first?
You do exactly what the card says in order, how bold the type is doesn't matter. The +2 Actions isn't an instruction to play (up to) 2 action cards at that time, it means that later in the Action ...
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How many Dominion sets are there?
As of February 2024, there are 16 sets and 12 promo cards1.
In release order:
Dominion (Base game)
Intrigue
Seaside
Alchemy
Prosperity
Cornucopia
Hinterlands
Dark Ages
Guilds
Adventures
Empires
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How does Hireling work with Throne Room or King's Court?
The wiki has this line on Hireling:
If you use Disciple (or a similar card, like Throne Room) to play
Hireling twice, you will draw two extra cards each turn, and Disciple
will also stay in play for ...
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When Using Throne room on a Throne room do you need two more action cards already in hand?
In Dominion, the general rule is that you have to do everything on a card in order before you can play another card.
This affects Throne Room in an odd way, because it means you have to do everything ...
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Can you trash fortress indefinitely with donate?
No, because you trash all cards simultaneously.
From the Dark Ages rulebook:
When two or more cards are trashed at the same time, such as due to Count, first trash them all, then pick an order to ...
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Is the Chancellor + Harbinger combo a viable Dominion strategy?
This doesn't work as you are thinking:
Harbinger has you draw a card before you look through your discard pile. This means that when you play Harbinger, the first thing you do is draw a card, which ...
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What Dominion cards have artwork featuring different versions of the same object?
The vast majority of the cards feature unique artwork, which is great. However, there are some cards that indeed include other cards' artwork, like:
Scrying Pool (from Dominion: Alchemy) depicts the ...
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What makes King’s Court-King’s Court-Goons-Goons-Masquerade so powerful?
The combo is what is known as a "pin", although the biggest problem with it has been somewhat fixed in the 2nd version of Intrigue, which changed how Masquerade works.
For reference, the three cards ...
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Can I play multiple Idols one at a time and receive the effects each time?
Yes, you play them one at a time, and therefore you get the alternating boon and curse effect.
Note that this mandatory, not merely an option: You always play (and resolve) your treasures one at a ...
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Donate at end of game
The game designer intends that "after this turn" effects do not happen when the game ends. The game ends at the end of your turn, so any other effects set up after that can't happen: nothing ...
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How do I use the Dominion & Dominion Intrigue Update Packs?
The update pack serves two purposes:
Replace 6 old cards with 7 newer ones
Provide a new card strip; base cards are missing from the new strip.
Replacing older cards
The following 12 cards have ...
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When buying and playing a Villa in Dominion do you in a sense get 3 buys for that turn?
You don't get a new free Buy, sorry. Nice thinking though.
The base game rules do say that when you enter a Buy phase you get one default Buy, but the card-specific notes for the Villa in the Empires ...
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Dominion Nocturne: Why is Raider not better than Gold
There are 3 main factors at play which make it so that a Gold may the right choice over Raider sometimes.
Duration cards are inherently weaker than non-duration cards for 2 reasons:
First off, ...
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Dominion: ghost plus pixie
The golden rule in Dominion is follow the card instructions as much as possible. You can play Pixie a second time, even if it has been moved, e.g., moved to the trash. However, you may not be able to ...
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How do I play out a Vassal hitting a Throne Room?
Playing an action card via Vassal is exactly the same as if you had played it from your hand: you follow the text of that card, top to bottom, doing as much as possible.
In the case of Throne Room ...
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Dominion Prosperity play out treasures
You are playing the buy phase incorrectly.
In the buy phase, you always play all of your treasure cards, one at a time, before you buy any card. In fact, you are not allowed to play any more treasure ...
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Why does the effect of Enchantress not stack in Dominion?
Enchantress cannot stack; the first action played by an opponent will just give +1 card +1 action.
A quote from the creator/designer of Dominion confirms this:
Throne / Enchantress does not give ...
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What Dominion Cards use victory tokens?
Yes there is, at The Dominion Strategy Wiki.
Cards:
Chariot Race, Farmers' Market, Bishop, Crumbling Castle, Monument, Sacrifice, Temple, Emporium, Groundskeeper, Plunder, Wild Hunt, Goons, Grand ...
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Black Market and game setup
It is the first option; all setup things are done at the start of a game. A card being in the Black Market deck acts just like a card in the Supply for this purpose.
Strangely enough, this rule is ...
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Can opponent trash a copper on my Governor if there is no one value card in play?
Yes, they can.
You always follow all instructions in order, only skipping things that are impossible. If you choose this option, your opponent has 2 instructions to follow:
They may trash a card ...
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What happens when you procession an encampment without having a gold/plunder in your hand?
The Procession plays Encampment for the first time. You don't reveal a Plunder or Gold, so you set Encampment aside. This does not prevent Procession from playing it a second time, but both Encampment'...
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Can I look at my deck before playing the Zombie Mason
It is indeed a blind play, you cannot look at the top of your deck before choosing what to play with Necromancer (or however else you came to play the Zombie Mason). However, unless a pile has been ...
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How to play the Harbinger card in Dominion
Short answer: yes, you can draw it immediately with, e.g., another action card.
Long answer: the golden rule in Dominion is to follow a card's text entirely, top to bottom, before moving on to your ...
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How many cards do you trash when you play a Chapel after having bought a Sewers?
According to this Dominion Wiki you may
trash an additional card for each card trashed.
It specifically gives example with Chapel.
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How can I document that I Moated an enchantress?
The moat says :-
When another player plays an Attack card, you may first reveal this from your hand, to be unaffected by it.
So you are not 'playing' the moat. To defend against an attack you ...
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Scoring with "Triumphal Arch" and only one Action card in the deck
Most importantly, have fun playing with your son!
For your question, in case there is no second most common Action card in a player's deck, that number would be 0. Or maybe it's non-existent, but you ...
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Does Masquerade affect all players?
The Masquerade card wording is (emphasis mine) -
Each player with any cards in hand passes one to the next such player
to their left, at once. Then you may trash a card from your hand.
The card ...
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What are the origins and evolutionary track of the Dominion game?
I don't think you will be able to find an actual published book on the subject, but the creator of Dominion, Donald X Vaccarino, has written multiple articles about the subject. They are published on ...
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In Dominion: Adventures, does the discarded Traveller have to be in hand, or can it have been played?
From the rulebook, bottom of p5:
When a player discards a Traveller from play, he may exchange
it for the card indicated.
Your hand is never considered to be "in play":
"In play" - Action ...
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Can I play multiple Idols one at a time and receive the effects each time?
Not only can you, but you MUST play them one at a time and receive the effects each time. While some players will short cut and play everything at once, technically cards are always played one at a ...
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