Dominion - BGG #146 · Rating: 7.60 · Weight: 2.3/5 · Players: 2-4 · Time: 30 min In 2008, Donald X. Vaccarino quietly released a card game about buying cards, and broke board gaming. Dominion didn’t just win the Spiel des Jahres - it spawned an entire genre. Every deck-building game published since owes something to it: the shared market, the card cycling, the tension between buying power and deck density. ...
Deck-building is one of the defining mechanics of modern board gaming - and one of the most misunderstood. Ask ten people what a deck-builder is and you’ll get ten slightly different answers. Ask them where to start and you’ll probably get “Dominion,” which is not always wrong, but is often not the best answer. The truth is that deck-builders span an enormous range of complexity. Star Realms has a BGG weight of 1.91. Mage Knight sits at 4.38. That’s not a small gap - it’s the difference between a 20-minute two-player card game and a 4-hour solo odyssey with a rulebook that reads like a war treaty. ...
