The game ends up as a supremely satisfying exercise in slowly building your deck into an efficient tool, so that you might snap up victory point cards all at once, near the end of the game. The problem is, victory point cards (which for the most part do nothing aside from giving you game-winning points) dilute your deck. The core gameplay is simple: Each turn you can play an action and buy a card, be it an action card, a money card or a victory point card. And the granddaddy of these sorts of games is Dominion.ĭominion has been around for years, but its developer has kept it fresh with over a dozen expansions to the base game. Slowly, then, the hands they play with each turn transform to allow new strategies over the course of a game. Essentially, players draft or 'buy' cards in a deck-building game to shuffle into their draw decks. Deck building is a relatively recent development in card games.
