Rio Grande Games Dominion Base Cards Set - 250 Victory, Treasure & Curse Cards, Updated Graphics

I was uncertain whether this would be worth the money: sure, it's cheap, but it doesn't really let you do anything you couldn't before. In practice, I find it's surprisingly convenient. When we want to play with an expansion, now we just grab that expansion and the Base Cards, instead of lugging around the bulky base set box. The small size of the Base Cards box makes a huge difference. The new art is also a big draw. It's definitely an upgrade over the original; the potion is particularly beautiful. One drawback, though, is that it makes it harder to see (at a glance) the difference between card cost and value, both for victory and treasure. Take the Province: the original cards have a huge "6" on the front, but with the new cards, I've caught myself more than once counting them for 8 at game's end. We also had a new player try to buy a Gold for 3! These problems are minor (especially for experienced players), but they do pop up from time to time. Overall, the Base Card expansion is a surprisingly satisfying buy for Dominion lovers who have multiple expansions (we have all of them). That's the target demographic - if you're satisfied with just the Base Set and/or Intrigue, don't bother picking this up just for the new art.

I already had enough to play with 5-6 players but now I can play with more! Love it! Came with an extra trash pile and other cool cards. Def elevates the game.

Every tired of copper, silver, and gold all appearing the same on the old stock cards? Not anymore! Custom nice artwork for each victory point card and treasure card! Estates look like actual estates now! Includes Colonies and Platinum for the Prosperity expansion and potions for the alchemy expansion. All are custom made and actually look like platinum, curses, and duchies, also a new trash card! Also the base cards allows you to double the number of players up to 8 if you combine your original 12 provinces with the base cards 12 provinces as you need 24 provinces for 8 players. Be warned 8 player games can last a lot longer than the original.

We really like Dominion, but the truth is, we prefer Ticket to Ride. Don't get me wrong, we do enjoy a game of Dominion but the majority of the extensions are either not appealing to us, or simply too expensive. The fact that Dominion is for only 4 players IS an obstacle... Enter the Base Cards, which provide 2 major improvements over Dominion. The Base Cards now allows you to play with up to 6 players with additional base cards: plenty of Copper (60), Silver (40) and Gold (30) as well as Estate (24), Duchy (12), Provinces (12) and curses cards(30). You even get 16 potions to increase the pile if you bought Alchemy. With 5 players, use 15 provinces/duchy and for 6 players, use 18 provinces. That's right, with this set, you have 6 extra cards so in theory, you could play with up to 8 players! You should however add 1 Kingdom card per player above 4 and ignore the "3 supply pile" rule. But each of these cards are completely redesigned with much nicer pictures so that they are more than just a big number, so I recommend that for 2-4 player games, you can just use the new cards. For me however, the biggest advantage to the game is the addition of 12 Colony (11g to buy, 10 victory points) and 12 Platinum coin (9g to buy and gives 5 gold). You can otherwise only get these 2 cards from the Prosperity expansion (for almost 3 times the cost of the base cards) and you can add them to ANY game of Dominion, not just those with Prosperity. I personally sleeve my cards but I managed to fit everything I might use in my Dominion box by putting the Platinum and the Colony in the randomizer cards spaces, and then, simply used an elastic to place the randomizer cards on top of the index column. I also placed the extra Gold, Silver, Etc... there. My base card box only has the extra curses (we don't like playing with the Witch) and Poitions (since we don't have alchemy). All and all, a great buy for a very low price.

I've been grabbing up every expansion as it comes out, so with both Dominion and Intrigue, I didn't really need more base cards. The lovely art on these cards, however, along with the reasonable price, convinced me to go ahead and upgrade, and I don't regret it at all. Beautiful new artwork for: Copper Silver Gold Platinum (Introduced in Prosperity) Potion (Introduced in Alchemy) Estate Duchy Province Colony (Introduced in Prosperity) Curse And a new Trash card to boot. The only issue was needing to acquire two packs in order to have enough for the 5-6 player variant introduced in Intrigue, but as that is a variant and not the core game, it's understandable. And again, the price was reasonable enough that I didn't mind. A great product for a great game.

We received an expansion as a Christmas gift. This was exactly what we needed to provide the basics (money, victory points, etc) to allow us to play this brilliant game that is easy to learn and great fun for casual board gamers and hard core board gamers.

No es un producto muy complejo, cumple al 100 la espectativa

Questo set include solo quelle carte base (tesori, punti vittoria e maledizioni) di Dominion (con nuova grafica ed in inglese, ma di scritto c'è solo il nome) che si trovano nei due set base di Dominion Nasce un Regno e Intrigo (proprio quelle che servono per poter giocare ad un'espansione), oltre alle carte base delle espansioni (Colonia e Platino di Prosperità e le Pozioni di Alchimia). Pertanto con questo set minimale, non c'è bisogno di avere Nasce un Regno oppure Intrigo per poter giocare ad una qualsiasi espansione di Dominion. Da notare però che questo set fornisce esattamente lo stesso numero di carte base di ognuno dei due set base. Chi ha Intrigo, sa che con i due set base assieme si può giocare anche in 5 o 6 giocatori (proprio perché con due set base si hanno la carte base per 4 giocatori duplicate). La stessa cosa avviene se si ha questo set di carte base e uno tra Nasce un Regno o Intrigo. N.B.: per chi non ha Intrigo (nelle cui regole sono spiegate le partite con più di 4 giocatori) ed è interessato alle partite in 5-6 giocatori (perché ha Nasce un Regno e questo set Base Cards) sappiate che basta usare: 5 giocatori: 15 Province, 40 maledizioni 6 giocatori: 18 Province, 50 maledizioni Inoltre il gioco finisce quando termina il mazzetto delle Province oppure 4 mazzetti qualsiasi (invece che 3).

agora poderei jogar com mais pessoas sem o jogo acabar tão rapidamente

Box was a little dented when it arrived, but I’m not too overly concerned on that. Overall great value for this base set, cards are beautiful and great quality.