Rio Grande Games Dominion Dark Ages Expansion – 500 Strategy Card Game Cards

Product Description Dominion: Dark Ages is the seventh expansion to the acclaimed Dominion card game, delivering 500 cards of strategic depth for experienced players seeking complexity and variety. This is not a standalone game — you must own the base Dominion card game to play.Times have been hard. You've traded your castle for a luxurious ravine, where you now engage in strategic card play against plague, barbarians, and the chaos of survival. Dark Ages introduces a darker, more mature tone with medieval fantasy theming centered on trash and upgrading mechanics.What's Included:35 new Kingdom cards for expanded strategic optionsRuins — penalty cards to challenge opponentsShelters — alternative starting cards replacing estatesUnique acquisition cards available only through specific gameplay pathsKey Features: Cards that trigger when trashed, cards that care about the trash pile, self-upgrading cards, and innovative ways to upgrade other players' cards. The expansion layers new decision trees onto familiar Dominion gameplay, offering endless replayability and strategic mastery for dedicated card game enthusiasts.Designed by renowned game designer Donald X. Vaccarino and published by Rio Grande Games, Dark Ages is perfect for serious Dominion players and strategy board game collectors seeking fresh tactical challenges. From the Manufacturer Times have been hard. To save on money, you have moved out of your old castle, and into a luxurious ravine. You didn't like that castle anyway, it was always getting looted, and never at a reasonable hour. And if it wasn't barbarians it was the plague, or sometimes both would come at once, and there wouldn't be enough chairs. The ravine is great, you get lots of sun, and you can just drop garbage wherever you want. In your free time you have taken up begging. Begging is brilliant conceptually, but tricky in practice, since no one has any money. You beg twigs from the villagers, and they beg them back, but no one really seems to come out ahead. That's just how life is sometimes. You are quietly conquering people, minding your own business, when suddenly there's a plague, or barbarians, or everyone's illiterate, and it's all you can do to cling to some wreckage as the storm passes through. Still, you are sure that, as always, you will triumph over this adversity, or at least do slightly better than everyone else. This is the 7th addition to the game of Dominion. It is 500 cards but is not a stand-alone. It adds 35 new Kingdom cards to Dominion, plus new bad cards you give to other players (Ruins), new cards to replace starting estates (shelters), and cards you can only get via specific other cards. The central themes are the trash and upgrading. There are cards that do something when trashed, cards that care about the trash, cards that upgrade themselves, and ways to upgrade other cards.

• This is an expansion to Dominion, it is not a stand-alone game
• Adds depth and complexity to the game
• Includes 500 cards