Adventures
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Type | Large Expansion |
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Cards | 400 |
304 (30 sets) | |
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Release | April 2015 |
Adventures is the ninth expansion to Dominion, released April 2015. It is a large expansion, with 400 cards, including 30 sets of new Kingdom cards. It adds more of the popular Duration cards, and introduces Events, as well as Reserve and Traveller cards, and a variety of tokens used to track the effects of various card and Event abilities.
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Contents
Basic Supply Cards
- Adventures is only an expansion, so no Basic Supply Cards are included.
Kingdom cards
Coin of the Realm, Page, Peasant, Ratcatcher, Raze
Amulet, Caravan Guard, Dungeon, Gear, Guide
Duplicate, Magpie, Messenger, Miser, Port, Ranger, Transmogrify
Artificer, Bridge Troll, Distant Lands, Giant, Haunted Woods, Lost City, Relic, Royal Carriage, Storyteller, Swamp Hag, Treasure Trove, Wine Merchant
Hireling
Additional materials
- Traveller cards (5 each):
Soldier, Treasure Hunter
Fugitive, Warrior
Disciple, Hero
Champion, Teacher
- 20 Events:
Alms, Borrow, Quest
Save
Scouting Party, Travelling Fair
Bonfire, Expedition, Ferry, Plan
Mission, Pilgrimage
Ball, Raid, Seaway, Trade
Lost Arts, Training
Inheritance
Pathfinding
- 6 sets, in different player colors, of:
- 1 Tavern mat
- 10 tokens:
- +1 Card token
- +1 Action token
- +1 Buy token
- + token
- - cost token
- Journey token
- Trashing token
- Estate token
- - token
- -1 Card token
Flavor Text
Impact of Adventures
As the newest expansion, the Dominion community are still figuring out how they feel about Adventures. That said, the reaction so far has been positive, particularly with the introduction of Events.
Big Money
Adventures has a number of cards that facilitate Big Money strategies:
- Treasure Hunter and Hero - both of these Page line cards can fill your deck with Treasures
- Amulet - a good source of Silver
- Gear - decent terminal draw that can set aside excess Treasure for next turn
- Magpie - a Lab variant specifically for Treasures
- Treasure Trove - fills your deck with Gold
- Raid - can net you a lot of Silvers if you already have a fair few
Other cards may play well with Big Money, but more playtime is needed to judge.
Engines
Adventures has a number of cards that facilitate engine strategies:
- Coin of the Realm - a cheap source of +Action to smooth out your engine
- Champion - makes an engine possible on almost any board
- Fugitive, Disciple and Teacher - the Peasant line in general seems well suited to engines
- Ratcatcher, Raze, Amulet - all decent early-game trashers
- Port - a village that comes with another village, leaving more buys for draw and payload
- Transmogrify - can turn any card in your hand into a missing engine part when needed
- Artificer - a Peddler variant that can gain engine parts to the top of your deck
- Bridge Troll - gives +Buy and cost reduction
- Haunted Woods - +3 Cards is great at the start of your turn, and engines usually don't have anything left in hand to top-deck during the Buy phase
- Lost City - a Lab variant and a village
- Royal Carriage - a Throne Room variant that can never be drawn dead, and can stack on important cards
- Wine Merchant - a decent payload card that does best in decks that can spare every turn
- Hireling - increases your handsize for the rest of the game
- Alms - a fantastic gainer in Treasure-less decks
- Travelling Fair - a source of +Buy as well as a top-decker
- Bonfire - lets you use Coppers while still trashing them
- Expedition - can serve as draw for an engine with extra
- Ferry - makes important engine parts cheaper
- Mission - engines can make more use of a turn on which you can't buy cards
- Seaway, Lost Arts, Training and Pathfinding - all of these can vastly improve an engine deck relying on many copies of key cards
Other cards may play well with engines, but more playtime is needed to judge.
Events
Events drastically increase the amount of options players have in a game of Dominion. Some, like Alms and Borrow, can completely change opening turns; others, like Lost Arts and Pathfinding, can add tokens to piles to make some truly powerful cards; others still are just plain weird, yet still compelling, such as Inheritance.
Adventures Theme
- 9 new Duration cards, including one non-Supply card: Champion, Amulet, Caravan Guard, Dungeon, Gear, Bridge Troll, Haunted Woods, Swamp Hag, Hireling
- 9 Reserve cards, including one non-Supply card: Coin of the Realm, Teacher, Ratcatcher, Guide, Duplicate, Transmogrify, Distant Lands, Royal Carriage, Wine Merchant
- 5 Token cards, including one non-Supply card: Teacher, Ranger, Bridge Troll, Giant, Relic
- 3 cards with otherwise delayed or long-term effects: Page, Peasant, Miser
- 8 off-theme cards: Raze, Magpie, Messenger, Port, Artificer, Lost City, Storyteller, Treasure Trove
There are also 20 Events, 11 of which use tokens: Borrow, Ferry, Plan, Pilgrimage, Ball, Raid, Seaway, Lost Arts, Training, Inheritance, Pathfinding
Trivia
Adventures is the first expansion to be released after Donald X. stated he would no longer release expansions on a regular basis, making this the first "occasional" expansion. It is the second large expansion, after Dark Ages, and the second expansion whose box's color scheme is grey, though of a darker shade than Intrigue's. Donald X has stated that Adventures started off as a "treasure chest" set that revisited themes from every previous expansion, but the only theme that both stood out and did not require the repeated inclusion of old tokens or other components was Duration cards. He has also stated that, in retrospect, Adventures could have been a spin-off game.
The weekend before previews, Donald X. posted a teaser of "bits of information about the expansion that don't actually tell you any cards."
- 22 dividing lines
- 8 big arrows
- 7 cards with 3 types
- 3 Treasures, including an Attack and a village
- 2 12-card piles, including a Victory card worth 0 the turn you buy it
- +, +, and +
- a card that gives the 2nd player an advantage
- a card you can play when it isn't your turn
- a card that draws you 5 cards when Throned
- word counts: Supply: 15; Game: 4; Turn: 31; Token: 16.
Recommended Sets of 10
Adventures Only
Gentle Intro [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Amulet | Distant Lands | Dungeon | Duplicate | Giant | |||||||||||||
Hireling | Port | Ranger | Ratcatcher | Treasure Trove | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Scouting Party | |||||||||||||||||
Expert Intro [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Caravan Guard | Coin of the Realm | Haunted Woods | Lost City | Magpie | ||||||||||||||||
Peasant | Raze | Swamp Hag | Transmogrify | Wine Merchant | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Mission | Plan | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Dominion
Level Up [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Dungeon | Gear | Guide | Lost City | Miser | |||||||||||||
Market | Militia | Spy | Throne Room | Workshop | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Training | |||||||||||||||||
Son of Size Distortion [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Amulet | Duplicate | Giant | Messenger | Treasure Trove | ||||||||||||||||
Bureaucrat | Gardens | Moneylender | Thief | Witch | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bonfire | Raid | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Intrigue
Royalty Factory [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Bridge Troll | Duplicate | Page | Raze | Royal Carriage | |||||||||||||
Conspirator | Harem | Nobles | Secret Chamber | Swindler | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Pilgrimage | |||||||||||||||||
Masters of Finance [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Artificer | Distant Lands | Gear | Transmogrify | Wine Merchant | ||||||||||||||||
Bridge | Pawn | Shanty Town | Steward | Upgrade | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ball | Borrow | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Seaside
Prince of Orange [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Amulet | Dungeon | Haunted Woods | Page | Swamp Hag | |||||||||||||
Caravan | Fishing Village | Merchant Ship | Tactician | Treasure Map | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Mission | |||||||||||||||||
Gifts and Mathoms [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridge Troll | Caravan Guard | Hireling | Lost City | Messenger | ||||||||||||||||
Ambassador | Embargo | Haven | Salvager | Smugglers | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Expedition | Quest | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Alchemy
Haste Potion [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Magpie | Messenger | Port | Royal Carriage | Treasure Trove | |||||||||||||
Apprentice | Scrying Pool | Transmute | University | Vineyard | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Potion | Plan | ||||||||||||||||
Cursecatchers [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Amulet | Bridge Troll | Caravan Guard | Peasant | Ratcatcher | ||||||||||||||||
Apothecary | Familiar | Golem | Herbalist | Philosopher's Stone | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Potion | Save | Trade | ||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Prosperity
Last Will and Monument [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Coin of the Realm | Dungeon | Messenger | Relic | Treasure Trove | |||||||||||||
Bishop | Counting House | Monument | Rabble | Vault | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Inheritance | |||||||||||||||||
Think Big [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Distant Lands | Giant | Hireling | Miser | Storyteller | ||||||||||||||||
Contraband | Expand | Hoard | King's Court | Peddler | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ball | Ferry | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Cornucopia
The Hero's Return [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Artificer | Miser | Page | Ranger | Relic | |||||||||||||
Fairgrounds | Farming Village | Horse Traders | Jester | Menagerie | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Travelling Fair | |||||||||||||||||
Seacraft and Witchcraft [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Peasant | Storyteller | Swamp Hag | Transmogrify | Wine Merchant | ||||||||||||||||
Fortune Teller | Hamlet | Horn of Plenty | Tournament | Young Witch | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Bane pile: Guide |
Ferry | Seaway | ||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Hinterlands
Traders and Raiders [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Haunted Woods | Lost City | Page | Port | Wine Merchant | |||||||||||||
Develop | Farmland | Haggler | Spice Merchant | Trader | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Raid | |||||||||||||||||
Journeys [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Bridge Troll | Distant Lands | Giant | Guide | Ranger | ||||||||||||||||
Cartographer | Crossroads | Highway | Inn | Silk Road | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Expedition | Inheritance | |||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Dark Ages (Use Shelters)
Cemetery Polka [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Amulet | Caravan Guard | Hireling | Peasant | Relic | |||||||||||||
Graverobber | Marauder | Procession | Rogue | Wandering Minstrel | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Ruins | Alms | ||||||||||||||||
Groovy Decay [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Dungeon | Haunted Woods | Ratcatcher | Raze | Transmogrify | ||||||||||||||||
Cultist | Death Cart | Fortress | Knights | Rats | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Ruins | Lost Arts | Pathfinding | ||||||||||||||||||
Adventures & Guilds
Spendthrift [images] | |||||||||||||||||
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Artificer | Gear | Magpie | Miser | Storyteller | |||||||||||||
Doctor | Masterpiece | Merchant Guild | Soothsayer | Stonemason | |||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | |||||||||||||||||
Lost Arts | |||||||||||||||||
Queen of Tan [images] | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Coin of the Realm | Duplicate | Guide | Ratcatcher | Royal Carriage | ||||||||||||||||
Advisor | Butcher | Candlestick Maker | Herald | Journeyman | ||||||||||||||||
Landscapes and Additional Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||
Pathfinding | Save | |||||||||||||||||||