Editing Dominion (Base Set)

|rulebook = https://www.riograndegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dominion2nd.pdf

'''Dominion''', sometimes called '''Base Dominion''', the '''Base Set''', or simply '''Base''', is the first [[Dominion]] game created by [[Donald X. Vaccarino]]. It was released in 2008 by publisher [[Rio Grande Games]]. The box originally contained 25 sets of [[Kingdom]] cards and [[Basic cards | Basic]] [[Supply]] cards to support up to 4 players.  

 

The [[second edition]] of the base set was released in Fall 2016, improving wording and formatting on cards, updating [[basic card]] artwork, replacing the [[Trash]] card with a mat, and replacing [[#Removed first-edition Kingdom cards|6 obsolete first edition Kingdom cards]] with [[Update Packs#Dominion: Update Pack|7 new ones]].  The new cards are also available in an [[Update Packs|update pack]] provided to allow existing Dominion sets to be updated to the second edition form.

 

The Base set is also included in both the English and German [[Big Box|Big Boxes]] and [[Special Edition|other collections]].

  |Text=You are a monarch, like your parents before you, a ruler of a small pleasant kingdom of rivers and evergreens. Unlike your parents, however, you have hopes and dreams! You want a bigger and more pleasant kingdom, with more rivers and a wider variety of trees. You want a Dominion!  

 

In all directions lie fiefs, freeholds, and feodums. All are small bits of land, controlled by petty lords and verging on anarchy. You will bring civilization to these people, uniting them under your banner. But wait! It must be something in the air; several other monarchs have had the exact same idea. You must race to get as much of the unclaimed land as possible, fending them off along the way. To do this you will hire minions, construct buildings, spruce up your castle, and fill the coffers of your treasury. Your parents wouldn’t be proud, but your grandparents, on your mother's side, would be delighted.

  |Source=[https://www.riograndegames.com/games/dominion/ Rio Grande Games]

  |Source=[https://www.riograndegames.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Dominion-2nd-Edition-Rules.pdf the Dominion rulebook]

As the original game, this set contains the cards that serve as most players' introduction to Dominion.  The cards are, for the most part, [[vanilla|simple]], yet compelling.  Some of them, like {{Card|Smithy}}, {{Card|Throne Room}}, {{Card|Militia}}, {{Card|Gardens}}, {{Card|Witch}}, {{Card|Chapel}}, and {{Card|Village}}, are important cornerstones to strategies and strategic discussions, and serve as archetypes for [[card category|card categories]].  As such, other cards of those categories have their costs dictated by these cards, as they tend to be these original cards with something "extra."  The main strategies ([[engine]], [[big money]], [[slog]], [[rush (strategy)|rush]] and [[combo]]) all have their roots in this set, in the most basic forms of each.

File:Dominion_Polish_Bard.jpg|First Polish version (by [[Bard Centrum Gier|Bard]])

File:DominionPolish.jpg|Second Polish version (by [[Games Factory Publishing|GFP]] - note: this is still Dominion First Edition)

File:DominionPolish2nd.jpg|First Polish II Edycja version (by [[Games Factory|GF]])

File:Dominion2Polish.jpg|Second Polish II Edycja version (by [[IUVI Games|IUVI]])

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{{Kingdom|Festival|Harbinger|Militia|Remodel|Workshop|Caravan|Outpost|Pirate|Sea Chart|Treasury|imgwidth = 150|title = Repetition|noadd=1}}