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'''Promotional cards''' are official Dominion kingdom cards and [[Event|Events]] which do not belong to any particular [[expansions|set]]. They are a result of [[Donald X]] trying to meet the requests of his publishers, and typically either released to help promote Dominion at conventions (such as Origins or GenCon), or to commemorate the anniversary of another game, to help promote both.

== Card List ==
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There are currently 12 promotional releases, including one [[split pile]] and one [[Event]]:
* {{Card|Envoy}} (November 2008)
* {{Card|Black Market}} (March 2009)
* {{Card|Stash}} (February 2010)
* {{Card|Walled Village}} (June 2011)
* {{Card|Governor}} (October 2011)
* {{Card|Prince}} (June 2014)
* {{Event|Summon}} (November 2015)
* {{Card|Sauna Avanto|Sauna/Avanto}} (September 2016)
* {{Card|Dismantle}} (December 2017)
* {{Card|Church}} (August 2019)
* {{Card|Captain}} (August 2019)
* {{Card|Marchland}} (March 2024)</onlyinclude>

== Cards gallery ==
=== Kingdom cards ===
{{CardImage|Black_Market}}{{CardImage|Church}}{{CardImage|Dismantle}}{{CardImage|Envoy}}{{CardImage|Sauna Avanto}}{{CardImage|Walled_Village}}{{CardImage|Governor}}{{CardImage|Marchland}}{{CardImage|Stash}}{{CardImage|Captain}}{{CardImage|Prince}}

=== Events ===
{{LandscapeImage|Summon}}

=== Sauna/Avanto ===
{{CardImage|Sauna}}{{CardImage|Avanto}}

== Impact of Promo Cards ==
The promotional cards range from simple, but balanced cards that there simply wasn't room for in a main set (Envoy and Walled Village), to being almost patently ridiculous in their mechanics.  As such, Promo cards frequently feature in complicated [[engine|engines]] or [[combo|combos]] that hinge on their peculiar mechanic.

=== Engines ===
* {{Card|Envoy}} - has a draw that rivals {{Card|Smithy}} at the same cost
* {{Card|Black Market}} - can give access to a key card that makes an engine or combo work that no other player will be able to get
* {{Card|Walled Village}} - Villages are always useful, but this one ensures that it will be in a hand with other engine parts
* {{Card|Governor}} - an engine unto itself at times
* {{Card|Prince}} - ensures that a cheap component is played every turn, smoothing out your engine
* {{Card|Sauna}}/{{Card|Avanto}} - together act as both a [[trasher]] and a self-sufficient engine
* {{Event|Summon}} - ensures that a cheap component is played immediately, without costing an Action

=== [[Big Money]] ===
* Envoy - better than Smithy+BM
* {{Card|Stash}} - four of these guarantees a {{Card|Province}} every shuffle
* Governor - gains {{Card|Gold}}, for a price

=== Tricks ===
* Black Market - aside from the power of having the sole copy of a card, it can play [[Treasure|Treasures]] during your [[Action]] phase, allowing for, e.g., playing Treasures before {{Card|Tactician}} or [[draw-to-X]].

== Trivia ==
Until the release of {{Event|Summon}}, each Promo had its own unique expansion symbol, either referring to the convention it was distributed at, or the other game it was helping to promote.  When {{Event|Summon}} was released, Donald X felt there was a need for a generic Promo symbol, which ended up being a flag.  All other Promos released since then have had that symbol, and all previous Promos were given that symbol as part of the [[second edition]] update.
=== History ===
{{Quote
|Text=Sometimes, the publishers want promos. A magazine wants one, or a convention does, or something, and so the word comes down to me, could we have one please. And I like to be friendly. They have been given away various ways, depending on the language, but the BGG store has had them all (in English) in the long run.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=153.0 The Secret History of the Dominion Promos]
}}
Several Promo cards are "[[outtake]]s", or borrowed from a yet-to-be-released set. Governor was designed on the spot, borrowing a name and mechanic from the game Puerto Rico, and Summon was designed by a playtester after the release of [[Adventures]]. Further details on the design and history of the cards can be found on the individual card pages.
=== Retrospective ===
{{Quote|
|Text=Promos are bad; you either deprive the game of something in order to have it as a promo, or you do something wacky in the situation where people have the least access to the rules for it, or you do something not worth doing in the game and then why is it worth doing as a promo? But people love promos so what can you do.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=3179.msg56362#msg56362 What Donald X. Might Do With a Dominion Time Machine]
}}
=== Online-only promos ===
After this post, TGG has stated that they would be interested in implementing an online-only promo.
{{Quote|
|Text=
I've considered doing an online-only promo; no-one's taken me up on that so far. The original idea ended up sparking {{Card|Peasant}}. An online-only set, well why am I not working on a set that can also be physical? It doesn't make a lot of sense as a product.

I mean I said, Making Fun, we could have an online-only promo, and I said, Stef, we could have an online-only promo, and I said, TGG, we could have an online-only promo. So far, no online-only promo.
|Name=[[Donald X. Vaccarino]]
|Source=[https://discord.com/channels/212660788786102272/936246610961260594/969289243270729808 Dominion Discord, 2022]
}}

== Obtaining The Promo Cards ==

* The cards can typically be purchased on the [https://boardgamegeekstore.com/search?q=dominion BGG store]. 
* Occasionally, game stores or conventions will offer the Promotional cards in conjunction with a purchase.
* Various iterations of the [[Big Box]] have included one or more Promotional cards, {{card|Black Market}} was included in Special Edition (relaunch of Dominion German version by [[Rio Grande Games|RGG]]), and {{Event|Summon}} was bundled with pre-release orders of [[Adventures]] German version.
* [[Tournaments]] may offer Promo cards as prizes.

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