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== Common terms and phrases ==
 
== Common terms and phrases ==
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=== A ===
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* [[Attack immunity]]: Cards that completely nullify almost all Attacks (e.g. {{Card|Moat}}).
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* Autopile: To empty a pile by playing cards from that pile, e.g. with Rats.
  
 
=== B ===
 
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* [[Dominion_(Base_Set)|Base]]: The original Dominion, with no expansions.  For example, “In Base, {{Card|Chapel}} is the best early-game trasher.”
 
* [[Dominion_(Base_Set)|Base]]: The original Dominion, with no expansions.  For example, “In Base, {{Card|Chapel}} is the best early-game trasher.”
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* [[Big Money]]: Strictly speaking, a strategy where no [[Action card|Actions]] are bought at all, only [[Treasure]] and [[Victory card|Victory]] cards. In practice, it is often used to refer to a strategy emphasizing Treasure and Victory cards that is merely supplemented with one or two Action cards. Compare with ''[[engine]]''.
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* [[Big Money]]: see [[Money Strategies]]
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* Board (or set, table, or tableau):  The set of cards that make up the game of interest.
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* Board (or [[Kingdom]], or set):  The set of cards and landscapes that make up a particular game.
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* Build: To improve the quality of one’s deck, usually by adding [[deck control]] or [[payload]]
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* Bottomdeck: To appear, or to place a card, at or near the bottom of your [[shuffle]], often so that you can’t draw it. Most commonly used to describe an undesirable case, e.g. "I hope I haven't bottomdecked my {{Card|Sentry}}." 
  
 
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* [[Cantrip]]:  Any card that gives at least +1 Card, +1 Action; it costs no action to spend it and it replaces itself in the hand. Can technically refer to [[Village (card category)|villages]], but in practice usually refers to cards like {{Card|Spy}}.
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* [[Cantrip]]:  Any card that gives +1 Card, +1 Action; it costs no net Action to play it and your hand size does not change. Can technically refer to [[Village (card category)|villages]], but in practice usually refers to cards like {{Card|Merchant}}.
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* Chain: A deck in which the same card(s) are played either multiple times per turn or simply every turn for some powerful cards. For example, “{{Card|Laboratory|Lab}} chain”.
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* Card-shaped thing: a card, [[Way]], [[Event]], [[Landmark]], or [[Project]].
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* City Trap: Purchasing multiple {{Card|City|Cities}} in a game in which no piles (other than {{Card|Province}} or {{Card|Colony}}) are likely to be emptied; the Cities are very expensive [[Village (card category)|villages]] in this case.
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* Chain: To play a card while another card is resolving. Common examples include {{Card|Throne Room}} chains in which successive {{Card|Throne Room}}s are played on each other, or {{Card|Sauna}}/{{Card|Avanto}} chains.
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* Clog (or bloat, gum up, etc.): Add cards to a deck (preferably an opponent’s) that interfere with the [[engine]] being used. Often happens voluntarily in the endgame.
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* [[Coffers]]: A token a player gets when cards say "+1 Coffers" (or, in early printings of Dominion: Guilds, "take a Coin token") and that they keep on their Coffers mat (or the Coffers side of their Coffers/Villagers mat), to save a $ for later; a token can be removed from the mat in their Buy phase, before buying anything, for +$1.
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* Colony Game: Any game in which {{Card|Colony}} and {{Card|Platinum}} (from [[Prosperity]]) are available for purchase.
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* [[Collision]]: Refers to having two or more given cards together in the same hand.
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* Counter: A card that acts to neutralize another card (usually an [[Attack]]), whether directly (like {{Card|Moat}}) or indirectly (like {{Card|Library}} vs. {{Card|Militia}}/{{Card|Goons}}).
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* Colony game: Any game in which {{Card|Colony}} and {{Card|Platinum}} (from [[Prosperity]]) are available for purchase. The two always appear together.
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* Cycling: To move quickly through your deck. {{Card|Chancellor}} provides an extreme example of cycling, but {{Card|Warehouse}} and {{Card|Laboratory}} also cycle your deck effectively.
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* [[Combo]]: A strong interaction between cards that is a monolithic strategy.
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* [[Counter]]: To neutralize or mitigate another effect (usually an [[Attack]] card or strong but fragile strategy, e.g. [[Combo:_Counting_House_and_Travelling_Fair|Counting House/Travelling Fair]]), whether directly (e.g.  {{Card|Moat}}) or indirectly (e.g. {{Card|Library}} vs. {{Card|Militia}}/{{Card|Goons}}).
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* [[Cycling]]: To move quickly through your deck, whether or not you draw or play the cards cycled through. {{Card|Scavenger}} provides an extreme example of cycling, but {{Card|Warehouse}} and {{Card|Laboratory}} also cycle your deck effectively.
  
 
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* DoubleJack: A strategy involving buying only two copies of {{Card|Jack of all Trades}}, and otherwise exclusively [[Treasure]] and [[Victory card|Victory]] cards.
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* Deck tracking: The ability of a player to know the contents and shuffle state of their and their opponent's decks at any given moment.
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* Draw Dead: Generally refers to drawing an [[Action card]] when you have no more actions entitling you to play it. In context, it may refer to drawing an Action card that cannot be effectively used (like {{Card|Baron}} without {{Card|Estate}} or {{Card|Moneylender}} without {{Card|Copper}}).
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* Draw dead: To draw an [[Action card]] when you have no more Actions allowing you to play it.
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* [[Duchy dancing|Duchy Dancing]]: A situation toward the end of a game when both players buy {{Card|Duchy|Duchies}} and neither is willing or able to take the final {{Card|Province}}(s).
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* [[Draw to X]] (or DTX): A draw strategy centered around cards such as {{Card|Library}} or {{Card|Minion}} which draw cards until your hand reaches a certain size.
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* [[Duchy dancing|Duchy Dancing]]: A situation in the endgame in which taking {{Card|Province|Provinces}} would risk opening up a win for one’s opponent and therefore both players buy {{Card|Duchy|Duchies}}.
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* [[Dud]]: A turn which falls significantly below your expectations, usually one in which a poor starting hand means you fail to draw much or any of your deck, or you fail to hit a desired pricepoint.
  
 
=== E ===
 
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* Early Game: Most purchases are low-[[cost]] cards; players are defining their overall strategy.
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* Early game: The first few turns (usually up to around turn 6) of the game. Includes the [[opening]].
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* [[Endgame]] (or Late Game): Players are purchasing almost exclusively [[Victory card|Victory cards]]. Often accompanied by jockeying with lower-value Victory cards, like with ''[[Penultimate Province Rule|PPR]]'' (below).
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* [[Endgame]] (or late game): The last few turns of the game, when [[greening]] and [[pileout]]s become a concern.  
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* End on piles: Force the game to end by emptying three or more [[Supply]] piles (four or more with five or more players).
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* End on piles: Force the game to end by emptying three or more [[Supply]] piles (four or more with five or more players). Also known as a [[Three-pile ending]] or a pileout.
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* [[Engine]]: Loosely defined, the [[Action card|Action cards]] that “drive” one’s deck. An “engine-based” strategy refers to a strategy emphasizing Actions. Compare with [[Big Money]].
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* [[Engine]]: A strategy in which you play multiple Action cards every turn, usually aiming to draw your full deck after [[thinning]] your starting cards, and to build to a point at which you can buy multiple Provinces per turn or score more {{VP}} by other means; also such a deck itself. Compare with [[money strategies]].
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* Envoy/Big Money: Similar strategy to {{Card|Smithy}}/[[Big Money]], but with {{Card|Envoy}} in place of Smithy (see below)
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* [[Expansions]]: Releases of Dominion card sets, beyond the [[Base set]].
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* Estate tennis: The first phase of an {{Card|Ambassador}} game, in which players pass back and forth their starting {{Card|Estate|Estates}}. This can be said to "sit on" the game, delaying its actual start by several turns.
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* [[Greening]] / “Go Green”: Begin purchasing [[Victory card|Victory cards]].
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* [[Gain-and-play]]: To gain a card and play it within the same turn.
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* [[Goko]]: The second major online implementation of Dominion. Operated from 2013 to 2015.
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* Golden sombrero: When both openers miss the first [[reshuffle]].
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* [[Greening]]: The stage of the game in which players acquire [[Victory card]]s.
  
 
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* [[Isotropic]] (or Iso): http://dominion.isotropic.org — an exceedingly popular online implementation of Dominion, often linked to from these forums. Defunct since March 2013.
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* [[Isotropic]] (or Iso): http://dominion.isotropic.org — the first popular online implementation of Dominion, often linked to from the DominionStrategy forums. Operated from 2010 to 2013.
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* Level X City: A shorthand for referencing the power level of a {{Card|City}}. Typically follows either a 1/2/3 or 0/1/2 (which references the number of empty piles) formatting.
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* Midgame: Most purchases are [[Action card|Action]] or [[Treasure]] cards of value {{Cost|5}} or higher, but rarely with hands above {{Cost|6}} (in {{Card|Province}} games) or {{Cost|9}} (in {{Card|Colony}} games); players are refining their strategies and attempting to tune their [[engine|engines]].
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* [[Making Fun]]: The third major online implementation of Dominion. Operated from 2015 to 2016.
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* Mirror Match: When both players pursue identical or near-identical strategies.
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* [[Megaturn]]: A turn in which a player gains a large amount of {{VP}}, usually while also ending the game. Example strategy that aims for a megaturn: [[Combo:_King%27s_Court_and_Bridge]].
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* Midgame: The stage of the game after the opening and before the endgame, in which players begin to have [[deck control]] and can build without much fear of the game ending immediately.
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* Mill (verb): To lower the amount of cards left in a pile, usually by trashing a copy of that card and regaining that same card. Typically done on {{Card|Province|Provinces}} with a [[trash for benefit]] card.
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* Mirror: When two or more players pursue identical or near-identical strategies.
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* Multiplayer: Typically used to refer to games with 3 or more players.
  
 
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* Non-Terminal (or Non-Terminal Action, sometimes NT): Any [[Action card]] that gives at least one additional action (+1 Action).
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* Non-terminal (or Non-terminal Action): Any [[Action card]] that gives at least one additional action (+1 Action), or otherwise allows playing additional actions (e.g. {{Card|Throne Room}} or {{Card|Patron}}).
  
 
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* [[Opening]]: Purchases made on the first two turns. Usually clarified as a 4/3 or 5/2 opening.
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* [[Opening]]: The first two turns and purchases made then. Usually classified as a {{Split|4|3}} or {{Split|5|2}} opening, although other openings are possible with cards from expansions.
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* [[Overdraw]]: The ability to draw more cards than your deck contains.
  
 
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* Piles: see ''end on piles''.
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* Piles: The stacks of cards from which players gain cards (or otherwise acquire them, e.g. by exchanging): for example “the {{Card|Province}} pile has 3 remaining”.
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* Province Game (rarely, Non-Colony Game): A standard game in which {{Card|Colony}} and {{Card|Platinum}} are not available.
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* Pin: A very rare situation in which a player is unable to make any forward progress. Examples of cards that can lead to a pin include {{Card|Bureaucrat}} and {{Event|Donate}}.
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* Pseudo-Trash: Remove cards from your deck without trashing them, for example with {{Card|Island}}.
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* Pop: To activate a [[one-shot]] effect or card. Examples uses include: “I’ll pop my Sinister Plot next turn” and “They failed to pop their Magic Lamp”.
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=== R ===
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[[Reshuffle]]: When a player turns over their discard pile and shuffles it to replace their empty deck.
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[[Rush]]: A strategy which attempts to end the game as quickly as possible, typically with a three-pile ending.
  
 
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* [[Sifter|Sift]]: Filter through your cards by removing unwanted cards. Similar to cycling, but with more finesses. See, for example, {{Card|Warehouse}}.
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* Shuffle iT: The fourth (and current) major online implementation of Dominion. Operating from 2017 to present day. Can be found at: https://dominion.games/
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* Smithy / Big Money: A strategy involving one purchase of a {{Card|Smithy}} and otherwise exclusively [[Treasure]] and [[Victory card|Victory]] cards. Reaches four {{Card|Province|Provinces}} in approximately 14 turns.
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* [[Sifter|Sift]]: To filter through your cards and put the desired cards in your hand, usually through draw-and-discard (e.g. {{Card|Warehouse}}) or deck inspection (e.g. {{Card|Cartographer}}) methods.
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* Split: [[Coin]] values of the first two hands (5/2 or 4/3). Tournament and league play often gives players the same split. Can also refer to the split in gaining a key card in the game, such as {{Card|Minion}} or {{Card|Grand Market}}.
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* [[Slog]]: A strategy characterized by a long game in which a typical turn has weak buying and drawing power.
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* Spike: Generate a specific amount of {{Cost}} that is higher than your current deck would usually be likely or able to produce on a turn, e.g. by using a one-shot [[draw]] effect such as {{Event|Expedition}} early in the game.
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* Split: Typically, [[Coin]] values generated by a player’s first two hands ({{Split|5|2}} or {{Split|4|3}}). Can also refer to how many copies of a key card were gained by a specific player, e.g. “I won the {{Card|Highway}} split 9 to 1”.
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* Stalemate: A (rare) game state in which neither player is incentivized to remove cards from the [[Supply]] and thereby advance towards the end of the game.
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* [[Stop card]]: Any card that does not draw more cards
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* [[Synergy]]: Describes any time two or more cards make effective use of each other's abilities, or cover for each other's disadvantages, but not in a powerful enough way to win a game with just those cards alone (as with a [[combo]]).
  
 
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* [[Terminal]] (or Terminal Action): Any [[Action card]] that does not provide actions when played.
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* [[Terminal]] (or Terminal Action): Any [[Action card]] that does not provide Actions or ways to play more Action cards (e.g. {{Card|Throne Room}} is not a terminal).
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* Terminal collision: Drawing multiple [[terminal]] cards together, such that you can only play one of them.
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* Terminal collision: A specific type of [[collision]]. Occurs when you draw two or more [[terminal]] [[Action card|Action cards]] into your hand without enough Actions to play them both.  
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* [[Terminal Silver]]: Any terminal action that produces {{Cost|2}}.
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* [[Terminal Silver]]: Any terminal Action that produces {{Cost|2}}, e.g. {{Card|Nomad Camp}}.
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* Top-Deck: Place a card on top of your deck that would normally go elsewhere (like with {{Card|Alchemist}} or {{Card|Royal Seal}}).
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* [[Thinning]]: To remove cards from your deck via trashing, or otherwise prevent them from appearing in your hand/discard/draw pile (e.g. by Exiling)
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* [[Trasher]] (or Deck-thinner): Any card that allows one to remove cards from one’s deck.
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* Topdeck: To place a card on top of your deck. Can override default destinations, such as gaining a card to your discard. Examples include {{Card|Alchemist}} and {{Card|Royal Seal}}).
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* [[Trasher#Trash_for_benefit|Trash for Benefit]]: Any card that gives a benefit at the cost of trashing a card. For example, {{Card|Apprentice}} draws additional cards and {{Card|Salvager}} produces [[coin|coins]].
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* [[Trash]]: To trash is to remove a card from your deck, placing it in an area called the Trash or Trash pile.
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* [[Trasher#Trash_for_benefit|Trash for Benefit]]: Any card that gives a benefit at the cost of trashing a card. Typically scales with the {{Cost}} of the trashed card. For example, {{Card|Apprentice}} draws additional cards and {{Card|Salvager}} produces {{Cost}}.
  
 
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* [[Village (card category)|Village]]: Besides the {{Card|Village|card of the same name}}, it can refer to any card which gives +2 Actions; many (but not all) such cards have “Village” in their names.
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* [[Village (card category)|Village]]: the informal generic name for the family of cards which offer the ability to play more than one [[terminal]] Action in a turn—so called because many of them have "village" in their names. The simplest village card is {{Card|Village}} itself. Typically, these cards offer +2 Actions, but there are some village cards which give this effect in other ways.
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* Village Idiot: {{Card|Village}} seems like a great card to an inexperienced player, and it is good–but taking Villages without any [[terminal|terminals]] makes the Villages worthless. Hence, Village Idiot. More loosely, this refers to any poor strategy that buys too many [[Action card|Action cards]].
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* [[Virtual coin]] or [[Virtual money]]: {{Cost}} produced by [[Action card|Action cards]] (e.g. {{Card|Festival}}), which can be spent during the [[Buy phase]].
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* Virtual +Buy: Cards which allow you to gain an additional card on your turn along with your ordinary Buy, like {{Card|Ironworks}} and {{Card|Workshop}}.
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* [[Virtual coin]] or [[Virtual money]]: [[Action card|Action cards]] which produce [[coin|coins]] to spend during the [[Buy phase]] (not cards which gain [[Basic cards#Basic_Treasures|basic Treasure cards]]).
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* Whiff: To miss on an intended goal, e.g. “I tried to spike an early {{Event|Inheritance}} but whiffed”.
  
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== Abbreviations ==
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=== Common Abbreviations ===
  
 
* C, S, G, E, D, P: Sometimes used in game analyses for the [[Basic cards#Basic_Treasures|basic Treasure cards]] and [[Basic cards#Basic_Victory_cards|basic Victory cards]] in a Province game.
 
* C, S, G, E, D, P: Sometimes used in game analyses for the [[Basic cards#Basic_Treasures|basic Treasure cards]] and [[Basic cards#Basic_Victory_cards|basic Victory cards]] in a Province game.
 
* Amb: {{Card|Ambassador}}.
 
* Amb: {{Card|Ambassador}}.
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* BM: [[Big Money]] (rarely, {{Card|Black Market}}, in context).
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* BMU: A particular algorithm for Dominion simulators which plays a simple [[Big Money|money]] strategy that buys no Kingdom cards.
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* BMU: A particular algorithm for playing [[Big Money]] that intelligently buys {{Card|Duchy|Duchies}}.
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* DTX: [[Draw to X]]
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* FV: {{Card|Fishing Village}} (rarely, {{Card|Farming Village}}, in context).
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* FPA: First Player Advantage
 
* GM: {{Card|Grand Market}}.
 
* GM: {{Card|Grand Market}}.
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* Hag: {{Card|Sea Hag}} (rarely, {{Card|Swamp Hag}}, in context}.
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* Hag: {{Card|Sea Hag}} or {{Card|Swamp Hag}}.
 
* HoP: {{Card|Horn of Plenty}}.
 
* HoP: {{Card|Horn of Plenty}}.
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* HP: {{Card|Hunting Party}}
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* HP: {{Card|Hunting Party}}.
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* HT: {{Card|Horse Traders}}.
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* IGG: {{Card|Ill-Gotten Gains}}.
 
* IGG: {{Card|Ill-Gotten Gains}}.
 
* JoAT: {{Card|Jack of all Trades}}.
 
* JoAT: {{Card|Jack of all Trades}}.
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* Lab: {{Card|Laboratory}}.
 
* Lab: {{Card|Laboratory}}.
 
* Masq: {{Card|Masquerade}}.
 
* Masq: {{Card|Masquerade}}.
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* MV: {{Card|Mining Village}}.
 
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* NV: {{Card|Native Village}}.
 
 
* Plat: {{Card|Platinum}}.
 
* Plat: {{Card|Platinum}}.
 
* PPR: [[Penultimate Province Rule]].
 
* PPR: [[Penultimate Province Rule]].
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* TFB / T4B: [[Trasher#Trash_for_benefit|Trash for benefit]].
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* Prov: {{Card|Province}}
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* TM: {{Card|Treasure Map}}.
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* TFB: [[Trasher#Trash_for_benefit|Trash for benefit]].
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* TR: {{Card|Throne Room}} (rarely, {{Card|Trade Route}}, in context).
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* TR: {{Card|Throne Room}}.
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* UAS: Unstoppable {{Card|Alchemist}} Stack.
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This page contains a list of common terms and abbreviations used in discussion of the game Dominion.

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Common terms and phrases

A

  • Attack immunity: Cards that completely nullify almost all Attacks (e.g. MoatMoat.jpg).
  • Autopile: To empty a pile by playing cards from that pile, e.g. with Rats.

B

  • Base: The original Dominion, with no expansions. For example, “In Base, ChapelChapel.jpg is the best early-game trasher.”
  • Big Money: see Money Strategies
  • Board (or Kingdom, or set): The set of cards and landscapes that make up a particular game.
  • Build: To improve the quality of one’s deck, usually by adding deck control or payload
  • Bottomdeck: To appear, or to place a card, at or near the bottom of your shuffle, often so that you can’t draw it. Most commonly used to describe an undesirable case, e.g. "I hope I haven't bottomdecked my SentrySentry.jpg."

C

  • Cantrip: Any card that gives +1 Card, +1 Action; it costs no net Action to play it and your hand size does not change. Can technically refer to villages, but in practice usually refers to cards like MerchantMerchant.jpg.
  • Card-shaped thing: a card, Way, Event, Landmark, or Project.
  • Chain: To play a card while another card is resolving. Common examples include Throne RoomThrone Room.jpg chains in which successive Throne RoomThrone Room.jpgs are played on each other, or SaunaSauna.jpg/AvantoAvanto.jpg chains.
  • Coffers: A token a player gets when cards say "+1 Coffers" (or, in early printings of Dominion: Guilds, "take a Coin token") and that they keep on their Coffers mat (or the Coffers side of their Coffers/Villagers mat), to save a $ for later; a token can be removed from the mat in their Buy phase, before buying anything, for +$1.
  • Collision: Refers to having two or more given cards together in the same hand.
  • Colony game: Any game in which ColonyColony.jpg and PlatinumPlatinum.jpg (from Prosperity) are available for purchase. The two always appear together.
  • Combo: A strong interaction between cards that is a monolithic strategy.
  • Counter: To neutralize or mitigate another effect (usually an Attack card or strong but fragile strategy, e.g. Counting House/Travelling Fair), whether directly (e.g. MoatMoat.jpg) or indirectly (e.g. LibraryLibrary.jpg vs. MilitiaMilitia.jpg/GoonsGoons.jpg).
  • Cycling: To move quickly through your deck, whether or not you draw or play the cards cycled through. ScavengerScavenger.jpg provides an extreme example of cycling, but WarehouseWarehouse.jpg and LaboratoryLaboratory.jpg also cycle your deck effectively.

D

  • Deck tracking: The ability of a player to know the contents and shuffle state of their and their opponent's decks at any given moment.
  • Draw dead: To draw an Action card when you have no more Actions allowing you to play it.
  • Draw to X (or DTX): A draw strategy centered around cards such as LibraryLibrary.jpg or MinionMinion.jpg which draw cards until your hand reaches a certain size.
  • Duchy Dancing: A situation in the endgame in which taking ProvincesProvince.jpg would risk opening up a win for one’s opponent and therefore both players buy DuchiesDuchy.jpg.
  • Dud: A turn which falls significantly below your expectations, usually one in which a poor starting hand means you fail to draw much or any of your deck, or you fail to hit a desired pricepoint.

E

  • Early game: The first few turns (usually up to around turn 6) of the game. Includes the opening.
  • Endgame (or late game): The last few turns of the game, when greening and pileouts become a concern.
  • End on piles: Force the game to end by emptying three or more Supply piles (four or more with five or more players). Also known as a Three-pile ending or a pileout.
  • Engine: A strategy in which you play multiple Action cards every turn, usually aiming to draw your full deck after thinning your starting cards, and to build to a point at which you can buy multiple Provinces per turn or score more  VP by other means; also such a deck itself. Compare with money strategies.
  • Expansions: Releases of Dominion card sets, beyond the Base set.

G

  • Gain-and-play: To gain a card and play it within the same turn.
  • Goko: The second major online implementation of Dominion. Operated from 2013 to 2015.
  • Golden sombrero: When both openers miss the first reshuffle.
  • Greening: The stage of the game in which players acquire Victory cards.

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M

  • Making Fun: The third major online implementation of Dominion. Operated from 2015 to 2016.
  • Megaturn: A turn in which a player gains a large amount of  VP, usually while also ending the game. Example strategy that aims for a megaturn: Combo:_King's_Court_and_Bridge.
  • Midgame: The stage of the game after the opening and before the endgame, in which players begin to have deck control and can build without much fear of the game ending immediately.
  • Mill (verb): To lower the amount of cards left in a pile, usually by trashing a copy of that card and regaining that same card. Typically done on ProvincesProvince.jpg with a trash for benefit card.
  • Mirror: When two or more players pursue identical or near-identical strategies.
  • Multiplayer: Typically used to refer to games with 3 or more players.

N

  • Non-terminal (or Non-terminal Action): Any Action card that gives at least one additional action (+1 Action), or otherwise allows playing additional actions (e.g. Throne RoomThrone Room.jpg or PatronPatron.jpg).

O

  • Opening: The first two turns and purchases made then. Usually classified as a $4/$3 or $5/$2 opening, although other openings are possible with cards from expansions.
  • Overdraw: The ability to draw more cards than your deck contains.

P

  • Piles: The stacks of cards from which players gain cards (or otherwise acquire them, e.g. by exchanging): for example “the ProvinceProvince.jpg pile has 3 remaining”.
  • Pin: A very rare situation in which a player is unable to make any forward progress. Examples of cards that can lead to a pin include BureaucratBureaucrat.jpg and DonateDonate.jpg.
  • Pop: To activate a one-shot effect or card. Examples uses include: “I’ll pop my Sinister Plot next turn” and “They failed to pop their Magic Lamp”.

R

Reshuffle: When a player turns over their discard pile and shuffles it to replace their empty deck. Rush: A strategy which attempts to end the game as quickly as possible, typically with a three-pile ending.

S

  • Shuffle iT: The fourth (and current) major online implementation of Dominion. Operating from 2017 to present day. Can be found at: https://dominion.games/
  • Sift: To filter through your cards and put the desired cards in your hand, usually through draw-and-discard (e.g. WarehouseWarehouse.jpg) or deck inspection (e.g. CartographerCartographer.jpg) methods.
  • Slog: A strategy characterized by a long game in which a typical turn has weak buying and drawing power.
  • Spike: Generate a specific amount of $ that is higher than your current deck would usually be likely or able to produce on a turn, e.g. by using a one-shot draw effect such as ExpeditionExpedition.jpg early in the game.
  • Split: Typically, Coin values generated by a player’s first two hands ($5/$2 or $4/$3). Can also refer to how many copies of a key card were gained by a specific player, e.g. “I won the HighwayHighway.jpg split 9 to 1”.
  • Stalemate: A (rare) game state in which neither player is incentivized to remove cards from the Supply and thereby advance towards the end of the game.
  • Stop card: Any card that does not draw more cards
  • Synergy: Describes any time two or more cards make effective use of each other's abilities, or cover for each other's disadvantages, but not in a powerful enough way to win a game with just those cards alone (as with a combo).

T

  • Terminal (or Terminal Action): Any Action card that does not provide Actions or ways to play more Action cards (e.g. Throne RoomThrone Room.jpg is not a terminal).
  • Terminal collision: A specific type of collision. Occurs when you draw two or more terminal Action cards into your hand without enough Actions to play them both.
  • Terminal Silver: Any terminal Action that produces $2, e.g. Nomad CampNomad Camp.jpg.
  • Thinning: To remove cards from your deck via trashing, or otherwise prevent them from appearing in your hand/discard/draw pile (e.g. by Exiling)
  • Topdeck: To place a card on top of your deck. Can override default destinations, such as gaining a card to your discard. Examples include AlchemistAlchemist.jpg and Royal SealRoyal Seal.jpg).
  • Trash: To trash is to remove a card from your deck, placing it in an area called the Trash or Trash pile.
  • Trash for Benefit: Any card that gives a benefit at the cost of trashing a card. Typically scales with the $ of the trashed card. For example, ApprenticeApprentice.jpg draws additional cards and SalvagerSalvager.jpg produces $.

V

  • Village: the informal generic name for the family of cards which offer the ability to play more than one terminal Action in a turn—so called because many of them have "village" in their names. The simplest village card is VillageVillage.jpg itself. Typically, these cards offer +2 Actions, but there are some village cards which give this effect in other ways.
  • Virtual coin or Virtual money: $ produced by Action cards (e.g. FestivalFestival.jpg), which can be spent during the Buy phase.

W

  • Whiff: To miss on an intended goal, e.g. “I tried to spike an early InheritanceInheritance.jpg but whiffed”.

Common Abbreviations

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