Dominion
It's from 2008, when you were 2.
- Maker
- Rio Grande Games
- Type
- Card game (deck-building)
- Debuted
- 2008
- Note
- Invented the deck-building genre
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About
As of 2026, it's 18 years old.
Dominion built itself up in 2008 and, like Magic before it, didn't just succeed — it founded a genre. It was the first 'deck-building' game, where you start with a weak deck and, over the course of play, buy better cards to forge a more powerful engine, all without a shared board. The mechanic was so influential it now powers hundreds of games and video games.
Winning the Spiel des Jahres and a devoted following, Dominion turned the act of optimizing your own deck into the entire game, a satisfying puzzle of synergy and timing that rewards building the most efficient little machine of cards.
Influential, engine-building, and genre-defining, Dominion is the card game that invented deck-building and reshaped a huge swath of modern gaming.
