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[werothegreat]

Given the sadness/negativity from iso going away, I figured we could all use a picker-upper - a reminder of why we all love Dominion and continue to play it.  Add your own!

What I love about Dominion is...

...activating more than one Menagerie in a row.

...Haggling, from a Province, a Border Village, and gaining a Duchy from that.

...playing Rebuild, choosing Tunnel, and activating all of them in my deck.

...the first time I managed to pull off a Torturer chain.

...playing Scout to reveal four Nobles.

[Robz888]

Drawing my whole deck with 3 Scrying Pools, then playing Secret Chamber to discard superfluou Scrying Pools, then playing Duchess to reshuffle, putting all the superfluous pools in the draw pile/my next hand.

[werothegreat]

Discarding your opponent's Sea Hag with your own Sea Hag.

[michaeljb]

The experience of reading threads about KC/Goons/Masquerade, Ironworks/Trader, or Talisman/Sir Martin for the first time.

[heron]

Drawing my whole deck with one scrying pool, discarding it all (except a scrying pool) with a secret chamber, repeating the process twice more, and buying all of the remaining provinces.
Some worker's villages were thrown in as well.

[werothegreat]

Buying a single Watchtower, yet managing to counter the first five of my opponent's Mountebank plays.

[dondon151]

Playing high-level opponents on Isotropic.

[Warrior]

Remembering how much better Isotropic was when I play on Goko.

[enfynet]

That I can teach almost anyone to play, and lose to them in the same game, but still enjoy it.

[Robz888]

Realizing that Oracle counters Bureaucrat... after playing with both cards for a year and a half.

[Morgrim7]

Possession.

[elephantdog]

Reading an article on Dominionstrategy.com about a particular combo, playing a game that same day with the combo in question, and watching all the players dash to see who was going to get that combo first.

[brokoli]

... the artwork of the last expansions
... trashing a border village with apprentice
... coppersmith megaturns
... ignoring witch and mountebank and win
... buying inn when everything is in the discard pile
... Rogue + Feodum
... City + Diadem
... all games with menagerie

[tolenmar]

I love (hate) when someone (me) buys a moneylender or two, and never gets a chance to use it, thanks to his opponents discard attacks...

Of course, substitute any other card into that sentence.

As a group, we love Dominion because every game is different.  You don't know which cards are going to be available, so the only advance planning you really get to do is during setup, right before cards get shuffled. And because each game is different, each game 'feels' different.  One day you might have a good set of trashers, the next you'll be action-poor, while the time after that, everyone went big money (whether it was a good idea or not...).  No one is an expert at all of the cards, so each game challenges everyone, and in a different way.

For myself alone, this game appeals to me in the same fashion that Star Fleet Battles does: Lots of tactical play, lots of combinations, and everyone can pick a style of play that best fits them.

There is only one thing I dislike about Dominion: 5 players.  We tried that yesterday, too slow.  Ok, and Swindler, but that maybe because my son seems to have a laser sight for my best cards when he plays that one...

[werothegreat]

Tradering a Feodum.

[Powerman]

KC-Counting House.

[sudgy]

Possession.

This.  And King's Court.

[Kuildeous]

Tradering a Feodum.

The fact that "tradering" is a valid word among this group.

I like Dominion in general just because it is customizable. That makes a big difference for many games out there. The first time I played a game that changed every time you play it, it was when of Catan came out. And even then, I had no idea just how customizable a game could be. Changing the map is a dawdle compared to changing up the rules or how components interacted with each other. Shortly after learning of Mayfair's name, we discovered Cosmic Encounter. We had no idea that there were other versions of this and that we could have been playing customizable games long before Settlers came out.

Nowadays, it seems to be the norm for a game to mix things up. Power Grid has different maps and even different factories now. Puerto Rico added new buildings to use in place of the old. Alhambra and Carcassonne have numerous expansions that you can mix and match. And many games are designed from the very beginning to offer variety to players. Dominion tackled that concept and did it well. Sometimes you get trivial combinations, like Workshop and Ironworks, but it is rare that you generate a game that isn't interesting and different from the past 20 games you played.

Kudos to Dominion for playing off of gamer momentum. When the game hits the table, you simply cannot just play one.

[Jacob marley]

... 4 player witch game in which I ignore witch and win!
... same game, played the hand:  chapel, curse, curse, curse, curse

[AdamH]

Megaturns.

Scooping up the stack of Provinces and putting it all in my discard (and it's not even cheating!)

Counting up the unique cards I've played this turn, then slapping down 5 Horns on the table.

[werothegreat]

Making an Unstoppable Alchemist Stack.

[Cuzz]

Turning Fairgrounds into Colonies with Black Market.

Playing 4+ Goons in one turn.

Apprentice/Rats/Market Square.

The first time you pull off a pin or a golden deck.

[Fragasnap]

...connecting with friends in an easy to play game that is varied and mechanically sound.

[GiB]

...after a Rats/Vineyard strategy, spending the last 10 turns buying Curses.

[shark_bait]

Activating 4 Treasure Maps in the same turn, with half the Curses from Sea Hag in my deck and absolutely no trashing.