Just to start off I love Dominion and the whole deckbuilding concept, ive also played star realms and MTG for years too.
My biggest problem with dominion though is that after playing a scenario a few times it starts to get kinda boring so you need to rummage through all your cards again to make a new one and before you know it you have done all the scenarios that you can play and have to buy another expansion set.
Yes you can have a lot of fun building your own scenarios but you always end up having to come up with something new and make sure its actually fun to play for you and your friends.
What if you NEVER have to make up new scenarios or lookup the standard scenarios and still enjoy all the fun of dominion?
Here I introduce to you DOMINION MADNESS!
To setup the game setup your coper and other treasure cards, Estate and other victory cards and the curses like normal.
Then take 2 of each card from every set you have (so all your action cards and extra treasure cards like venture from prosperity.) and shuffle all these cards into 1 pile (you may end up with multiple piles if you have lots of expansions).
Then grab an extra card of each card that gives you extra actions like the village cards and Festivals, shuffle them in too.
Then grab 2 of each defense card (moat, watchtower lighthouse etc) and shuffle them in too. (without it will be tough playing as there are way more attack cards then defense cards in general)
Then take from your shuffled pile 10 cards and lay them out face up.
Each player gets their standard 10 card deck of 7 coper and 3 Estates.
The game can begin! Each player can buy a card like normal, once someone buys a card from the 10 random cards a new card is picked up from the random card pile.
Players also have the option of spending 1 coin to trash a faceup card to get a new card from the pile.
Ive played this new version multiple times and its been so much more fun then any Dominion scenario ive played and it adds so much more to the game even without 100 expansions and with expansions it gets only more fun.
Side note the first time we played it we played with only 5 revealed cards and found there was to little choice (only 5 cost cards available etc) so we doubled the number to 10 and its been perfect!
Notes We have found that the following cards are overpowered and if 1 player gets them and no one else they have such an insane advantage so we have had to ban the following cards from this game mode (you can reintroduce them at your own risk
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Kings court ( you may play a action card 3x)
Treasury (+ 1 card +1 action +$1 ) especially at the start of the game if you are the only player to have +1 to spend for the start fase of the game there is no way other players can compete with you.
Over powered cards like Hoard are kept in check with cards like bandit and pirate ship so I felt no need to ban them but there may be cards from other expansions that need to be banned too.
We have also removed cards like Talisman and Smugglers as they would require you to gain a card from " outside the game" to keep things simple we removed them.
The card Mint can only copy the standard treasure cards.
Enjoy!