Dominion Empires

Dominion Empires is an expansion for Dominion that adds cards and systems focused on player interaction, including split piles, Debt, VP tokens, Events and Landmarks. Landmarks give players new ways to score, sometimes creating points to compete over.

New card piles

Five Kingdom piles each contain five copies of two different cards: Catapult / Rocks, Encampment / Plunder, Gladiator / Fortune, Patrician / Emporium, and Settlers / Bustling Village. The cheaper card is on top, and you can only buy or gain the top card, so players must work through the first five copies to reach the other card.

The Castles are a Kingdom pile containing several different cards. Like the other split piles, only its top card can be bought or gained; the cards are ordered by cost, with Humble Castle on top.

Debt and scoring

Buying a card or Event with Debt in its cost gives you that many Debt tokens. During your Buy phase, you can pay 1 per token to remove Debt.

Landmarks are not Kingdom Cards. Many affect scoring at the end of the game: players count their regular points and then add a Landmark bonus, while some Landmarks instead subtract points. Others award points during the game, with no limit on the points they can provide. VP tokens and Events also return in this expansion.

Expansion contents

• 71 unique cards in a large-sized expansion
• 24 Kingdom cards
• 6 split piles
• 9 piles using VP tokens
• 6 piles using Debt
• 7 Treasures
• 21 Landmarks
• 13 Events
• Low complexity