Dominion Menagerie

Dominion Menagerie is an animal-themed expansion for Dominion, with cards and rules that add new ways to handle cards and play Action cards. It includes 71 unique cards, including 30 Kingdom cards, as well as Ways, Events and special costs.

Exile and Ways

Each player gets an Exile mat, where cards can be set aside for later. Exiled cards still belong to you and count toward your score at the end of the game. When you gain a card, you may discard any other copies of it from your mat.

Ways give Action cards an additional option: you can play an Action normally or use it to do what the Way says instead. When you use a Way, you do not carry out the Action card’s own instructions. Ways are not Kingdom cards and cannot be bought; they sit on the table and modify the game rules.

Cards and events

Horses help you draw your deck, and some cards have variable costs marked with an asterisk; each such card explains when and how its cost changes. Events return in Menagerie, alongside a mini-theme of cards with variable costs. The expansion has 20 Ways, 20 Events, eight cards using Horses, eight using Exile, four Reactions and four special costs. It is a large-sized expansion with high complexity.