#2 - Dominion: Renaissance

Dominion Renaissance was released in 2018 as a large expansion with 300 cards to it. It also brings back the coffers that were first seen in the guilds expansion to the game. It’s for that, that the guilds expansion was ranked so low compared to this set. This set simply did it better. There is just something about holding onto those coins in this expansion that feels good as well.

Renaissance contains duration cards, artifacts and projects. Artifact cards are really cool with how they get earned and bring up and take down the value of cards that you are purchasing for your deck.

Artifacts are cards that you can buy and essentially work for you until someone else buys a card that would take the artifact away from you! Oh, No! Now decks have a variable strength. So it may or may not be worth it to get the artifacts, and that is something that really makes this set stand out to me.

Another really cool part to this set is villagers, where they act as actions that can be banked for use on later turns. So holding onto a large amount of actions for the late game is always a blast. If you are able, you can build your deck even faster to get ahead of the curve of other players.

Project cards are cards that you can buy and the effect lasts for you for the entire game. This is a cool feature that really just adds more abilities and nuance to each players turn.

This set just has so many interesting things to it and is a perfect set to look out for when wanting to have a slightly more complex game that offers many new features.

What really makes this set a number 2 though is that it’s super fun for veteran players, and not to complex for new players looking for their first expansion. You can pull this out for virtually any player and you will all have a great time playing it. You can find a link to this set here: https://amzn.to/2QVAey6