Dominion: Second Edition

Set up the Supply: Each player shuffles seven Coppers and three Estates, then draws five cards. Use the seven Base piles—Copper, Silver, Gold, Estate, Duchy, Province and Curse—plus ten chosen Kingdom types. Randomizer cards are not playable Supply cards.

Adjust piles for player count: Use eight of each Victory card with two players, twelve with three or four; Gardens follows the same rule. Use ten, twenty or thirty Curses respectively. Ordinary non-Victory Kingdom piles have ten cards; use all available Treasures except the starting Coppers.

Action phase: You normally begin with one Action play. Follow an Action card top to bottom, doing as much as possible. Additional Actions permit later plays; finish the current card before playing another. You may stop without using all your Actions.

Buy phase: First play whichever Treasures you want, in any order, then make purchases. You normally have one Buy; extra Buys allow more purchases sharing the same coin total. Once buying begins, you cannot resume playing Treasures. Buying spends coins, not the Treasure cards themselves.

Buying and gaining: A purchase normally gains a Supply card to your discard pile. A gain effect does not use a Buy or normally require payment, but its cost limit still applies. Artisan gains to your hand and Mine gains its Treasure to your hand; specific card instructions override the default destination.

Clean-up: Discard your hand and played cards, then draw five new cards. Unused Actions, Buys and coins expire. When a deck operation needs more cards than remain, shuffle the discard pile under the remaining deck and continue. Merely having an empty deck does not immediately cause a shuffle.

Discarding is not trashing: Discarded cards remain yours and can return through shuffling. Trashed cards enter the shared Trash and are no longer yours. You cannot discard or trash at will without permission, and coins cannot increase a gain effect’s printed cost limit.

Attacks and Reactions: Before another player’s Attack affects you, you may reveal a Moat from hand to be unaffected. It stays in hand, does not cancel the attacker’s benefits and protects no one else. Witch distributes available Curses in turn order, which matters when the pile runs low.

End and score: At the end of a turn, an empty Province pile or at least three empty Supply piles ends play. Count every card you own, including hand, deck, discard and set-aside cards. Estates score one, Duchies three, Provinces six and Curses minus one; each Gardens scores one per full ten cards owned. Highest score wins; ties favour fewer turns taken, then a shared victory.