Dominion is a designer card game created by Donald X. Vaccarino, and published by Rio Grande Games. The game was released at Spiel 2008 in multiple languages, and voted best game of the fair by the Fairplay polls with a rating of 1.75 from 147 votes. Within two months of its release, Dominion was one of the top ten games according to BoardGameGeek ratings. In 2009, it won the prestigious Spiel des Jahres and Deutscher Spiele Preis awards. It was one of five winning games in American Mensa's 2009 MindGame competition. The success of Dominion has spawned a series of imitation games or games that utilize the "deck building during the game" dynamic central to Dominion.
Dominion Award Winning Deck Building Strategy Card Games including Dominion Hinterlands Expansion, Dominion Prosperity Expansion, Dominion Cornucopia Expansion, Dominion Alchemy Expansion, Dominion Intrigue Expansion, Dominion Seaside Expansion.