Gone Cardboard: Details about Dominion: Alchemy, Hints at Prosperity

Canadian publisher Filosofia, which releases the various Dominion card games in French, has posted teasers about what players can expect to find in Dominion: Alchemy. The set will include 12 new Kingdom cards (instead of the 25/26 in the previous releases), along with a new type of Treasury card called “Potion” – and without potions, you might not be able to purchase certain cards. The box will include 16 Potions, all of which will be on the table available for purchase no matter how many players are in the game.

In a BoardGameGeek thread, Dominion designer Donald X. Vaccarino confirmed the info posted by Filosofia, noting that the smaller set came at the request of several non-U.S. publishers of the game. Says Vaccarino, “We are still doing 300-card sets as well. The expansion after Alchemy is the normal, larger size. If I had to guess I would say we’ll alternate sizes for a few years, but nothing is set in stone past the expansion after Alchemy. I think that expansion may be announced at Nuremberg, so we’ll leave that one alone for now.”

Speaking of which, French site TricTrac.net has posted an image of the fourth Dominion expansion, to be titled Prosperity and released at Spiel in October 2010. Note that the box cover on display at Nuremberg is likely a draft and not the final cover. [Disclosure: I was a playtester on Prosperity and can’t wait for this one to be released.]

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