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Bobby Warren
United States
Glendale
Arizona
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I really like Dominion. Even with so many other deck-building games out there these days, I still think it is the best of the bunch. So why are Thunderstone, Ascension: Chronicle of the Godslayer, Resident Evil Deck Building Game, and even the cardboard token-based Puzzle Strike seeing more play than it? Because they are more portable.
My Dominion cards are all in a shoebox-size card box. These boxes have lids like their namesake, so the lids aren't the most secure. It also means that the boxes aren't designed to lay on the side, which makes packing them into a bag or box with other games more difficult. Lately, the box of the Dominion cards has been sitting in the back of my car when I game. I have a large bag that has the games I pack, and I take that in with me when go somewhere to game, but grabbing the fairly hefty box with the loose lid of Dominion cards at the same time is not safe when you are as klutzy as I am, so I leave it in the car figuring I will get it should we want to play it. In the end, it sits in the car.
Another issue is just the sheer number of cards involved. Thumbing through all of them to find the ones you want to use can be time consuming, even with them alphabetized.
I've been trying to come up with a way to transport and store the cards which would allow me to pack it in my bag of games and which would make it easier to transport. The beginning of an idea came a few weeks back when another group was going to play and was in the process of pulling out their randomizer cards. I jumped in and offered to use the randomizer on my phone. They were using just Seaside and Prosperity so I had to adjust the program. I liked that they were deciding by sets which cards to use and it got me thinking about transporting the game. The boxes which the game come in are too big to carry more than one around at any time, but transferring cards between the boxes would be very inconvenient.
I use smaller card boxes for transporting Ascension, the Resident Evil, and GOSU, and thought those would fit the individual sets of Dominion cards. I have decided that I am going to put the Kingdom cards for each set in their own card box, and I will put the basic and promo cards in another small card box. Any of the tokens will either be put into baggies or plastic coin tubes and put in the box with the cards. The only things that will not fit into the boxes are the specialty mats, but we can get by without those. Another option would be to create some kind of playing card-sized proxies for things like the Pirate Ship mat.
I'll be able to grab a couple of small boxes any time I want to play Dominion and the games can be focused on certain sets and themes. It should also help the game get played more, which is a good thing.
So I am going to swing by the baseball card store on the way home and pick up some 200 and 300 count card boxes and divide the Kingdom cards up, and see how it works.
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