Dominion: Rising Sun – The Greatest Dominion Expansion Ever?

Dominion is the ancestor of all deck-building games, still a giant in the tabletop arena almost twenty years after it was released. Check out our review of the base game and our Dominion strategy guide!

Dominion also has plenty of expansions to explore, with the sixteenth released in 2024. In this series, Meeple Mountain examines them all to determine which is the greatest. In each article, we’ll introduce an expansion, put forward the motion that it deserves to be recognised as the greatest of all Dominion expansions, offer a rebuttal for why it isn’t the greatest and then deliver our verdict.

This time – Rising Sun!

What does it add?

Some new things and some things we’ve seen before. We’ll start with the old.

Durations! Only two new Duration cards but Durations are plentiful in the Dominion ecosystem, particularly after 2022’s Plunder. Of the two, Samurai is notable since after an initial attack it then provides a coin every turn for the rest of the game.

Events! Like Durations, it’s now customary for expansions to have new Events. Rising Sun adds another 10, bringing the total pool to 79. All bar one add no additional rules other than being effects that you pay for on your turn (the other Event involves Debt).

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