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Eminent Domain

  • 2-4 players

Setup

  • Each player gets the following cards in their decks:
    • 1 Politics
    • 1 Warfare
    • 2 Colonize
    • 2 Research
    • 2 Survey
    • 2 Produce/Trade
  • Each player also gets:
    • 1 random Start Planet, facedown
    • 1 random Player Aid tile (also to determine start player)
  • Remove unused Politics cards from the game
  • Place the Role cards on the 5 stacks
  • Shuffle Planet cards and place facedown
  • Set aside the 8 blue influence tokens
  • Separate Technology cards into:
    • Fertile
    • Advanced
    • Metallic
  • Each player draws 5 cards from their deck into their hand

Game Turn

  1. Action Phase (optional)
    • Play 1 card from hand and resolve the Action effect
    • Actions cannot be Boosted or Followed
    • Played card goes into discard pile
  2. Role Phase (mandatory)
    • Current player of turn is the leader
      • Choose to Lead a role card from the central display
      • You may Boost the chosen role with matching symbols
      • Resolve role effect including the leader bonus
    • Other players can choose to Follow or Dissent
      • Follow - Player cards matching chosen role and execute the role effect (not including the Leader bonus)
      • Dissent - Draw 1 card from the deck into the hand
  3. Cleanup Phase (mandatory)
    1. All played cards (except colonies) go into the discard pile
    2. Discard as many cards as you like
    3. Draw or discard cards until you reach your hand limit (default 5)
    • Cleanup Phase only on your turn, not an opponents
    • When you need to draw a card and your deck is empty, shuffle the discards to create a new deck

Goal

  • Most number of influence points wins
  • Influence points from:
    • Influence tokens
    • Technology cards
    • Face up planets

Game End

  • When either the black influence supply is depleted OR a set number of Role card stacks are depleted
    • 2 players - 1 stack
    • 3 players - 1 stack
    • 3 players extended - 2 stacks
    • 4 players - 2 stacks
  • Continue play until all players get an equal number of turns
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